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Tictail

by waroftheflea
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Hi guys,

First time posting here so hello!! I am going to start a tshirt business because my friend makes the most brilliant designs and we want to start selling them online.

I've been researching ecommerce sites and came across tictail.com. I did a search on this site and nothing has come up. Anyone have experience with it?

My one concern is that tictail does not have blogging capabilities, it is purely ecommerce so the blog would have to be hosted somewhere else (maybe tumblr). This blog will feature fresh, interesting content so would be good for SEO on the tshirt site. Is it a big issue that the blog would be hosted elsewhere in terms of SEO? Any ways of getting around it?

Thanks

waroftheflea
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  • Profile picture of the author Ecommerce Advice
    If this is a brand new product and you don't have much ecom experience - why don't you test the market and make sure demand is as good as you expect before building the site.

    Take some great photos, write great copy and then go and sell the Tshirts on Amazon / Ebay. You'll get some good feedback and know what sells best.

    Once you have that knowledge go and expand
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  • Profile picture of the author OnlineStoreHelp
    Originally Posted by waroftheflea View Post

    Hi guys,

    First time posting here so hello!! I am going to start a tshirt business because my friend makes the most brilliant designs and we want to start selling them online.

    I've been researching ecommerce sites and came across tictail.com. I did a search on this site and nothing has come up. Anyone have experience with it?

    My one concern is that tictail does not have blogging capabilities, it is purely ecommerce so the blog would have to be hosted somewhere else (maybe tumblr). This blog will feature fresh, interesting content so would be good for SEO on the tshirt site. Is it a big issue that the blog would be hosted elsewhere in terms of SEO? Any ways of getting around it?

    Thanks

    waroftheflea
    Well I can tell you one thing about tictail, their sites are ridiculously slow. I have tried going to two different stores and the load times are horrendous. But let me guess, you saw "Free Store" and got excited. I know, we have all been there, but there is nothing free.

    If I was you, and you really do like your friends designs, I would start with spreadshirt. You can upload your designs and either sell on your site, or in their marketplace. They give you iframe code to embed the store in your website. You could do this simply with something easy like weebly, or use wordpress, get an iframe plugin and then you have your blogging platform too.

    This way, very little out of pocket, you get the blogging capabilities you want and if it blows up, you can then negotiate inventory. Until then, Spreadshirt accepts the payments, phone calls, returns, etc, you just take the difference between wholesale and retail.
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  • Profile picture of the author BrandyM
    this is a start up company only been around about a year but it might be what your looking for its called teespring.com. Recently, I saw cafepress.com is doing the same thing as teespring.com
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