Comments on: 5 tips & resources to help get your t-shirt company off the ground

By: heavyhand

heavyhand — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:30:05 +0000

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By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 21:29:40 +0000

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By: Don

Don — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:33:25 +0000

Wow this was some really good info..it will definitly help me..as i am about to release some tees..good stuff

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2 good tip lists | ALRIGHTOK — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:56:55 +0000

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By: When Every Sale Counts » Assault Blog

When Every Sale Counts » Assault Blog — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:40:54 +0000

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By: Steve @ OMG

Steve @ OMG — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:54:40 +0000

Great article. As a tee blogger I can heartily agree that sending me an email and / or a coupon will be as valuable as sending me an actual tee. Even more valuable – send me photography I can use in my post.

Send me a tee AFTER I’ve posted about your design and you win a friend for life. Send me a tee BEFORE I see the design and I might just feel bad for not reviewing your bad shirt after you spent money printing and mailing it.

By: Graphic Tees

Graphic Tees — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:21:45 +0000

The free t-shirt for a review scam is one that hit us as well, now we are wiser.

By: Lindsey

Lindsey — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:10:59 +0000

I have design for a few new T-shirt/apparel companies. This information is good for anyone starting out.
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By: David

David — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:02:15 +0000

Tim,

Great artical! I find that starting your own line is a bit science project, a bit art and a bit luck..and really hard work. Best of luck to you guys and your shirts rock.

David

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E-Book: How to Start a Clothing Line » Assault Blog — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 02:15:22 +0000

[...] subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Just the other day I did a blog post entitled, “5 Resources & Tips to help get your T-Shirt company off the ground.” In it I gave a few tips on how we got our store’s traffic flowing after getting our [...]

By: Eden (from SoS)

Eden (from SoS) — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:58:34 +0000

Thanks for the mention, Tim. We’re happy to hear that Shirts on Sale is able to drive so much traffic to your site — like Paul never requiring something in return [cue rainbows and sunshine to counteract Derek's evil laugh].

This is a simple tip, but one of the most essential. Definitely do your research to pitch your store and story to appropriate blogs. If you’re able to couch your offerings in terms the content developer can understand, you’re already halfway to getting your exposure for free. If you’ve got the product to back it up, which you better believe you do if you’re willing to have a go at a start-up based on your ideas, then you’re all the way there.

You wouldn’t believe how many people reach out to us with a generic email that does absolutely nothing to sell their angle nor explains how the store/label/site is more than tangentially related to our site — which we find rather amazing considering the whole theory behind Shirts on Sale is pretty much summed up by our simple three-word name and address.

Anyway…I know it can be tough to figure out what to write if making art and not sales pitches is your thing, but there’s a great chance you’ll get a very high return on your time if you’re able to score some “free” exposure and support.

By: tim

tim — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:56:13 +0000

@Paul & @Derek

No problem Paul. I think our issue is not with blogs asking for shirts so much as it is people emailing us about “t-shirts around the web” round ups. Some of these have been from some very very large sites and sure enough they always get pushed to the backburner. We send stuff to magazines and blogs if they give us a write up and we can see that we are getting traffic/sales from it.

We’ve sent several shirts to Hails & Horns magazine and the people at AMP magazine.

-Tim

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 21:45:52 +0000

Good article and good advice.

*We do ask for free t-shirts to review. I feel like I should have an evil laugh after that statement.

By: Paul Baines

Paul Baines — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 18:14:16 +0000

Hey thanks for mentioning my twitter article. I’d just like to add that our blog is one of the few that doesn’t ask for free t-shirts for a review, unlike some of them out there I could mention :/ Cheers Tim – Paul from Buy-Tees.net