When I first started I sold shirts at community colleges. It only cost $25-50 for the day but I never made very many sales. Another vendor at one of the colleges told me to keep on doing the colleges with small fees. She said even if you don’t make a lot of money you can’t [...]
19. July 2010
Effective Web Design
I am surprised I haven’t written about web design in the past since it’s what I have been doing the past two years at double dragon studios. There are a lot of things to think about when it comes to making an effect web design for your clothing company. One of the most important aspects [...]
15. July 2010
How much is enough?
I was talking with my sister the other day and she was unhappy that she is still making 50k at her architecture job which is what she made 3 years prior. 50k to me is a lot of money, and it’s hard to understand where she is coming from that 50k a year isn’t enough.
I [...]
2. July 2010
How much should you charge?
When I get new products like sunglasses or accessories sometimes I ask my friends how much they would buy them for. I’ve done this a few time and most of the time they come back with the question “We’ll how much did you pay for them”. The question is not how much you pay for [...]
22. June 2010
It doesn’t matter how many friends or followers you have on social networking sites!
I think everyone has done it. Got some tool where they can send out hundreds of friend invites. It just isn’t worth the time you put into it. Most of the people that will accept your invite will be the kind of people that accept everyones invite and don’t even care about what your doing.
If [...]
21. June 2010
You’re self employed with your business, now what?
In the beginning I worked as hard as I could to do everything. I wanted to make it and be able to live off of the clothing company I started. This made me work long hours with little sleep to try and get everything done. T-shirts were everything for me for a little while. I [...]
7. June 2010
Make Decisions
I’ve been reading the 37signals book called Rework and I really liked what they had to say about making decisions
Decisions are temporary so make the call and move on
Done. Start to think of it as a magical word. When you get to done it means something’s been accomplished. A decision has been made [...]
21. May 2010
how NOT to contact a T-shirt blogger
This was originally posted by Dejan at Tee Zine
Tee zine is around for quite some time now, and as you may presume I get a LOT of emails from various T-shirt labels, asking if they could be featured on Tee zine. Among all of them, there is a certain amount of emails [...]
18. May 2010
Print to order sites don’t work
Alright they work but they don’t have your best interests at heart. There are sites like spreadshirt, zazzle, and cafe press that will take care of the printing and shipping to your customers but the quality and profits aren’t amazing.
Like most things the greater the risk the greater the reward. Lot’s of people want to [...]
4. May 2010
It’s not just about the product
I was reading Cashflow Quadrant and I thought a lot of clothing companies could benefit from this information. The cash flow Quadrant has 4 sections. The left side is an Employee and Self-employed and the right side is a Business owner and Investor. So many clothing companies with me included are actually just self employed [...]
4. May 2010
Craft Show Tips with SEIBEI
I talked with David Murray of Seibei a little bit about setting up at Craft Shows. Here are some of his words of wisdom. You can check out all my comments in red.
STAY ORGANIZED
In reality my setups aren’t that crazy, usually. Just hang up some shirts, display your banner, and [...]
27. April 2010
Jake Nickell Interview
Here’s what I like about the interviews I’ve been doing over the past few weeks; I’m asking people I find interesting questions I want to hear the answers to. I guess it’s a little self-indulgent, but I think it works and hopefully you guys are enjoying the interviews as much as I [...]
21. April 2010
Are Web Directories still important?
I just watched this video about web directories and thought it was very informative. Directories are what people used before search engines. Yahoo use to just be a web directory, you submitted links to it and if they got accepted they would show up in their search. Today directories hold a lot less value then [...]
20. April 2010
Is free shipping a good idea?
I had this discussion with my buddy David over at SEIBEI. I was thinking about raising my prices to include shipping, mostly so when retailers looked at my site they wouldn’t see that we are selling shirts for $20 and that we charge them more then 50% of the cost for wholesale. Here is what [...]
14. April 2010
Threadless: The Do-First Work Ethic
Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell, co-founders of Threadless, talk about how they transformed a fun side project into a multimillion dollar company.
31. March 2010
410 BC Packaging.
Andy over at Hide Your Arms wrote this article about 410bc’s new packaging.
410BC sent me a tee a little while back (which will likely be posted soon), and I loved the packaging that it came in so much that I meticulously peeled away the customs label, 410BC return address sticker, my address, the postage sticker, [...]
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