Hey All,
To avoid repeat questions I have been researching this section of the forum. I have read just about every post up until page 5.
I am taking on my first event in a week and therefore I wanted to hunt down any further information.
The consensus is that you can expect 1% of attendees to purchase your shirts.
- I find this an insane figure to generalize. Does it actually hold any water? My particular event has 10k people coming. I thought I was low balling at 5% but this may be a serious novice mistake. I was prepared to buy 1000 shirts. I have my local wholesaler ready to accept the blanks back at a 7.5% restocking fee. I will only pre print about 200 shirts. I am bringing the screen-press to the event to make more as well as attract attention.
This is a Beer and Wine festival as well so I expect people to be a little looser with their money.
I am also going to prepare a bunch of heat transfers for quick transfers as well. Is the best way to deal with heat transfer to have someone in town make them or to screen print them on my manual machine myself? I have read that heat transfers don't work well on dark colors. Is this true?
Also I was originally going to make 8 designs on 3 different colors. Half v-necks half crews. After doing the logistics a bit that is just laughable. Now I'm thinking 2 to 4 designs on only crew necks, 2 colors.
Any advice on colors? I was thinking white and grey. The issue is that for some reasons white shirts look a bit cheap and they may be hard to persuade people to pay $20 in my personal opinion. Any truth to this?
Sorry for 21 questions and thanks for taking the time to read through this whole thing.
To avoid repeat questions I have been researching this section of the forum. I have read just about every post up until page 5.
I am taking on my first event in a week and therefore I wanted to hunt down any further information.
The consensus is that you can expect 1% of attendees to purchase your shirts.
- I find this an insane figure to generalize. Does it actually hold any water? My particular event has 10k people coming. I thought I was low balling at 5% but this may be a serious novice mistake. I was prepared to buy 1000 shirts. I have my local wholesaler ready to accept the blanks back at a 7.5% restocking fee. I will only pre print about 200 shirts. I am bringing the screen-press to the event to make more as well as attract attention.
This is a Beer and Wine festival as well so I expect people to be a little looser with their money.
I am also going to prepare a bunch of heat transfers for quick transfers as well. Is the best way to deal with heat transfer to have someone in town make them or to screen print them on my manual machine myself? I have read that heat transfers don't work well on dark colors. Is this true?
Also I was originally going to make 8 designs on 3 different colors. Half v-necks half crews. After doing the logistics a bit that is just laughable. Now I'm thinking 2 to 4 designs on only crew necks, 2 colors.
Any advice on colors? I was thinking white and grey. The issue is that for some reasons white shirts look a bit cheap and they may be hard to persuade people to pay $20 in my personal opinion. Any truth to this?
Sorry for 21 questions and thanks for taking the time to read through this whole thing.
