I Haven't been all that happy lately. I'm super stoked that my shirt business is growing so fast! But I've been exhausted getting 40 designs uploaded each day.
Uploading 40 shirts, So what?
Many people don't quite understand the work that goes into a shirt. Even simple designs may be heavily planned. And depending on the website, It might be a pain in the butt to get it uploaded.
- Research a niche or an idea that could sell.
Of course, you could take stabs in the dark. I still do that every once in a while. But you don't always get the sales you want. Although there is no guarantee, you'll get sales at all. But putting your shirt in a less competitive niche helps. You are more likely to get the sale, than if you just do another "cat" Shirt.
- Create the design
The funniest but also the easier to outsource part.
Upload the designs to the sites of your choosing.
Keyword research
What are people looking up on amazon? How many people search for this? Is it worth doing?
What keywords do I need to do, To give myself maximum exposure to my target market?
Come up with a title, Bullet points, Description and sometimes Tags.
This is the part I dislike the most.
It's so boring And doing this for 40 shirts; Many other business owners outsource this. But I'm too scared having someone I don't know in my account, Uploading stuff. Especially because I almost lost my account once before. So I try to be extra careful with it.
I see what I enjoy the most!
I miss doing the coloring books and posting more on Steemit! Which I've come up with easy ideas to make more time in my day so I can accomplish that.
After hiring and firing a bunch of people, I finally found myself a new employee that I'm excited about. He seems quick, And his designs are incredible. I did all these tests on his work, and he passed them.
I'm hoping with this new guy I can focus more on uploading than designing, And then I'll have free time to do things that make me happier! I do enjoy this shirt business but doing something so often starts to make it less enjoyable.
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Look at you growing your business. I need to keep up with you now! :-)
Hehehe! You do ;) We can race! LOL
Oh goodness!..LOL. I only have one book to sell and it's well behind you shirt selling pace. In the process of writing the next one though! Keep up the good work !
Aww good! I'm glad you are writing more!! Books take much longer to write than shirts take to make! SO don't be hard on yourself! Haha Imagine if we could write books in 10-20 minutes! We would have massive portfolios.
Haha....heck I'm ecstatic when we can write steemit posts in 10-20 minutes! ;-p
My brother and I actually started a shirt business few years ago , made different designs of shirts for males only , branded it and then gave up , came so far but didn't have the right promotion. I wish you the best of luck and much success
Aww! Thank you! Yeah it can be really hard to be successful but with some of these newer sites and tools its getting easier.
No worries , just don't give up !! Cheers 🍻
Hey that's so cool.
I want to brand my own shirts as well in the future.
I have some great ideas for incredible designs that are a pretty niche.
Before I can do that I will finish my Master's Degree, however.
Aww! You should! Let me know if I can help you with anything.
I will thank you for offering your help to me.
I am thinking about adding a shop to my website in the future, however, there is not too much on there yet. I have vacation the following week. I hope that I'll get something done :)
I wish you the best in your shirt business, but more importantly I wish you more free time to enable you do the things that make you happy.
Aww..I wondered why you hadn't been as prolific as when I first came to Steemit. I was worried that you had become ill. When I was first new I came to depend on your motivational posts to build up my confidence in posting lol. I'm really glad you're well and will be having more time off now. Congrats on the new employee!!
Aww I'm glad I wasn't ill ! Haha I hope to start posting a lot more! I hope my new employees can keep up with the work I'd like to give them.
You are very talented and everybody loves tee shirts so you should have the perfect combination. All the best on your endeavor.
Thank you so much you are so kind!
Maybe "just another cat shirt" IS what you should make. Lol
Hhahah ;) Don't worry I do "Just another cat shirt" Every now and then, But I also try to add more to it. Like Cat+coffee
Cat+ Fashion
Etc that way it targets someone more specific hah.
How about cat+shootingstarmeme+holographics. That way it moves like the meme you know? ;)
Very cool. I find it fun to have employees. It's a nice change from being an employee.
Do you accept bitcoin as payment?
A very promising venture, you are a very independent woman, creative and elegant. I really like independent women. They are strong women who can solve their own problems. You have a very good business @kaylinart. So success always
I envy your energy and enthusiasm. 40 designs in a day would leave me hyperventilated plus not sure where I could get ideas 😂. Congrats on hiring the new employee 👍☺
Wow thanks for sharing your good business ideas!
Congrats i Hope your business this world needs many more woman entrepreneur like sicence is benefiting allot from have more women evolved also business should with new ideas and new concepts.
I find it really hard being responsible for an employee, there livelihood, family, bills...
yet so rewarding to sign paychecks and be successful and make it happen!
Wow, very good post, thanks for sharing your story and you're right it's always good to do what you want,
Thank you <3
upvote @kaylinart very good postt.
Thank you!
Hey that's so cool.
do you have your own site or you site shirt on different platforms not your ? like ebay,shopify
I'm building my own site now,
But I also sell on ebay, Etsy, Amazon,
And I've been slowly uploading to Redbubble Rage on and Teepublic.
These are good news, I wish you a faster growth with every day :) Congratulations @kaylinart !
Congratulations on your business progress, continue to work in the field of clothing design. I would like to cooperate with you to market your production in southeast asia
All I can say is "well done!" You certainly work hard enough... and you deserve every success you're having!
Very hot
@kaylinart - When my fellow steemians share their journey here on steemit, it excites me equally and also motivates me to go that extra mile . Thanks for this nice share my friend. 😉
Friend chiming in here these tests are incredibly hard and I've been through it since I asked. she will request to have you make some cool design with an animal doing a sort of pose and then like a quirky phrase wrapped around it making it sorta like a pun I was done after hearing the request lmao jk
Congratulations on finding what sounds like a perfect employee for you. I hope he eases the work burden and the stress so you can put your focus where it needs to be.
Here's to the start of a beautiful business relationship - cheers!
This world needs more entrepreneurs like you and not the slaves who do a 9 hours slavery to feed their family.
You are heading towards the right direction dear. I am really proud of you, if you need to hire some freelancer , let me know if I can fit for the job.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
@kayliart - So nice to hear that your shirt business is growing so fast. 40 shirt designs a day? Wow - I can not even do 40 doodles a day !!
I can imagine the workload. Also - when something has to be done as a business and as a regular routine, though creativity is involved, tasks start seeming boring.
Perhaps you can think of outsourcing the research and upload material prep part though the actual uploading of that information, which the outsourced agency will get ready for you, will be totally in your hands.
Hope you find the correct work-life balance in your busy business routine. I am quite selfish in saying this since I will, then, get to see more of your lovely sketches of anime girls! Also - as a by product, you may find time to provide feedback on my blogs. LOL. Just kidding.
Have a great day. Cheers. Upvoted.
Regards,
Look at you! Solving business problems! 😀 Happy for you!
Hello! I'm happy to hear your shirt business is booming, I want someday to also have shirts out for sale, I was wondering since you have experience and sucess in this business, what websites would you recommend that I use to sell shirts, there are a lot of them and Merch by Amazon has a waiting list right now, so I'm looking for other websites to get started, so what do you think?
Wow. Congratulations. Wish you the best :)
I have started my journey too. Hope to learn a lot from you. Thanks.
Congrats for you results! Sometimes it's right to give the time to what gives us the bread, but in an appropriate way! Thanks for the advices
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Congrats on the new employee. I hope that gives you more time for what you want to do. Best wishes for your business and thanks for the tips to help many people that start a business and give up. It takes a lot of time but worth it in the end.