[Marketing] Merchandise / Swag: Cafepress? Spreadshirt? Zazzle? Printfection? VistaPrint?

[Seth Woodworth]

I am a big fan of Spreadshirt.  As a nifty philanthropic org SugarLabs may
be eligible for some kind of discount / special offer.  If SL is happy with
the idea I have a few contacts at Spreadshort that may be willing to offer a
good deal.



On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Caroline Meeks
<caroline at solutiongrove.com>wrote:

> +1
>
>
> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:32 AM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> http://www.cafepress.com
>> http://www.spreadshirt.com
>> http://www.zazzle.com
>> http://www.printfection.com
>> http://www.vistaprint.com
>>
>> Let's offer Sugar Labs branded T-shirts, stickers, badges (buttons),
>> coffee mugs, messenger bags, mousepads, &c !
>>
>> Perfect booth stuff. Great for spreading the word - walk through a
>> crowd, 500 impressions :-)
>>
>> Here are five well-known "print-on-demand" services (feel free to
>> point us to any others!). The concept is, there is no stock or upfront
>> bulk orders like with traditional printers. We provide the graphics,
>> the supplier does printing and fulfillment (including returns &
>> exchanges, a perennial headache). Listings can vary from simple (users
>> have to find our stuff on the supplier's site with keywords) to
>> branded shop (users may not notice except for the URL they are off our
>> site) to embedded (users are on our site but the backend is at the
>> supplier's).
>>
>> Each one has strong points/weak points: for example Spreadshirt has
>> good presence in Europe; Printfection offers T-shirts in many colors
>> and provides APIs for a store on the designer's site (probably
>> overkill for us).
>>
>> My impression is that signing up is not exclusive; we could go with
>> any combination and make recommendations to site visitors based on
>> delivery destination.
>>
>> Royalty rates, margin structures differ but my main concern would be
>> quality + breaking even, if such a service doesn't cost us money we
>> are already ahead by benefiting from the "free advertising" of t-shirt
>> or bag wearers.
>>
>> Is quality comparable? I have no idea, but Spreadshirt has a good
>> reputation. A friend of mine has used Cafepress for some time and
>> never had a complaint.
>>
>> What I really like about these solutions is:
>> * We can offer all 24 variants of our logo (the 12 combos on either
>> white or black background); it will be interesting to note the
>> hit-parade of sales
>> * The Home View!
>> * The Neighborhood View!
>> * Big Icons of our favorite Activities... in different colors?
>> ("EToys, a Sugar Activity")
>> * Screenshots with impact (Speak saying something, Moon)
>> * a Sugar Labs USB stick with text "Sugar on a Stick"
>> * more ideas?
>>
>> We could shamelessly steal a great idea from our friends at OLPC
>> France: a little rectangular Sugar Labs sticker which fits right on
>> the hinge of an XO-1. Would be great for G1G1 "get 1" XOs...
>>
>> Help please, let's look at these together and make a recommendation
>> for one or more suppliers... they seem very similar to me based on our
>> needs, but they may have licensing issues or something.
>>
>> If we get this going soon we could be wearing (or even selling) Sugar
>> Labs tees at LinuxTag Berlin ;-)
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Sean
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