You came here because you want to start your own tshirt business and your passionate about it. Starting a tshirt business is an amazing experience and you are going to have lot of personal growth as well as business and financial growth if you stay with it. This website and this article isn’t about making a quick buck. If you are one of those people who just wants to do it just for the money I would suggest you stop right here because you are not going to succeed. The following are 10 tips need to help you succeed in starting a tshirt business

1. How to start a tshirt business: You need to be passionate about your tshirt business

Without passion you aren’t going to get through the tough times and continue on. There is an awesome video done by Ben of Fright Rags and he talks a lot about how passion is necessary for your success, click here to check out that video. It’ going to be hard in the beginning. This isn’t like a 9 to 5 where you get paid for the time you put in. You are going to put in hours upon hours of work without seeing any return in the beginning. You are going to do this because you are passionate and you’re following your dream and you will do anything to make your tshirt business a success.

In the beginning of my first tshirt business I didn’t know anything. I made a tshirt press out of wood and figured out how to screen print. Screen printing is hard, especially if you don’t have all the right equipment. I was making screens in my shower, bought a pressure washer to wash out the design, and made tons of errors in the process. I got better and have printed hundreds of my first design called Missing Turtle. If I could do it again I would just pay a professional to print my shirts. I didn’t start a tshirt business so I could print shirts. I just wanted to design them and sell them. Check out this article written by Jimmy of Heartcore clothing about his story and why you should hire a professional instead of printing your own shirts.

So I finally figured out how to make the tshirts, I put them online, and nothing happens. No sales for a while. What is going on! I thought if I built it they would come. This is completely untrue on the internet. I spent hours researching on t-shirt forums for advice. Most of the information was terrible. I slowly figured out how to market my clothing line by getting my shirts on some of the biggest t-shirt blogs. Read the articles how I became a top clothing company by being a nice guy and how to get your cool shirt on tshirt blogs.

I started getting on these t-shirt blogs and started seeing orders come in. Yippee!! I printed my second shirt live every week like it’s shark week and the print was terrible. Nothing like the design I sent them. I had spent hundreds of dollars on tshirts that were awful. I talked to the company and they agreed to reprint the tshirts. It was better and I felt comfortable to sell the product now but it wasn’t perfect. I went through two other printers before I found the one that I loved.

The moral of this whole story is giving up was never an option for me because I was so passionate about what I was doing. I couldn’t screen print so I figured out how. I didn’t get any sales so I figured it out. I had problems with screen printers so I kept on looking for better ones. It’s your passion that is going to carry you through everything and if you are just in it for the money you won’t last.

2. How to start a tshirt business:Find an awesome screen printer for your clothing business

Lucky for you you don’t have to go through what I did and try multiple screen printers before finding a great one. Check out our recommended printer and they will help you make some awesome shirts. I started using them on my second clothing company Shred and they blew me away. I had 8 colors on some designs and they printed them so you could barely feel the ink. For me this was huge and the shirts I was getting made were just as good if not better then any of the shirts I saw in big retail stores. When your confident about your product you are going to be able to sell them better. If you have a product that is just okay your salesmanship is going to suffer. You really need to believe in your product. Also this company does an awesome job of sending you a mockup of the final product so there isn’t any grey area on what to expect.

3. How to start a tshirt business: Plan everything and do your research

Your doing that right now! Planning and researching is such a crucial part to starting a clothing company. Check out your competitors, see if anyone is doing what you want to do. Is there enough of a market to sell your shirts? What shirts are you going to print on? What is your demographic? How are going going to get traffic? Are you going to sell at craft shows or events? There are a lot of questions that need answered and planning and researching your tshirt company is necessary for success. Also if you don’t make plans and goals it’s like leaving on a trip without a map. It’s going to be very hard to get to the destination if you don’t know how to get there.

4. How to start a tshirt business: Know your market and your Customer

Knowing your market and your customer is a must. I feel like a lot of people believe they have a brilliant idea but they don’t connect with their market. No matter how much you want to go and do your own thing you need to remember you need a customer to sell to. You can’t be a walmart. What I mean is you can’t sell products to everyone. There already is a walmart and they are going to beat you on prices every time and you need to compete on something different. You need to define your market and go after your niche in the market place. You need to produce products that are unique. If you know your customer and can reach them and get them what they want you will be successful, simple as that.

5. How to start a tshirt business: Know your finances

Taxes and keeping my books for my tshirt business wasn’t my strongest area. When tax season came I felt helpless because I was unprepared. Keep all of your business expenses on the same bank account and credit card. Use Outright to help manage your books. You need to stay on top of this or else it is going to be a huge source of stress in your life.

6. How to start a tshirt business: Follow the Golden Rule

One should treat others as one would like others to treat oneself. A really simple rule that everyone starting a tshirt business should follow. Think about how you would want to be treated if you were in the customers shoes. If you follow this rule you will have a lot more happy customers and your tshirt business will thrive because of that.

7. How to start a tshirt business: Stop Trying to do it all and Delegate

I wrote an article about delegating and its a real important part in making your tshirt business be more professional. I’m not an amazing screen printer, or even an amazing artist. I’m good at making websites managing people and marketing. Everything else I find people that are the best at that field. I use the best designers, the best screen printers, and find people that are better then me to help me out. In the end I look a lot more professional and I end up not spending as much time doing the things I am not that great at.

1 8. How to start a tshirt business: Never give up

I hit on this a little bit in the beginning but it needs to be said again. Don’t give up! Your failures aren’t just there to humble you, they are learning opportunities. Everyone who has succeeded with a tshirt business has taken their mistakes, learned from them, and fixed the problems. I wrote an article called Fail Fast that hits on this more.

9. How to start a tshirt business: Advertise and Market your clothing line

My best successes have come from word of mouth advertising. The best part about this advertising is it’s free. I would get in touch with the t-shirt blogs, these are the talkers on the internet. You connect to them and they will let all of their followers know. I’ve gotten on some big blogs, and websites, and gotten thousands of orders this way. Read the articles how I became a top clothing company by being a nice guy and how to get your cool shirt on tshirt blogs.

You can also connect diretly with your customer through facebook, pinterest, twitter, instagram, and email lists.

Create a blog and write about what your customers are interested in. Fine tune your website with search engine optimization and get some google traffic to your site.

With all of this free advertising where you can spend no money and build your audience it just makes sense to focus on it. 10. How to start a tshirt business: Have Fun!

Yeah it might be stressful sometimes but you decided to start a tshirt business because you wanted to make a living off doing something fun. Be passionate about your work and remember to have fun. Have fun on your journey, it’s not about the destination.

Midland College will realize more than $3.6 million in savings over the next 15 years, thanks to an agreement with Chevron Energy Solutions.

Trustees unanimously approved the nearly $2.8 million contract at its meeting Tuesday afternoon. The contract was Phase II of the plan with Chevron, and deals mainly with internal lighting and cloud services.

Work on Phase II will begin nearly immediately with most improvements completed by the end of this calendar year, and the final work wrapping up in October 2015.

Savings in the first year will total $787,000, and reach $3.6 million by the end of the contract. Additionally, Midland College will receive an estimated $75,000 rebate from Oncor because of reduced energy demand.

Phase II includes converting indoor lighting to LED bulbs on 23 buildings, applying window film on 1,244 windows to reduce sunlight’s heating effects, replacing the inefficient chillers at the residence and dining halls, improving temperature controls in three buildings and switching to cloud computing.

Dennis Sever, vice president of Information Technology and Facilities, said a review of the proposal shows the conversion to LED won’t save as much on energy as it will on labor.

“If I have light fixtures that last three-to-five times longer than a fluorescent tube, I don’t have somebody in your office or in a faculty member’s office changing a light bulb (as often),” Sever said.

Currently, the college replaces about 50 to 120 bulbs a week. There are more than 35,000 bulbs around campus, he said.

“This is a significant deal for labor savings at a time when I find labor hard to come by in the facilities department,” he said.

Phase I was approved in November at a cost of $761,640, and includes replacing or retrofitting exterior lighting. Phase I began in March and will last through the end of August. Exterior lighting changes will save $745,940 over the guarantee period, and will lead to an approximately $28,000 rebate from Oncor.

More than 1,600 outdoor lights were changed to LED lighting in Phase I.

When combined, both phases will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 1,045 tons, sulfur dioxide emissions by 1.8 tons and mono-nitrogen oxides by 0.6 tons, according to a presentation by Geoff Howland, business development manager for Chevron Energy Solutions in Dallas. This is the environmental equivalent to removing about 240 passenger vehicles or planting 950 acres of trees, according to the presentation.

“This is something, from my perspective, you should be proud of and should be talking about in terms of sustainability that you’re bringing,” Howland said.

If the full energy savings aren’t realized, Chevron must figure out why, and then cut Midland College a check for the balance, Howland said.

Rick Bender, vice president of Administrative Services, said the bulk of the contract’s expenses — about $2 million — will be paid from reserves in the 2014-15 budget, while the rest will be paid from this year’s budget.

You can look like a pin-up girl, instant va-va-va-voom. That is if you can squeeze into a vintage cotton swimsuit worn by a bathing beauty from the ’50s, with a cantilevered built-in bra. Some 20-somethings are going for the old Hollywood movie star look now.

Or, add some bling to that basic black work jacket with a constellation of half a dozen sparkly rhinestone brooches that look like they came from mom’s old jewelry box.

The gals at Fashionista Vintage & Variety in New Haven, Todd Lyon and Nancy Shea are going to show you how to jazz up your wardrobe with choice vintage pieces and accessories at a fashion “workshop” at Consign & Design Shoreline in Branford at 6:30 p.m. on May 12. Admission is free, but registration is requested, call 203-433-4653.

See photo slide show here.

Here, you will see everything from “fit and flare” frocks from the ’50s, (think wasp-waisted Grace Kelly in “Rear Window”), to black leather, hand-tooled cowboy boots from the ’80s (the store has “oodles” of vintage cowboy boots from many decades). Shea’s got on a pair today that look like something Roseanne Cash would wear.

The workshop takes place in Consign & Design’s loft-like space where the guests can sit on comfy couches while models show the clothes and Shea and Lyon demonstrate the art of wearing vintage garb. Refreshments will be served. But, be prepared for a nostalgia trip.

“It’s like a European salon.” Lyon says of the store, as she piles a heap of goodies on a sofa. We see colors (a splashy ’60s pop art print sheath — a mod little number inspired by Mary Travers of Peter, Paul & Mary, who actually worked at the clothing shop it came from) and wondrous fabrics (shiny, gold quilted satin that looks like a luxurious blanket, only it’s a cocktail dress with a sexy sleeveless bodice and a great big skirt).

At the workshop it gets even better. Shea and Lyon will “pluck someone from the group and give them a quickie makeover” right on the spot.

They will also cover the do’s and don’ts of hat wearing (wear man-styled brimmed hats — it’s chic on women — not the “flower pots” of Mamie Eisenhower, advises Lyon, who demonstrates with a topper over her tousled silvery hair); the art of scarf-tying; four items you should never buy new; and how to rock grandma’s brooches.

Fashionista, officially in business since 2010, started in Shea’s funky apartment, actually a storefront that they outfitted with clothing racks once a month (no kidding). Lyon is a writer and a former restaurant writer for the New Haven Register, while Shea had been working in environmental planning for 30 years. About 10 years ago, the two friends realized they just had too many clothes between them, when over a glass (or two) of wine they decided to host a vintage clothing tag sale. It became so successful they took short-term rentals in the area until they landed at 93 Whitney Ave. in New Haven.

My wife and I pick up my mother this year in town for Chinese New Year.
I live in the house, old mother heard that I live downstairs top seven layer, wouldn't go up. Mother said that high ah, look at dizzy, how to live people. I explained to her to stay up after do not appear high, if the fear of dizziness, don't look down, and the home ranch, but mother as it is not taken steps.

Mother had sometimes when the light weight alzheimer's disease. Several times I saw mother morning, back in his hand, but comb out in a rash find comb. Afraid of her old man's house a home is accident, determined to take her to the city and live with him, but she refused to say a lifetime in the old, the family didn't came out, and you don't want to go out, home chicken duck pig dog, and without lively. Persuasion, finally agreed to the years her back to her home to go to, the mother this reluctantly followed me to town. Very not easy to put her even with cheat received the city to, and she is not willing to go upstairs. I knew I couldn't try so hard, the mother is sick, she's angry, mother FanShen walk it down the drain.

My heart had an idea, ear side to say, on the mother still remember when you were a little boy back I went up to the mountain? Mother said zha will not remember. At that time you a lazy boy and tie up to and I went up to the mountain to pick the persimmon together off, a play to depend on not go back to me. I said, when you always say I haven't a bundle of firewood heavy, of one heart to I eat a bit fatter. Now you see, your son had almost 150 jins, mom you to carry on the back I try and see if you can not move my back?

Mother HanXiao a voice said, silly child, all grown adult still and I naughty. I say, that you let me carry on the back, you can see my back by you. I carry you in this small garden turn around, try my strength. Mother said I commit tomfoolery, exhaust of the play. I said nothing, are you back when I was a child, I now son, when you back once could repay. Also want to call you see, son BiaoFeiTiZhuang, you are back to live not peace of mind?

Mother ha ha smiled, honest on my back. I said mother you close your eyes for a moment, then open certainly can see good thing. Listen to the mother and closed his eyes, I take up the stairs to her ShangCuan.

Mother is less than 100 jins weight, but two consecutive back up stairs, I still can't help asthma as an ox. Mother asked, it seems, alert in the upstairs? I said no, is carrying you imitate son went up into the mountain, and felt like to climb a stairs. And she opened her eyes, I have her back on to the fourth floor. Mother discovered that I was going back upstairs, she struggled to come down. I said no, and children will run back home to you to let go. Mother was urgent, clench my ears, that I call upon said down his walking home, certain.

Mother is afraid of me tired bad, but I fear a let go her also ran to the downstairs. The stair rail against breathing, mother took hold of the rail and never give it back. I am helpless put down, but the mother is not loosen her. I said to his mother, know why you go upstairs back son? Carrying a mother is carrying happiness go upstairs, also is not afraid of the intolerable. Let the son see mother every day, how much can a mother brought up, the return of son, is great happiness, really.

 

 

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