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I am an artist and designing things is my passion. I want to put my talent into good use. I am contemplating on starting a T-shirt business online. How should I start?
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  • Profile picture of the author superowid
    Try this...
    https://merch.amazon.com/landing
    Read their instruction and you should be good to go.
    Good luck!

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  • Profile picture of the author jimwayde
    Hey Mike,

    There are many ways you can go about starting a tshirt business. Here are two methods that I have had experience with before.

    If you are limited on funds I would suggest looking into Teespring. It is a site that allows you to sell tshirt with no cost to you. But in return they will take out a percentage of the profits.

    Another way you can start a tshirt business is with an online store. I know shopify has a good ecommerce site for beginners, and you can either find your own company that will print your shirts. Or you can team up with sites like printful that will fulfill the printing process, and the shipping.

    I hope this guides you in the right direction. and helps you out a bit!
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    • Profile picture of the author arrival7
      I would start with google and youtube.com Just go and type in how to start a tshirt business and you will get tons on information from both engines. I research for about a week before I get started. You will learn all of the ends and outs buy signing up to different Tshirt fourms online. Best of luck
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by MikeH16 View Post

    I am an artist and designing things is my passion. I want to put my talent into good use. I am contemplating on starting a T-shirt business online. How should I start?
    Why not start with teespring and make sure that people like what you are designing? If you have success there, then move to your own t-shirts?
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  • Profile picture of the author Marvin Lex
    First of all: I want to tell you that I find it great that you found your strength and want to use it to make money. I see too many good designers trying to become writers and writers who want to be designers etc. Focusing on your strengths is the first step to success.

    Chris has indeed a good idea: Use Teespring to test some of your shirt designs and especially learn how you can get traffic (the marketing side of your business). Once you learnt how to do this profitable, you can either stick with Teespring or start your own ecommerce shop.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jammy123
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    Originally Posted by MikeH16 View Post

    I am an artist and designing things is my passion. I want to put my talent into good use. I am contemplating on starting a T-shirt business online. How should I start?
    For starting any business whether online or offline at first need to prepare a proper plan and targeted goals and step by step action as the same way if your business will online based you can try paid advertising to promote your goal of freely facebook marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mikej413
    Good luck. I tried being an affiliate for a t shirt business and got nowhere. I had an ad on facebook but no sales. Needless to say I don't recommend trying to sell on facebook unless you want to spend money on ads and never see an roi.
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  • Profile picture of the author jacksonWSA
    I also like you, wish you luck in your passion
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    • Profile picture of the author sajidali27
      Is there any other way to promote teespring tshirts except FB ads?

      Or we have to invest money to promote it for selling in large amount.
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  • Profile picture of the author huyha
    why don't you try with teespring, i can design by your self, and save money. find some case study, learn about them. good luck
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  • Profile picture of the author alex124
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    at first collect enough money. designing is creative job so you have to find anyone who can do this perfectly. good luck
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    • Profile picture of the author SiteNameSales
      I'd recommend visiting The Teeshirt Forum. All aspects of getting involved in the business are covered. Topics are laid out similar to the Warrior Forum and there is a vendor's directory to see what's available. A lot of ads but, if you're just getting started, they could be very helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author EPoltrack77
    you need a website and a autoresponder service. Give some value away and build a list of prospects. Your list is your asset these days. It's called being smart with your marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author bleek7712
    You could start a print-on-demand business with Teespring, TeeChip, Zazzle, or Cafepress. It's free to set up an account and putting your designs on products is as easy as uploading the image.

    There's many ways you could promote your products too. If you're looking for free advertising try posting your products in pages related to the product niche. Or you could pay for ppc advertising or Facebook ads.
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