I had a cool experience yesterday. I had to drop off a batch of t-shirts to be printed with my new “triathlete” design. Since I’ll be selling these t-shirts at a triathlon that I’ll be competing in, it was time for me to get a folding table to use. I thought it would also be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Gather No Moss’
Guessing game
I’d love to hear how other t-shirt entrepreneurs decide on the many variables in ordering t-shirts: styles, colors, sizes, quantities. So far, I’ve been using educated guesses, knowing that most of my target audience are somewhat fit. I go heavy (pardon the pun) on the large shirts for the men, and on the medium shirts [...]
Another retailer
I had another success this week. A local, privately-owned bicycle store agreed to sell Gather No Moss t-shirts. So, our “cyclist” t-shirts are now available at Snitger’s Bicycle Store in Beaver, PA.
The process of pitching to retailers has been interesting for me, since I’m really not a salesman. I also don’t like cold calls, so [...]
On being the tortoise
I’ve entered Gather No Moss into Startup Nation’s “Home-Based 100″ contest. Not for the sake of winning, but for free publicity. And if we happen to win, it will provide even more publicity.
For the contest, every person (actually, every IP address, I would suppose) can vote once a day until the voting ends, which isn’t [...]
Giving Things Away
Do you give things away? Products? Services? Advice? My blog at Gather No Moss is where I give information away, and I’ll always do that. But now that I’ve got an inventory of t-shirts, it’s been fun to give some of those away too.
I sent one with my pitch letter to the specialty running store [...]
Am I Doing Something Right?
I purposed last weekend to write a blog post at my Gathe No Moss web site every morning this week, and to try to discipline myself to keep doing that (at least three times a week) on an ongoing basis. I have no lack of things to write about, but it does take me about [...]
Getting into a retail store
The business I’m currently working on, an active lifestyle brand and mission called Gather No Moss, is initially for writing and blogging about active lifestyles, and selling t-shirts to both inspire people and to further market the brand.
I’ve been blogging for almost two years, while working on the t-shirt designs and planning the business itself. [...]