Create customer-oriented products
You’d be surprised at some of the t-shirts you can find these days used by a large number of persons. By getting honest opinions from these persons or from other people in the field, test the quality of your t-shirts preferably people who are within your target market.
Experiment with polls via Facebook to get real feedback from your potential buyers.
Finances of a Startup
Get an idea of how much everything is going to cost you when you layout your plan, keep track of all of your expenses while you start producing and selling t-shirts.
Without sacrificing quality, get screen printing quotes from several printers and compare prices to get the best deal. Also, you should be adding various costs, such as the cost for labeling, hang tagging, bagging, or whatever other finishing options you might use.
Apart from these, avoid forgetting the shipping envelopes, boxes, and product storage.
Effective promotional strategy
You’ll realize that you’re going to have to spend money to market your t-shirt business sooner or later. That’s why you should be willing to pay for things like:
- Online ads
- Event sponsorships
- Other paid marketing methods
Find partners
Although you can start your T-shirt business on your own, you should find partners to help maximize your brand’s potential and help you reach your goals more efficiently.
While collaborating with other businesses that may be of some help to you, aim to have partners within your company. But, in this case, you should start with your good friends, skilled associates or trustworthy family members.
Set business goals
It’s time to set some real goals when you’ve educated yourself on how to start a t-shirt business. Also, it’s essential to identify how many t-shirts you plan on selling this year and how about this month or this week.
A lot of people new to the business have no idea, or just don’t care. In order to have a concrete idea of what working towards a successful business, sets goals for success.
Plan everything
You should have a clear idea of what you plan on doing before you get started. Involving both free and paid advertising methods of getting your brand in front of your target market, plan a marketing strategy.
As a guideline for operating, compose a practical business plan. You need to identify your brand’s values, mission, objectives, strategies, goals, and long-term vision if you’re a starter.
Pricing your t-shirts
Depending on what it costs you to make each t-shirt set the price of your t-shirts. Make sure to include the actual price of the shirt, screen-printing costs, shipping costs, etc while calculating the price. Also, you have to consider whether you plan of selling retail or wholesale or both.
Don’t quit
It’s important to find out the ways of improving your designs, your strategy or your work habits. You’re still learning so keep at it when you’re just getting started. Simply keep in mind the proverb that said, “Winners never quit and quitters never win.” If you’re frustrated then read informative, motivational books to keep your spirits up.