TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

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It’s crunch time and if you are selling t-shirts (or anything for that matter) online you had better have noticed a sharp up tick in sales over the past couple days as people looking for that last minute gift idea are scrambling to get gifts ordered with enough time to have them shipped and received before Christmas. (more…)

So you’ve decided to become a t-shirt entrepreneur and are getting ready to lay out your plan for success.  One of the first decisions you are going to make is what the heck to actually sell – besides t-shirts, mugs, etc I mean.

There are limitless models for you to follow and many types of designs to sell.  But one of the things that rarely enters into the mind of new t-shirt entrepreneurs is whether they should dive head first into an already competitive arena with hundreds (if not thousands) of established shops or focus on some niche audience that, while smaller, might have little or no competition.

While you should do what you love and have a passion for, you also have to realize that if you are going to be a serious t-shirt entrepreneur (and not a t-shirt hobbyist) you have to have a plan for making money at it. (more…)

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As you watch sales climb with Christmas fast approaching, have you given any thought about what you are going to do when January rolls around and things begin to slow? Baring some sort of luck, you know that the first couple months of the year are not as great for online retailers and t-shirt entrepreneurs as the Holiday season.

So how are you going to cope when that those nice checks for November and December turn into ho-hum profits for January and February? Here are five ideas about how to spend your time until things pick up again and maybe help you keep the downward trend to a minimum. (more…)