If you have your workers wear work shirts with just your company name and design, you are missing out on the free advertising your employees could be doing for you.
When creating a design for your t-shirts, you have to think like an advertiser. Your employees and everyone else who wear your t-shirt are giving you free advertising! That’s why having t-shirts printed is one of the most affordable ways to advertise your business. The key is to put the most important pieces of information on your t-shirt including your contact information and products or services you offer.
There are four to five main components when you create a custom t-shirt design for your business. You need: your business name, business logo, contact information, business slogan and products or services offered.
The two most prominent pieces of your design should be your name and your contact info. As an aside, if you’re doing any kind of business these days, you must have a website. If you don’t have one, get one(contact us and we can help). These days everyone is on the internet, and for most people, it’s a lot easier to remember a website address than a phone number. Plus, your website is a salesman who works 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. That being said, I will save all the benefits of having a website for another article.
Now that we know what the two most prominent pieces of your design will be, we can move on to how we should set it up. You don’t need a vast array of graphic design knowledge or software to set up your design, but there are a few guidelines to follow. Many people who have a PC try to create designs in Microsoft Word. Sometimes this works, but a most of the time it doesn’t. This is because MS Word is a word processing software and not a graphics program. Many Windows users will also try to use MS Paint. This works alright for very simple designs, but also has a lot of limitations. Your best bet is to download a free graphics program or find a website that will let you create a design online and save it.
One of the best parts about using a graphic design software as opposed to a word processing software, is that you can save it in a format that your screen printing company can use without problems.
The last and final pieces of information that are important to know when creating a t-shirt design for your business, are how many colors do you want to use in your design and what your budget will be. The simple rule for getting t-shirts printed are: the less number of colors you use, the less expensive the shirts, and the more shirts you get printed at one time, the lower the price per shirt. The color of shirt and number of locations being printed are also a factor.
For more information on how to create t-shirt designs, learn affordable design and advertising techniques, or to get custom t-shirts made visit us at www.sdtees.com
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