It is a kind of saturated industry, since too many people have the idea of selling shirts. One person here described investing $1000 in new designs and a good looking site and was still waiting for the first order. Getting traffic to an ecommerce site is always the biggest challenge, the older well established sites have a search engine ranking advantage that's hard to overcome. Making paid advertising profitable can require some trial and error testing.

You can learn about one of the bigger successes, theMountain.com, which sell the 3D look animal prints.

In an Interviewed - Capacity 100.000 a week, 230+ employees

http://video.foxnews.com/v/2368841977001...

Alternate schemes for testing te waters, include the print on demand sites that allow you to setup a 'store' showing your designs, including CafePress.com, Zazzle.com, Customink.com, I have heard people don't make a lot of sales, perhaps becasue these sites have Millions of seller pages.

There are several paid courses out on making money through TeeSpring.com, a sort of crowd funding site for limited edition designs targeting a very specific demographic like Gun or Pitbull lovers. Nobody pays until your quota of 10 or more pieces is reached, it requires no funds on your part. The courses generally talk about using Facebook's demographic targeted paid ads or a popular FB page.

Does anyone make any money from selling shirts online, like simple corny ones or meme based ones and such? i was looking to get some insight from the average seller, you dont have to be making thousands or hundreds of dollars, just anything.