T-Shirt Business

I am going to try my hand at making and selling t-shirts. I was wondering if anyone knows of a site like cafepress that doesn't limit you to the amount of designs you put up at one time. I'm looking to go with variety (few hundred different designs).


I know some people will say to start my own company because it isn't that expensive to setup the printing equipment but keep in mind i'm in my second year of college and trying to do this small at first with the online market and then eventually maybe take it further.

So does anyone know of a good cafepress etc site that offers unlimited or at least a high amount of slots to upload the designs

 

Spreadshirt is good. But I honestly recommend to do it yourself and not use one of those sites. If you don't want to make them, you can bulk order custom shirts from lots of websites. I would look into that. However, the best alternative to cafe press is spreadshirt (I don't think they have any limits).
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if you have $6k and you want to get it made properly, i can help you setup manufacturing in asia.

 

I am planning on trying to set it up myself later on if they are successful in selling. But college full time and working part time doesn't leave me to much free time or money atm. I'll defiantly check out spreadshirt thanks

 

have you done any buisness with them? Do they allow unlimited designs?

 

Imagine a forum that's as useful as BHW, but all about T-shirts. It has well over 100,000 members, and they tend to be very helpful. You can certainly get an exhaustive answer to your question there.

Consider just outsourcing the printing to a heat press or DTG printer. There are people there eager to do it and your profit will be FAR greater.

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http://t-shirtforums.com

 

I just reread your post. I would respectfully suggest that you reconsider your plan for a site featuring hundreds of designs.

Just like most other types of internet marketing, a successful t-shirt site involves doing keyword research and picking a good niche.

And avoiding bad choices. For example, humor t-shirts. The market is saturated, yet there are more sites every day. You constantly need new designs. Decent designs get ripped off within hours, and there's not much you can do about it. Prices are cut-throat.

On the other hand, "I Hate Clowns" has no competition, and has been raking in the bucks for over a decade.

If you want to sell a wide variety of shirts, your best bet is to set up a network of niche sites.

 

I thought about starting this once and I still want to do it.
I did a quite good research and I think "Printfection" (you have to google it since I can't post links) is the best T-Shirt printer service out there. You get good commissions and they don't appear very big on your shop, so it looks more professional (if you have a good design of course).

 

Get an iron and iron on sheets! hehe... Actually, you can get a good iron press for a few hundred dollars. The iron press requires an area about the size of a stove top.

With a setup like this, all you have to do is, design, print, cut, iron press it and you're done!

 

work with a local mom and pops shop. you can get shirts printed pretty cheap. develop a relationship and when you get bigger you'll get the best price around town. open up a big cartel store and sell your shirts. that's what i did. (http://filthydripped.com)

 

Im in the same position as the thread starter but I seen in your website you have a program for the designs. Whats the name of the program and where can i get it for cheap or free?

 

make your own webstore, many script for that
make a facebook app and make it viral

get good designs!

try to put your design on deviantart, you can setup your own shop too

 

Out of all the print on demand sites the best I've seen is skeened and Redbubble as far as quality. As someone who is a screenprinter and has been making my living for the last 10 years selling t-shirts online, Do Not Do It Yourself. Hire a printer, even someone to package and ship the orders. It's cheap and a better use of time. You'll still have a 10 times markup and can concentrate your personal resources on design and marketing which is where the money is made. It requires skill, knowledge and a big learning curve to print quality garments. You can short cut that using someone else's skills. It can get unmanageable real fast if you are getting a hundred orders a day and trying to do it all yourself