Start an Online T-Shirt Biz
Starting an online T-Shirt business is probably the easiest and cheapest business you could look at doing. Not to mention that is fun too, especially if you are very creative … if not, don’t despair! You can do it too.
Are you a talented drawer?
If you have the very lucky ability to draw your own original pictures, cartoons or illustrations then you can turn your talent into original T-Shirt designs.
Do you create great web graphics?
Your illustrations, cartoons and funky digital art make for great T-Shirt businesses, coupled with your already well developed computer and internet skills … an online T-Shirt biz will be a snap for you.
Can you capture beautiful photographs?
Original photography has adorned T-Shirts forever. Your sharp eye and trusty camera can help you to create spectacular T-shirt designs that have the ability to deliver emotion to the wearer.
Are you CRAP at drawing, web graphics and photography, like the rest of?
Well, luckily for the rest of us there are talented drawers, creative web designers and beautiful photography taken by others! There is an abundance of websites where you can purchase or even get free images available for your T-Shirt designs. Alternatively you may have some creative and witty sayings that can make funny T-Shirts. What about I heart U t-shirts? The options are endless.
The beauty of an Online T-Shirt Biz is you don’t need web design skills, artistic ability or even suppliers and samples. AND! Not only can your Online T-Shirt Biz sell T-Shirts you can also include merchandise like mugs, mouse mats and baby or pet clothing in your collection.
How do I start an online t-shirt biz?
Well, about now you are probably thinking this sounds like something I want to do! But how do I get started. It is really easy. First you need to decide which T-shirt supplier you want to use, we have provided a link to the different ones below, including two sample stores that we have set up ourselves.
Next, you need to sign up for a FREE store and decide on a name. Your Store Name will become your website address, so for example we decided to use Zazzle.com so our website address will be www.zazzle.com/bizit-shirts.
BUT if you want to own your own website name and to have more control, or maybe to add different types of stores to your site, then you will be wanting your own domain name and hosting plan. It will increase your setup costs but it is worth it. But don’t despair if you are undecided, you can always do that later. Click here for information about the companies we use.
Once your store is created, you can play with the options to change the store colours and head banners etc … And then start designing t-shirts.
Told you it was easy. Now let’s look at minimum skill requirements and setup dollars if you use your own domain name and hosting plan. The businesses we use and the other suggestions all have their own built in shopping carts so you don’t have to set one up, but we do suggest that you setup a PayPal account to receive your commission into. Setting up a PayPal account is free, choose the business account option if you can, it will make life easier when your business grows.
These are the service providers who offer free online stores.
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Art for Your T-Shirt Biz
If you need photos or images for your T-Shirt Biz these online photo galleries offer high quality, low cost and most importantly ROYALTY FREE photos, illustrations and background images. Please remember copyright is enforceable always pay for your images unless they are offered for free, and make sure you purchase the license where required. It’s just the right thing to do.
This is who we use for all of our business images.
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