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.
Just wondering who here promotes their site using myspace.com ?
A friend of mine suggested it, and it seems like it may be a good way to get some traffic to your sites.
Any opinions on this? Or am I so out of the loop that using myspace is just a given ?
I think it works best if you have a combination of many advertising methods. Generally, there's no one method that will bring the most traffic for everyone. So like monkeylantern said, any low cost or free method is always a great addition.
Oddly enough, I just had my first sale referred fromy myspace.com last week. Someone had my website linked in their myspace profile and one of their friends bought a t-shirt.
Originally we thought MySpace wouldn't work... however we have a significant amount of store owners that link to their store on Printfection from their MySpace profiles and it's working! We get lots of sales from MySpace profile links.
We even setup our own MySpace page to promote Printfection in general (although we need to work on getting some more friends!). It's a very interesting way to promote, and very web 2.0!!!
Last edited by Rodney; May 2nd, 2006 at 11:34 AM.
Reason: removed self promotional links as per forum rules - http://www.t-shirtforums.com/showthread.php?t=1173
Yeah I can't argue with free promotion. But like everything else, you have to work it. People don't throw money at you. And soon enough, there will be something new and MS will be yesterdays new. BUT, it is free and there are a LOT of ppl on it.
i am not a fan of myspace, and youd only be one page in a sea of almost 70 million, but as ive said to bands i know, its a must. its free, popular, and a simple way to reach out to a lot of new people.
I've signed up for myspace now and think its grand.. except for the millions of requests to join a "Make Money From Filling In Surveys" or "Live Cam Teens" group..
Promoting your site via MySpace.com 
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