Selling forum T-shirts and forum logo items

[Beverly]

What about selling T-shirts with your forum name or other cool logo to fund your forum? Have you tried this idea? If so, which T-shirt site did you use and how much money did you raise for your forum?

 

[Jamie1]

I have been planning on creating some collateral to sell for a few of my sites for a while.
You need to make sure the designs are awesome and not all about pure advertising for your own benefit as no-one will buy them.
I probably won't go with clothing, but cool things like pens etc.

 

[Jordan]

I have been planning on creating some collateral to sell for a few of my sites for a while.
You need to make sure the designs are awesome and not all about pure advertising for your own benefit as no-one will buy them.
I probably won't go with clothing, but cool things like pens etc.

Agreed. Hell, I would probably give the shirts away!

 

[lludawg]

A popular forum I was a part of made cheap and simple t-shirts with a small logo on the front and sold them for a limited time. They sold super fast and the forum benefited!

 

[Shortie]

I remember trying this once with a forum I had a while back where we had a radio station based with it with our own personal DJ, we made enquiries about how many people would be interested in a t-shirt branding our name, url and something to do with the radio we ran but it never really came to anything and we ended up just leaving it. If you get a lot of interest in t-shirts from your members it may be wise to give it a shot as it's great for advertising especially if it's eye catching.

 

[JohnSword]

I think it could work, provided you have a cool design. Obviously, just printing your forum name and url won't cut it.

For me, while I haven't tried the idea, I do sell designs on Spreadshirt, and would recommend it for anyone starting out. Its interface is user-friendly, and it supports many file formats. SVG is especially good if you're working on Inkscape.

 

[milksheikh]

I have never thought about doing this on my forum. I may try doing it for my forum if it gets more popular (100,000+posts) and a great member-activeness.