Business At A Glance
- Startup Costs: $2,000 – $10,000
- Home Based: Can be operated from home.
- Part Time: Can be operated part-time.
- Online Operation? No
Business Overview
Designing novelty T-shirts and the can theshirt will be sold in is a very interesting business opportunity to getrolling. The T-shirts can feature jokes, images or messages based on avariety of themes from political humor to children’s cartooncaricatures.
Once the silk-screening is completed, the T-shirts can bepackaged in tin cans that have a slot in the top to serve a secondfunction of a piggy bank. T-shirts in a can make a terrific noveltygift and can be sold to retailers on a wholesale basis or directly toconsumers via a sales kiosk or the internet.
Furthermore, to keepinitial startup costs to a minimum, the silk-screening aspect of thebusiness can be contracted to a local silk-screener as opposed topurchasing the equipment. In addition to selling T-shirts in a can,larger sweatshirts can also be printed with humorous messages andpackaged in larger, one-gallon paint cans.