Using your old clothing for website promotion.

Using your old clothing for website promotion by branding it.

It could be a very good marketing technique to take your old clothing and brand it with your website, and then give to friends, family, strangers, and donate it to goodwill and other charities that resell to a large market, you could even give the branded clothing to the homeless for the ultimate in bum marketing.

A story about stores selling used underware gave me the idea but I probably would not use that. Yuck.
So take your old clothing get your domain name on them silk screened, ironed on, sewn on, and see if that brings in that extra traffic.

 

Maybe it will help if you have a website that is targeting traffic from the country you live in. This won't work for me because I target people all over the world and visitors from my country are very few (and I intend it to leave it this way).

 

"the ultimate in bum marketing"--That's hilarious.

I'm not sure if that's the niche I'm going after, but hey... it's definately a creative idea!

Thanks!

-JC

 

Thats a point I had not thought about, it would end up localizes by country

 

This technique is pretty much useless unless your niche is "people-who-have-seen-my-t-shirt-and-remembered-the-domain-when-they-get-to-their-PCS
-and-then-have-nothing-better-to-do-but-visit-some-random-dude's-website" .

Which is entirely possible, given the number of people promoting products in that niche.

In fact you shouldn't have posted this, because now the niche may become over-saturated. Darn.

 

I actually wrote a blog post with a similar concept - marketing your blog with homeless hobos. I might have to try that out sometime =D

 

Very funny nice idea, vinyls for cars is another one. they're not too expensive.

 

Please tell me it doesn't involve tatoos.

 

Its the same as putting your business name on the side of your car, or cocacola putting their name on teeshirts and every thing else that they can fit their name on. Its a way to get your name out there.
And you don't mind if I register this as a domain name do you?
www people-who-have-seen-my-t-shirt-and-remembered-the-domain-when-they-get-to-their-PCS
-and-then-have-nothing-better-to-do-but-visit-some-random-dude's-website.com

 

I will have to give it a read.

 

I think he's saying that you'd better put something on your clothing advertisements that will reveal what your site is about, or otherwise intrigue the viewer. If you don't, then his niche joke will become a reality. The Coke name/logo works in isolation because everybody knows what that means. It's a brand. Your website, I'm going out on a limb here, isn't.

 

Its a great idea, but do you think the cost of getting your old clothing branded would get in traffic of equivalent proportions?

 

Unfortunately, it's not a good idea. Creative? Yes. Practical or cost efficient? Hell no.

 

Very funny nice idea, vinyls for cars is another one. they're not too expensive.

 

what a fishy idea !!! )

 

I hate to think where this could end...

Is the next step stapling a post-it note with your url on pigeons?

 

negative people are such a bummer!

to the OP, exposure of any kind is good. I like the idea because people are naturally curious. Lots of people won't bother to look up the site, but some (the curious, like me ) will and you never know who will end up buying from you.

The easiest method for this would be t-shirt transfers and you can do them very cheaply these days. Shop around and good luck!

 

Yes I still have some of the iron on transfers, I just have to find some of my shirts that don't have somebody else's logo on them. And I guess it would depend on the type of site also. I started a stock image site and that might work out well, but my fence directory site might not.

 

Yes I had used that in my first attempt at marketing, but I soon discovered that the pigeons ended up using the post-it notes for their nest's.