When marketing yourself and your products, it’s very important that you don’t forget traditional marketing materials like printed posters and business cards. Although it may seem like they’re a total waste of money, they remain one of the most effective ways for marketing yourself and your brand. Here are some ways we can help you market […]
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Creative Business Cards for Artists that Incorporate What They Do
If you’re an artist, there’s no way you should hand out a boring business card. An absolute no-no. Even if you’re not a designer, you must show your creativity in your business card because it matters. It’s not such a big deal for business men to hand out business cards with basic design because it’s not really […]
Increase Sales of Your T-shirt Business in 10 Days
You’ve pretty much given it all you’ve got but your t-shirt business is not taking off? What’s wrong? You thought setting up a t-shirt business is easy. And you know what? It is. What’s hard is running a t-shirt business. The tools are relatively affordable, conceptualizing designs is a breeze…but no one’s paying attention, no […]
CD PACKAGING: KATY PERRY’S PRISM SEED PACKETS
This Katy Perry CD packaging can actually be good for the environment. The idea was to plant flower seeds in your garden while listening to Katy’s Prism album. For deluxe editions of her 2013 album, Prism, Katy Perry included packets of flower seeds in A prism seed paper. How cool is this idea? It’s as […]
Creative Bags to Package Your T-shirt Merch
There are many ways to package your custom t-shirt merch but if you’re selling tees, might as well put them in creative bags. Not only will your customers find it useful, you’ll be able to spread your brand. Plus, they’ll certainly feel that they’re getting more bang from their buck. Here are some creative bags […]
Band Merch Tips From Band Merch Experts
MERCH TIPS FROM BRIAN “BT” TARANTO Brian Taranto has been rocking the merch industry since 1985. He launched Love Police, a company that has gone on to be a force of the merch industry. “With the onset of indie bands, trying to be a bit cooler and slacker with design or reference can work well… or bomb […]
9 Tips for Designing Band T-shirts
Let the designers do the designing…and no one else! So you don’t want to pay a designer because you think you can do it? Nothing too hard about it, right? Just sketch a cool thing that would possibly look awesome on a tee and print it with your band name. That’s it! No need to […]
20 Unconventional Album Release Gimmicks That Totally Rock
When you want to stand out, when you want to be talked about, you gotta have album release gimmicks. Don’t just make CDs in regular CD jewel case and digital downloads like the rest of the regular guys. No siree! You gotta be a little EXTRA! How? There are so many ways to get creative […]
10 Must-Bring Merch for Your Band Tour
If you have a band and it’s your first time to go on tour, first of all…congratulations! Now chop chop and make sure you have these merch ready for your tour: 1. CDs, of course! They say CD is dead but they’re still making lots of CDs. Think of one professional musician who hasn’t released […]
MAKING A BAND LOGO- Everything you need to know
You need a band logo if you’re a relatively new, up-and-coming musician and you’ve decided to take your music career to the NEXT LEVEL (good on you). That’s because if you want to push a step further, you have to level up on marketing your band. That is because being serious with your “music career” […]