TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

Well, another round of sales have cleared for the t-shirt entrepreneur and it was another good month. Growth was 211% over this same time last year (2005) and I am still in the upper .2% of all shopkeepers on Cafepress.

However I did disappoint myself this year by still not having certain stores completely ready for the holidays yet. This will certainly cost me some sales heading into the Christmas shopping season. Not that I have given up on having stores ready however. I just do not foresee me getting 100% of the designs that I had committed to having available ready for sale.

Part of this is due to Cafepress rolling out new items such as new long sleeved t-shirts perfect for fall and winter which I have been busily adding to my sites. Which just goes to show you that even if you plan well, the unexpected will always happen to screw up those plans.

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J.J. Jackson is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. and Cafepress “Top Shopkeeper”. He has been selling t-shirts on-line since 2004 and is the owner of the T-Shirt Entrepreneur, a site dedicated to helping people get involved in the T-shirt Economy. He is also the owner of Funny When Wet T-shirts, American Infidel Tshirts as well as many other online t-shirt and gift stores.

You are DEFFINATELY an entrepreneur if one or more of the following apply:

1) You’ve incorporated your business or made it official in some way (even if you simply designate it as a sole proprietorship)
2) You’ve generated a written business plan
3) You are sticking to that written business plan
4) You update your business plan regularly
5) You like what you do and have fun but also are committed that you are doing it to make money
6) You have a lawyer on at least retainer (more…)

While Cafepress is certainly king of the online one off manufacturers, don’t limit yourself to only that outlet. (more…)

Fortunate are those who have a Dream and if you happen to be one of those who has an Internet Home Based Business Dream then don’t let it lie dormant and ultimately disappear from the realms of reality. Start activating your Dream and lay the foundations to make your Dream come true and establish yourself as an Internet Marketer.

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe”–Anatole France. (more…)

Copyright (c) 2006 Diane Hughes

When was the last time you tried out all the parts of your website? Have gone clicking around your site to see what your customers are seeing? If you have answered “yes” then good for you… but even if you have, have you looked on your own computer?

A friend of mine is a web designer and if you go into her home office your jaw would drop… you’d think you just stepped into a spaceship. She has several screen and several computers running at once. I asked her what all the computers were for. As a high end website designer, she wants to make sure that her customer’s websites look good for everyone viewing the site, whether they are viewing it on a small screen or a large screen. She’ll create a website then view it from different monitors to see how it looks… then she’ll make adjustments accordingly. (more…)