My New T-Shirt Website

[Mr.Chuckles]

6 billion people in the world selling goods is easy if you know how to reach people.

Take a global approach to selling your goods

1. Artist, these guys will sell your shirts because it's their artwork that they are pushing and your brand will benefit.

2. Massive online games, i have 3 accounts with some MMOS all of my characters are in huge guilds i give them freebies and they tell friends, next step is to throw some events in game to push my brand nothing like reaching 300k people at any given day while playing a online game.

3. Create a hub or forum and rent out ad space to your main rivals or target rivals nothing like can compare to this ..........well only BGOL.

4. Local movement go to local stores and take consignment deals, YOU WILL GET BURNED so get ready for some shady stuff but the knowledge you gain far outweigh the money lost, you can learn this type of shit, only experience can teach it, prob why i still have to keep down a part time gig.

5. Trade shows and distribution, no comments here waiting for 2011 to hit up this scene.

 

[absorhaps]

The definition tees are cool if you can continue to work on them and make them more esoteric.

The other designs in my opinion need some work, depending on your demographic.

I got into the T-shirt game mainly because I was already designing stuff for myself so I didn't have anything to lose by putting up a site. I put my site up more so to add to my actual resume than to make money (that addition greatly assisted me in landing my previous job and my current job).

The whole demographic I was aiming for changed up and the game got stale, Nike beat me for one of my designs and for various reasons I didn't fight it, and I started getting into other things so I fell off with the tee game but before I did it didn't seem worth the effort as main point of making money (side $ is a diff story).

But good luck to you if your actually trying to make some money off of it. In my opinion your not going to make much of it online. Generating traffic to a site like that is going to be tough.

My biggest complaint would be that your on cafepress. As a consumer I can't respect anybody selling stuff directly off of cafepress, zazzle, spreadshirt, etc. It just seems lazy to me. I don't have any objection to using them as a production source though.

Keep grinding though its hard work but I see people with wack shit making money all the time, so there is always money to be made depending on what your willing to put into it. In fact this has motivated me to try to find the time to do something with my neglected ass site.

 

[KissTheSkyy]

Yo, Fam! I'm just re-in up this post for more feedback.

Thanks!

 

[J Storm]

i thought these shits were Band-Aids.

 

[Mr.Chuckles]

i thought these shits were Band-Aids.

I would post some of my decks but i don't want Trouble

 

[ClevelandDawg216]

i like the one that says "kick rocks".

 

[Oracle21]

good luck homie

 

[GlennQuagmire]

Yo, Fam! I'm just re-in up this post for more feedback.

Thanks!

Cafe Press is not the place to build your brand. That is for promotion and swag (Hey, I used swag in the original context it was intended! ) If you want a quality brand you have to get away from the cheap sites. These sites are just dragging you there to sign up and keep you at a level where there will be stagnant growth.

DO Not sign up to any of these factorized sites. The more and more a site does for you, the more and more they try to cha ching you with fees. The best way is to look at some t shirt companies who are executing it professionally and study how their brand is growing. The number 2 thing you want to do is study t shirt companies that look to be failing. That way you know what to directly avoid.

One thing I would suggest is to grab onto pop cultural slogans not yet on a tshirt. I would also not be afraid in being bold and funny. Here's a good t shirt title "I think Im Cookie Monster" And draw Cookie Monster like Rick Ross That's a good one I'd buy that shirt. Because Cookie Monster is Rick Ross. Now that may be a tough sale because Ross aint a household name like EM. But that is a good direction to take phrases like that and match them with iconic pop cultural images. Cookie Monster to me is a can't miss. Be funny, be creative and make a few shirts that will make others angry. Hope this helps point you in the right direction.

 

[bigdaddi1314]

keep working at your craft fam, I'm working on the same thing. I bought a home screen printing machine and have been working on designs and trying to perfect the process. Have you ever heard of etsy.com? I plan on getting a few shirts on there and trying to get a few of my shirts in the trendy resale shop here in town. good luck