Michaelessek.com Website Review

michael essek - start a t-shirt business online - merch by amazon tips had a great idea, turned it into a great design – and then had someone else copy it, sell it under an official license, and then turn michael (aka ‘dinomike’) is a fellow uk native who has been at the online t-shirt game for over 6 years – with bestselling designs on threadless, teefury, and of course all over redbubble and teepublic. mike was kind enough to answer some questions from me – and i think there’s a lot of great value in here for both the newbie and the i’ll share some quick thoughts at the bottom of this article – where you can also find links to michael’s stores and social media. in previous articles i’ve compared printful, printaura and customcat – but recently i’ve begun using printify to fulfil some of my printify is a slightly different beast to other pod t-shirt fulfilment options, in that printify serves as a platform connecting you to a printify doesn’t do any printing or shipping directly – instead, it sends your orders over to a partner of your choosing (printify works with several different providers). in this way it creates direct competition between printing partners so you can compare the best. the rise of ‘officially licensed’ print-on-demand t-shirts (& merch collab) industry has benefitted from – and contributed to – and incredible amount of intellectual property infringement. that infringement went largely unnoticed – or was ignored – for a long time, but increasingly the victims (or potential victims) of such infringement have begun to stir, and to realising what is going on.. in response to that stirring, some new opportunities are springing up. the most recent and high-profile example of this is amazon’s new ‘merch collab but – if you can forgive me – then let me share what’s going on with my t-shirt royalty income right now… > update: i’ve written a new article for 2018 with some more recent > recommendations. you can check it out here: comparing