How to Keep Your T-shirt Printing Costs Low

Many start-ups often work other jobs or have other family responsibilities and don't have much time on their hand. 

In this training, we help you set and plan goals and teach you how to be productive so you can see steady progress as you build your t-shirt company.

We also discuss the pros and cons in regards to working with family members.

I believe you got what it takes. Join us!

This is where a bunch of newbies mess up.

There's a particular structure that must be followed with coming up with your own 't-shirt collection'.

We decide proper design and explain what makes a design good or bad. You don't want to just throw a bunch of random t-shirts together without some type of theme connecting them.

In addition to that, we breakdown the process on how to hire a graphic designer, along with some guidelines to ensure you don't get taken advantage of.

Need models to wear your t-shirts? We show you how to find them and share the proper agreements you need them to sign to give you exclusive rights to use the photos with them in it.

If you fail to plan, then plan to fail ...

This is the boring stuff no one wants to do. But you'll quickly discover that most successful t-shirt businesses did the necessary grunt work in order to get the advantage.

We spend a bit of time hear researching the market to help you find  an 'advantage' that can help your business take off.

Much of this starts by researching your competitors and we have some unique ways for you to sneak on the 'inside' to get all the juicy details on how they're running their business.

Yes ... 'Real life corporate espionage' ... There's a legal loophole that keeps you out of jail, lol :) 

Getting a business license, along with the appropriate permits, based on the way you plan to sell your shirts, is a cinch. It's all covered here.

To setup a bank account with your company name (instead of yours), there's some additional paperwork you must do (like getting a Federal Tax ID number (also known as TIN or EIN).

We cover all of this in the training - it's pretty easy. Some folks have said they can't get a bank account because of credit or a bad file in ChexSystems (you can generally get a business banking account in the biz name regardless -- we show you how).

Also, you'll need State sales tax i.d. # in order to purchase wholesale from vendors. We got you covered!

For most of you, the bulk of your t-shirt sales and business will come from the Internet.

It easily cost $5,000 - $10,000 to get an e-commerce website made 15-20 years ago when I started.

You won't pay anywhere near that amount now.

Over the years, technology has changed so much that practically anyone can get their business on the Internet and start taking payments within hours of launching their t-shirt business website.

We discuss the best practices for setting up an e-commerce website that sell, as well as choosing a proper dot-com name that doesn't confuse people trying to find you on the Internet.

The simple techniques discussed in this training section makes all the difference in how well your t-shirts sell, and how much you earn.

Let's sell some t-shirts :)

Lots of options have come along to promote your business than when I first started.

Affiliate marketing was one of the methods we used  to get off to a fast start, and it's still one of my favorites.

This is a method of marketing where you get other related websites to put your graphics and t-shirts on their website and pay them a commission when someone purchases.

We had an army of 'affiliates' promoting our t-shirt company.

This gets discussed in this training along with other online marketing strategies for getting your t-shirt collection in front of the right people.

Marketing is my favorite topic and I'll have lots to share with you in this section.

Marketing gets the word out about your t-shirt brand.

Let's tell the world!

Most people only think about 'online marketing' and totally ignore the offline marketing opportunities available to them.

There's direct mail marketing, postcards, marketing in printed newsletters, radio advertising, trade shows and more.

We get into all of this and show you some amazing stuff you can do with offline marketing, particularly direct mail.

I'll share how we created a reseller program to get other 'offline' people to sell our shirts door to door as a business opportunity.

You won't be disappointed with the methods discussed in this training module.

Lots to discuss here!

Ever heard of the phrase 'line-sheet'?

Well ... This is the thing you need if you plan to get your t-shirts into stores. 

I'll show you my 'line sheet' and you're free to build yours around mine.

These are what you give to retailers (stores) in order for them to purchase your line of t-shirts.

We'll cover a lot of the details about getting your shirts into stores in this training session.

Much of the stuff you'll deal with is customer service related issues. Some folks have very unrealistic expectations and you're gonna need to spell 'EVERYTHING' out so you don't get taken advantage of.

Yes, most of this is basic stuff, but I wished someone shared these tips with me ... They would have saved me a lot of headaches. 

So I'm gonna share these tips with you in this section.