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Comment on How many shirts should I print?! by Stop trying to do it all and delegate |

Stop trying to do it all and delegate | — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 03:09:20 +0000

[...] I started making some money on my first shirt so I decided to print my second shirt. It was a line from 30 rock that said “Live every week like it’s shark week”. I did my research and went with a company I thought was reputable. I printed 100 shirts which looking back was a bad decision. Any new shirt you want to print the minimums and use that information to know what sizes sell or even if that design is a good seller. I talk about it more in the article “How many shirts should I print”. [...]

Comment on Coloring Tips for T-shirt Designs by grandmamoose

grandmamoose — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:47:16 +0000

Hi Jon, Am going to attempt to do some tee's and found your advice helpful. Give me a couple days and I may have questions too, but for now, thank you!

Comment on Ask top store owners questions about anything! by brendan

brendan — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:58:45 +0000

Hi Jon,

any further progress into a an article on creative packaging for t-shirts?

Comment on Lowdtown is Closing Down – Clearance Sale by jonkruse

jonkruse — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:12:01 +0000

Here is my advise, read the articles on this website.

Comment on Lowdtown is Closing Down – Clearance Sale by D.J. Williams

D.J. Williams — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 05:15:50 +0000

Well i hope everything turns for the best for you. i am just a young teenager with big hopes and dreams on making my own business. I have a good idea of what to sell and where I want to go with it, but have no idea of where to start. I'm researching to try to get an idea of the whol thing. If you have any advise to help me try and persue my dreams

E-mail blkbltdj@comcast.net

Comment on How many shirts should I print?! by yodude711

yodude711 — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:53:42 +0000

i can definitely relate to this quandry - how many shirts should i print? when i first started selling tshirts in college, it was a huge dilemma because like jon says, you don't want to print too many and have a bunch that never sell.

nowadays, though, i don't print ANY inventory. besides the issue of spending a ton of money on an inventory, i hate managing an inventory. i've sworn it off twice in the 8 years i've been selling shirts.

i scoured the country looking for screen printers that would screen print shirts on demand. i didn't want digital or DTG printing, only screen printing for me. i feel it's just more professional looking. kinda separates the men from the boys, you know?

anyway, it took me a couple years, but i finally found a screen printer that would work with me. now, when a customer orders a shirt on my website, the order gets sent to directly to the screen printer, he prints it up, drop-ships it to my customer, and then charges my business credit card.

after doing it this way for a while, it occurred to me that there are probably a lot of other people out there that would love to setup their shirt companies this way.

so in the interest of sending more business to my screen printer, making his service available to more and more people, and because he didn't really have a good web presence, i'm building a website to market his on-demand screen printing services.

i suggest anyone who's interested in starting a clothing company that doesn't have a lot of money to start look into doing print-on-demand screen printing. you can avoid the traditional hassles and headaches, as well as the main barriers to entry in this industry, if you set up your business this way. anyone read "The 4-Hour Workweek"? this is right up your alley. make a little money machine (muse) that puts money in your pocket without your involvement. that's what it's all about, right?

Comment on Typography for t-shirt designs by Tiffany Kelley

Tiffany Kelley — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:41:16 +0000

I had a hard time finding this link because the spelling in the url is backwards. /typoGRPAHY-tshirt-designs. we want GRAPHY right?

Thanks for the information. IT's informative.

Comment on T-shirt design process – Greg Abbot by SIMPLEROBB.COM

SIMPLEROBB.COM — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:39:29 +0000

Pretty good Greg.

Comment on Sometimes you don’t need Internet Marketing by SignifyingNot

SignifyingNot — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:28:47 +0000

I was surprised to find how true this is. Actually, one of the sites that I looked to as a sort of template when starting out is one that doesn't seem to use much online marketing. I couldn't believe it when I found that out because they are a well known company and are worn by many popular bands. But they get a lot of traffic from fans of those bands who see them wearing the shirts and want one too. If only we could all get such publicity!

Comment on How to connect multiple paypal emails – tutorial by jonkruse

jonkruse — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:13:38 +0000

Paypal has added a couple cool things. Last year I was saving out each month's transactions as a separate file because paypal couldn't handle doing the whole year at once. Now they just send you an email when your file is ready and you can download it.