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Originally posted by: WalMart1564
ide try the internet .. really man its gonna catch on
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great post man,ever hear of the word elaborate?

either way you dont seem like the business owner type, so i wouldnt take your advise anyhow

We wear the shirts everyday, everywhere. Sold many that way, and its starting to spread in the NY area. But how do i get to the guy in nevada, and idaho.


 
Originally posted by: UDT89
Originally posted by: WalMart1564
ide try the internet .. really man its gonna catch on
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great post man,ever hear of the word elaborate?

either way you dont seem like the business owner type, so i wouldnt take your advise anyhow

We wear the shirts everyday, everywhere. Sold many that way, and its starting to spread in the NY area. But how do i get to the guy in nevada, and idaho.
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I think he means the world wide web. It's the newest sensation. If you need it spelled out more than that than you are incapable of marketing anything.

 
maybe you're missing the point.

i searched the web up down and all around for marketing. so if thats what you mean, i tried it.


If you mean using the web to promote, how? I got a webpage, now what? ask people to put links to it on their sites? pay someone to promote it for me? pay to add it to search engines?

The only idea recommended to me, that seemed fairly cheap for the exposure, was putting a dutch auction on ebay with the front page feature option. For $100 its super exposure.
 
Use Google Ads, and Overture.com. Get your website on the first page of Google responses. That can be done very cheaply. Ask friends to link to your site.

Ask friends to wear your t-shirt - give out some freebies? Ask top blogs such as Boingboing.net or Metafilter.com or Slashdot.org to see if they might link to your site? Late night radio ads as one poster suggested? Talk to local paper about doing a 'human interest' story on your company...free advertising.

All I can think of for now.

Steve
 
i heard about this thing called the interweb. basically it's like computers connected together by electrical wire and telephones. i studied this from a friend last night and you call some number on the telephone and somehow the computers connect. i heard it's simpler if you use american on-the-line somehow. also the interweb goes faster if you have a fast computer like a pentius IV or athlete PM.

also you get mail sent to a name you have to set up with someone. and people send you advertisements. the bad ones they call spam like from the company hormel. anyway, i heard people buy stuff from this company in response to the advertisement. so that is one way to make money on the interweb maybe.
 
Originally posted by: JeffSpicoli
Originally posted by: UDT89
Originally posted by: WalMart1564
ide try the internet .. really man its gonna catch on
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great post man,ever hear of the word elaborate?

either way you dont seem like the business owner type, so i wouldnt take your advise anyhow

We wear the shirts everyday, everywhere. Sold many that way, and its starting to spread in the NY area. But how do i get to the guy in nevada, and idaho.
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I think he means the world wide web. It's the newest sensation. If you need it spelled out more than that than you are incapable of marketing anything.
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YES it seem at least one or two people here appreciate my special brand of sarcasm 😀
 
I can promote your shirt buisness at my local college 🙂

A free shirt would be nice.... 😉

Seriously though, if you're looking for good advertising then give out some free shirts. Don't give them to the dork that's gonna be in his dorm all day, give them to a cocky jock or some chick with a big mouth.
 
Originally posted by: Yzzim
I can promote your shirt buisness at my local college 🙂

A free shirt would be nice.... 😉

Seriously though, if you're looking for good advertising then give out some free shirts. Don't give them to the dork that's gonna be in his dorm all day, give them to a cocky jock or some chick with a big mouth.
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This would be a good idea, but I doubt they will wear some shirt made by/featuring a company no one ever heard of.

However, if you personally know some popular or fashionable people, you could convince them.
 
As someone else mentioned, get on the radio, that's a great way to reach people. Just mention the website and they can take it from there themselves.
 
get alot of hot chicks wearing tight tight tshirts... then have them on your webpage and ads great promotion ;-)

seriously... local community newspaper ads.. Though do anyone actually read those papers?
and just put your site in every search engine you can.

beats me.


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submit to search engines online
buy a booth at a local event and whore
go to stores and ask if they want to buy a dozen of your shirts
you said your in NY, if you're in NYC, there are a ton of street vendors that sell Ts, specially the village
go to a bar/club/party and give away free shirts

blah blah blah...
 
Come on!!! Why hasn't anyone suggested an unsolicited commercial email campaign? I hear you can get your product/service out to 500,000+ people for just a couple of bucks 😀

Seriously, word-of-mouth via Internet sites (like this one) is better than purely local word-of-mouth so you might try that. Is there any way you can get your product "placed" cheaply on television? As in, since you're in NYC why not go hang out in front of the Good Morning America window every day, or wait in line to shake hands and talk to the hilarious
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Al Roker?

Another suggestion is to make sure your web site is working properly. I was dying to get a look at these shirts, but your Merchandise page isn't coming up.
 
Pay-per-click services like Google Adwords and Overture will usually offer the highest ROI of any online advertising medium, but given your industry there's going to be a LOT of competition with MUCH deeper pockets than you (one of my clients bids on a few t-shirt terms.) Google AdWords requires less hands-on time once you get it up and running, although we've had higher ROI from Overture which requires considerable hands-on management time if you want to use it effectively.

Search engine optimization is definitely something you need to have done, but like I said previously the competition and sheer volume of web sites out there these days makes SEO very difficult in certain fields. Getting a lot of inbound links pointed to you always helps. If you've got a few distributors in mind your best bet would be a targeted campaign of email coordinated with snail mail to specific distributors. You might have to do the legwork figuring out who you'd want to target, but at least that's not out-of-pocket costs.
 
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