How can you start an online clothing store
with no experience, no startup costs, and in as little time as possible?
Well, for this side hustle, you only need these seven free apps
and you can start earning money online in no time.
So let's dove in.
All right, you guys.
So step number one is to decide who is your audience?
Is it kids?
Is it men? Is it women?
And what are their interests?
Are they passionate about traveling or music or golf?
Ideally, you want to pick something that you're also interested in
because then you will understand them a lot easier.
So let me show you a couple tools that will come in very, very handy.
So let's say you want to do something around music.
Well, ideally, you want to go to Google Trends, which is a free tool
and type some examples of music genres that you are thinking about.
And here I took 19
music and rap music and reggae music because I wanted to show you
that the level of interest over time is very important.
However, you can very, very easily
see that rap music shows the most interest
out of all of the other ones, and you have up to five options here.
So you can try out multiple music genres.
Also, if you are debating between maybe music and golf
and something else, you can also compare that here as well.
The next thing that you want to do
is then go to Facebook and I'll show you a trick.
When you come to Facebook, if you type, get yours here
and then t shirt, it will show you some examples of t shirts
that are currently selling online and that are doing relatively well.
And this is not necessarily for you to, let's say copy because,
you know, I am definitely against that is more for you to take inspiration.
What kind of designs are more in demand now?
Is it more minimal or is it, you know, certain
type of graphics or visuals or fonts, you know what I mean?
And then last but not least, you can also use Google Search and just go and search
for it's a nineties music t shirt and then you'll get some inspiration,
some ideas about best selling t shirts that you can think about creating better.
So now that I have the inspiration, let's move
to step number two, which is we get creative.
So let's think about what do you want
to put on the piece of clothing that you want to come out with?
Maybe that's a t shirt or hoodie or something else.
That could be a logo, an image, text, maybe all of the above.
So it's up to you and then you can go and use an online tool
that is completely free, which is canva.com, where you can start
designing whatever you want to have printed on the piece of clothing.
So let me show you in a second how you can do that.
So if you come to Canva dot com, you can simply go ahead and type here
t shirt and it'll show you directly
how it will look on specific t shirts.
Now you get a lot of ideas here
and you can select a style or a theme and they'll give you a lot of inspiration.
But what you absolutely need to make sure is that you make it your own.
All right.
So now that you have the design figured out,
we get to move to creating your product.
How exciting is that?
All right. So you can do this in a couple of ways.
Number one, you can go down the route of AliExpress and Alibaba and that's great
because it gives you a lot more options in terms of the fabric or the cut
or the fit of your product.
However, you need to be aware that if you go down this route, then
you might need to figure out inventory costs
because you will need to pay for that inventory ahead of time.
You might need to figure out logistics, like storage, like fulfillment.
So it might not be super easy going down that route
if you don't want to do that, but you are okay with a few less options.
Then you can go down the route of print on demand, and for this one
you have so many platforms out there.
You obviously have merch by Amazon, which is a very well-known one
and obviously it takes advantage of all the infrastructure that Amazon has,
but you also have smaller platforms with maybe even more flexibility.
And here I'm talking about Redbubble print, full print of Phi Gelato.
There's so many out there and I want to use print full today just as an example.
This is not a sponsored video, but I just think they have a super
easy onboarding process that I'm going to show you step by step.
So go to print on Fool.com and you obviously are going to need to sign in.
You can do that with Facebook, with your email, with your Apple ID
if you have one.
And then all you need to do is come here and click on Let's Go.
They'll show you all types of products that you can start
working on and creating as part of your clothing store.
I think the easiest one is to just go and search here
for something as simple as t shirt.
Once you do that, they will obviously show you a lot of different options.
So I would suggest you pick something
that has more color options and more size options.
This one looks good
once you've selected the kind of product that you would like to create.
All you need to do is go to select printing because otherwise
they will embroider everything that you want to be on the t shirt
and you can start designing.
You can even design directly in here in the app.
But I think it's easier if you just go and upload a file
that you just created in Canva.
I'm uploading my now and this is how it looks.
You can adjust the size if you want to make it bigger or smaller.
Maybe you want to put it on the front or on the back.
Maybe you want to do it more as a logo and then it looks something like this
and you can move it.
It's really up to you how you want to position the product.
All right, you guys, it is now time to start selling
and you can do that directly on the platform that you've chosen
to create the product on Amazon, print for print, defy Redbubble.
Or you can do that through an integration
with a platform like Etsy or Shopify or Wix.
And I'm going to use Etsy in this example today and I'm going to link below video
and maybe up here as well a link, a video where I explain why I prefer Etsy.
So I'm not going to go into details right now.
So let me show you how you do that and how easy it is.
So back on principle, you have here on the side
something that says start selling and once you click it, you'll take it to a place
where it explains how easy you can do that in three simple steps.
Now, when you go and click on Start Selling, it shows you how
you will need to choose the platform that you would like to integrate with.
And as I said, you can do that with Shopify, with Etsy,
with WooCommerce, with Wix, many, many, many others.
But let's go for Etsy for now.
All you need to do is click on Connect your Etsy store to print full,
and then you just connect to Etsy.
You log into both and you allow access
for print fold to access your Etsy orders.
Then you choose and assign the products that you want to enable
and show access to from Etsy site.
And that's it. You're done.
Once you have the integration ready, the only thing that you still need to do
is make sure that your product listing is optimized.
And when I say optimize, I mean search engine optimize because the only way
that people will find your clothing line, your product will be through search.
So what you want to do is either simply go to Google and type
nineties music t shirt and then see what options will you get.
Or you can use tools like Google Keyword Planner
or like keywords everywhere and those ones are paid,
but Google Search is obviously free, so you can use that instead.
Once you figure out what kind of keywords you want to use
to optimize your listing, then you are ready to roll.
Obviously, if you have a following
somewhere on social media, then you can use that as well.
You can use Pinterest, you can use Take Talk and any
other platform where you have a presence so that people who love
you already can go and support you and buy from your online clothing store.
All right, you guys, that was it for today.
Thank you so, so much for watching. I hope this was helpful.
Let me know in the comments down below
what other kind of businesses are you considering starting online?
And then I will make sure to come back to you with ideas
on how you can do that, ideally for free,
so that you can get started as easy as possible.
Until next time, I suggest you go ahead and watch this video over here
that shows you how you can make money online with Excel.
I hope that's helpful as well.
Thank you so much again and I'll see you next time. Bye.