TSHIRT ENTREPRENEUR ONLINE

If you are selling T-shirts Online and have a storefront of any considerable size at some point you have probably wondered what to do with designs that are not as current as they once where or that have been updated or just not selling well. Ultimately it depends on the situation that you are in.

Are you making the t-shirts yourself and carrying a stock? Or are you using a site like Cafepress or Printfection for one off, on demand production? Because depending on your business model and strategy it makes a huge difference. (more…)

We’ve added PayPal as a way for you to receive your earnings payments. Why use PayPal? There’s no minimum monthly balance necessary and electronic payments are more convenient. Just change your payment options in MyZazzle by January 31st to have your preferences updated in time for this payment period.

Don’t forget that you can also use your earnings to make purchases. Need some more money? Here’s a $5 promo code for you to use with your earnings: JCRJJBHVPCHFUMIZGMSA (expires January 29th). So, go ahead and buy that trendy new shirt you’ve been eyeing! (more…)

Every now and again something just makes me scratch my head. For each of the past three years January has been a hot month for a singular product – Bumper Stickers.

What it is about bumper stickers in January I do not know. Perhaps it is because they are cheap (generally I sell them at about $4.99/ea) and people aren’t in as much of a spending mood after the ruckus Christmas season. I do not know.

But pulling together some data over the past three years definitely shows that January is the month for bumper stickers. (more…)

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…)

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…)