Items that can be printed with dye sublimation printing includes coffee mugs, T shirts, mousemats, tablemats, coasters, bar mats, floor mats, door mats, key tags, ceramic tiles, carpet tiles, ties, lanyards, baseball caps, clocks, and much more.

In fact with dye sublimation you can get your images on to any item which:

• is flat (OR which you can get a special heat press for such as caps, mugs, plates);
• has a polyester content or surface;
• can withstand high temperature (over 180C), and
• is white or light in colour.

It's relatively inexpensive to set up to print with the dye sublimation process. But what makes it any better than the other home based businesses I was considering?

Dropship websites, affiliate products, ebooks, adsense profits websites and so on are currently the most common home based business opportunities.

But the problem with these kinds of business, is that you need to generate a lot of traffic, which is a problem if you don't know how to do that.

You can learn how to generate targeted traffic - but most people never do, which is the main reason most businesses like this never get off the ground.

These businesses aren't generally the kinds of businesses that will grow fast from word of mouth, and it's not common with online home businesses that you'll have customers the minute you start, or even before.

This is where the dye sublimation printing business is different!

With dye sublimation printing, what you will find is that the minute you start telling your friends, family and colleagues that you're starting a business which means you can print just about anything on to mugs, mousemats, T shirts, canvas, and so on - the orders start to come in.

Even before you set up a website and start to market it, most people find that they have orders coming in from friends and family - and it grows from there by word of mouth the most powerful advertising media on earth!

For example - your mum asks you to print her some mugs of her best friend's grandchildren. Your mum is wowed by the mugs and so is her friend (everyone is, as the quality is so high) so before you know it, your mum has told just about everyone else in your family, your aunty is placing orders, your cousins are placing orders, your mum's friends half cousin's next door neighbour wants 10 T shirts printing for a stag weekend. You get the idea.

So, if you just tell all your friends and family what you're doing, ask them to spread the word.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a good idea to rest on your friends and family as your only source of leads - but it will allow you to get started without needing masses of web traffic to begin with - and getting off the ground is always the most difficult thing to do.

So - whereas with most home based businesses require that you set up your website and get a lot of traffic to it even before you make your first sale - with dye sublimation printing this usually isn't the case.

Tell your friends, family and colleagues what you can do, and you'll probably find you're taking orders even before you're set up to print!

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