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Shows: go big or go home
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Effective Web Design
19. July 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...How much is enough?
15. July 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...How much should you charge?
2. July 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...It doesn’t matter how many friends or followers you have on social networking sites!
22. June 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Make Decisions
7. June 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...how NOT to contact a T-shirt blogger
21. May 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Print to order sites don’t work
18. May 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...It’s not just about the product
4. May 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Craft Show Tips with SEIBEI
4. May 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Jake Nickell Interview
27. April 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Are Web Directories still important?
21. April 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Is free shipping a good idea?
20. April 2010
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 [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Threadless: The Do-First Work Ethic
14. April 2010
Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Jake Nickell, co-founders of Threadless, talk about how they transformed a fun side project into a multimillion dollar company.
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Craft Show Tip: Peacocking
27. March 2010
I just signed up for Renegade LA and SF today and was thinking about writing some articles about craft shows. If you haven’t heard about Renegade, check them out. They have a couple around the US and they usually have a good crowd. My tip today is about peacocking. You might have heard of the term [...]
how to start a clothing line, tshirt business, clothing company, t-shirt blog, shirt design, continue reading...Working with artists (from the artists perspective)
16. March 2010
This article was on the suffoca blog and I thought it offered good insight into how a designer thinks. Working with clients is another side to my work, here’s a few handy tips i’v learnt along the way. I don’t tend to work any of the suffoca characters or style and take slightly more realistic approach working [...]
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