I think its time we get some official club apparel made. Here's what I'm thinking:
- Member shirts
- Koozies
- clemson mafia shirts
- hats?
How we can do it:
Cafepress: They offer printing and online store serivices for lots of different apparel (no koozies unfortunately). All we do is submit the graphics via the web and they deal with printing, sales and shipping. They take out their fee from each shirt and cut us a check monthly for the rest. For example: They charge $8.99 or somthing for each t-shirt. So if we have them sell them for $13.99 each, the club get $5 for every shirt sold in the form of a monthly check.
Pros: no sales/shipping hassle, no upfront cost, global exposure
Cons: lower return due to higher cost, no bulk discounts
Customink or other local printer: Customink is an online promotional goods printer. They have A LOT more variety of goods merchandise to choose from, but not online store service. They simply take bulk orders and leave distribution to us. There are other local printers we can look into as well.
Pros: Lower bottom line, more marchandise to choose from, bulk orders
Cons: No online store services, we are responsible for sales and shipping, upfront costs
We can take advantage of both. We can put a couple of more generic club apparel up on cafepress and then use customink/local printrer for all the "specialty" or event specific items.
What do you guys think?
- Member shirts
- Koozies
- clemson mafia shirts
- hats?
How we can do it:
Cafepress: They offer printing and online store serivices for lots of different apparel (no koozies unfortunately). All we do is submit the graphics via the web and they deal with printing, sales and shipping. They take out their fee from each shirt and cut us a check monthly for the rest. For example: They charge $8.99 or somthing for each t-shirt. So if we have them sell them for $13.99 each, the club get $5 for every shirt sold in the form of a monthly check.
Pros: no sales/shipping hassle, no upfront cost, global exposure
Cons: lower return due to higher cost, no bulk discounts
Customink or other local printer: Customink is an online promotional goods printer. They have A LOT more variety of goods merchandise to choose from, but not online store service. They simply take bulk orders and leave distribution to us. There are other local printers we can look into as well.
Pros: Lower bottom line, more marchandise to choose from, bulk orders
Cons: No online store services, we are responsible for sales and shipping, upfront costs
We can take advantage of both. We can put a couple of more generic club apparel up on cafepress and then use customink/local printrer for all the "specialty" or event specific items.
What do you guys think?
