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Rodney · July 12th, 2006

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	Make any sense?

I'm not sure friends are the best way to get a good barometer of the "sell-ability" for your designs.

Giving away free t-shirts is also not the best way to judge if someone will pay for it.

You might get opinions, but since those people aren't actually opening up their wallet and they might not want to offend their friend (or someone that gave them something for free), you might not get the most honest responses.

hongkongdmz · July 13th, 2006

Well, so far my friends have pointed out the negative and positive aspects in my designs. And obviously I still need to show them to a wide range of people as possible. I feel that the design is important sure but so is the branding and the idea behind it. Most people have a good idea but how many actually organise themselves properly to take advantage of that idea? But granted my friends may still only want to show me 'positive reactions'. Would you know any other way I could gain feedback without giving out free t-shirts? I'm thinking about a car boot sale selling them cheap just to judge the market reaction towards them but I want to be based either online or sell wholesale through retailers. Giving away my designs to look at may not be the best bet..maybe asking my friends to ask their friends to critically judge my designs and see what they think? Again I'm not sure...any help is appreciated but thanks for the comments so far. They teach me a lot. Thanks.

HongKongDMZ

Rodney · July 13th, 2006

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	Would you know any other way I could gain feedback without giving out free t-shirts?

One way (maybe not ideal) would be to setup a cafepress store for free and put them up for sale to see if there are any takers with a little targeted Google Adwords advertising.

If you already have them printed, you could put them up for sale on your website and get some traffic to it to see if there are any buyers.

Another way would be to post in the "Site Reviews - Design Reviews" section of this forum and ask for some honest feedback. We're good at honest

hongkongdmz · July 14th, 2006

Yeah this site is really good. Would that be t-shirt designs or digital photos of my t-shirts though that I can put on here?

HongKongDMZ

Rodney · July 14th, 2006

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	Would that be t-shirt designs or digital photos of my t-shirts though that I can put on here?

Not sure what the difference would be. Best way would be to post in the Site Reviews - Design Reviews section and include some type of image of the design you want reviewed.