Calendar of 20 months
 

As some of you know I have 20 pictures of By gone years of Indians and their life. I want to find a manufacture company that can make the calendar and sell the calendars. Is that possible and my just taken some royalty from them?

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

Try
copycraft.com

Get their packet and see if their numbers fit for what you need.

Lord knows those indian prints are just wastin' away.


Hey Joe,
How do you plan on selling these......
Tipi to Tipi?????

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

I need someone to

1. Make the calendar
2. Sell the calandars

3. pay me a royalty.

Robert Allen said it was possilbe. I don't know though

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

Joe,

Where's the demand? Who you going to target? What market is interested in old indian pictures put on a calender? How are you going to sell this idea to the manufacturers?

YOU have to get off your butt and do your due diligence and find this stuff out if you want a manufacturer to do this for you.

WIIFTM

It's not up to the manufacturer to make your vision and dream come true. But then again I've told you that before.

Woody Quiñones
The Promotional Guy

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

Hi Joe,

To save you time...you can #1) make your own calendars.

Here's how to Make Your Own Calendars:

1. Digitize the Art ie. Scan it to your computer
2. Go to cafepress.com and Make YOUR OWN Calendar
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/customiz...ear=true&no=75
3. Upload them to their system

...You could have a product in very short order.

But As already been stated. WHO are you targeting...and do they WANT these calendars? How do you know they want them?

IF your market has already been determined, then this is a great way to TEST an offer to them without contacting any manufacturer

Cheers and Good luck

Duane Adolph

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

Add these to Duane's idea...

And those Who take Action will make Money... :)

http://www.squidoo.com/cafepress_alternative/

Write-It-Yourself T-Shirts!

Read the thread & Use the resources...
http://www.sowpub.com/forum/showthread.php?p=15831

Phil

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

Thank you so much for your help on this matter. I know it is all up to me. I should no that. So I can make the money then I would have all the manufactors I need.

Re: Calendar of 20 months
 

Not sure if there are calendar makers who pay a royalty for pictures. Most of them either use royalty free images. Or click their own photos.

But their are people who pay for photos - especially t-shirt makers - as Phil pointed out.

Go pick up a art licensing book from your library or amazon.com for more details on how to go about licensing your photos to various industries and syndicating companies.

One other thing you could do is - find more Indian pictures. Then compile a CD and sell the CD to people who buy stock photos. Bill Myers had written about someone making a good income out of selling stock photos on ebay. But no one will buy a stock photo CD if it just has 20 photos in it. (At least I think no one will buy. But I'm not your target audience.)

You could also try selling your photos on istockphoto.com and other sites like that. Your income from them depens on how many times your photos are downloaded.

SweatShop V.S. No Sweat Shop
 

Phil's t shirt idea is an interesting one although as Daisy Fuentes is finding
out t-shirt makin is not as good as t shirt thinkin.

What I mean is I would think you need to work on the catch phrase for the shirt who makes it doesn't really matter.

How costly is it to come up with ideas then throw them out there say on Ebay to see what comes back.

It seems best to stay topical and clever to really sell.

In the past during Clinton scandal I tinkered with this Clinton campaign slogan on a shirt:

"It's The Anatomy Stupid!"
Bill Clinton

During the dumping of Planet Pluto this shirt:
Motherhood. Apple Pie. Planet Pluto.


Grey's Anatomy TV Craze:
The Real Mr. McSteamy

During Miami Heat Championship Playoffs:
Mark "Da ll ASS" Cuban

Dirk NOWINITzki

You can try to model this t-shirt seller that's been making at least $500 dollars net a month from her t-shirt sells.


Like Phil says it's no sweat to get started. Sweat over the slogan not the shop that makes it.

Re: SweatShop V.S. No Sweat Shop
 

So what were your results with your slogans?

Re: SweatShop V.S. No Sweat Shop
 

Garth,

Interesting ideas...

Hopefully some get the Message... There are Big Bucks in T-Shirts... ;)

Especially by tracking Smart people using Creativity & Great business ideas...
http://www.threadless.com/12club
http://www.threadless.com/news/archive

And Google's ready to Help you with some T-Shirt thinkin... :)

T-Shirts is one of those industries that offers So many Untapped Niche specific Possibilities...

Just take some of the T-Shirt success stories and re-work their ideas!

A little T-Shirt slogan Brainstorming & News...
http://www.bustedtees.com/
http://www.t-shirttimes.com/
http://www.t-shirtcountdown.com/t-shirts/index.php

Phil

You T-Shirtin?
 

Phil, thanks for link had no idea about a t-shirt newsletter why there are more reasons for nichin than reasons Bush can up with for pardoning his white house cronies. Who would've thunk it!

Anyway Bill, the Bill one was my best shot it had best combo of coming up with idea while the topic still hot (thanks Rush & Hannity) and able to get some marketing out there.

Here's some other t-shirtin i started but it ended up all three key success factors weren't workin at the same time.


A lot of people bandy about the need for testing yet testing cost money too.
The economics of the T-shirt business seem very forgiving.

Re: You T-Shirtin?
 

Probably should be... But just Sharing ideas & research I've come across...

If there was only enough Time to Do all these business ideas. :)

Good thing it's Coffee breaks only at the Sowpub idea exchange...

Here's a few more T-Shirt newsletters & info that may interest you...
http://www.talkt-shirts.com/
http://www.tshirthell.com/newsletterarchive.htm
http://spreadshirtus.wordpress.com/tag/newsletters/
An ebay Powerseller...
http://tshizzle.com/

Phil