T-Shirt Wars

admin    T-Shirt Marketing, T-Shirt News     Coca-Cola, McDonalds, Rhett and Link, YouTube, t-shirt videos

If you haven’t seen the original t-shirt war video by Internetainers (don’t blame me they made it up) Rhett & Link then check this out:

Since then they’ve been plucked from obscurity (if you can call 4 million views on Youtube obscurity) and snapped up by evil corporations to do their bidding in order to increase obesity and tooth decay across the world. I say world but I’ve never seen this ad in the UK so I guess it’s only for the eyes and pockets of N. America:

Ah well who can blame them, they’ve hit the big time even if it is on the back of a Coke and McDonalds advertising campaign. What’s really cool about their vids (asides from the fact that they features so many tees) is that they’re relying on old school animation techniques, slavishly taking photos of every t-shirt and effect in stop-frame motion. Yes, every t-shirt in each of these videos is real, there’s no Photoshop trickery involved. In fact they must have made a tidy bundle of money or at least a whole heap of free PR for their local t-shirt printers. If you want to see how they did it then take a look at this video:

I love t-shirt videos, if you do too then I suggest you subscribe to Rhett & Link’s Youtube Channel!

Be A Twitter Star?? 20000 Followers Free!

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     T-Shirt Marketing, Twitter, free advertising, get tweets, marketing t-shirts, t-shirt twitter, tweet, tweeter getter, tweetergetter.com, twitter.com

Okay you have all heard of Twitter right? No? Well then you must be living on another planet! Twitter is a fabulous way of getting an enormous fan base fast, I use it for my graffiti site and will be promoting it in a big way very soon! The thing is most ideas for promoting Twitter are rather expensive and so I’ve joined Tweeter Getter and if you know what’s good for you you will too!

If you explode your following on Twitter you can almost guarantee it will increase the popularity of your t-shirt blog, site, store or in fact any kind of blog or site you can imagine!

Hope on board here and gather up to almost 20,000 Twitter followers for free!

Brand Battle Royale

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     BOA, T-Shirt Designers, T-Shirt Votes, bad as hell, new tees, someone clothing, syditty, t shirt blog, t-shirt voting, urban apparel, urban clothing, urban tees

Once again teemocracy is in full force effect at AlwaysUrbanBlog.com – come and join in the fun and vote for your fave t-shirt label in AUB’s latest brand battle! At present there are four t-shirt brands up against each other; Bad As Hell Clothing (who we’ve featured a few times at Buy Tees), Breathe On Apparel (who we’ve not come across before), Syditty Clothing (who offer a rather snazzy selection of designer women’s tees) and Someone Clothing (who we will definitely be featuring in the future!).

You don’t have to sign up to vote but AUB will need an email addy, of course they say it’s to make sure there’s only one vote per person but:-

If you had a 100 different emails you could probably cheat.
I.P address tracking is a far better way of preventing cheating.
It’s a sneaky way of building up their mailing list, still can’t blame them I suppose.

Anyway it’s a great chance for your favourite t-shirt brand to get a heap load of exposure, well I say that but looking at AUB’s traffic statistics right now they’d all get around ten times more with a review on our blog but hey, the more the merrier. (Yes I’m not being as kind as I could but I had a rough night last night hah).

So here are the rules:- By voting in the Brand Battle, you are opting into the AlwaysUrban.com email list. Expect results and a pile of other emails to boot in your inbox?

Vote For Your Favourite Brand
You must enter a valid email
You only get to vote once
Voting ends 03 / 16 / 09

So let’s take a look at the tees AUB featured to entice you to vote… read more

IWearYourShirt.com – Don’t Bother

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     i wear your shirt, iwearyourshirt rip, iwearyourshirt rip off, iwearyourshirt waste of money, iwearyourshirt.com.iwearyourshirt

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. read more

iTouch Giveaway at Uneetee

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     Commission Junction, T-Shirt Marketing, t-shirt sales, uneetee, uneetee affiliate program, uneetee.com

Now, you may or may not have heard of Uneetee.com, think Threadless but more funky, anyway, I thought I’d pass on this opportunity to all you budding t-shirt entrepreneurs out there who’d like to make an extra buck or two. We’re not too hot on affiliate marketing here at Buy-Tees.net, we generally only blog for the love of tees, but we do know a lot of our readers are either t-shirt designers or fanatics and so this little gem of advice should stand a lot of you in good stead, if only to make a few extra bucks on the side (to buy even more t-shirts I dare say).

If you own a website or blog and know your readers would appreciate a discount or two like this one:-

Then hop on over to the affiliate application form here, or if you’re a member of Commission Junction you can simply login and search for “UneeTEE” and sign up to their program from there, either way get yourself some link and banner codes and slip a few of them into your blog or site and keep your fingers crossed, who knows you may qualify for a free iTouch – which is essentially Apple’s latest and fanciest schmanciest iPod incase you weren’t aware.

Here’s what UneeTEE have to say about the promotion:-

“Double your February’s referred sales to UneeTEE and win a brand new iTOUCH! Double the volume of sales you referred to UneeTEE in February during the month of March and get a chance to win a brand new Apple iTOUCH to help you relax after a hard month’s work. All you have to do is to give it a push throughout the month of March and once the number is doubled you have a chance to win a brand new Apple iTOUCH – on top of all those well deserved commission bucks! This promotion applies to all joined affiliates on all commission offers. The winner will be announced on or before April 10, 2009. Consolation Prizes would also be awarded. You need to refer at least 10 sales transactions this March to UneeTEE in order to be eligible for the raffle draw”

Now if you’ve never promoted the site before you’ll (only) need to hit 10 sales, if you can manage that you’ll be in for a healthy profit and a chance at winning an iTouch. Not bad eh?

If you don’t have a blog or site and would rather just save a few dollars at the checkout just click the banner above. In case you’re wondering, no Commission Junction don’t offer a referral program for their site, you can make a little cash from sales of their advertisers’ products but nothing from other affiliates – which isn’t the greatest deal in the world – still as I said – we leave the marketing to the experts and stick to what we’re good at, writing t-shirt reviews ;)

Free Listings @ T-Shirt Index

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     free advertising, free marketing, t-shirt directories, t-shirt directory, t-shirt index

Here’s a quick shout out to all t-shirt designers, printers, labels and stores looking for free marketing on the Net. We’ve just been approached by T-shirt-index.com to help get their name out there and seeing as they’ve already managed to pull in a dozen or so listings on their first day I’m sure this will be a safe bet for anyone in the tee industry looking for some freebie advertising.

Now I’m assured that they will be promoting the site big time over the next few months, and if it pays off then everyone’s a winner. Remember it is a free directory and so it won’t do any harm adding a listing or two I’m sure. Although I’m not a fan of the design of the site, the layout and graphics are rather cluttered – however Ashley from TSI has assured me they are quickly working on a revamp!

I must admit they’re extremely responsive to criticism, Ashley is open to ideas and responsive to any suggestions you might have, they want to make TSI the leader in its field and we at Buy-Tees.net wish them all the best in their new venture!

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T-Shirt Advertising With a Twist

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     T-Shirt Marketing, advertising, eyeearn, iwearyourshirt

UPDATE: http://buy-tees.net/2009/02/iwearyourshirt-com-dont-bother/

Now I don’t normally put the terms “genius” and “marketing” together in the same sentence, but if you’re after something a little different, no matter what your business, t-shirt related or not, here’s something out of the ordinary for you. Essentially Jason Sadler of Iwearyourshirt.com is renting out the upper-half of his body for the next year. You will be disappointed to find out that just about every day for next January (2009) has been sold out, and in a moment you’ll understand exactly why.

The beauty of Jason’s idea is simplicity, unlike the awful multi-level marketing scheme EyeEarn.com (I won’t even link to it :/) which seems to have a master plan of forcing the world to wear it’s grotty logo, yes everyone, the same shirt, (isn’t that more communist than capitalist?), Jason is prepared to do the modelling and marketing for you. read more

T-Shirt Scammer

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     Africa, Nigeria, T-Shirt Marketing, con artist, fake orders, liar, spam, t-shirt scam, t-shirt scams, t-shirt spam, warning

If you receive an email written in BOLD CAPITALS from Nigeria without any proper contact details you should most likely throw it in the trash. Take a look at this latest example of the dodgier side of the t-shirt industry. As I’ve mentioned before in this recent post if you’re running an independent t-shirt store and you happen to find your inbox filled with the following kind of urgent requests for stock ignore it, it’s just the latest scam, to be filed in your never to be read again trash, along with all those offers of a percentage of millions of dollars from Nigeria and other regions that need you to place their incredible valuable cheque in your bank account (for a small fee) before their king, president, or oil tycoon is shot by rebel forces. read more

T-Shirt Printer Spam

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     China, Chinese, T-Shirts, dodgy, import, printers, spam

I’m always getting spam from Far Eastern t-shirt printers, at least I don’t get spam from fake trading outposts in the middle of Africa anymore (mainly the Sahara as I recall)) who’d suddenly want to order 5000 t-shirts. Something for all you newbie independent t-shirt stores to look out for there.

Anyway what makes me laugh is, apart from the bad English, is the fact that most of these spammers don’t even check out my blog, they just read the word t-shirt and assume I’m in the market for importing a few thousand tees from, where is it this time, oh Hong Kong , oh no the name mentions Hong Kong but they say they are a Chinese supplier.

Anyway my point is spammer or not, I’m not in the market for buying/importing/printing a truck load of tees, so please take my email off your list and move along.

Thanks

Paul

Anyway read this…

The Third Reich of Social Bookmarking – Stumbleupon.com

admin    T-Shirt Marketing     Stumbleupon, don't use stumbleupon, i hate stumble upon, stumble upon is crap, stumbleupon banned, stumbleupon.com

I’ve just had my Stumbleupon.com account frozen and accused of spam, I was informed I shouldn’t stumble my own blog’s stories a while back, and so I didn’t, although I would still proceed to stumble t-shirt blogs, t-shirt designers, and other sites both artistic and otherwise and yet what the hell happened today?

Here’s the standard bumpf email I received:-

Your StumbleUpon account privileges have been restricted and the account is under review. read more