A look at T-Shirt design
There are websites which will create products based on other peoples designs, the platforms sell, print, and deliver the products for you. The plus here is you have no stock, no printing and do not even have to worry about anything related to customer support.
It is not just T-shirts that are available though that is the most popular product that is listed using this passive income method.
Some people claim they can make thousands of dollars selling the merchandise online, the fact that your product is listed on exceptionally popular website is a tremendous sales tool, remember that a lot of people do this.
Here is the process for T-Shirt design
Choose your niche : Decide on the topic you want to create T-Shirts for. It can be quotes, images anything but avoid any copyrighted material.
Upload to platform : There are many websites where you can upload your designs, we will look at some of them here, you simply create an account and you can then access the resources to upload your art
Zazzle : A wide range of products not just t-shirts
Teespring : another popular site, again not just T-shirts but many different products.
Threadless : again sell your art and choose from a wide range of products
Spreadshirt : 200+ products that you can design for
Teepublic : 75 products including T-shirts are available
Cafepress : A huge site this one, lots of different products are available here
Merch by Amazon : This is Amazon’s print on demand service but you have to apply to get access unlike the other sites
Create the design and upload to the site : some sites allow you to place text and images on the T-Shirt. You can also design the artwork on your PC/Mac if you have one with a suitable graphics package.
When you have submitted your product you can create a name and description, so pick a good name and a descriptive title. Some websites allow you to put in some keywords, so add these to help people fin your product.
Choose your price, this will be the websites base price and then your profit. So a $25 t-shirt may be $15 to the website and then you get $10. Do not get too greedy unless you have an exceptional design, you want a profit but not too expensice. Look at other peoples pricing on the site.
Promote your designs
Once you have created your design and set the price you will get a link. You can use this link to promote your designs via social media sources such as twitter, pinterest, instagram and facebook.
If you have a website (even free websites) you can promote products on there as well.
Another popular choice is to create a shopify store and list the products but that costs a monthly fee – so at the moment I would not bother with that. Keep the costs down, if you make lots of sales then open a store.
T-Shirt design tips
You can outsource the design to Fiverr, or other freelance websites there are people who will give you 10 designs for $30. Thats $3 each, for this price you will not get world class quality but you can still get decent designs. I would recommend getting a batch of designs done, to spread out over the sites listed earlier or fill out your store with a decent range of products.
Target holidays such as halloween, Christmas and Easter and so on.
You can look for inspirational quotes, motivational quotes and fitness quotes. These can be good, simple designs to create.
Some of these websites also have other products, you can place your designs on iPhone cases, baby clothes, cushions, stickers to name just a few. Expand your product range and promote these as well.
Use all of the websites that I have listed, search for others as we have not listed them all.
Summary
Not that hard a passive income opportunity to get into this one. You can get this one started quickly.