My Own Shirt Store : Aisy T-Shirt House

For the past 1 year, I have been toying around with "Print On Demand (POD)" type of part time business. The business involves using any graphics editor software, resize an image to the right size, upload the graphics and finally place the item on a number of selected product. All of the activities mentioned are done using a computer with an internet connection. As simple as it may sound, being a person with no artistic background is kind of hard to adjust. Creating design is just too daunting for me. Copying on the other hand is so much easier. Anyway, there are too many downside of copying. Therefore I've decided to shy away from it and try to design stuff myself.

The best part about POD is this business model has produced a few extra hundred ringgits per month for me. It's one of the easiest "making money on the internet" business model that I have ever tried. In matter of 2 weeks, I've already seeing some flow of money coming into my PayPal account. I can imagine if I strategically built some dedicated tasks without procrastinating, this business model has the potential to match my current monthly salary. My only issue is within me where I am not able to leave 'the comfort zone' and the habit of procrastinating.

Enough complaining. If you have ever heard of Cafepress, it is one of the most popular "Print On Demand" website on the internet. You can make your own design and have them shipped the product to yourself or anyone else. The best part about POD is, your product doesn't have to be available right now for you to sell. Your job is just design and promote your custom made product virtually with no physical presence. How neat is that? Once your product is ready, the product will be sold over and over again every time someone purchased it online. Kind of a like a passive income once you reached certain level. But don't get too excited, this is a part time business so if you work more, you earn more. If you are lazy or can't get rid of procrastinating habit like me, you only get what you deserve..haha..

Here's to my own T-Shirt store on Cafepress : "Aisy T-Shirt House"



P/S: This store is completely brand new. I have another online store which is currently making some money for me the past several months without too much effort needed. The idea and money is exciting but the work is not...I need some motivation though..

Update 1 March 2011: The T-Shirt store is closed since I have lost interest in t-shirt design.