Do you need to make extra money? How about selling T-Shirts as a Home Based Business?

I was recently approached by a T-shirt Designer to help him sell his t-shirts. He offered me 10 to 15% for selling his t-shirts. How hard can it be to create your home based business? If you look around when your at work, shopping, exercising, just about anywhere, you see many screen printed or embroidered t-shirts around. I never knew so many people wore t-shirts with company logo's and/or comical t-shirts. That is one way to determine your market. Most would have you search the number of magazines sold for that industry, but it's fairly obvious to see that everyone's advertising on t-shirts now days.

If your lucky enough to be in a state that you do not have to collect sales taxes for clothing, or sales tax period, it will make your life much easier, if not, you can always find someone at your local government, phone book listing, or professional family members to direct you in the right path. If one of your family members is a tax attorney or an account, you might have a hard time reaching them during tax time.

Start by searching for screen printed t-shirts on your favorite search engine, or look in your phone book for local screen printers. Review all the sites you received, and look for the ones that fit your situation. With some you have to buy them up front, and others will allow you to post the t-shirts first, then select which ones you want, or received a request for. Some will offer a percentage if you sell their products.

Now days, it's not hard to sell thing over the internet. There are plenty of avenues for us to choose. A couple of sites right off the top of my head are: eBay and Craigslist.com. eBay is probably the most popular, but don't exclude other sites like, Craigslist.com. With each site, you have to register yourself, but then you can start posting fairly quick. eBay allows you certain privileges after you sold a number of items and remain in good standing. Craigslist, charges in some states, or county. You will need to research all of the sites you want to sell on. In some states, you can run an ad in local give-away magazines for no cost or a low cost.

In my state, if you have a car registered as a commercial vehicle, you can buy magnetic signs or decals to advertise your business on your car.

Once you have your T-shirts posted, you can easily check them through out the day. With Craigs list and eBay, the sites will email you once someone bids or is interested in you product. Just don't forget to check them every so often.

The nice thing about t-shirts are that they are a hot commodity. You can peruse the phone book or a search engine's yellow pages for local listings for retail stores or vendors looking for items to sell. Call the merchant, and find out if you can meet with them. Once you start selling a few, time will fly by. Fill out the order information and collect a deposit (I'm sure the owner will have the money sent directly to him). In most cases, you receive an order from the store owner, you will collect a percentage, then you send that to the manufacture to start production. When the owners done, they will send you t-shirts. At that time you will collect the rest of the money from the store owner and send it to the manufacture who will in turn send you a final check.

Though these processes seem tedious, it's really not when you compare the money you will receive.

Another avenue for the entrepreneur is to find local boutique or craft shows. Customers of boutiques or craft shows usually will pay more for a t-shirt, than a swap meet, flea market or garage sale will.

Once you have your routine down, you'll have a steady cash flow coming in, and you plan your time with your other functions. The best of luck to all of you, and enjoy your years as an entrepreneur.

Paul Canales is the owner of Selanac Embroidery and Screen Printing, based in New Jersey. He often seeks out entrepreneur types for his online and boutique/craftstore business line of programs. http://www.EmbroideryAndScreenPrinting.com