As little as five years ago if you were looking to start your own t-shirt company the
process followed …

1. Brand and Identify your t-shirt Business Brand Identity.
2. Brainstorm and Design your t-shirt ideas.
3. Gather bids from a variety of t-shirt printings.
4. Print, tag, package and produce your t-shirts.
5. Launch and market your t-shirts.

The process was very long, expensive and sometimes a complete waste of time.

Today entrepreneurs can penetrate into the t-shirt industry not only faster, but for pennies on the dollar of what it used to cost.

The technology that is making this posible today is a new printing technique called print-on-demand also known as “POD”. The POD industry is redefining the way design, print, distribute, and delivery our t-shirts to customers.

Traditionally, screen printers would require minimum orders from customers as well as charges for each template that had to be made for a t-shirt. Minimum orders enforce designers to pick and choose the t-shirts they release and gamble on the designs they think will be successful or not. T-shirt companies are often left with dead stock, which is money down the drain.

With todays print on demand technology it is now possible to release thousands of t-shirt designs from hundreds of t-shirt shops using POD services such as skreened.com, cafe press, society6, red bubble and more.

A new t-shirt startup is now able to go from concept to print in as little as 3 days now having thousands of products overnight by using products such as XL Empire (http://xlempire.com) which automate the entire t-shirt business by not only brainstorming t-shirt ideas but also designing, and market your skreened.com shops.

So here is how you can start your t-shirt business overnight using XL Empire with Skreened.com.

1. Create and sing into your account at https://skreened.com/signup

2. Create your first skreened shop at https://skreened.com/account/stores#create

When you create a skreened.com shop I recommend using keywords that are within the t-shirt niche you will be promoting. So for example if you want to create a shop for “Cat t-shirts” Make your shop URL something like “cat-t-shirts”. This will easily rank your shops t-shirts
for low to medium rank keywords on google.

3. Download XL Empire from http://xlempire.com/

4. Enter in your t-shirt shops settings into XL Empires designer settings. Set your default font, t-shirt style, and color for both.

5. Use XL Empire’s t-shirt idea generator to come up with a ton of “cat t-shirt” ideas.

6. Export those designs to the XLE designer.

7. Press the play button on XLE designer to automatically start populating your skreened.com shop with the t-shirt designs.

After XL Empire creates your t-shirt designs it will automatically load these designs into the xl empire promoter where you can post your designs to wanelo, pinterest, and twitter.

It may take some time for your first sells to come but remain patient. Some designs will begin to rank in google in a few hours while others may take a couple weeks. Choose your niches, shop names, and t-shirt titles wisely. You can use tools such as google keyword planner to identify keywords with high search volume to increase exposure to your designs.