March 18th, 2009
Starting Online T-Shirt Shops: Five Frustrations Freelancers Face
Writers can create additional income streams by opening their own print-on-demand T-shirt stores, but there are five frustrations to deal with: paying too much, fighting with an image editor, not knowing what customers want, not knowing how to attract customers, and not knowing what designs people like. These can all be relieved.
Opening a T-shirt shop online at a print-on-demand site seems an ideal way for writers to pick up an extra income stream. It costs next to nothing. All you do is create a graphics file with your design, upload it to the site, and collect a markup when someone has your design printed on a shirt. You can do text-only designs if you’re not comfortable with images. Alas, there are five big frustrations you may encounter in setting up your own T-shirt shop at a print-on-demand web site.