Become a Millionare Selling Custom T Shirts

The American dream is to strike it rich as a self made millionaire. While in theory this is a fantastic idea, the truth is that there are few industries left where people can start from scratch and make themselves a millionaire through nothing but their own perseverance and skills. Furthering this dilemma is the fact that a lot of those jobs require a very high level of education and more importantly the years spent obtaining that education. I’ll let you in on a secret, I have a bachelor’s degree, and although I do not down play the importance of education for the vast majority of people (especially my children, who already think they know everything), I did not need that degree. I could just as easily started doing what I do now with nothing more than a GED. The wholesale T-Shirt industry is truly a way where a hardworking, motivated, and personable individual can make hundreds of thousands of dollars every year.
How? I started out selling T-Shirts as a part time job to supplement what can only be considered a dismal income. I was actually turned on to the idea from a good friend of mine who makes as much as I do now. All it took to start from scratch was a small amount of money; remember at this point I was living from paycheck to paycheck. I used this money to buy some business cards and register the name of my company. I then sat down and started calling local businesses in the phonebook. A few of these companies went on to be my first customers and many of them continue to do business with me to this day.
With a base of customers, I needed suppliers. I needed suppliers, textile manufactures. This wasn’t hard. They’re in business to sell you their clothing, and they make high quality products. From there it was a matter of getting a contract screen printer to do the printing for me.
That is the long and short of how my business began. I bought t-shirts and paid a contract printer to do the screen printing. I then sold this product to my costumers. I came to think of myself as adding value to the t-shirts and bringing buyers and sellers together; all the while I was making more than I would have thought possible years earlier. I needed very little cash because I didn’t buy anything until my customers had committed to buying the custom t-shirts. If they wanted to pay with credit card it worked even better because I knew I already had the money. There was never very much risk and the potential for reward was fantastic.
Eventually my company was making enough money and taking enough time that I left my previous job as a trader to do it full time. I hired a secretary as soon as I could financially justify it and this freed up my time to seek and meet with customers. My company allowed me to make enough to grow the business and still never worry about my financial situation. The most beautiful thing about doing it the way I did in terms of growth is that I never felt like I was risking anything I couldn’t afford to lose.
About fifteen years after I started I got to a point where I was making enough money to try another expansion. I decided I would move into the screen printing myself. I currently own my own screen printing equipment and have a full time staff to do the contract printing for others that I used to have done for my own customers. I currently am in the process of setting up other companies that do what I started to do. I sell these companies to other ambition individuals and work as their screen printer. They go and get the customers for themselves, and I offer advice and the contract screen printing. We set up the new companies with their own website that offers pricing and quotes built in to it. We do the screen printing at special prices because of the special nature of the relationship that we have with these companies. Our websites allow the companies to decide what price they want to sell the shirts. This relationship benefits everyone because they don’t need to go thru the hoops of finding the printer and setting up the company and website, and it generates business for our company too.
This is where I currently am in my own business. I have attempted to show you the evolution of my business. I have made more than enough money to live comfortably, help put my children thru college, and save for retirement. The best part is how much I enjoy my job. I have woken up every day for the past ten years and known that I am my own boss. My destiny is my own hand and I answer to no one. I firmly believe getting into this industry was one of the best choices I ever made. Think about that all of this the next time that you wake up dreading going to work or the next time your boss is any four letter word you’d like.

Family Reunion T-shirts

Family reunions can be some of the greatest times for any family. They bring together different generations and often people from all over the country. T-shirts for these occasions is one of the most lasting if not best memories. There are a few things that you should keep in mind when designing your family reunion t-shirt. You want them to be something that can be cherished and worn by everyone in the family. Keeping that in mind they should be unique to your family. They should be fun and reminiscent of the good times not only at the family reunion, but of the family’s life as a whole. Funny slogans, pictures, etc. are a great idea, but I at least recommend staying away from offensive things. Remember everyone from the Ally’s new born to Great-Aunt Ellen will be wearing these. So something PG but clever tends to be the way most people go. I’ve seen everything from having a tree with names on it to picture of the oldest and younger people in the family superimposed on each other. Whatever the case, I would urge you to make them your own. These shirts will be worn by everyone in the family and are a representation of your family. I know that I wear the t-shirt from my last family reunion all the time. Another thing to think about is what kind of t-shirts you want to buy. The truth on this one is that if you go with a good printer it won’t matter. A good printer will more likely than not only offer high quality t-shirts. Talk to them and they will let you know whether your individual situation lends itself better to a one hundred percent cotton or a 50/50 blend. The last thing that you may want to consider is what you want to do as far as ink colors go. The more colors the more expensive the t-shirts are invariably going to be. Usually I recommend that you keep your t-shirt designs under three colors. Just think, every color means a new screen and that has to get added into the cost. So before your next family reunion, talk it over and get some t-shirts made. If you are struggling to come up with a design, there are a few screen printers who offer free artwork. When it’s all said and done, the thing to remember more than anything is that these are your family’s t-shirts. They are unique and should be something you are proud to wear.