IWearYourShirt.com – Don’t Bother

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I Wear Your Shirt? What a RIP!

I gave www.iwearyourshirt.com a plug a while back, I thought the idea sounded good, and wanted to promote my graffiti art but after using Jason Sadler’s service I am not impressed at all. Luckily I booked the service rather early and managed to get it for around the $50 mark (although I had to splash out on a t-shirt as well). After a lot of negotiations and a second reprint of the t-shirt as he refused to wear the first which features one of my more controversial works, he finally refunded me the costs of the first t-shirt and I sent another.

That was the first problem, he, or rather Evan White PR, who seems to be pulling all the strings over there, as in getting the site and service as much publicity as possible, raved about my art and how much they loved it. There was no mention of how they’d refuse to promote anything controversial, which in essence my artwork is, there’s no getting around that. In fact from the word go I’d have appreciated it if they’d just pulled out there and then and said, “hey, your graffiti art is too controversial, we’re not touching it!”. But no, they still urged me to send another t-shirt and then sit and wait a few months for the outcome.

Now if that wasn’t bad enough they also promised to contact me before the date, the day that Jason would be “heavily promoting” my art, a consultation, an interview, getting a “feel” for what I do, discussing a few options for “getting the word out there”. I have at least a few emails where they mentioned that most of what they receive is rather boring and that they were psyched about promoting something more exciting for once, and yet as the date approached nothing happened. No email, no call, no apology for not contacting me, nothing.

The day came, the 22nd of February, and I wouldn’t have noticed except I’m following them or rather was following them on Twitter, but anyway to the point, and that is that for the money I’d spent I got:-

A mention in their blog.
One single Tweet.
One photo on Flickr.
A video on Youtube. What’s worse Jason spends most of the video drawing Garfield The Cat rather than actually talking about my work, why? Because he never contacted me for a back story!

Basically the traffic brought in by IWYS is negligible, and seeing as it will cost you $270 to get the same service in September (if that particular slot hasn’t been booked) I’d truly advise against it. I’ve seen guys at Digital Point forums offer half a million YouTube hits for $600, make your own video, wear you own t-shirt, talk about your product and don’t waste time and money like I did.

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