If you want to have t-shirt business, you must able to create cool design. However, for many people, they will feel different satisfaction if they can design their own t-shirt. In some cases, some people may love your design so much but they want to add a little touch to make it different or we commonly call it personalized. In order to make all customers happy, you need to let them create a t shirt (design only in this case) themselves. Since we are now living in online world, it will be better if you can let them design the t-shirt online.
To do it, you need to provide design lab on your website where your customer can design t-shirt with ease on their browser. Of course, it will be a hard work and cost you much to be able to provide a design lab on your website but the people will love it and come to your website to design their own t-shirt and then make an order. If you could satisfy one customer, he or she will recommend your business to friends and family that will bring more customers. The cost to create the system will be paid off by having so many orders.
On your design lab, you need to provide templates for your customers so people who only have limited skill will easily design their own t-shirt. You need to provide various arts, color options, and font types so people will have more options to make their design unique. Be sure the preview of the design is good so the result of the t-shirt will be the same or only slightly different from the preview. Since some customers may find problem in designing t-shirt, you need to be ready to help. Providing live chat and customer service that is ready on the phone will be great addition to your online t-shirt business.
If you cannot provide a design lab on your website, your first step to allow people create shirt themselves is to let people design their own t-shirt with their own computer or even draw it and then send the design to you. Then, you can post several t-shirt template pictures and provide arts options on your website. You can let your customers choose the template, arts and create text, as they want. To let your customers know how the t-shirt will be, you can design the t-shirt based on the order and send the preview to their email address. You only produce the t-shirt after your customer agrees with the final design.