Whenever I add a new continent to my online empire I go through a basic Q&A with myself on the desirability of the offer. Lots of yes/no questions about the product to help me visualize the position it occupies in its market and where the market sits on the whole product spectrum. Questions like:

• Is it fun? Is it cool? These two are practially the same question.
• Is it universal? (Does everyone need it?)
• If I have the right product can I go straight to the top with it?

T-shirts meet these criteria easily. Everybody has laughed at a t-shirt, because there are many many funny t-shirts. Nearly everyone wears a t-shirt. And, since t-shirts often reflect market and cultural trends you can go straight to the top if you are following the right trend early or even better if you are creating the trend. T-shirts are practically a media market because novelty t-shirts are all about the message. Media markets reward creativity in a fair marketplace.

Here’s an extensive look at being a t-shirt affiliate from Dosh Dosh – I’d look carefully into the paid links recommendation.. but otherwise thats a bible for someone who just wants to sell cool shirts and make some bucks.

However with wholesale tees and wholesale heat transfers you can make an awful lot of money with a small investment. You can get t-shirts for less than a buck, transfers for less than a buck and a tshirt press that works really well for about $5-600 bucks. You can get a t-shirt design for anywhere from $50 – $200 bucks. Basically the costs are manageable, you just need a design that will sell.You can even outsource the creativity! Check out this forum, one of many where you can offer small cash prizes and designers will whip you up 15,20 versions of a theme for $50.

Basically, affiliate programs are great, if you want to stay small time. You can take the factors of production into your own hands, and make huge profit margins, create a real customer list that comes back and gives you money again and tells their friends, and you can still run a t-shirt business like this out of your own home but you will make a lot more money.

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Awesome list of t-shirt blogs (By the way children, people will visit a list like that FOREVER. You can make as much money with that as you can with 50 YACG websites.)

What Your Screen Printer Needs to Print T-Shirts