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    Complete Guide
    on How to Start a T-Shirt Business

    Starting an online t-shirt business may sound overwhelming, but with the right set of tools and tips it becomes a piece of cake! Selling t-shirts is one of those endeavors that don’t require any specific knowledge or expertise, which is why it’s such a steady market to tackle, especially with the rise of print on demand sites that allow you to sit back and focus solely on making the designs and promoting them. Here, we will go over every step of the process so you can start your own t-shirt business right away!

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    How to Start a T-Shirt Business?

    • Choosing What to Design
    • How to Make a T-Shirt Design
    • Where to Sell Your T-Shirts
    • How to Promote Your T-Shirts

    Choosing What to Design

    First of all, you need to decide what your t-shirt brand will be all about. Building a personality for your t-shirts is one of the most important parts of the process, you’ll want to choose a topic that’s both popular within your niche and relevant in general. To help you out, we built a weekly chart that goes over the most popular t-shirt designs.

    Why Use the T-Shirt Design Trend Chart

    • It’s updated weekly for fresh trends and events.
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    Another thing you’ll want to consider when making your t-shirt designs is the wording and images that these will include and how these can interfere with others’ intellectual property, you won’t want any trademark or copyright infringement issues with your designs. To advise on this issue, we contacted an attorney at law and wrote the following post.

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    • The difference between copyright and trademark.
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    How to Make a T-Shirt Design

    Now that you’ve settled for a niche or topic for your t-shirt brand, it’s time to figure out how you will go about actually designing the tees. Well we have some good news, Placeit has dozens of t-shirt templates you can use to make your t-shirt designs all by yourself, straight from the browser and in seconds! Here are just a few of the t-shirt templates you’ll find on Placeit:

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    Choosing What to Design

    First of all, you need to decide what your t-shirt brand will be all about. Building a personality for your t-shirts is one of the most important parts of the process, you’ll want to choose a topic that’s both popular within your niche and relevant in general. To help you out, we built a weekly chart that goes over the most popular t-shirt designs.

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    How to Promote Your T-Shirts

    After all the hard work you went through with making your designs, you will want your shirts to sell and get a profit from them, don’t you? Well, here’s how to showcase the products on your shop like the pros! We have the perfect t-shirt mockup for you:

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    Learn How to Make Effective Facebook Ads

    Using Facebook to promote your business can be overwhelming, which is why we made you a guide to take you from 0 to success with Facebook Ad templates that’ll catch the eye of potential buyers through top quality graphics. Learn how to make the most out of Facebook ads in the post below:

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    Go the Extra Mile with T-Shirt Videos

    Choosing to promote your designs with t-shirt videos is a great way to give your users a sneak peek on how your products look like in real life, being worn by real people, just like them! Placeit has hundreds of t-shirt videos, from cinemagraphs to stop motion or live action videos ready for you to upload your t-shirt design and watch it come to life!

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