Selling T-Shirts Online

Many people will have used Vistaprint for free or low-cost business cards but if you haven’t yet heard of them, or if you haven’t had a good look at all the items and services they offer, a visit to http://www.vistaprint.co.uk is well worth while.

Vistaprint offer a huge range of products for establishing a business identity such as letterheads, mouse mats, cards,  compliment slips and return address labels or even complete websites.

They also offer many items for the home or as gifts such as clocks, calendars, photo and greeting cards – there really is a very long list.

All their products are low-cost but, even better, there is a section of “FREE” items.

You pay a small charge for the post and packing (shipping costs) but that is all. I recently obtained 500 business cards for only a few pounds.

Of course these are loss-leaders to entice you into the site and you will receive other tempting offers as you check-out followed up by frequent emails with other offers. But that’s OK if you only purchase what you really need, especially if you wait for them to be on offer.

There is more. As well as the prices and range of goods there are a couple of other things that make them stand out.

One is the wide range of graphic designs, templates and fonts available on the site. And the templates are customisable – you can easily change fonts, colours and placement. I was able to take a stock business card template and move every different element around and completely personalise it.

If that is not enough you can upload your own graphics or photographs.

There is usually a charge for this – but free uploads are often available in the follow-up emails that come once you have made your first purchase. In fact be prepared to receive an email everyday – but that’s a small price to pay for the free and low-cost services.

They even produce very low-cost t-shirts! They provide a ‘gift’ service, similar to Cafepress, where goods are shipped with no invoice so you could use them as a drop-shipping Print-on-Demand service. For example, sell on eBay then put in the order. They generally turn-around orders very quickly. In my expereince usually within 24 hours and delivery is usually within 48 hours although it would be wise to allow for delays and state alonger delivery time on an eBay listing.

Finally, Vistaprint do have an affiliate program of course although they pay in credits (redeemable as Vistaprint purchases) rather than cash but if you are interested in seeing what they have to offer, here is my link: http://www.vistaprint.co.uk