***Side business. Thoughts please***

[Metal85]

So I have been mulling over this for about 5-6 years now, gaining a little more knowledge at a time as I go along. This week I am diving back into it, and got some contacts from people that have done it on a larger scale.

Making Apparel, to start out with Shirts primarily though.

I have been working 26 hours on the weekends, but haven't been picking up shifts at my other job bc my Manager just had a baby (Its a per diem job) so the scheduling there will be out of whack for a while.

Anyone on here have experience?

Another friend just started his own line, very broad line in the sense that there is a lot to choose from. (VanillaGorillaNation)

Let me know what your guys 2 cents are on this, and Thank you in advance
~Metal

 

[jimbosmith316]

Like printing or making the actual shirts?

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[LeatherHead]

My sister in law does this same thing, mainly for children's clothes. She makes enough money from it that she doesn't have to work a "real job". She stays at home with the kids and does her shirts and cups.

I had my own business for about 4 years, but mine was a speed shop. I can tell you that I bought probably 1000 shirts with my logo on them, and there's definitely money to be made from that. I spent a ton of money on shirts, gym bags, hats, and window stickers.

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[Metal85]

Like printing or making the actual shirts?

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designing them to have them sold

 

[Metal85]

My sister in law does this same thing, mainly for children's clothes. She makes enough money from it that she doesn't have to work a "real job". She stays at home with the kids and does her shirts and cups.

I had my own business for about 4 years, but mine was a speed shop. I can tell you that I bought probably 1000 shirts with my logo on them, and there's definitely money to be made from that. I spent a ton of money on shirts, gym bags, hats, and window stickers.

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Yeah that's awesome man. If I could I'd back out of healthcare more if something like that took off. Tired of people weighing over 400
pounds every shift I work, and people thinking they are kings when they come to an ER. Just yesterday I guy cussed me out for putting my hand on his back (without pressure) to support him as he leaned forward, as I was telling him why I was doing that he told me to "stop speaking" (53 year old guy) I replied "No , no I'm not going to stop speaking" and said why I wasn't going to , and the palpable tension rose pretty high .
To get back on subject this is why I want to really get into this, more time with my kids and less dealing with morbidly obese, smelly, ungrateful, attitude having, disease ridden people that are assholes to top the situation.

 

[BigZ]

This is something I've been trying to do myself. I have the design side of it down, but it's the 'how to go about the production' part that I'm trying to figure out. To begin with, I put my designs on Zazzle.com so I could print as little as one shirt. They do the printing and shipping, and I get a royalty. But while that's all nice, I want to take it to the level of Under Armour, and the prices on Zazzle are often not the cheapest (although they do have good quality materials). If you look up Inforza Fitness on Google, you'll see some of what I've done.

 

[Metal85]

Cool just saw the tank top bro

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I started a few shirt designs I'll have to post the links on a new thread

 

[BigZ]

Thanks, I'll look for them.