Re: [us-marketing] Re: LibreOffice Swag/Merchandise Bulk Purchase?

On 03/28/2013 11:18 PM, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster
> <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:
> > If we can have designs made, then we could go to our regional vendors and
> > make them up for our use and our marketing for LO.
> Certainly. Do we want to maintain a list of vendors on the wiki or?
>
> > There has to be vendors world wide that would sell these "swag" items at low
> > unit counts.  They might not be "low cost" at low unit counts, but we could
> > work on finding the best companies in the various regions of the world and
> > set up the service for our users and marketers to buy when needed.
> The first question in my mind is: What kind of volume are we talking about?
>
> I can imagine that we might want to print up a lot of cheap white
> t-shirts with the LibreOffice logo on the front and hand them out to,
> say, campus or community reps, but year-specific or version-specific
> designs would only be applicable to 1 or 2 print runs. Setup costs
> could definitely be more expensive in that case.
>
> Does US-Marketing have any specific plans in the next 6 months to
> print up some swag? At the very least, I think it could be great to do
> a bulk purchase of three items like
> - T-shirts
> - Stickers
> - Patches
>
> ...and then sell them at cost (or a slight subsidy?) to volunteers who
> wanted to do something local in their community. I'd love to have a
> small LibreOffice sticker to slap on my laptop and a LibreOffice patch
> to put on my bag or on a baseball hat.
>
> --R

If we find vendors that work for our needs, we should have them listed.  
If we have vendors that have already gone through the setup process for 
the items, then it would be good to have a list of those stating that.  
I know that the vendor we use locally, once we had the setup done, would 
do a low unit order for the shirts, sweats, hoodies, etc., for the 
organization I belong to that orders from them.  The only difference we 
need is one that would ship the orders.

The idea of getting embroidered patched would help in a lot of cases.  I 
have them on a jacket and shirt for one organization I deal with, plus 
you can always attach them on a ball cap.

I have made stickers for laptops and other things, but those could not 
get "wet".  Having "prepositional" stickers made professionally would 
work great for a laptop and other "device" that may need to have the 
sticker easily removed for some reason.


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