How to Make T-Shirts to Sell

Graphic T-shirts are popular among kids and teens. Even some adults still like a T-shirt with a design on the front. If you often find yourself thinking up great ideas for graphic T-shirts, then you might enjoy making and selling graphic T-shirts featuring your designs. The good news is, you don't have to be a marketing whiz or even a professional screen-printer to do this.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Design software

Making T-Shirts to Sell

1. Set up an account at Cafe Press (see Resources below). To do this you will need to provide an email address, choose a password, choose a security question and provide an answer to that question, enter your birthday and then check the box agreeing to the terms of use.

2. Open your shop on Cafe Press, which you will be prompted to do immediately after you finish opening the account. You will have to answer a few questions about what you want your shop to be like, what your Internet abilities are and whether or not you have a website.

3. Decide whether you want to open a basic or a premium shop. A premium shop starts at $4.99 per month, but, of course, it comes with more features. Setting up a basic shop is covered in this article.

4. Choose a shop name, which is the rest of the link to the shop. To have Cafe Press help you sell your items, leave the boxes about affiliate sales and privacy unchecked. Decide whether you would like to receive the Cafe Press newsletter and agree to the terms of service.

5. Build your shop. Click the "Add Products" button, and check the box next to the products that you would like to add to your shop.

6. Upload the designs that you would like to use for your products by clicking "Add an Image" and then clicking "Upload Images." Tag and categorize the image(s).

7. Select your image by clicking "Select" below the image.

8. Select the type of product to be added, which is right below the image, and then click "Add Products." You should now see the product you selected with the image you selected, along with the predesignated price.

9. Let Cafe Press help you sell your T-shirts once you have created them. You can advertise your products on your blog or other website, even through emails to friends and family. But by allowing Cafe Press to sell the items in its marketplace, it will do most of the work for you.

Tips & Warnings

• You can change the price of an item in your store by checking the box next to that item and then selecting "Change the Price Markup" from the pull-down menu at the bottom of the page. You can use an image created with any software as long as it is in the right format for uploading. See Resources below for a page where acceptable formats are discussed.

Resources

• Cafe Press
• Image Formatting Guidelines