10 Tee Shirt Business Marketing Tips

May 1, 2009 | Written by Gino | Category: T Shirt Business

Looking to start a tee shirt business soon or maybe you already run one? Every day more and more tee shirt businesses are tapping into the power of online marketing and dramatically increasing their sales. Once you have your clothing store up there are plenty of things you can do to promote it. Below is just a small sample of everything you can do to promote your clothing line.

Tee Shirt Business Marketing Tips

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1. Search Engine Optimization

This is the process of optimizing your site for people searching for sites on search engines such as Google. So for example if you sold “skull t shirts”. There are many things you can do to improve your sites optimization for this search phrase to make it easier for people to find you.

2. Link Building

After you optimize your site you should set a budget for link buying, which is part of the process of improving your rankings for search phrases such as “skull t shirts” in the search engines. This steady stream of search traffic is probably the biggest thing you can do to dramatically increase your sales and is a great long term marketing investment.

3. Blogging

Blogging is one of the easiest things to start doing. Blogs make it easy to publish content about your business on the web and search engines love good original content, which means more traffic for you. Consider posting updates about your business such as when you release new products, when you expand, what events you will be at and so on.

4. Social Bookmakring Sites

Sites like Digg and StumbleUpon can be an incredibly powerful tool for getting traffic and for increasing brand awareness. Good blog posts work extremely well if promoted properly on these type of sites.

5. Social Networking Sites

We have all heard of FaceBook, MySpace and Twitter. They are great ways to network and promote your business. The more people who know about your clothing line the better so set up accounts on every social networking site possible for your tee shirt business.

6. T Shirt Galleries

People love t shirts so its not surprise a bunch of t shirt galleries have sprouted up for t shirt fans to enjoy. Its a great way to promote your new designs to hardcore tee fans.

7. Article Submissions

If you have something to say about the t shirt industry or your own clothing line you should consider publishing articles and submitting them to a variety of article directories out there. Its a good way to start getting a stream of traffic in and help with your search engine optimization.

8. Guest Blogging and Commenting

Writing posts for other blogs and leaving comments to promote your clothing line can work wonders. Guest blogging and commenting allows you to tap into established fashion blogging communities.

9. Press Releases

Any important news about your business should be posted in the form of a press release and submitted to many of the free and paid press release submission services out there. This is another great way of getting backlinks and traffic and is very similar to article writing.

10. Forum Posting

There are a lot of fashion and t shirt related forums out there with thousands of hungry fans just waiting to see your new clothing line. Register and be active in these forums and you will see a much better result in terms of getting traffic and finding new fans.

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