TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

People think that selling T-shirts online is some sort of “get rich quick� scheme. It is not. What it is is a business if you chose to make it into one and it is a time sink that won’t make you a dime if you chose to make it into that as well.

This article is entitle “The .2% Doctrineâ€� because that is about how many people that open an online T-shirt store though any of the online one-off producers make money at it. Many people do not open stores to make money. They open them to simply make some cool stuff for themselves and their friends and family. Many more invest a couple weeks and maybe a couple months and do not get anywhere, maybe make a couple small sales and then pack it in. Still more stick with it for longer and struggle to sell more than 5 items a month and make little more than $20 a month. But that “.2%â€� is the percent that succeed in at least generating enough revenue in a given month to make a check appear in their hand. (more…)

This article was written with the focus of helping potential small-business owners with the task of incorporating their business (Corporation or LLC). Contact Chris Einkauf or John L. Williams, Esq. at Agents and Corporations, Inc. with any questions, concerns or comments.

1) Pick the “best” formation type
First, and most importantly, a small-business owner must pick the optimal formation (more…)

As every Internet user knows, search engine optimization, or SEO, is incredibly important. You can’t get visitors without a high ranking with the search engines, and this is where search engine optimization –SEO- comes in. You have a web site because you want to have visitors, and without visitors there’s really no reason to have a web site at all – right? If you want your site to work, you have to (more…)

1. Maximize the effectiveness of your banner ads.

Don’t just use the same ad on every banner, use a variety to attract the greatest number of clickers.

2. Make your web site load much (more…)

Often times when I am perusing the message boards I see people who own an online t-shirt store asking what their “markupâ€� should be. For the uninitiated, the way many of the sites that provide one off t-shirt printing services for businesses work is that items they make for your customers have a “base priceâ€� which includes their costs and you, as a shop owner, place on top of that a “markupâ€� which is how much you want to charge and be paid when someone buys your designs. (more…)