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T-SHIRT PRINTING

  • List of Cool T-Shirt Websites
    Here is a list of favorite t-shirt websites that has the coolest designs to inspire me with new ideas and creativity.
    • Threadless – Choose from hundreds of original designs from artists all over the world.
    • Tee Public – The world’s largest marketplace for independent creators to sell the highest-quality merchandise bearing their art.
    • TeeTurtle – Our mission is to create products that bring people together, promote self-expression, and foster genuine moments of delight.
    • SpreadShirt – A global print-on-demand platform for clothing and accessories, allowing individuals to create, buy, and sell personalized apparel & accessories online.
    • Stylin Online/b> – Online retailer that describes itself as the “largest pop culture clothing super store on the web”.
    • 80’s Tees/b> – Shop for retro shirts from your favorite 80s movies, TV shows, cartoons, and more.
    • Crazy Dog T-Shirts/b> – With our huge library of unique & humorous tees, and trendy & stylish shirt designs, there’s something for everyone to enjoy.
    • Design By Humans – Discover apparel and accessories from independent artists, content creators, and your favorite brands.
    • SnorgTees – Has the one of the coolest selection of original, funny, comfy, and all around awesome t-shirts.
    • BustedTees  – On a mission to bring the world of pop culture to life through our vibrant designs.
    • TeeFury  – 24hr TEES: find your favorite pop culture tees, with a brand new limited edition design every 24 hours.
    • RiptApparel  – 24hr TEES: support indie artists and rock your individuality with nerdy cross-over t-shirts!
    • ShirtPunch  – 24hr TEES: their treasure trove includes horror t-shirts, anime t-shirts, and fandom t-shirts.
    • The Yetee  – 24hr TEES: find a new amazing shirt every 24 hours, by amazing artists from around the world.
    • OtherTees  – 24hr TEES: focus mainly on pop culture designs related to your favorite comics, movie, tv show or any other geeky stuff.
    • Qwertee  – 24hr TEES: we work with some of the finest artists/designers in the world to bring you an amazing new design every day of the year.
    • Once Upon A Tee  – 24hr TEES: inspired by pop culture, featuring designs created by independent artists from around the world.
    • Dracula Byte  – 24hr TEES: Heavy Metal game designs on t-shirts.
    • Neato Shop  – An online marketplace created by the folks behind the popular blog Neatorama, offering a wide variety of artist-designed shirts.
  • Apparel Suppliers
    You can buy blank t-shirts from various wholesalers. Some requires a seller’s permit account, some you can buy directly online.
    • PressHall – Started as a blank shirt online seller for decorators who uses heatpress printing, now has many more options, brands, accessories. A great place for buying directly.
    • BulkApparel – Blank tees will always be popular and their selection of wholesale blank t-shirts meet all of one’s necessities when looking for a blank shirt. A lot of brands.
    • JiffyShirts – Probably the most popular website to buy blank shirts online. Their pricing is comparable, but a few more cents more than some other websites.
    • S&S Activewear (wholesaler) – The most popular wholesaler when it comes to blank apparel for any decorators in the apparel industry. This is must have vendor!
    • SanMar (wholesaler) – If you are looking for certain brands that you cannot find on other sellers, this is the seller for you. They carry popular premium brands here.
    • AlphaBroder (wholesaler) – Another great blanks vendor for t-shirts, hoodies, bags, hats, and so many more options from different brands.
  • Heatpress Transfers
    One of the easiest and more affordable way to start printing t-shirts is using a heat press machine with transfers.
    • TransferExpress – Custom screen-printed heat transfer for any project. Their transfers are fair priced and the printing holds up pretty well. I’ve used them many times.
    • Heatpress Nation – They offer the best selection of heat press transfer machines, vinyl cutters, sublimation systems, accessories and supplies at the lowest prices guaranteed! I buy my HTV (heat transfer vinyl) here.
    • SupaColor – My favorite to DTF (direct to film) heat transfers to use. Full colors, bright vibrant whites, easy hot-peeling, and holds up after even after 70+ washes. I highly recommend.
    • ProWorld – Don’t have a design? They have a huge collection of ready-to-print designs. All you need to do is just press! Sublimation, HTV, equipment, and more.
    • Siser Easyweed Vinyl – This is my favorite HTV (heat transfer vinyl) because like the name said, it’s very easy to weed. I like the sticky backing, peels hot or cold.
    • STAHLS – Your one-stop-shop source for all things related to heat transfers products to decorate your apparel. A lot of option. They even sell equipment & accessories.
    • HeatransferWarehouse – Your main source for all heat transfer products with many selection, various brands, equipment, the best stock, and great service. Everything you need to decorate your garments.
  • Print On Demand (POD)
    The printing industry has change drastically in recent years. Now you can print-on-demand (POD) to sell your merchandise online. This method allows you to be hands off, not hold any inventory, only pay when ordered, and they take care of fulfillment. Research and choose the platform that best fits your needs.
    • Printify – My favorite to use for apparel POD vendor. Less expensive, alternative to Printful.
      • Pros: huge selection of printers, great pricing, many integrations.
      • Cons: limited branding options, different quality from different vendors.
    • Printful – The leading POD vendor most popular and familiar to people.
      • Pros: user-friendly, great quality, 20% discount on samples, no subscription.
      • Cons: pricing – which may lower your profit margin.
    • Sellfy – Besides print-on-demand, you can also launch an entire online storefront!
      • Pro: storefront, built-in marketing tools, order confirmation, no transaction fee.
      • Cons: their most top tier plan can be $99/mo, sometimes slow uploads.
    • Gelato – Great platform to fulfill your merch with a variety of products in their catalog.
      • Pros: many locations for faster shipping, mobile app for insight, fair pricing.
      • Cons: better benefits with subscription, no embroidery and engraving.
    • Redbubble – A platform known by artists to display their graphic on merchandise.
      • Pros: big community, marketplace, wide range of products, anti-piracy protection.
      • Cons: base prices changes without warning, less control/flexibility, tiers.
    • Spreadshirt – Another great place for artists to sell worldwide with many products.
      • Pros: existing marketplace, artists earn their own commissions, eco-friendly.
      • Cons: custom designs can get pricey.
    • Zazzle – One of the forerunners of print-on-demand marketplaces. It has the second largest existing audience of any POD marketplace.
      • Pros: large customer reach, marketplace, sell gifts & stationery.
      • Cons: uploading process can improve, need better user-experience.
    • SPOD – Another print-on-demand fulfillment service with focus on concern about sustainability. It offers a library of 50,000 free designs to create your artwork.
      • Pros: simple shipping, sustainable production, intuitive dashboard.
      • Cons: no custom branding.
    • FineArtAmerica – They primarily focus on wall art, posters, and prints. Other types of products are offered, but this community is not really an apparel crowd.
      • Pros: fast-growing marketplace, great for photographers, marketing & sales tools.
      • Cons: not as much traffic as some other marketplaces.
  • Shipping Solutions
    When I first started selling online, I used to buying postage one-at-a-time at the post office. What a waste of time! Please use these software for syncing, automation, and batch printing.
    • Ordoro – My favorite shipping software to streamline your fulfillment. Sync from all your selling marketplace and automatically email tracking. The all-in-one platform helps growing merchants run their online businesses.
    • ShipStation – Giving you access to the world’s top carriers. Find the lowest shipping rate for parcels packages of different sizes and destinations and save these shipping options for future orders.
    • Shippo – Probably the best pricing shipping software compared to others. It’s an out-of-the-box experience for platforms and marketplaces to offer shipping as a default feature for customer.
    • Shipping Easy – ShippingEasy is the easiest online shipping, tracking, and customer marketing platform for e-commerce sellers. Integrate from over 50 stores and marketplaces, reduce costs with the lowest available rate.

BUSINESS TOOLS

  • Must-Have-Tools
    These are the common for many entrepreneurs that are a must-have tools and software. I found these very helpful for my team and useful to run my business.
    • Dropbox – A must have to store large files and transfer big sized documents. Syncing your files in the cloud keeps it safe, you can access from any device. Use my link to get a bonus 500MB when you install dropbox.
    • Evernote – A note-taking app designed to collect and organize text, pictures, videos, and audio recordings. Notes are then backed up to the cloud and you can access from any platform.
    • AppSumo – Find the best software for any entrepreneur! A platform to get digital tools to grow and scale your business.
    • ProductHunt – My site to discover the latest mobile apps, software, websites, and technology in the market.
    • Acuity Scheduling – Need to an appointment managemnt system for your clients? This helps you schedule anything with payments and reminders.
    • Calendly – The modern scheduling platform that makes it easy for setting up appointments & take calls.
    • Pipedrive – A CRM tool (customer relationship management) for sales teams to manage and track contacts, leads and deals.
    • Grammarly – Need to improve your writing? AI-powered typing assistant checks spelling, grammar, punctuation, errors or mistakes on your sentences. Also detects plagiarism, and suggests replacements for improvement.
    • CoFounderLab – the largest startup community on the Internet. You can find a Co-founder or get funded to accelerate your business today.
    • GetHuman – I find this site useful! It offers free consumer tools for solving customer service problems with thousands of major companies.
    MORE TO COME!
  • Make A Plan
    Free Business Plans with hundreds of free business plans and sample business plans available online, you can have your own plan up and drafted in a single afternoon.
    • Bplans – The largest online collection of free sample business plans. Also provides helpful tools and guides to help you better manage your business.
    • Bplan’s Gallery of Samples – Over 500 examples of business plans.
    • Oprah’s One Page Template – Get one-page business plans for a small consulting business, a boutique clothing company and a nonprofit organization.
    • Score’s General Model Startup Template – Business plan template for a startup business, with instructions for each section and fillable worksheet.
    • Pitch Deck Hunt – Get inspired by viewing the pitching powerpoint of Uber, AirBnB, Shopify, Dropbox, etc.
  • Outsourcing
    Too busy to get everything done? Not enough time? One of the best way is to hire a freelancer or a virtual assistant that can help you get more done with a fraction of the cost!
    • Fiverr – Outsourcing for $5? Yup, it’s actually fair pay for workers in other countries. My favorite and highly recommended outsourcing service website for graphic design, illustrations, virtual assistance, web development, and more!
    • Upwork – A very popular platform to outsource online jobs. The biggest marketplace for employers and job seekers online.
    • Codeable – The ONLY WordPress freelancer platform, matching customers to the best WP experts to solve any WordPress problem.
    • FreeUp – They only accept 1% of freelance applicants that qualify for their tests then suggest them to an an employer if they have the required skills.
    • Freelancer – Second oldest platform in the market. It offers a wide variety of services such as web design, digital marketing, data entry, and more.
    • Legiit – A freelancing marketplace specializing in SEO, but you can find dozen of other categories.
    • 99designs – Imagine getting dozens of designers competing to create your logo or graphic. Yup, you’ll have so many choices, but you select one winner.
    • Design Crowd – Create a project of the design type that you need, t-shirt, logo, etc., and you’ll receive a design from multiple designers. This gives you multiple designs to choose from and you get to pick and choose whichever one you like.
    • Gigster – Your go-to platform if you need an experienced coder to build software, application, or other tech product for your business.
    • PeoplePerHour – A reliable freelance website to look for a wide range of worldwide talents.
    • Guru – One of the oldest freelance platforms that provides different skills and expertise, mostly in programming, writing, and design.
    • *BONUS: ThumbTack – Not exactly a freelance gig for your digital or remote work…BUT if you ever need a local professional to work on your office to do a repair, setup, clean, etc. Use this!
    TRAINING TOOLS FOR VIRTUAL ASSISTANCE:
    • SweetProcess – Document processes, procedures and tasks in one place so you can stay focused on growing your business.
    • Process.st – A no-code, simple process and workflow management for your team’s recurring work..
  • Team Work
    In today’s current world, a lot of jobs are done by many remote work online. To collaborate with your team, here are some tools that might help everyone be more efficient together.
    • Monday – This helps with operations, project management, sales & CRM, design, and more workflows.
    • Slack – Bring all your communication together in one place. It’s real-time messaging, archiving, and search for modern teams.
    • Asana – Designed to help teams track their work. This application streamlines the management of daily activities and large-scale projects, providing our team with a versatile and user-friendly platform.
    • Basecamp – Teams use Basecamp to keep track of assignments, work together on documents, plan projects, chat, and more. It’s built for teams to be efficient and get things done without wasting time or putting in overtime.
    • Zoom – A cloud-based video conferencing service you can use to virtually meet with others – either by video or audio-only or both, all while conducting live chats – and it lets you record those sessions to view later.
    • Salesforce – An industry-leading CRM that can be used for many different sales automation needs in virtually any industry. It’s best for large or scaling businesses that need a very customizable solution.
  • Suppliers & Manufacturers
    List of some great suppliers, vendors, manufacturers for your business.
    • ThomasNet – North America’s number one industrial sourcing platform and marketing powerhouse.
    • AliExpress – A popular online store for buying products from China at much cheaper prices than Amazon and other similar services. Most dropshippers started off with this, but shipping can be slow from oversea.
    • AliBaba – Manufacturers and wholesalers from China that can give you wonderful low cheap pricing to make your products to be sold elsewhere. Great for FBA business models.