Have you
ever read a funny slogan or an inspirational quote and thought, “I wish I had a
T-shirt that said that!”? I would say most of us (including myself) have. As
you might have guessed, this post is going to highlight several sites that pay
you to design T-shirts.
So if you're someone who is
forever having creative flashes and you also happen to be a fairly decent
designer, there's potential for you to earn money here!
Today I did lots of digging
around and found quite a few sites you can use to get paid to design T-shirts.
I want to say upfront that
most of these only offer a chance to get paid — you'll have to have a “winning”
design, or your shirt will have to receive enough interest from potential
buyers. Even so, it may be fun to try out if you think you'd be good at it!
8 Ways to
Design T Shirts to Sell Online
1. SpreadShop
SpreadShop makes it possible for
you to open your very own T-shirt store. Plus there are no fees — the site is
completely free for you to use.
There are two ways to earn
here — by being a marketplace designer and setting your own prices based on
what you think your designs are worth, or you can become a shop owner and earn
an commission off each sale of your products.
Go here to check out SpreadShop,
or read our Spreadshop review.
2. Teespring
Teespring has an easy online
designer to create T-shirts. Then, just set your price and a sales goal.
If you collect enough
pre-orders, they will manufacture and ship the T-shirt to buyers. One of the
best things about this site is that you keep ALL of the profit on T-shirt
sales.
However, there is of course
a chance you won't get enough pre-orders for Teespring to decide to print and
ship the shirt.
This site is open
internationally, although you do have to have a Paypal account for collecting
payments if your shirt is sold.
So do people actually make
money on Teespring? Looks like it! Here's a pretty impressive claim.
You can also check out our overview of Teespring for more
details on how it works, or just go ahead and visit the site here.
3. SellMyTees
This is another website
that will provide you with an online shop for selling your designs on T-shirts.
Note that while they do have a free plan for sellers which lets you open up a
small basic shop with 20 designs, they do offer paid (monthly) plans as well.
SellMyTees pays monthly via
Paypal or check, your choice. There is more info on how payment works here.
You can go here
to check out SellMyTees and learn more.
4. Threadless
This is an online T-shirt
shop featuring designs from many independent artists around the world.
Threadless has an ongoing design challenge that you can submit your own designs
to.
Members of the Threadless
community are allowed to score the designs submitted, and if yours is one of
the best of the best, it will be manufactured and sold. You'll get not only a
cash prize for having your design selected, but you will also receive ongoing
royalties from sales of your design.
In addition, you can set up
your own artist shop on Threadless. Go here to check them out, or read
our Threadless review.
5. Bonfire
This site offers a very
easy way to design and sell your own premium, custom T-shirts. Bonfire caters
not only to individuals, but also to organizations. It's free to get started
here with very easy setup and fast payouts.
Payments are made via
Paypal, and you get 100 percent of your profit. Bonfire even has a unique
feature that enables you to accept tips.
Go here to
learn more about Bonfire.
6. TeePublic
Create your own design for
a T-shirt, upload it, and it immediately will go up for sale. For 72 hours, the
shirt you design will be priced at just $14 but will go up after that so
they encourage promoting it heavily during the first three days.
You can check out their commission
rates here.
Want to go ahead and get
started with TeePublic? All the info is here.
7. Zazzle
You've probably heard of
Zazzle — it's very well-known. You can put your artwork not only on T-shirts,
but also on coffee mugs, calendars, posters, and more.
Zazzle allows you to open
your own online store and also set your own royalty rates for your creations.
I've actually written a review of
Zazzle if you'd like to learn more about how it works. Or, if
you'd like, go ahead and check out their website here.
8. CafePress
This is another site very
similar to Zazzle and about as equally popular. With CafePress, you can create
designs and put them on T-shirts, posters, coffee mugs, etc. and then sell
them.
You can get your own online
branded shop through CafePress. They will handle marketing for your shop and
then you can earn royalties on all sales.
I also have a review of
CafePress if you'd like to learn more about it, or go ahead and get started with them here.
I've always thought that
I'd love to create some designs for sites like this and just see what happens.
It could, at the very least, result in some extra fun money here and there.
As it is, I don't have time
to try it these days. If you try it — we wish you the best of luck!
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