Discuss the fun task of marketing a t-shirt shop. Where to advertise, link building, word of mouth, press releases, search engine marketing, keyword advertising, magazines, etc.
I've been using Myspace to promote my shirts. I got this program called MySpace Suite which automatically adds and sends a message to up to 3,000 people at a time in your criteria. Within a week of being on Myspace, I've got over 600 friends and over 3,000 views. I've also convinced a lot of people to put me in their Top 8, which is even better exposure.
which program do you use, might i ask?
Last edited by Rodney; May 21st, 2006 at 01:37 PM.
ugh.... he said myspace suite... i tried it but it didnt work for me. i used the free trial one and it did not work. the basic program starts at 49.99 up to 199. anyone else here tried myspace suite?
I get emails from ADOTAS, I've never paid attention to them, but the title of this particular email was How To Market Using Myspace... here's the link, it's an interesting read for anyone who wants to start using Myspace:
Hi - I have what is probably a silly question, but I'm just not clear on how "companies" post on myspace. I have friends who have their own site. When you are all talking about being on myspace, do you just start one as any regular individual would or is there another type of profile for companies? Am I making any sense?
When you are all talking about being on myspace, do you just start one as any regular individual would or is there another type of profile for companies? Am I making any sense?
You would just start a new profile but have it be about a company instead of about a person. There' no special profile at myspace for t-shirt companies or anything, people just use the profile system for their company and add "friends" so the company profile can send bulletins to those "friends".
"..The Hitwise study also revealed the impact that social sites have had in driving traffic to other industries on the Web. Shopping and classified sites, for instance, received 2.4% of their visits directly from MySpace in September--an 83% increase since March. "
"..Even industries that don't market heavily on MySpace, such as apparel and accessories, benefit from traffic coming from the site. The sites of teen-oriented brands such as American Eagle Outfitters and Hot Topic are among the most popular visited by MySpace users, according to the HitWise study."
Myspace is preety cool. I haven't made any sale from that yet - maybe because I recently went on it. I think its a good way of networking and getting your stuff around.
YES MYSPACE ROCKS !!!!! I made about 20 sales on myspace. Im out of stock because of them hahaha
Did you actually advertise your product on myspace or did you direct your sales from myspace to your web site? I have been on myspace for at least a year but I have never tried to sell my art work or t-shirts on my space. I do graphite portraits, airbrush, and heat transfers. I need some feed back on how to advertise on myspace. Please advise. Information from anywhere in the community would be appreciated.
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i dont even look at bulletins on dorkspace.... i have 3 accounts but only work with one of them...... myspace is over saturated with crap and you can post bulletins but the trick is to post comments with a visual flyer and a website link.....
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i dont even look at bulletins on dorkspace.... i have 3 accounts but only work with one of them...... myspace is over saturated with crap and you can post bulletins but the trick is to post comments with a visual flyer and a website link.....
I agree on posting comments with a visual of your shirts and a link to your website, but I also like to include a coupon code to give them another incentive to check out your website (who doesn't like saving money?).
I know for bands, myspace is actually the most important web presence you can have online. Some bands completely skip having a normal website and just have their URL link to their myspace profile.
I feel like a lot of traffic gets to clothing stores through band profiles (via endorsements). In this day and age, you can't not have a myspace profile. Its an absolute must.
We promoted on myspace heavily at the beginning and it was very valuable. We used a bot called spyderX for a while. These things are against myspace policy, and they will catch on if you use them too much. We had our account mostly shut down. At this point it is still up for the most part although on some peoples friend lists we appear as 'deleted profile' even though the profile is still there. About 8 months ago myspace did restrict our account (during the height of us using the bot) so now we can only receive bulletins, messages and comments and we cannot send any of those things rendering it pretty useless to us...
In addition, as our business grew and got busier, we fould that most of the myspace hits were either just fishing around for prices, the lowest prices on the lowest volumes, and they became a drag on our system rather than a valuable resource... It's a good way to market for some and we got some decent small business out of it when that is what we were looking for, but at this point there are much better more profitable ways that we market...
These have been on the forums for a while now, but I'm sure they are buried rather deep so I will post them again here to help the people currently looking. I have attached 2 tutorials Ive made about advertising on myspace. One is how to do it with a program like you guys have been talking about (I hate FriendBot Suite, this tutorial is for FriendBlaster Pro), the second just has some tips and tricks on how to make your company stand out and advertise. Hope it helps! :-)
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