GNOME Store
We are getting ready to launch a GNOME Store hosted on Zazzle (the same company that hosts Mozilla's store). Thanks to Daniel and Andreas for doing the design work and implementing the CSS on the store - you can see it at http://www.zazzle.com/gnome. Andreas still wants to do a little more work on the logo and some areas where the text get cuts off, but I think it looks good and we're close to launching. My thought is we should launch store in the next week or so in time for people to buy holiday gifts if they want to. What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and more. Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply with ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that you see on the shirts. In a couple of months, we can do a call for artwork from the community to do special editions or limited runs or that kind of thing. Right now in the short term, I'd like to see us get the store up and running before we try to do to much. Please reply with your feedback and let's see if we can't get this launched next week! Thanks again Andreas! Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Marketing team meeting
A couple weeks ago we talked about having a marketing team meeting in IRC. I've used Doodle to create a poll on potential dates and times. Please visit the following link to vote for a time and date that works best for you: http://www.doodle.com/yg8wskgcb4ekgsqm You will need to create an account on Doodle to vote in the poll. The Bugsquad team has used Doodle with great success. Hopefully we'll have enough votes by the weekend to pick a date and time that works for the majority. (Timezones are tricky!) If anyone has suggestions for a different date or time, please let me know as well. Thanks! Paul -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Marketing team meeting
Am Mittwoch, den 02.12.2009, 09:26 -0600 schrieb Paul Cutler: You will need to create an account on Doodle to vote in the poll. No, you don't need an account. andre -- mailto:ak...@gmx.net | failed http://www.iomc.de/ | http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network
Hello, I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my apologies in advance if it is not. We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS relevant businesses with free software community users, influencers, developers and architects. The network operates under the guidance of the Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome Foundation. Tag1 Consulting will pay the $250 fee for your advertisement, however you will need to provide the actual ad which must be directly relevant to free and open source software. Your ad will then be displayed on all Ad Bard member websites through the month of December, 2009. We do not ask anything in return, we are simply working to spread the word about our new advertising network and to provide relevant advertisements for our publishers: http://adbard.net/adbard/websites In order to move forward on this, we will need an image and text which will be used as your advertisement. The advertisement must be a jpg, png, or static gif measuring 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall. The text must be no more than 80 characters long. We will also need to know where to link the advertisement to. http://adbard.net/faq Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached by email at jer...@tag1consulting.com, or toll free at 877-875-8824 x100. Thanks, -Jeremy The Ad Bard Network: http://adbard.net -- Jeremy Andrews 877-875-8824 x100 Tag1 Consulting, Inc. http://tag1consulting.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Store
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and more. I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug, hat, and sweatshirt. Best, Zonker -- Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier j...@zonker.net openSUSE Community Manager Get openSUSE 11.2! http://bit.ly/EOV8a Twitter: jzb | Identica: jzb About: http://www.dissociatedpress.net/about/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Store
Hi, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutler pcut...@gnome.org wrote: What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and more. I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug, hat, and sweatshirt. I agree with Keep it simple. I would say no more than 8 items, total. Including t-shirts. I would like to see t-shirt, polo shirt, maybe sweatshirt (not convinced), mug, and perhaps a poster or two. I'd avoid tote bags and hats. One polo shirt design, with an equivalent t-shirt design, and 2 or 3 t-shirt only designs, and one sweatshirt design. One mug, one or two posters. 8 or 9 items in all. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Neary GNOME Foundation member dne...@gnome.org -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Store
On 12/02/2009 02:40 PM, Dave Neary wrote: Hi, Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Paul Cutlerpcut...@gnome.org wrote: What I need the marketing team's help with is: What products and merchandise should we offer with the GNOME logo? We have 6 t-shirt designs up, and can also add products such as coffee mugs, tote bags, hats, sweatshirts and more. I'd keep it relatively simple -- so no more than three or four things aside from the t-shirts. (I suspect there's some study that would show that choice overload results in fewer sales...) But definitely a mug, hat, and sweatshirt. I agree with Keep it simple. I would say no more than 8 items, total. Including t-shirts. Yep. The good thing about Zazzle is that they have the tshirts in a wide variety of colors. I would like to see t-shirt, polo shirt, maybe sweatshirt (not convinced), mug, and perhaps a poster or two. I'd avoid tote bags and hats. I'd say drop a couple green stuff in there. Water bottle and/or coffee mug. behdad One polo shirt design, with an equivalent t-shirt design, and 2 or 3 t-shirt only designs, and one sweatshirt design. One mug, one or two posters. 8 or 9 items in all. Cheers, Dave. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Store
El mié, 02-12-2009 a las 07:53 -0600, Paul Cutler escribió: Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply with ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that you see on the shirts. The green t-shirt should be the now classic white equation on chalkboard green. Agree with others about not having more than 8 or so items. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: GNOME Store
There's some famous study about jam's in grocery stores. I think the option of 3 different jams resulted in the most sales. Lots of jams resulted in indecision and no sales. One possible way around this (and I have no research on this) would be to offer tshirts, sweatshirts and mugs at the top level. Then when you drill down you can pick green, black or whatever. Stormy On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 2:08 PM, Diego Escalante Urrelo die...@gnome.orgwrote: El mié, 02-12-2009 a las 07:53 -0600, Paul Cutler escribió: Please take a look at Zazzle and the products they offer and reply with ideas. Right now we'll use the graphics / logos uploaded that you see on the shirts. The green t-shirt should be the now classic white equation on chalkboard green. Agree with others about not having more than 8 or so items. -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
Re: Gnome Foundation Ad On FSF Endorsed Network
Jeremy, Has anybody contacted you regarding this? I didn't see any responses here so I wasn't sure if there was interest at all. Is there interest in creating an ad for use here? sri On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Jeremy Andrews jer...@tag1consulting.comwrote: Hello, I hope this mailing list is the correct place to send this offer, my apologies in advance if it is not. We recently launched the Ad Bard Network aiming to connect FLOSS relevant businesses with free software community users, influencers, developers and architects. The network operates under the guidance of the Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/news/ad-bard We would like to donate an advertisement to the Gnome Foundation. Tag1 Consulting will pay the $250 fee for your advertisement, however you will need to provide the actual ad which must be directly relevant to free and open source software. Your ad will then be displayed on all Ad Bard member websites through the month of December, 2009. We do not ask anything in return, we are simply working to spread the word about our new advertising network and to provide relevant advertisements for our publishers: http://adbard.net/adbard/websites In order to move forward on this, we will need an image and text which will be used as your advertisement. The advertisement must be a jpg, png, or static gif measuring 120 pixels wide by 90 pixels tall. The text must be no more than 80 characters long. We will also need to know where to link the advertisement to. http://adbard.net/faq Please let me know if you have any questions. I can be reached by email at jer...@tag1consulting.com, or toll free at 877-875-8824 x100. Thanks, -Jeremy The Ad Bard Network: http://adbard.net -- Jeremy Andrews 877-875-8824 x100 Tag1 Consulting, Inc. http://tag1consulting.com/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
