You need to have contact with your customers. If you let someone go to your website and leave without ever getting the chance to talk to them, you’ve missed out on a huge opportunity. You’ll want to provide a way to subscribe to your newsletter or ‘special offers’ mailing list. Try offering an incentive for them to leave their email address. If you can get a small list of people who, at least at one time, were interested in your product or service, you have a great resource for drumming up business.

T-shirts are a relatively cheap way to promote your business. They can also help you bring even more money in. If you sell t-shirts in your place of business, chances are some of your customers would be willing to purchase them. Everybody loves a nice t-shirt. Having a nice stock of t-shirts is great for people who have a regular workout routine and often do manual labor. T-shirts are also a great way for people to be relaxed and casual while looking nice at the same time.

How about a T-shirt with the Nike logo, and after it was wash 10 or 12 times instead of “Just Do It!” – That T-shirt might say “I Just Did It” – in fact, there are many good corporate branding uses for this washable secret message T-shirt technology. It would also be great for nonprofit group sponsoring Walk-A-Thons, Bike-A-Thon, Bowl-A-Thon, or other nonprofit charity fundraising events.

The Juicy name was actually founded by Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Taylor (wife of John Taylor of Duran-Duran) in 1994 as a designer t-shirt company and then made their way into the denim and sportswear market. This in turn led to the infamous ‘track suit’ in a variety of fabrics and styles.

I then began to search the web for a company that I could purchase my heat transfers from. I was able to find two companies that was pretty reasonable Pro-World and Smartwear. Pro-World heat transfers can be found online. Smartwear heat transfers are located in their mailed out catalog. I ordered my heat transfers and in about four days I was ready to start. I must admit it was by trial and error, but once I got the hang of how to operate the heat press, such as getting the required temperature, it was smooth sailing. This turned into a family function, because my children are able to participate.

E-books about your area of expertise can make you lots of money. eBay doesn’t let you digital download anymore. But if you feel like burning some cd’s of e-books and info books you created, this is a good road to take. Information is a number one seller on eBay. Find out what you know best and help people by writing an e-book. You might even create a million dollar e-book.

His partner Colin comes through the door, sporting the same gray t-shirt Palmer is wearing, almost like a uniform. Cute. “I swear we didn’t plan this” they promise. Mm-hmm. Sure, guys.

You’ll need to buy a domain name (the virtual address of your site), find a place to host your website, and create your shop. Many places can build one for you, and some can give you design tools to create one yourself. GoDaddyHosting & Servers or Yahoo! Small Business Yahoo! Web Hosting, Yahoo uses a web hosting service to allow your site to be visited and operated. Yahoo also has online stores you can open, if you plan on getting a seller’s permit, Acttee and a business license to sell products from your home.