Comments on: T-Shirt Competition Debrief – Was it Successful?

By: Rocky

Rocky — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:35:06 +0000

Pro,

Interested reading about the T-shirts maybe you could share some of your advice for blogging, at the site http://www.melinanutshell.com my wife is trying to get links to increase her google page link number?

Can you please tell me the best way to go increasing your page rank?

Does the competitions you run build up in numbers exponantially as the competition draws to a close.

Any other tips or tricks you’re willing to share.

Thanks for your time

Rocko

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:56:55 +0000

If you look at t-shirts as a promotional item, people are actually paying for wearing a problogger advertisement across their chest. It will only be the die hard problogger fans that will pay for wearing your adverting. You should try to give some away for free in some contest.

By: Quick Online Tips

Quick Online Tips — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 17:05:50 +0000

Well your adsense ads have changed from blogging to Tshirts. ;-)

By: retzwerx

retzwerx — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:02:08 +0000

IMO it’s much on cafepress’ shirt limitations and surcharge on the items is too much for, should I say start-up client? But I like their preview tool, entries emphasized their “kewl factor” on other items with it.
I’m keeping the shop link on my site as gratitude to Sir Darren and the rest of the contestants.
@chrisH – thanks for your remarks re: my design, I’ve added a link (qwerytyrash) on my site.

By: Rob Barac

Rob Barac — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 12:54:02 +0000

I actually tried to use a free t-shirt giveaway as and aid to build site content (more subscribers = more content = more visitors) and it was moderatly successful.

However, in terms of actually selling merchandise from my http://www.cafegeek.com site I have had less than sterling success.

I think you hit the nail on the head with your analysis of the limitations and will be interested in your follow up posts in the future.

I am currently my own biggest customer.

By: ChrisH

ChrisH — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:39:49 +0000

As a finalist (Giving Words Worth) – yeah, in hindsight, you should have asked for something generic. I think that’s one reason I, and others, liked Retz’s entry the most – I can wear it and it’s an ad for what I do, rather than an ad for ProBlogger.net. If I had my time again I would changed my wording to Pro Blogger (instead of problogger.net). I still don’t think I woulda won, but I would have bought my t-shirt (though I did buy a coffee cup).

I do appreciate the opportunity though, and it gave me extra incentive to get my own blog fully functional. It was also good for the ego! :)

Thanks Darren

By: Marc

Marc — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:43:28 +0000

No substantial links gained because of the contest? I thought it was a clever link building initiative. In that regard, I think it was moderately successful ;)

By: Jay Allen

Jay Allen — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 08:08:54 +0000

Thanks for sharing your experience. This is one reason I’ve stayed away from selling “site memorabilia”. If I were doing 10,000 visitors a day, I may be able to justify the initial investment of time.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:08:24 +0000

the cost of a store is $0 if you have one design – but if you have more than that (I have 5) you really need to go for the next level up (from memory its $6-$7 per month).

By: Phillip Molly Malone

Phillip Molly Malone — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 06:47:54 +0000

I thought the cost of the store was zero (0)? What is the cost of setting up a store?
Molly

By: Stuart

Stuart — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:53:09 +0000

It also got you some different Adsense advertising on your blog – right now I’m looking at some two Adsense ads for tshirts just above the comments instead of the usual blogging type ads. :)

By: duncan

duncan — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 05:30:21 +0000

Tried this myself about 12-18 months ago, they’re not an easy sell. There are a couple of other companies around now but do give a better range of t-shirt colors and dollar returns now then Cafepress, but don’t ask me to recite their names :-)