Can a college student start their own t-shirt business? -

I have wanted to start my own t-shirt line for over two years now. When I was a junior in high school I read an article about the guy who started Johnny Cupcakes, and it completely inspired me. Ever since then it s been an idea in the back of my mind, but I never had the time or knowledge to materialize it.Now I m in college. I have a good chunk of money saved in my bank account from a job I ve had for this past semester. I m really considering making this a full-time project now. I have the money. I have the knowledge of design. I just need to know the business side of it. Is it realistic to think that I would make money off of selling t-shirts? Would I do the screen printing myself? Or would I send my designs to a manufacturer (i.e. American Apparel) and have them do it for me? How much money would it cost to get me started? Would I make my own website? How would I get the word out about my designs? I mean, because I can make a website. I can set the whole thing up. But at the end of the day people have to know about it. How do businesses advertise themselves? Especially when its just a college student? I just need EVERY tidbit of information you can give me. Even if I didn t ask it. Please, if you have experience or insight or knowledge, please help me out here.

Of course you can!The key for you is to find someone who can manufacture them for you. Check out: http://www.wearlane.com/shopshirt.html - College students.You need a concept and an approach to good design. You need a hook that will move the shirts. YOU DO NOT need to manufacture them. Check out http://www.broken-arrow.com/ as an example. I don t know the best ones but I did a search and this company is an example. You can get an online quote for a number of shirts, choose the material, kind of process (Silkscreen embroider, etc) the colors etc and then upload your design. You get the shirts and resell em. It s about that easy except that it s all about people wanting your design.Anyway, yes you can do it. Given your questions, though, I d STRONGLY suggest before you start that you look around campus to see if there s a business club for people wanting to do their own businesses, or something in the community. You need to be able to understand how to design, promote and operate an on-line presence before you get much further. It s not hard but you could use some time with people who have done it to get their advice first hand as Answers won t help that much. If you can t find anybody, then go to the business school at your college and start asking professors! You ll find someone, I guarantee it.Hope that helps.

CafePress.com has an excellent program that can help you out. $5/month. Seriously. They re the biggest on the net when it comes to t-shirts. They even started running tv ads recently. If your designs are more than just a slogan or scree-printing, then the previous answer is a good one.

Ebay Unpaid Item, Help!? -

So I sold my item on ebay. after 3 days went by i contacted the buyer and he said he would pay me the friday. which would be the 8th day since bid ended, i waited til friday nothing.. i opened a case on the 9th day. and waited got one response so today i decided i had enough and closed the case. now im getting refunded for ebay seller fee s but i would like to know if i do the second chance offer do i still get refund for the seller fee s ?Also if it sells is it a new seller fee s since its less ammount of money thats it selling for as a second chance offeR?basically how does the whole refund of the seller fee s + second chance offer work?the guy kept postponing the payment thats why i just decided to close it and give up.

Re list the item, report him to ebay and forget about himTell ebay customer service what happened, should be able to get a return of fees

If someone visited your house/work place to wash your car, how much would you pay them? -

washing only from the outside.Ok then how much would you pay for a full valet?

$10

I bought something on eBay and i want to use my bank account to pay for it...? -

WILL I NEED TO GET A BANK STATEMENT TO KNOW WHAT TWO DEPOSITS PAYPAL DID OR DO THEY JUST TAKE OUT MONEY WITHOUT ME HAVING TO DO ANYTHING??? PLEASE HELP

In order to use a bank account with Paypal, it must be verified. Paypal verifies the bank account by depositing two small amounts into the bank account which are required later in the verification process. Check your bank statement online or through the mail. Once you receive your bank statement with the two amounts deposited by Paypal, enter the amounts into the verification form in your Paypal account to prove that you own the bank account. Once you have proved that you own the bank account, you can now pay people with Paypal using your bank account. You can also deposit money into your bank account if you receive funds through Paypal.Hope this helps.

The two small deposits are in your Paypal account and they do that to make sure the account is valid and it belongs to you. You can get the two amounts on the phone with the automated menu but it might be a couple of days to post to your bank account. It is only a few cents each one. You are just opening a Paypal account?

They take money out of your account without doing anything. Usually if your account is new they take out $1.00 out of your account to test if it exists then they put the $1.00 back into your account. When you purchase items off of eBay they will debit the money out of your bank account.

How do I make business cards at home? -

I got microsoft word 2007 and I m trying to make business cards, but the edges of the business cards don t reach the end of the paper? Is there a way I can stretch so that all of the cards will be equal so that I don t waster space?P.S. I can stretch it to the edges but then it doesn t look equal.

I d first get proper paper from the local office supply store. Also you don t want the text all the way to the edge - close but not quite there because it ll look unprofessional and cheap. Look at other business cards and note the spacing, this is what you should strive for. Good luck!

Are you using business card paper? I use www.avery.com They have templates which make it real easy.