By Accident or Design, Selling T-Shirts Is Big Business on Web

Definitely on my list of ‘wish I had tried this’ type deals, it seems that selling T-shirts on the Web is turning into a very profitable business. Still, can I honestly say that this is something that I would have the time to support? I would have to say not so much. Still, this article does bring up some great points.

Dan Mowry thought he knew just how to turn his family entertainment newsletter into a successful online business. Two years ago, he designed an attractive site and loaded it up with features to entice readers and advertisers: electronic crossword puzzles, a history quiz and cartoons. Almost as an afterthought, he designed a T-shirt with his company’s logo, a circus ringmaster holding a megaphone.

Today the online and print newsletters have flopped. But the shirts are pulling in up to $3,000 per month, as Mr. Mowry joins the growing ranks of entrepreneurs profiting from an improbable but lucrative Web business model: selling T-shirts.

All over the Web, bloggers, artists and entrepreneurs are unexpectedly finding that T-shirts are more reliable moneymakers than the original ideas that brought them to the Internet.
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