I tried a bunch of different stuff. Facebook ads, emailing various lists are different campuses, etc. The one that worked the best was to post jobs at various universities. But the first ones are DEFINITELY the hardest. This is one of the best things about having a blog – people who read your blog will be your first testers, but it takes time to build up this list. Seth Godin calls this a “permission asset” and it is SOO valuable. Lot’s of people I’ve talked to use their blog. If you don’t have that, use what network you do have: your facebook friends, email it to all your friends and family and ask them to forward it, etc.

Here is a video I did on it a while back:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=addXWGFZfNg

Keep workin on it and glad it’s been a help!
Brian

I’m facing this question right now as I try to get independent tee designers to start selling on my site.

Any advice?

PS Bro, I can’t thank you enough for this series on UniversityTutor.

Obviously you have a talent for building websites. My question is: looking back, has it been ADVANTAGEOUS to do it all yourself?

Or, in retrospect, would it have been better to pay someone else to build it? You would net a smaller short-term profit, but you would have been freed up to pursue the hundreds of other business ideas you had in the meantime.

I have a little web building knowledge myself, but to get to your Ruby on Rails level would require a significant time investment. Would it be worth it?

Caleb