{"id":995,"date":"2014-10-02T14:19:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graphictide.com\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2014-10-02T14:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:19:29","slug":"5-tips-to-help-market-your-t-shirt-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graphictide.com\/blog\/5-tips-to-help-market-your-t-shirt-design\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Tips To Help Market Your T-shirt Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you want more people to vote for your t-shirt designs?<\/p>\n<p>Even if you make the best art and designs in the world, if you don&#8217;t market them correctly, then no ones going to see your work.<\/p>\n<p>For any creative, it&#8217;s paramount that you market your work effectively, that gets your work in front of people.<\/p>\n<p>Within this blog post, Graphic Tide shares 5 crucial tips to help market your t-shirt designs, that encourages likes, comments, and most importantly, votes.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, you can <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Submit To Graphic Tide\" href=\"\/submit-design\">submit your work<\/a> to us at any time over on our submission page. Submission is free, and if you receive 30 votes, your work is then taken into our store for people to buy! <\/p>\n<p>You might be finding it hard to reach the 30 votes mark on our voting platform, so this is why we&#8217;ve come up with today&#8217;s blog post, to really help you out when marketing your own t-shirt design.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of social media, being part of the community and creating an attractive profile, this blog post has it all to help you reach those 30 votes!<\/p>\n<h3>Help Market Your T-shirt Design &#8211; Using Social Media<\/h3>\n<p>One great thing about uploading your design to us over at Graphic Tide is how you can vote.<\/p>\n<p>You can vote for your designs <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Follow us on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/graphictide\">on Twitter<\/a>, on our Facebook app, and also on our voting platform.<\/p>\n<p>But I hear you ask, I&#8217;ve already done that with my own design! <\/p>\n<p>So what are the other tips that we can share that can help you gain more votes for your t-shirt designs?<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, whenever you Tweet about your t-shirt design over on Graphic Tide, it&#8217;s important that you embed an image.<\/p>\n<p>As social media is changing and evolving into more of an visual identity, your audience and followers are more attracted to the Tweets with images, as this encourages them to investigate into your design further.<\/p>\n<p>We know that your t-shirt design is ace, because you made it through to our voting platform. So why not showcase this to the world by embedding images within your Tweets?<\/p>\n<p>Upload your design within your Tweets, and give a brief description of what you&#8217;re trying to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, it&#8217;s important that you tell your avid fans about your t-shirt design directly. This is one great tip to help you gain those extra votes which you&#8217;ve been craving, to help encourage others to vote on your design.<\/p>\n<p>This shouldn&#8217;t be a direct Tweet or comment which is aggressive or pressured, but a quick and friendly direct Tweet should do the trick, like &#8216;Hey @example, if you could possibly vote for my design on Graphic Tide, that would be ace&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Be nice, friendly and don&#8217;t get discouraged if they don&#8217;t respond.  <\/p>\n<p>As they&#8217;re your avid fans, then they&#8217;ll be more than willing to help you out, and help you become a part of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Graphic Tide's Shop\" href=\"\/shop\">our store<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Contact those who have really supported you over the years, and see if you can contact them directly.<\/p>\n<h3>Help Market Your T-shirt Design &#8211; Creating An Attractive Profile<\/h3>\n<p>To help you stand out from the crowd, it&#8217;s important that you max out your profile.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of leaving your profile avatar default, it&#8217;s key that you upload your own avatar, to help you stand out.<\/p>\n<p>Write about yourself on your profile, add your social media links, and let other users find out more about you.<\/p>\n<p>If a user can sense that you&#8217;ve made a profile that is eye catching, attractive, which has a big attention to detail, then this is going to rub off on your design, which is what you need to capture!<\/p>\n<h3>Help Market Your T-shirt Design &#8211; Uploading More Than One<\/h3>\n<p>To help increase your chance of getting your t-shirt design into our <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Vote On Graphic Tide\" href=\"\/vote\">voting platform<\/a>, one great thing to do is to submit more than one design.<\/p>\n<p>Why?<\/p>\n<p>Because this increases your chance of getting the votes that you need, as the more you have submitted, the more chance you have of reaching the 30 votes.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s great to see a packed profile which consists of lots of different designs, but another great way to help you get the votes that you require, is with submitting various designs.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say you upload everything to us, which should always be focused on quality than quantity, but we always suggest that you consider uploading 3-4 of <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Submit To Graphic Tide\" href=\"\/submit-design\">your best designs<\/a> to us, which you think will make a great t-shirt design.<\/p>\n<p>With this, you can also market this on social media in a consistent and effective way, as you&#8217;re not always promoting the same design over and over again.<\/p>\n<h3>Help Market Your T-shirt Design &#8211; Make A Design Which Is Tailored To A T-shirt<\/h3>\n<p>In order for you to really make a mark on Graphic Tide, a great thing to do is to make a t-shirt which is tailored for a t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Creatives love to create new pieces of artwork, from photography, fine art to drawing, but all of these aren&#8217;t necessary made for a t-shirt.<\/p>\n<p>Think about what you would want to wear yourself, and create a design like that.<\/p>\n<p>That might be taking inspiration from <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Graphic Tide's Shop\" href=\"\/shop\">our shop<\/a>, going onto our blog, or looking through your own t-shirt design collection, and seeing what works and what doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>If you can make a t-shirt design which is tailored to a t-shirt, which is produced with your style and talent, then your going to be a massive hit within the voting platform.<\/p>\n<h3>Help Market Your T-shirt Design &#8211; Becoming Part Of The Community<\/h3>\n<p>One great way to help you gain the votes you need on Graphic Tide is to become a avid member of the community.<\/p>\n<p>If you actively comment, like and share other people&#8217;s designs, then these people will more than likely vote and comment on your designs.<\/p>\n<p>We always encourage our users to be an active part of the community, where we all help and support each other within our creative journey&#8217;s, which you can be a part of yourself!<\/p>\n<p>What some past users have tried and succeeded at, is to ask the other person if they&#8217;ll be interested in doing a voting swap.<\/p>\n<p>If a user votes for you, then I&#8217;ll vote for you back.<\/p>\n<p>This is a great way to build relations within our community, and help boost your own t-shirt design!<\/p>\n<h3>You&#8217;ve Made A Great T-shirt Design, Now It&#8217;s Just About Telling People<\/h3>\n<p>In order for your t-shirt to reach the 30 votes that you require, you need to tell as many people as possible.<\/p>\n<p>Make use of your Mum or Dad, make use of your <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/graphictide\">Twitter<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>, and make use of your avid fans who can help support you.<\/p>\n<p>We loved your submission for a reason, (because we accepted it into our voting platform), so make sure you keep marketing your t-shirt, and become a great success over on Graphic Tide.<\/p>\n<p>We know you can do it, so just follow these tips to help you achieve it!<\/p>\n<h3>Summary Of Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Use social media to your advantage by embedding images within your Tweets, direct Tweets to your avid fans, and making use of Facebook and Google+<\/li>\n<li>Create a attractive profile which sets you apart from the crowd. Upload a profile avatar, write in your &#8216;About&#8217; section, and link to your social media accounts<\/li>\n<li>Upload more than one design to help increase your chance of getting the votes that you need, as the more you have, the better your chances. Remember though, quality over quantity is always best<\/li>\n<li>Become an active member of the community by commenting, voting, sharing and interacting with your fellow users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So thanks for visiting today, be sure to leave a comment below, as we would love to hear from you. Be sure to follow us on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Follow us on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/graphictide\">Twitter<\/a>, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Follow us on Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/graphictide\">Facebook<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Follow us on Tumblr\" href=\"http:\/\/graphictide.tumblr.com\/\">Tumblr<\/a>, it will be great to see you on there. 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