Custom Apparel Startups
Custom Apparel Startups
Custom Apparel Startups
Episode 117 – Prioritizing Your Marketing Dollars
57 minutes Posted Feb 12, 2020 at 4:00 pm.
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1. Perfect basic online presence

  • Google my business, bing, facebook (technical set up)

2. Perfect your ecom or online showroom (if have one)

  • Images
  • Nothing broken
  • Technically correct and optimized (https, ssl, etc)
  • Emails / auto responders set up
  • Google analytics
  • HIRE SOMEONE (that you aren't related to)

3. Physical Marketing Collateral

  • Business cards
  • Brochures
  • Samples! - if you don't have some, get some
    this means, have sample shirts or hats or something you are willing to give away and a show of what you can do and a freebie.
  • Signage if you to shows
  • "Uniform" yourself and any staff (upgrade them if they stink)

4. Prepare to test ad strategies (2020 might be all testing for you)

  • Divide up cash
  • Facebook / google local
  • New show / bigger booth
  • Local ads (schools, youth sports, sponsorship, chamber of commerce, meet up) (which one of these would work best for me)
  • Pick at least 3 different things to test

5. Invest in new products

  • Try new products to introduce. (this isn't just a new shirt style)
  • Get a cutter / vinyl
  • Contract out t-shirt printing - DTG printing, wholesale toner transfers
  • Caps (if you don't do them - get a press)
  • Embroidery or t-shirt printing (if you don't do them wholesale or invest in equipment)

6. Make your delivery as best it can be

  • Branded boxes
  • Tags
  • Hang tags
  • Packing slips
  • Freebees