I was struck with inspiration, and I designed a T-Shirt just now in photoshop, and uploaded it to my Zazzle store.
Tomorrow's the ideal time to promote this T-Shirt, and so I'm going to do it via social networks starting at midnight (10 mins). Twitter gave me $100 in free ad credits, and I've only used about $1.50 from it. I'm going to use $80 worth of ad credits to promote this tweet: https://twitter.com/DennisDuty/status/281985352858759168 (EDIT: I decided to reduce this to $40, and use the $40 for the next day, which would be a big day for this 'i survived' type deal.)
The tweet is designed to have some sort of viral element to it "RT if you survived" as a reason to share. Additionally the T-Shirt by itself I think is pretty funny and warrants sharing by itself. I will only have to pay for the initial clicks by each person. Hopefully it will spread and people will retweet by themselves. Ideally this would be tweeted out by my CherryCards twitter account, but the ad credits are for @DennisDuty.
I used a free font for the Mayan symbols along the top and bottom. I purchased a package of 8 photoshop-styles to stylize the text ($5). I only used one of the text styles and get to use it in future video and graphical work. I designed, exported, and uploaded the shirt myself. Originally this looked a LOT cooler and was in black, but there were some issues with the glow not rendering properly on the shirt so I canned it and switched it to white.
The shirt costs the customer $25. I make a $7.55 royalty off of each shirt. I also get a 15% affiliate commission (I'm using my own affiliate code) plus a volume bonus if I sell enough. I'm mentally rounding the value of each sale to $10. If I can sell 9 shirts from this I profit $5 (assuming I count the free twitter credits as actual 'expenses')
If I can sell 209 units I make $2005. This is my goal, but I'd really like to sell the 9 to break even. Hopefully enough people will be caught in the craze that I will sell some. There are other gag T-shirts out there but they look cheap (somebody used zazzle/cafepresses default font and put no work into unique design).
I'll report back and let you know how it goes.
Edit: Oh yes, if you'd like to help don't hesitate to RT it
It might cloud the experiment... but asking contacts for a RT is a regular practice in SMM. https://twitter.com/DennisDuty/status/281985352858759168
Tomorrow's the ideal time to promote this T-Shirt, and so I'm going to do it via social networks starting at midnight (10 mins). Twitter gave me $100 in free ad credits, and I've only used about $1.50 from it. I'm going to use $80 worth of ad credits to promote this tweet: https://twitter.com/DennisDuty/status/281985352858759168 (EDIT: I decided to reduce this to $40, and use the $40 for the next day, which would be a big day for this 'i survived' type deal.)
The tweet is designed to have some sort of viral element to it "RT if you survived" as a reason to share. Additionally the T-Shirt by itself I think is pretty funny and warrants sharing by itself. I will only have to pay for the initial clicks by each person. Hopefully it will spread and people will retweet by themselves. Ideally this would be tweeted out by my CherryCards twitter account, but the ad credits are for @DennisDuty.
I used a free font for the Mayan symbols along the top and bottom. I purchased a package of 8 photoshop-styles to stylize the text ($5). I only used one of the text styles and get to use it in future video and graphical work. I designed, exported, and uploaded the shirt myself. Originally this looked a LOT cooler and was in black, but there were some issues with the glow not rendering properly on the shirt so I canned it and switched it to white.
The shirt costs the customer $25. I make a $7.55 royalty off of each shirt. I also get a 15% affiliate commission (I'm using my own affiliate code) plus a volume bonus if I sell enough. I'm mentally rounding the value of each sale to $10. If I can sell 9 shirts from this I profit $5 (assuming I count the free twitter credits as actual 'expenses')
If I can sell 209 units I make $2005. This is my goal, but I'd really like to sell the 9 to break even. Hopefully enough people will be caught in the craze that I will sell some. There are other gag T-shirts out there but they look cheap (somebody used zazzle/cafepresses default font and put no work into unique design).
I'll report back and let you know how it goes.
Edit: Oh yes, if you'd like to help don't hesitate to RT it
It might cloud the experiment... but asking contacts for a RT is a regular practice in SMM. https://twitter.com/DennisDuty/status/281985352858759168
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