Low on cash? Learn how to do everything from producing to promoting your clothing line with little or no money.
Sell online. It’s easier to reach a world wide audience and there are plenty of free advertising methods. Online is becoming a standard for businesses.
Go with a fulfillment service. They’ll handle all the small things like packaging, shipping and keeping track of orders. You can start a shop with no money and still make a profit.
Do your own designs. You can’t afford to pay designers yet so just learn how to use design programs like Illustrator and Photoshop. Or you can stick to slogan tees.
Practice SEO techniques. Free advertising at it’s best. Learn to master the search engines. Pick keywords that aren’t overly searched and try to appear on the first page for those keywords.
Do something newsworthy. You main advertising methods are gonna consist of doing things that’ll get others to write about your business.
Use social bookmarking sites. Bookmark every page of your shop on sites like StumbleUpon. The more your site is bookmarked the more likely it is to get visited by random targeted people.
Be in the school newspaper. You might become a local celebrity and everyone from your school will be asking about your line.
Get friends to model your shirts. Models are too expensive, but you still need them for your website to get that professional look. Just get some friends to model for you for free.
Wear your shirts and get your friends to wear them. You and your friends can be your best promotion tool. Always wear one of your shirts, especially to a big event. Wear the most catchy one to get people asking about it.
Start a blog. Talk about things your target audience would be interested in and feature your latest t-shirts every week. Get a fan base and it’ll be easy to convert those visitors into customers.
Tell fellow bloggers to blog about your line. If you know anyone who owns a blog get them to write a post about your clothing line. If they have a fan base alot of those people will be sure to check out your line.
Participate in forums and have a link to your website in your signature. Your signature is an ad space so you should make sure theres an ad for your line in it. Post hundreds of times and you have hundreds of ads on the web for free.
Promote on myspace and facebook. Create a myspace or facebook page for your line and add friends and send comments. Get a free friend adder program for myspace and add 50 new friends a day.
Make videos for youtube. Create mini commercials for your line that’ll spread virally. Make them funny or controversial to get alot of views. Post them on your blog, myspace and facebook too.
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Can you suggest a title for a business magazine preferably accounting?Cmon guys help me out any suggestion will be deeply appreciated thanks!!!
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
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October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
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October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
BusinessWeek. The reason? In my opinion it's the only one that provides a true picture of global business. The others – Forbes, Fortune, etc. – tend to focus too much on North America.
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
It depends on what you want to know.
Some of the general ones are
- Entrepreneur.com http://www.entrepreneur.com covers both home based and small entrepreneurs
- Inc.com http://www.inc.com is good for small businesses with employees.
- Business 2.0 is good for overall Web and Internet based businesses.
There are magazines for specific businesses. Some of these trade magazines that would be beneficial to entrepreneurs and would be entrepreneurs in this field are:
- Internet Retailer http://www.internetretailer.com is best if you are selling on the Web
- Home Business Mag http://www.homebusinessmag.com has good writeups for home-based entrepreneurs
- Catalog Success Magazine http://www.catalogsuccess.com/ is a good magazine for catalogers
- For direct marketers, the good ones are Target Marketing mag http://www.targetmarketingmag.com/ and Direct Marketing http://www.directmag.com/
- Selling Christmas Decorations http://www.sellingchristmas.com/scdwebsite/index.shtml is a great magazine for those in the business of selling Christmas items
- Art Business News http://www.artbusinessnews.com is the magazine for those in the art and framing business
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
Well, Beach Blondie, I think it`s a brilliant idea. You should include topics such as buying a house, mortgage interest, home insurance, car insurance, wages, salary, deductions therefrom such as national insurance and tax, pensions, stocks, shares, investments……………………. the list is endless, and we do nothing about it in school. I think the problem you will find is that teachers would just view it as another job to do among the million and one things they have to do already. It wouldn`t hit the top of their list of things to do ! Having said that, I wish you the best of luck with your idea, Twiggy.
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
Hmmmmm. Perhaps Forbes Magazine. Although, if he/she is abroad, there may be better international mags (but I'm just not sure). http://www.forbes.com/
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
There are the general magazines on entrepreneurship such as
Entrepreneur http://www.entrepreneur.com
Inc http://www.inc.com
Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com
Black Enterprise Magazine http://www.blackenterprise.com/
Home Business Magazine
And then there are the specific ones, depending on your industry
Art Business News http://www.artbusinessnews.com
Greetings Etc (for the greeting card business) http://www.greetingsmagazine.com/greetings/index.shtml
and so on
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
BusinessWeek without a doubt as it's the only magazine that gives a truly global perspective on the world of global business. Others, such as Forbes and Fortune, tend to focus too heavily on North America.
I believe they also have a special subscription rate for students.
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
Start a Wordpress or Typepad blog – I know it's not exactly like other magazine websites, but it will easily allow you to get started for free and the place where you add your content is VERY easy to use. You can also customize it to look like you want with pre-designed Themes… Many paper magazines are going in this direction anyway, so you'll be ahead of the game if you start there.
I have listed examples in the links below for you to see how others do it.
October 6th, 2009 on 3:11 am
Yeah that would make sense but majoring in those subjects won't open the magazine for you. I think you only need to learn both those subjects in college if you plan on writing, even then you would need experience before people listen to you. You could hire people to write articles who are more knowledgeable in the field.
If your gonna go to college either way take some marketing courses.