El Sat, 19-09-2009 a las 11:57 +0200, Sean DALY escribió: > Please read through this thread if you could: > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/archive/marketing/2009-May/001108.html
I'm afraid I've missed this thread. > [...] > > The Marketing team has to review what goes up for sale, to insure it's > in line with our guidelines. The Firefox model is a good inspiration > for this, swag is absolutely vital for marketing. I see. Would you prefer me to shut down the experimental shop I've set up, or can we instead select someone who would it over from me and configure it properly? > I myself don't care about profits yet, breaking even will already be > fine since we will have a far greater return in marketing impressions > if we can move a lot of swag, Of course, if swag generates income for > Sugar Labs, all the better. > > > What I would like to do is: > * benchmark the five or six suppliers I had identified in May, with > others I may have missed > * taking into account large orders e.g. 100-200 shirts vs. > individually printed (may be more interesting to preorder blocs) > * pick two or three suppliers to get started with (we probably can't > go wrong with cafepress and spreadshirt and one other who will ship > where the first two won't) > * develop the visuals. this may become an endless discussion on the > lists. Aside from the 12 logos on white plus black (24 shirts to start > with, not bad) I feel we could do star-marketing of Activities by > picking say the eToys icon over the Sugar Labs logo, or the TurtleArt > logo, or Browse, etc. Ultimately we could offer almost any Activity > icon over our logo > * Sugar on a Stick could also be in the catalog, but later might be > better (to accompany the Blueberry launch for instance) > > Would you like to work on this? I'm afraid I'd have no time and skill... this is why I was looking for someone else to which I could hand over my shop. I think I could be a good customer, though :-) -- // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/ \X/ Sugar Labs - http://sugarlabs.org/ _______________________________________________ Marketing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing
