Put your designs on shirts and hats, and sell what people order.
You put a design people want on a shirt or a hat, and they wear it. The value here is your idea, not the shirt, which is why this business can be great or can bury you in unsold inventory. Everything depends on one rule: never print a shirt nobody has ordered yet.
Make one design. Mock it up on a photo of a plain shirt so people can see it. Do not print anything.
Then go take orders:
"I'm printing these next week, [your price] each. What size do you want?"
Collect names, sizes, and if you can, the money up front. Twelve orders means print. Four orders means your design isn't there yet, and it cost you nothing to find out.
Depends how you print. Heat transfer at home is the cheap way in.
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Andre once bought supplies he didn't need yet because having them made him feel like a real business owner. It didn't make him a dollar. Same trap here, and it's a big one, because a stack of blank shirts feels like being ready. It isn't. It's money you can't spend, sitting in cardboard. Take the order. Then print the shirt. In that order, every time.
The full Young Founder kit walks you through everything Andre and Sophie learned: how to pre-sell, price for profit, and grow without a closet full of things nobody bought. The book, the workbook, the videos, and more.
See what is inside the kitA kid walking dogs in their own neighborhood usually starts between $10 and $18 for a thirty minute walk. Professional walkers average about $21 for the same walk.
Read the answerLess than almost anyone expects, and for a lot of these ideas the honest answer is nothing until somebody has already said yes to a price.
Read the answerTen people who already know them, one prepared sentence, and an easy way for each of them to say no.
Read the answerFind out whether this is not working or just not fun right now. Those look identical from outside and they need opposite responses.
Read the answerThey are not buying feeding. They are buying a holiday where nobody is quietly worried about the cat.
See the ideaSmall money that arrives every single week without anyone having to be asked again. The cleanest lesson in recurring revenue there is.
See the ideaNobody puts it on the list, and everybody notices once it is done. The before and after photo does the selling.
See the ideaForty minutes, a bucket, and a customer who can see the problem from their front door.
See the ideaA program from Founder's Best Friend. Built for kids 8 to 18 who want something of their own.