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Question by Frenchy: I would like to start a T-Shirt company. Do you have an idea for a tee-shirt to share?

Best answer:

Answer by Thinker
Identify one or more market niches and learn how people in those areas talk. Get creative with their language, use the type of images they use, and crank out a few shirts on your printer. Be funny and keep the humor clean.

Take a few samples of each to a place where these kinds of folks hang out and ask their opinions. For example, say you were interested in making tees for Realtors. Go visit the 2-3 largest real estate brokerages in town, say why you’re there, and ask if a few people would look at the shirts and give you their opinion. Wherever you go, leave a freebie of the favorite with somebody who really liked that particular shirt a lot. They’ll wear it and you’ll start getting local orders. Be sure to print your contact information on the shirt.

Track your local sales and use that info to track what seems to sell, then sell the best on the Internet. Junk the rest. Better to offer 5 great tees than to offer 25 that include 20 that don’t sell.

Best of success.

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