How do you like getting free stuff?

Last year, my email marketing service provider, MailChimp, sent me out a free t-shirt – http://blog.mailchimp.com/holiday-shirts/ – A cool print on an American Apparel tri-blend t-shirt.

Now for someone who deals with t-shirts all day, every day, you might not think that would be so cool, but honestly I was stoked.

I just got their newsletter and they had a little piece in it about visiting their t-shirt printers and at the end linked to an article by Adam Nash , VP of Product Management at LinkedIn.

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Imagine the number of T-shirt designs a screen printer sees in the course of a year – hundreds, if not thousands.  And with all that experience of the t-shirt design industry, just imagine the wealth of knowledge and advice we would be able to offer a new designer!

In ‘Designers’ Guide to the Apparel Printing Industry’, Adam Wagner of GoMediaZine shares some wonderful insights and tips from his interviews with representatives from five major US apparel printers, covering topics such as design trends, file preparation, printing techniques and complex designs.

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Hey Tycoons!

So here is the interview with Jeff Thomson. I was blown away with the content he gave us. So make sure you put it to good use!

As I let you all know, the audio really lags between us as the conversation goes on, so I have provided you with the transcript that was painstakingly deciphered.

The topics we cover in the interview are

• How do you find potential stockists?
• What is the best process for approaching potential stockists?
• What do you need to make your brand stand out?
• Should I do consignment?
• What are the various seasons and how do they work?

And heaps more. The interview is 55 minutes long and we went into plenty of stuff I didn’t list above. So here you go…

Here is the transcript

Download mp3 here (right click “Save link as…”) – EDIT: It seems there is a problem with the download. It removes the .mp3 file extension. If you rename the file with the .mp3 file extension it will work fine. Let me know if there are any issues.

We would love to hear your thoughts and further questions because I am planning a Q&A style style interview with Jeff if we get enough questions.

Just post them in the comments section below.

I just wanted to share a great blog post I came across on starting your t-shirt label.

It is the first in a series on everything to consider when you are starting a t-shirt business.

We are actually working with a bunch of clients at the moment assisting them with anything they need in making their business a success. So if there is anything you would like to know about starting and running a successful t-shirt label just drop a comment below and we will help you in any way we can.

Just click on the image below to check out the post.

We sent out a survey to all of of our customers that are t-shirt labels to learn a little bit more about their challenges in running  their business.

We invited them to send us any questions they had about their business for us to attempt to answer.

Here is one I wanted to share with everyone from Brendan. Hopefully there is something useful in there for you.

If you have any thoughts, suggestions or further questions just add a comment at the bottom. Its great to be able to learn from each other.

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We recently did a survey of all of our database who have told us that they are a t-shirt label. Basically we wanted them to let us know what they saw as their biggest hurdles in taking their t-shirt company to the next level.

We are now going to compile some sort of information/training based on the responses we got so that people will be a little better armed to grow their existing business. To do this we will call on a lot of our industry contacts and existing clients who have succeeded with their t-shirt and clothing companies and they will share with you what got them to where they are and how you can do it too.

Here are the results…

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The guys at Threadless are pretty much the guru’s when it comes to t-shirt business on the internet. They started selling t-shirts online in 2000 and have built an empire by getting people to submit designs, then printing those designs onto t-shirts and then selling those t-shirts to you and I.

I found this video of a seminar they did called “The Skinny Corp Method For Creating Online Awesomeness” talking about their different project and how they do business. I thought it might be cool to share with everyone. So here it is… (more…)