T-Shirt Printing Business

[piscesboy]

sino dito ang meron ganitong business?
san pwede kumuha ng materials na mura lang? heat press, plotter cutter, etc?
okay ba tong business na to?

please share your inputs.

thanks!

[CLAVEL3699]

Sa may SM centerpoint sa tapat nun...Nalimutan ko pangalan eh.

supplier sila .

[piscesboy]

salamat boss. kompleto po ba sila dun pati mga ink, consumables? nagbibigay din kaya sila ng training?

[CLAVEL3699]

complete sila pati mga inks... training sa TESDA ka nalang..

hindi sila nagpapatraining dun.

[jhnkvn]

Your profit will depend on how the market will react to your designs. It's easy to scale your operations in terms of production, so you'll be diverting your attention to sales and marketing.

Your target market defines what you'll be using -- upper ba? middle? lower? in the process. Most popular would be silk-screening and heat transfer printing. The big ones use direct printers na.. but those are expensive.

What you're essentially doing is a retail chain and such, benta lang talaga tututukin mo. Your margin depends but among the three processes, it's generally the most profitable. As for production chain, you'll be getting R2W or shirts from garment factories -- you can buy a lot to decrease avg cost per unit but I suggest keeping inventory low instead.

[piscesboy]

thank you sir jhnkvn at sir clavel.

IF EVER i will pursue this business this will be my first
kaya gusto ko muna humingi ng opinyon kung ok ba tong papasukan ko. since di naman big time, ang gusto ko muna sana yung mga designs ko benta muna through social media, mga couple shirts, funny shirts, o kaya mga intramurals uniform shirt sa mga studyante. hehe!
hindi pa naman ako maguumpisa, kelangan ko pa siguro magresearch kahit isang buwan lang, nanonood na din ako how-to video sa youtube using heat press, etc.

[Phoenix67]

Find a decent shirt din na puede mong i-brand on your own. . Madami sa Juan Luna (Binondo)

[jhnkvn]

thank you sir jhnkvn at sir clavel.

IF EVER i will pursue this business this will be my first
kaya gusto ko muna humingi ng opinyon kung ok ba tong papasukan ko. since di naman big time, ang gusto ko muna sana yung mga designs ko benta muna through social media, mga couple shirts, funny shirts, o kaya mga intramurals uniform shirt sa mga studyante. hehe!
hindi pa naman ako maguumpisa, kelangan ko pa siguro magresearch kahit isang buwan lang, nanonood na din ako how-to video sa youtube using heat press, etc.

As an entrepreneur, rule of thumb is always to start small. 99.2% of us aren't Manny Pangilinan who has hordes of capable managers below him at his beck and call. So start small.. just the basic materials and start printing a design you can sell. The problem with profit and easy barriers of entry is that... sobrang dami mo competitors. As in masmadami pa kaysa sa food cart business You see people selling off couple shirts, X or Y university shirts, anime shirts (small but effective niche IMO.. I still buy from them), and 2012 was the year of the 9gag t-shirts.

If you want to be your own boss, it's way harder than working for somebody.. and I am serious at this. Work harder than everybody.. even if it means postponing your inuman sessions until you're really "free". Research is good.. but I won't recommend "researching" for too long. The reason being is that I find that people become scared the more research they do. I always tell entrepreneurs to simply.. "do it" after knowing the basics.

So, how do you learn the basics? The best way is to.. find and ask your competition on how they managed to stand up. For sure may isa sa kilala mo nasa T-shirt printing business. It's not that hard to locate. Kung wala sa mga kilala mo, then ask sa mga kilala mo na kilala nila. Wag na mahiya.. sa business kilangan makapal mukha hell, I've gone on "dates" with grannies (yun tipong 60 plus years old na) just to extract information regarding a business.

P.S. Old people give information "freely" thanks to.. well.. old age. Konting bola here and there na maganda pa si grandma will serve you a long way indeed. Hahahaha..

Many says that business is all about relationships and that's pretty true. So set up an "appointment" and begin asking questions. You can be upfront -- "pare, gusto ko kasi magtayo ng T-shirt printing business so pano niyo ba ginawa?" as I believe truth is great. Most people will oblige in telling you naman as fellow entrepreneurs... basta di lang kayo nasa same "area of operation".

Many have failed and few simply lasts more than a year. This is the same with every other business naman. In the retail clothing, there's always profits to be found if successful. Success... depends on you. In this case, "gano ka kalakas magbenta?"

Remember, alot of "brands" you know started out small. T-Shirt Project or the maker of Spoofs was relatively unknown dati. Now they have stores sa Trinoma and changes their "spoofs" every few months or so. Although bumagal na yun sales nila (there's always fads in the industry), they're still there.. at least sustainable yun business diba? Collezione is another success story.. naging uso sila thanks to the polo shirts with the Philippine islands logo on them. They effectively rode the "nationalism" wave when Cory died and the presidential race was ongoing.

[Phoenix67]

Sa may SM centerpoint sa tapat nun...Nalimutan ko pangalan eh.

supplier sila .

Yan yung TULCO na brand of inks. They also carry other things - photoemulsion & sensitiser (various brands), green film, blue film din yata, at yung chemical, silk screens, etc.

[romeocharlie]

This is a saturated industry at this point in time...


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[piscesboy]

This is a saturated industry at this point in time...


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hi sir! are you saying its not advisable to put this kind of business?
can you suggest a better business proposal then?

[romeocharlie]

hi sir! are you saying its not advisable to put this kind of business?
can you suggest a better business proposal then?

Hinde sa dinidiscourage kita, pero dati gusto ko din i-try toh pero nun nagmarket study ako, online at yung old-skul type tshirt printing business - i find it hard to compete against existing shops.. Not unless may sure ka nang market dito..

Yun kaseng mga nagtatak ng shirt for school uniform (silkscreen), marunong na din sila ng heatpress so if your prospective market eh org shirts, think again - kase they can offer variety on prints and they are competitive in pricing..

Couple shirts naman: hinde ba downfall na ang fad ng couple shirts? Parang dati they are cool, pero ngayon parang baduy na?

Gamer shirts? Parang limited market. Kase most of gamers are student, they would only spend for gaming shirts kung meron mga competition (local or national) to represent their group or shop.. Other than that, i dont see them wearing it everyday.. Not unless masyado na silang addict sa game.. Heehhehe

Car shirts - eto magandang market. Advantage kung magaling ka sa photoshop that you can edit designs to make it more unique.. Ang kumpetensya mo dito ay yung mga car shirts sa greenhills..

Replica shirts - ok din... You can copy designs of pricey ones like sportshirts.. Just invest on a good clothing brand, kung blue corner at kentucky lang din - halatang peke..

So far, yan mga naisip ko na possible red flags bout this industry.. I suggest pag-aralan mo muna, kaya mo ba? Are you artistic enough? Do you do well in marketing? What do you think would be your best selling design? What price range are you targetting? I have a student na naging successful sa line na toh, lahat sya ang gumagawa = design + print + market. Kung may difficulties ka in one area, you might have to consider another business.. And to what it is? Depende sayo, ano ba interest mo? Ano ba kaya mo? And do you have a market for it?


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[jhnkvn]

Actually, where ever you look.. there's always big industry players that's bigger and has more money stashed in the bank than you. It's the fact of life. It's probably because we were brought up to with an entrepreneurial mindset, but my father has always told me he doesn't do market surveys and the like when entering a field. Isa lang motto niya, "kung kaya ng iba, bakit hindi ko kaya?"

There will be tough competition. This is because the retail chain has relatively low barriers of entry. You can easily print a couple T-shirts on a minimal budget of 6-digits and even less. But you can't use the same money to purchase a land parcel. The lower the barriers, the more profits there is, the more essential the item is, of course you'll have a horde of competition. This is why Bench and other retail giants has invested so much in their brand. From purchasing air-time advertisements sa mga TV networks to trying to get the next hottie as a commercial model. Sa totoo lang, consumer purchasing isn't really dictated by designs.. although it's a factor. More often than not, it's the brand.

Gross margins of Bench is probably hovering around 250%. If you lessen their expenses, it'll still be around 40%. That's how big it is. It's huge enough to propel Amancio Ortega into the ranks of third or fourth richest people in the world with a market worth four times more than Henry Sy. That's how Inditex Zara's founder rolls.

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Now there are some discrepancies in the market. For example, if you think about it, most of the gamers are probably kids in their >20s and male right? Sa totoo lang, it's a bit off na. Although it's the >20s that invests time and energy in a game, it's usually the >35s to 20 that spends thanks to a way higher disposable income. Compare your current income yun high school kayo versus now that you're working.. it's huge diba?

Personally, I'm an anime fan. So I'm a huge fan of Fast Retailing's Uniqlo's design collaboration with Japanese artists. If you're a car enthusiast, you'd readily buy a shirt with just RB26DETT in big red fonts all over it. Dyan tama si Romeo, love what you do. Kasi paghindi, di ka gaganhan.

There are many shirt-businesses out there. Far more unique than you'd probably imagine. There's a label focusing on just plain white tees for example. Meron din
"green" advocates that introduced a bamboo-fibre t-shirt (which kinawawa ko sila sa marketing and thesis study nila.. :naughty2: that's why marketing professors love me). Gusto mo maging innovative? Well, there's a spray-type-then-harden-to-a-tshirt type of technology nowadays.. but I don't expect it to hit the market anytime soon.

In the end, don't build your designs. Build your brand. Somewhere... somebody is out there who will be more creative than you, better at you at his t-shirt ideas. Lagi may ganon. However, the way to success here isn't in design (unless you plan on being a fashion designer), but to streamline and standardize your processes so you can reap economies of scale then sell some more. Do you think Ben Chan still thinks of his T-shirt ideas? (well, he does at times sa Forbes mansion niya). He employs dedicated designers to think up on their designs. He simply approves or disapproves of them. What does he concentrate on? How to sell more.

[xwangbu]

me kakilala kong me tshirt printing business sa bulacan.
mukhang ok naman yung benta nila. ewan ko lang sa kita. magkakasosyo kasi sila di ko alam kung ilan.

tshirt daw nila comes from china. dati sa divisoria sila kmukuha.
yung design ng shirts nila patok sa mga estudyante.
limited lang prints nila for each design kaya yung mga bumibili sa kanila halos gngwang collection yung tshirtl
and meron na rin yata silang ibang items like wallets
and lanyards.

[piscesboy]

^
lakas siguro ng negosyo ni sir jhnkvn. multi-M business.

*wangbu: oo maganda pag nakuha mo mga studyante, pag marami kana suki pwede kana mag-expand.