How to start a Clothing Company

How to find your total sales tax in paypal for 2011

I always use google to try and find answers to my questions but somehow I couldn’t find any good information on how to find the total sales tax for 2011. I figured it out myself and decided to write a step by step process on how to find the sales tax for the 2011 in [...]

Book Recommendations for Clothing Company Owners

I just put up a page for my book recommendations. You can check it out on the very top navigation of the site on the far right. Or you can just click here book recommendations Also post some comments on the books I missed. I am going to go through and add some more in [...]

4 hour work week

Going home for Christmas I have an 8 hour drive from Northern California to Southern California. I always use this time to load my mp3 player with a couple of audio books and try to soak in as much knowledge as possible on my boring drive down I-5. This time I decided to go back [...]

Free Halftone Pattern Overlay

Working for Teefury, I sometimes have to modify art to reduce color counts to suit our 6 color maximum. I’ve uploaded this PATTERN OVERLAY that can be used from Layer Styles to fill a layer with a halftone pattern. It’s a faster way to change an area of color to a halftoned representation, and since [...]

Screenprinting vs. Direct to Garment Digital Printing(DTG)

I wrote this article for my blog, Tee Spotter. I review and write about clothing lines and similar topics. I figured this would be a good resource to post here. @Tee Spotter on Twitter Hey all. I’ve been thinking about writing this article for a while now and after asking for feedback, some people had [...]

T-shirt Blanks – How to choose one

I wrote this article for my blog, Tee Spotter. If you have an idea for a future article, or want your brand featured/reviewed please feel free to contact me at teespotterblog@gmail.com Enjoy =) T-Shirt Blanks & How To Choose One When starting your clothing line, one of the many factors that come in to play [...]

It’s about how hard you can get hit

saw this video recently and thought I would share.

Don’t start a clothing company

Let me first say that starting a clothing company has been an amazing experience for me personally. I have met tons of amazing people in this industry and had tons of positive customer feedback and I wouldn’t change anything. This post is just meant to make you cautious about getting into this industry. First of [...]

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish. RIP Steve Jobs

Fur Face Boy at Pool Tradeshow

I posted Fur Face Boy’s experiences at Pool last year and saw he had a new blog post up about his experiences this year. You can read his whole article here Early this week, I exhibited my brand at the Pool Tradeshow for a 2nd time. I figured that since I lived through a Pool [...]

20% OFF Discount Code for Thread’s not Dead

I have an exclusive discount code for the readers of my blog. Use the code “HOWTO20″ for 20% off Thread’s Not Dead. Threads not Dead is an e-book written by Jeff Finley of Go Media with the help of many big names in the clothing industry (including myself). What if the most prolific and influential [...]

The facebook comment widget rocks

Allowing customers to comment on your products is a great way to get them involved more in your company. In the past users had to sign into your e-commerce site to leave comments. You would get an e-mail to verify your username and it all took a time and was a little bit annoying. Today [...]

Characteristics of Successful Clothing Company Owners

I haven’t written an article in a while and thought it was about time to get back into it. I see a lot of people entering into the clothing game and I can usually tell by the type of person they are if they are going to succeed or fail. I get a ton of [...]

Jonas Bevacqua found dead

An autopsy was scheduled Wednesday for the co-founder of an Orange County-based clothing company found dead in his Laguna Beach home, authorities said. Jonas Bevacqua, 33, helped found LRG, or Lifted Research Group, in 1999 with Chief Executive Robert Wright. Bevacqua also was the Irvine company’s creative director. “Jonas was a mentor to an astonishing [...]

Denzel Washington’s 2011 commencement speech

I started watching this speech and it is pretty bad in the beginning but I let it keep going while I made some food. At 6:45 is when it starts getting good and I would advise you to fast forward to this point. Denzel Washington talks about putting yourself out there and not being afraid [...]

Storenvy Review: Storenvy falls short of its promises

I was excited for storenvy when it was released but it has fallen short of what they originally promised. Here is what the creators had to say when storenvy was released. “Storenvy doesn’t want to be just another online store system. There are hundreds of them out there already and have some of the same [...]