Hi Amy, Tony<br><br>With t-shirts, the key question (beyond basic t-shirt quality, which can be problematic) is the printing process. Here are a couple of links I have found useful when researching the topic:<br><br><a href="http://www.alt-team.com/choosing-a-printing-technique-for-custom-t-shirt-printing-business.html" target="_blank">http://www.alt-team.com/choosing-a-printing-technique-for-custom-t-shirt-printing-business.html</a><br>
<a href="http://www.staplespromotionalproducts.com/Landing.aspx?name=ArtworkRequirements" target="_blank">http://www.staplespromotionalproducts.com/Landing.aspx?name=ArtworkRequirements</a><br>
<br>One advantage of working with Spreadshirt / CafePress / Printfection / VistaPrint / Zazzle / PrintMojo / etc. is, they offer different kinds of merchandise beyond t-shirts and handle order fulfillment and individual shipping, in some cases worldwide. This can be through a branded online shop or not. I can't vouch for quality though, these services market ease of use and speed of delivery - research/benchmarking needs to be done.<br>
<br>But before that, it might be interesting to enumerate the promo needs for each SFC project (handouts? in-person/online sales to recover costs?) and art objectives (simple logos? lots of variants? one side printing for tees or double-sided for ex?).<br>
<br>In the case of Sugar Labs, we would like to recover costs and ideally offer say 8 colors of tees with 6 choices of logo colors, maybe hoodies too; mugs, and logo-embroidered caps and laptop bags.<br><br>thanks<br><br>
Sean<br>Sugar Labs Marketing Coordinator<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 7:09 PM, Tony Sebro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tony@sfconservancy.org" target="_blank">tony@sfconservancy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On 02/06/2013 04:09 PM, Amy Terlaga wrote:<br>
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Hi Tony--<br>
<br>
I'm interested in starting up some merchandise sales for the Evergreen<br>
project. We'd love to have some things to sell in time for our April<br>
conference (April 10-13). I was thinking T-shirts, pens, post-it notes to<br>
start, but I'm open to other ideas. I have no idea as to how much money<br>
we'd need to get a good base of merch for sale for this initial wave and I'd<br>
need some help with that. I'm also looking for some good companies to<br>
produce these - I want quality at a reasonable price. (Doesn't everybody?)<br>
<br>
Thanks for getting this list going. It's coming at a really good time for<br>
us!<br>
<br>
Amy<br>
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Thanks for kicking things off, Amy. :) You've started off with a fairly broad question, which is good; hopefully, others can chime in with their experiences. Perhaps we should break it down into separate threads, so that people can follow some discussions and not others. I'll reply with my comments with the subject line updated as appropriate.<div>
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Best,<br>
-Tony<br>
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