If you want to start a profitable business but do not have a lot of money to invest, you can try setting up an online T-shirt business. You can start selling T-shirts online through multiple methods, for example
Affiliate Marketing
Reselling
Dropshipping
Print-on-Demand
Digital Printing or Screen Printing
While digital printing/screen printing and reselling require some investment, dropshipping and print-on-demand can be started for a small investment. Likewise, you can start selling T-shirts through Affiliate marketing without any investment.
Four eCommerce Marketplaces to Start Your Online T-shirt Business
Try these platforms to start a t-shirt business with little or no investment.
Amazon: You can not only do affiliate marketing for the T-shirts available on Amazon store but also sell your custom-made T-shirts through FBA and or T-shirt designs through Amazon Merch.
Etsy: You can use dropshipping method to sell T-shirts or sell custom-made T-shirts. You can also sell Print-On-Demand T-shirts through Etsy. All you need to do is join print-on-demand providers like Printify or Printful, integrate these sites with your Etsy account, and sell the T-shirts you created on these print companies through your Etsy account.
Redbubble: Redbubble is a print-on-demand company that not only provides printing of your products but also a marketplace to sell your products. You can upload your designs, or even create designs, on Redbubble. Use your designs on T-shirts, or any other products you want to sell, and start selling these items. You don’t have to spend money to create products. You don’t even have to ship the products. Redbubble will take care of everything, you only need to create designs.
eBay: You can use eBay to sell T-shirts in numerous ways. You can sell your custom T-shirts, or sell through dropshipping or print-on-demand method. If you want to sell T-shirts through a print-on-demand model, you will have to integrate print-on-demand companies like printful or printify with eBay. Integration is free and takes less than a minute. When you use this method, you don’t have to create products or fulfill orders.
Two eCommerce Platforms to Start Your T-shirt Store
If you want to maximize your business profit, start selling from your own store instead of eCommerce marketplaces. You can use Shopify or woocommerce to build your online store
Woocommerce: Woocommerce is free but in order to create an online store by using woocommerce, you will have to build a wordpress website first, which requires a domain and hosting.
Shopify: You have to pay monthly fees but the drop and drag feature makes it easy to create your online T-shirt store.






