Anyone with experience in selling T-shirts online?

Check out teespring.com that sounds exactly what you need

It's basically a pltform that allows you to create a design, and then you launch a campaign to sell a certain amount of shirts and if you reach your goal they get sent out (by them). So it's a risk free operation basically for you.

Great question. I'm thinking about the same thing aldentan. Jens, do you have to purchase the shirts first, or is it a client pay/make to order situation?

--Ian

There are tons of places to learn about selling T-shirts online. You can learn a ton by reading T-Shirt Forums

Also don't forget printers such as Zazzle. I put a few designs up on Zazzle several years ago and still earn small amounts of money from their site, mostly around Christmas. It's always a shock to me to see the emails from Zazzle, because I never did any promotion for that...

Similar to cafepress or zazzle, I use Spreadshirt because you can try designs at no cost and the quality is good, but the margin is small. If you have a big following however and you know you can move a lot of one design, then using a screenprinting company that dropships is the way to go.

Yes, the t-shirt business is HUGE. It's truly an evergreen market where people buy shirt after shirt after shirt.

As many people have pointed out, you can look into teespring, sunfrogshirts, fabirly, and a few others.

Though with teespring and fabrily, you set an end date and a goal, so it's usually best to have an audience already OR pay for traffic that you send to your designs. Sunfrogshirts and zazzle you can have more evergreen shirts to sell with no time limit.

But it's definitely a great business and you can open up and do very well when you take your business online. The whole world becomes your market.

Few years back I tried to sell t shirt and found the market is very competitive. So I left it. Anyway if you have visitors you can do so. Just chef back with your visitor by collecting their opinion by a poll on your website. May be you will understand the demand and can make your feet wet.

Generally selling t-shirts online is quite easy, especially if you're doing it through your blog/a page on your blog. There's 3 main money-spending/money-saving steps.
1) T-Shirt design
2) T-Shirt production
3) T-Shirt shipping

When it comes to 1 and 2, it's best to do it locally. Find a local designer/design yourself and a local printer. Bulk order shirts of all sizes from China (on ebay, for example) and then silk-screen print them in your city. Of course you can use other printing options, but nothing beats a silk-screen printed Tee in terms of quality and how cool it looks.
When it comes to shipping you can either do regular mail (which is risky) or UPS/FedEx. The later provide guarantees that there will be no problem with shipping, but the flipped is that it will cost you some extra money. A workaround many use is to let the buyer chose the method of shipping.

Since you're selling through your blog, I have a feeling you won't need to get them printed in thousands, so managing the business on your own will be no trouble at all!
Good luck! And please PM me a link to your blog. )

I would recommend Teezily | Create and sell t-shirts online. No upfront costs, no hassle, no risk
It's based in Europe and benefits from being new on the market. Europeans are not used to seing custom T-shirt on Facebook Ads.
It's very new over there and you can make great sales within untouched target niches
Feel free to PM me for any other question

Would you be willing to do more of the work if you got were able to make more profit? Or do you only want to provide a link and let the shirt company handle everything?

Check out galloree.com it is super easy

There's plenty of places that can do all of that for you.

Or you could do it yourself.

I sold t-shirts as an affiliate but was no good at it so you might not want to take any advice from me.

I've used Wholesale Blank and Custom Tees, Hoodies and other products | Cheap Screen Printing before. They have awesome low prices and I was able to make whole sale custom tees to sell. It was great.

I am not an active member here but very active in Blackhatworld.

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