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Re: selling t-shirt to distributors
what if you dont have a lot of money... is there other ways to sell T-shirts???
what if you dont have a lot of money... is there other ways to sell T-shirts???
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Rodney, when you say one needs an advertising budget, even when selling on cafepress, et al., do you mean spending money on ad banners on web sites, top google placements, flyers? Or do you mean pay money to cafe press to promote your wares?Rodney said:You can use a free service like cafepress/zazzle/spreadshirt to sell t-shirts, but you'll still need some type of budget for advertising your products, otherwise nobody will know about your cool designs.
I mean the former. The normal advertising and marketing that it takes to get customers to find you. Banner ads, adwords, magazine ads, flyers, sponsorships, etc.Rodney, when you say one needs an advertising budget, even when selling on cafepress, et al., do you mean spending money on ad banners on web sites, top google placements, flyers? Or do you mean pay money to cafe press to promote your wares?
ok Adam, how is a newbie entering the Imprint Industry Sector be able to handle the SE visitor volume ? assuming that some miracle worker white hat SEO is able to do it, top 10 serps.Adam said:....need some cash to be able to market those too. Not so much though if you are good with SEO and get rank well.
I'm not Adam, but if the "newbie" used a service like cafepress, or affiliated with cafepress stores of tshirthell, then they wouldn't have to do much to handle the volume of SE visitors. CafePress does all the customer service, printing, shipping, etc.how is a newbie entering the Imprint Industry Sector be able to handle the SE visitor volume ?
Very trueIt takes time and lots of plug to get your stuff out there. But when your stuff is cool and unique, you will find that some big-wigs may give it a push in the right direction.
Learning the basics of SEO is not a bad thing at all. I would suggest that everyone with a website should know and understand the basics.be professional and stick with the peeps in the industry that are for real. This will get you places not a SEO crash course.
I was actually suggesting he do some affiliate marketing to "sell t-shirts", no physical work needed. It's a nice steady income and can help him raise some money for his core business... it certainly helped me in the start.Scrap-Boy said:ok Adam, how is a newbie entering the Imprint Industry Sector be able to handle the SE visitor volume ? assuming that some miracle worker white hat SEO is able to do it, top 10 serps.
Why not do both? If I had just a high street shop I wouldn't care two hoots about SEO, but if I wanted to also increase my turnover, and enter the big www, I certainly would not overlook it.Scrap-Boy said:be professional and stick with the peeps in the industry that are for real. This will get you places not a SEO crash course.
SE and SEO are acronyms.Rebelesque said:What's SE and SOE? Never heard of this.
That's not really correct. There are a lot of high volume sellers at CafePress making good moneyAlthough cafepress/zazzle/and the rest are good for newbie
Most products can be marked up more than that. I've sold products at a $5-$10 markup (depending on the product). The margins aren't TOO different when you include webhosting, merchant accounts, etc.and when you only receive $2-4 per t-shirt off of cafepress/zazzle/spreadshirt, it is close to impossible to create the demand necessary without either selling a massive amount of shirts
shirtguy said:Stay away from flea-markets because they think you will barter with them.