How to start a Clothing Company

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I never thought that when I started this site it would get so much attention or have such a following. I started it in 2008 and last year alone I reached over 139,000 people. I didn’t even know there were 139,000 people that wanted to start a clothing company. I just wanted to thank everyone [...]

http://www.facebook.com/startaclothingcompany 995 people like our facebook page. That’s all, I just wanted to let those slackers know that they should press the like button and tip it over the 1k mark.

Some tips from what I have learned over the years about storing tees. -NEVER hang them! After about a month or 2 the tees will get permanent crease marks and if they are a V-neck or a softer material neck the back of the neck will fold down the middle pointing out and it looks [...]

By Liz at Pop Culture Tees Have you ever read a mission statement that starts something like this?: “Brand X is a brand that represents urban culture and is for creative edgy people everywhere. Every product of Brand X incorporates our unique vision, style, and attitude. We’re not just a t-shirt shop, we’re a culture…” [...]

I saw this on smallbiztrends.com Combining social media marketing with traditional branding efforts may be the wave of the future. After all branding is one area social media can help social media the most, establishing brand identity in a way that once required much larger budgets. The following roundup looks at social media, branding, small [...]

I teamed up with Andy at Hide Your Arms to create a new site called Shirt Hive. Here is what he has to day about the project. I thought I would rather steal his words then make something up on my own. At the heart of it, if you just wanted a bullet-point version, it’s [...]

Another legit tip for start up brands and any product based company in general, this one will save you money. I have spent a lot of hours with clients discussing each detail and option that a start up clothing line may have.  Tag, no tag, or inside tag. Big print, little print, this font , [...]

Simple, free and only takes a few seconds. Viral marketing on Facebook is one of the most effective ways to brand your company and get more sales. There are a few techniques that I have stumbled upon over the years that I would like to share with you. All these ideas are free and take [...]

What you should know before you approach a boutique/shop Being in a room with two buyers can be a very tense situation. Throw on top of that inexperience and you are quickly driving down the road of wrong decisions with signs of regret along the way. I felt like an amateur with terms like Consignment [...]

Written by Derek Deal I get asked a lot how i go about making my designs so i figured I’d give a general overview of how I work. The video above is a time lapse of the entire process of a design i did for The Amity Affliction. If you’re one of them readin’ types, [...]

Written by Adam Hendle For those of you that may have followed Iamthetrend TV live while that show was still alive and kicking, you may remember us grading and breaking down t-shirts into our 4P’s. Since we haven’t done the show in quite sometime I thought it would be great to sit down and write [...]

By Adam Hendle at I am the trend After having several companies ask how to get blogs to post about them I decided to throw this video together to give a few tips. 1. Be Personal 2. Be Persistent 3. Send Products 4. Offer Affiliate Programs.

This article was written by Sol Amstutz Utilizing halftones is a pretty quick and easy step to create the illusion that you are using more colors in your design than you actually are. Subsequently, this will help cut down printing costs for your client which will make them happy. The important thing about halftones is [...]

Whenever I meet new people they inevitably ask me what I do. I usually just say I’m an entrepreneur and try and be as vague as possible because I really don’t want to get into the details because they wouldn’t understand. It’s not even that the concepts are that hard to understand I feel it’s [...]

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 [...]