Hi, I thought I should introduce myself on the forum. I have already started an online T-Shirt shop. I set it up through CafePress & another 3rd party script and I have it using my own domain name so it works similar to like having my own ecommerce site but I don't do any printing or sending orders etc. It took me around 2 years though to get it like I wanted to. Of course it didn't take me that long to make, it took that long for me to get everything started and running.
Later if the site becomes popular and I start selling a few t-shirts I would probably run my own ecommerce site and have the shirts printed myself but there is not much point doing that until I have a customer base or interest. Of course I need designs too.....
Now I have it up and online I really have to get to work on some designs. That will be the part I enjoy the most, to me the hard work was setting the site up but I realize that coming up with good designs is not a breeze in the park either. The good thing is I have moments of creative ideas and that will be the time when I will get some ideas down on paper.
So I would like to ask how others come up with their ideas for the designs they publish? Maybe there is some threads where I can read about that subject?
thanks Gary
Later if the site becomes popular and I start selling a few t-shirts I would probably run my own ecommerce site and have the shirts printed myself but there is not much point doing that until I have a customer base or interest. Of course I need designs too.....
Now I have it up and online I really have to get to work on some designs. That will be the part I enjoy the most, to me the hard work was setting the site up but I realize that coming up with good designs is not a breeze in the park either. The good thing is I have moments of creative ideas and that will be the time when I will get some ideas down on paper.
So I would like to ask how others come up with their ideas for the designs they publish? Maybe there is some threads where I can read about that subject?
thanks Gary