[sgoach]

simply put, what do you do to sell shirts?

how are you doing it?

just wondering... i use cafepress

 

[Rodney]

I use cafepress and just about all the other larger t-shirt fulfillment type companies.

I also get t-shirts screen printed and handle the shipping, order processing myself via a website.

I'd like to get more wholesale accounts to stores, so hopefully I'll be attending a tradeshow soon to help me get into offline retail stores.

 

[sgoach]

cool, I only use cafepress
what are the legalities and stuff of doing it yourself.. how do you handle taxes *little bit offtopic there, sorry*

 

[Rodney]

what are the legalities and stuff of doing it yourself.

Not sure what you mean by that, exactly. There are lots of tips in the forum about setting up a business structure, if that's what you mean.

Taxes are just like any other income (even with cafepress, you have to pay taxes on the income earned once you make over a certain amount).

You just report what you earned to the IRS and when you have a business, you can write off some things that are related to running your business (like the cost of advertising, web hosting, etc).

 

[Vtec44]

We sell them through our online store. We do all the "designing" and printing inhouse. We're doing a lot better than expected, but we're probably an exception because we also run a pretty busy online forum so it helps in getting our name out there. We haven't spent any money on advertising yet, since I still need a lot of work on the designing part.

 

[sgoach]

We sell them through our online store. We do all the "designing" and printing inhouse. We're doing a lot better than expected, but we're probably an exception because we also run a pretty busy online forum so it helps in getting our name out there. We haven't spent any money on advertising yet, since I still need a lot of work on the designing part.

nice I'm trying to get my forums and sites out there... but just to advertise a cp shop