GF: One week and a half or so. Actually, I can’t say something really specific, because I love to have various illustrations on the table at the same time. It also depends on how big the illustration is, or how many details it has.
We have always been committed to bringing our customers the highest quality screen printed funny t-shirts possible. However, when we started out, we had no idea how to design t-shirts and did not know anything about graphics programs. When designing funny tee shirts, you always need to be able to adapt an image to an idea, and this is where I really had problems.
Asking your parents and relatives for money is the easiest way to obtain a lot of money at one time. Remember that this is a loan, and your relatives will want their original investment back, so be sure to treat this like a business venture. Create a business plan to show your relatives so they know how serious you are about starting a t-shirt company. You should also go into the meeting with your parents/relatives knowing how much money you need them to invest. Asking your parents and relatives for money to fund your new t-shirt business is an easy way to gain a lot of money, as long as you treat it seriously.
Why not ask around and see if people can recommend you a cheap T shirt printing company. Reputation is very essential and word of mouth can be responsible for bringing in lots of orders.
As for the cost of custom t-shirt printing the more one orders the more discount one gets. For example, a company decides to order more 50 t-shirts and they can get a discount of 40% on the original price. They order more than 100 t-shirts and they get a 50% discount. There are websites that can offer up to 65% discount depending on the size of the order that they get. One good part of dealing with online t-shirt companies is that they are already very competitive. There is, hence, no need to bargain with them. The price that they ask for cannot be matched by too many vendors.
You have to be willing to sacrifice your personal time, energy, and money, in the hopes that one day it will pay off. We’ve sacrificed time with our five sons, family vacations, more energy than we thought we had, and lots of money.
Promo. Get it out there! Make sure your friends buy your products or you could give out freebies. Put stickers, advertising your shop, wherever you can. Be shameless because designers are really admired (as opposed to being a ‘salesperson’), especially if your product is favorable.
This one should go without saying but I feel that it needs to be said anyways. Double, nay triple check your website for spelling and grammatical errors. You are making an impression on every person that visits your site and you want it to be a good one. There are many people out there that, if they recognize a simple error in a piece of ad copy or on a website, will lose a ton of respect for the company in question. You are making a sale on that person… you are selling them the fact that you are the right choice. If you are not professional enough to have proper grammar, punctuation, or spelling on your website, then how are you going to sell them that you are the right choice?
