| How to Start Your Funny T-shirt Company - Learn | | | | placed an order for about 50 t-shirts. |
| The Ropes In Just One Weekend - And Make A | | | | Selling |
| Fortune. | | | | Once the tees were received, we started to put our |
| Funny t-shirts can be seen everywhere, as almost | | | | funny tee shirts out on the web. We used sites like |
| everyone has at least one funny t-shirt in their | | | | eBay, Amazon, Half.com, and a number of others to |
| closest. Someone once asked me; "Why did you get | | | | get our funny message out there. It was not long |
| into the t-shirt business?" I responded, "How Many | | | | before we realized that we could start up a very |
| T-shirts Do You Have?" He could not tell me exactly | | | | inexpensive website for only about $12.00 a month |
| how many because there were too many to count. | | | | and a $10.00 domain name. |
| The Funny T-shirt business is an excellent way to | | | | Once the website was done (we just used one of |
| make money, but can be a very tough industry. | | | | the templates that came with the website to start), |
| Designs | | | | we started to advertise our t-shirts on Google |
| We have always been committed to bringing our | | | | AdWords. In no time, we sold all 50 tshirts and had |
| customers the highest quality screen printed funny | | | | to order more. We pumped all of the profit that we |
| t-shirts possible. However, when we started out, we | | | | made into new t-shirts and next time ordered 100. |
| had no idea how to design t-shirts and did not know | | | | Pretty soon, we found out that we could put all of |
| anything about graphics programs. When designing | | | | our profits into purchasing our own equipment and |
| funny tee shirts, you always need to be able to | | | | learning how to print the funny t-shirts ourselves. |
| adapt an image to an idea, and this is where I really | | | | Growing |
| had problems. | | | | Once we had our equipment, we learned very quickly |
| So, I purchased a few clip art programs with funny | | | | that anyone can print their own t-shirts after |
| images that we could use on t-shirts and then added | | | | purchasing a How To Print Your Own T-shirts DVD. |
| some text and adapted them to our funny ideas. | | | | It does take some time and patience and practice, |
| Graphic programs have come a long way in terms of | | | | but anyone can do it. However, pretty soon we |
| being easy to use, and before long, we had a | | | | realized that our funny t-shirt designs were no longer |
| number of great designs for our Funny Tee website. | | | | funny. We had to come up with some more ideas. |
| Printing | | | | To flourish in this business, a novelty t-shirt printer |
| Printing tshirts can be very expensive once you | | | | needs to be constantly coming up with new original |
| purchase all of the equipment needed. So to start, | | | | ideas and promote, promote, promote. Because who |
| we did a lot of research on which of our funny t-shirt | | | | really wants to be stuck with 500 t-shirts in their |
| designs we thought would sell the best and then got | | | | closet that say "Im With Stupid" when that fad has |
| in touch with some local t-shirt printers and received | | | | passed? |
| some prices. We picked the best printers based on | | | | New funny graphic t-shirts spring up every day. Are |
| price, lead time to finish the job, and final product and | | | | you going to be the ones selling them? |