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How to Start Selling T-shirts OnlineThe idea of running your own t-shirt store is an exciting one, but before you get to see the sales coming in, youll have to roll up your sleeves a work a little.There are 4 essential steps youll have to take in order to start a successful t-shirt business.1. Find your target audience and niche.While you might be the first one in your circle to design and sell t-shirts online, in the wide world of ecommerce, there are a bunch of other merchants chasing the same dream. So before you get to designing and setting up your store, you need to answer one question: who is going to buy your t-shirts?If your answer is everyone, youre entering a danger zone.argeting everyone under the sun is like tilting at windmills.By making your target too broad, youll end up targeting no one.Doing so will also cost you not only money but also time. And who wants that?Since youve already decided to sell t-shirts, you now are part of the fashion and apparel industry.While this is a good start, you can probably agree that it doesnt really help you define your target audience everyone can wear a t-shirt!That said, you need to narrow down your audience even more to find a product niche. And heres how you can do it.Define your passions and interests.obody else but you will have to run your t-shirt business (at least at the beginning).So in order to be successful, you need to find a niche that you understand and can market to.Think of what you are passionate about and what are the interests of people that are around you.Knowing the desires and pain-points of these people is your biggest advantage you can now generate product ideas that this particular niche will love.Do your research.Now its time to research your interests and passion on a deeper level.Find out who are your competitors, what are their strengths and weaknesses to get a better picture of how you could position yourself in the same market.Scout the web to learn what are local (or global) trends among online shoppers to find a gap in the market for your niche product.A couple of tools that can help you on this journey are Google Trends, Alexa, and Ahrefs.Identify a problem you can solve with your product.Youve heard it before and youll hear it again every product has to solve a problem no matter how big or small it is.Think beyond beautiful t-shirt design and fast shipping.Will your t-shirt provide psychological support, help someone express their beliefs to the world, or make them feel part of a community?2. Set up an online store.Once you have defined your target market and discovered a product niche, its time to set up the real estate of your store.BigCommerce is one of the most popular ecommerce platforms out there that lets you launch a store in a matter of a few minutes.Once you create your account, hit Store setup in your dashboard that will guide you through important steps of getting your store up. That includes going over:

• Storefront settings.
• Currencies.
• Payments.
• Tax.
• Shipping.
• Accounting.

Add products to your storeigCommerce offers a number of integrations you can use to source products for your online store, so explore your options.Probably the easiest way to get started is partnering up with a print-on-demand drop shipper a third-party service that fulfills and ships your products.Since all of your products are printed only when the order comes in, you dont need to worry about any upfront costs.This also gives more freedom to introduce new products, or discontinue those that are not selling3

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