There are a lot of opportunities out there to increase your t shirt sales and one of them is to know when to bring out certain designs to the front of your store or even to create new ones. This applies the same in an actual physical store as well as online markets.
Since a great deal of your online sales comes from people surfing the web you got stay ahead of the trends if you want to capture their attention. For example: if your shirt are about political jokes, every time there is a new controversy in the congress hitting national headlines there will be also a great deal of potential customer searching the web for those news as well as those looking for a shirt that seize the moment.
In this sense there are many things that are happening all the time, think of “Occupy wall street” for example, or that last “Harry Potter” movie. The sky is the limit, and every time something new happens that capture the attention of the public there is a new opportunity to make a sale.
Taking advantage of the Seasons:
Besides the eventual breaking news opportunities there is also the seasons of the year and holidays going on every now and then. It is a good idea to have prepared a couple of designs that capture those occasions. Its all about staying ahead of what people is looking for, For example: if we are in middle of Christmas there will be a lot of people looking for Christmas themes. If we are in an election year, then the there will be a lot of people looking for political themes and so on.
Now this does not mean you have to jump to every season or stay away from your niche or style just to capitalize over those opportunities. If you don’t like to do political jokes, then don’t do it, because they will most likely sucks then.
However what you can do if you have a particular stile is: let say your designs are about a cute stuff animal character that you create, well you could adapt this character to the seasons. For example: putting a Santa hat for Christmas or a pumpkin for Halloween, Etc.
Since a great deal of your online sales comes from people surfing the web you got stay ahead of the trends if you want to capture their attention. For example: if your shirt are about political jokes, every time there is a new controversy in the congress hitting national headlines there will be also a great deal of potential customer searching the web for those news as well as those looking for a shirt that seize the moment.
In this sense there are many things that are happening all the time, think of “Occupy wall street” for example, or that last “Harry Potter” movie. The sky is the limit, and every time something new happens that capture the attention of the public there is a new opportunity to make a sale.
Taking advantage of the Seasons:
Besides the eventual breaking news opportunities there is also the seasons of the year and holidays going on every now and then. It is a good idea to have prepared a couple of designs that capture those occasions. Its all about staying ahead of what people is looking for, For example: if we are in middle of Christmas there will be a lot of people looking for Christmas themes. If we are in an election year, then the there will be a lot of people looking for political themes and so on.
Now this does not mean you have to jump to every season or stay away from your niche or style just to capitalize over those opportunities. If you don’t like to do political jokes, then don’t do it, because they will most likely sucks then.
However what you can do if you have a particular stile is: let say your designs are about a cute stuff animal character that you create, well you could adapt this character to the seasons. For example: putting a Santa hat for Christmas or a pumpkin for Halloween, Etc.