So you don't want to dredge along at the office every day 9 to 5. Who does? We would all LOVE to sit at our desk, or in bed, still in those pajamas. That would be a luxury, you think. It's easier to do these days with the Internet by our side all the time. There are opportunities to earn a good living working from home with absolutely NO SKILLS.
I'm doing it and so can you.
So this post is about designing and selling t-shirts online, from home. The only investment you'll need to make is a good designing software. However, many of them are free. There is a plethora to choose from; but for our purposes, we just need one that can help us design using great fonts, vibrant colors, and exports as a PNG file. Some options are Photoshop, Illustrator, Inkscape, Gimp, Pic Monkey, Affinity Photo, Canva (a phone app), Over (a phone app). I personally use Inkscape. It's a downloadable graphic designing software and is similar to Gimp. There are no advertisements, annoying popups, and it stays on your computer, not online. There are a ton of tutorials for it, too.
If you sell on print-on-demand platforms that offer more than just t-shirt printing, you can purchase your designs on products and market them for free. Many sites allow you to purchase a product with your design on it at a reduced, wholesale price. Get yourself a cell phone case with your design or wear one of your text phrases on a t-shirt. Pillow, anyone? I've gotten so many compliments and questions from folks when I've worn one of my shirts. This is a great opportunity to market what you sell. Local schools and churches need t-shirts for their sports organizations. That's another opportunity to sell what you design.
So let's get started. Below are some sites online where you can upload your finished design and begin earning a commission/royalty/profit from each sale.
1.Merch by Amazon https://merch.amazon.com/landing
Merch (as we like to call it) is a t-shirt design site implemented by Amazon. You need to be accepted by Amazon first. You do not need to have a brand or a corporation. Individuals are doing Merch by themselves.
You upload your design to your Merch portal. Amazon reviews it. If there are no trademark/copyright violations, they approve it and you are sent a link of where it is located on the Amazon site. People are widely successful on this platform. There are no startup costs and the royalties are pretty decent. You can earn anywhere from $1 - $15 per shirt sold, based on the price you set for the shirt. If you put up ten designs, they can all sell over and over again for an eternity and you will earn a royalty each time it sells. Pretty good, eh? Check it out. And with the vastness of Amazon's customers, you won't have to steer folks to the site. Millions of people every day are looking for something on Amazon.
You just have to have what they want.
2.Etsy/Printful https://www.printful.com/landing/etsy-print-products-fulfillment
So this is along the same concept as Merch. With Etsy/Printful, you upload your design to the Printful site, sync your Etsy store (you need an Etsy store), and Printful handles the fulfillment of your design each time it sells in your Etsy store. Printful offers a wide variety of print-on-demand products besides just t-shirts. But if t-shirts are your "thang", then they offer many to choose from.
Etsy has been online for over a decade. They have a huge vintage and bohemian following. To have the ability to dropship a product through Etsy now is amazing. Printful is one of the pioneers with this method.
You'll need to set up your Etsy shop in an aesthetically pleasing manner to attract clientele. Make sure you've got your payment methods set up correctly in both Etsy and Printful. Be sure to get active in the community to learn more. Join the FB group here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1903724629948324/?ref=bookmarks
3.Redbubble https://www.redbubble.com/found
Ignore the creepy puppet on the home page.
Redbubble caters to the more eccentric artist. You'll find a lot of talent there. Their profit margins aren't quite as good as Merch but you are free to express yourself a lot more than other sites. Setting up an account is instant and you can start earning money the same day. You can tweak the profit percentage at any time, so you're not stuck at earning whatever the fulfillment company tells you. Your customers just need to really appreciate what you've created and willing to pay a bit more for it.
There are so many more sites to sell on - Teespring, Zazzle, Cafe Press, Spreadshirt, Sunfrog, Gearbubble, Threadless, as a few examples.
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