Big business band merch free#

That sounds pretty fucking cool to me and should sound cool to you too. If you want a Jane’s Addiction shirt that is pink with purple print with a design from 1998 you will be able to get it and you will be able to get it easily. There’s very soon going to be all sorts of unique possibilities for merch when you order online. So there’s huge potential here and a market that is clearly very hungry for this. That is to say, and I know this is crazy, but with printing technology you can send one good design into the manufacturer and your fans can order anything from underwear to a hoodie with the design in any color. This all being said, the real advantage of fulfillment, especially over the long term and especially with digital printers is that a good fulfillment company can get you any type of merch at any time in any place. It’s kind of cool to me that DIY ethics, no matter what the day and age still have a place and a way to disrupt some of the biggest trends. While with Dropout Merch we are trying to include some of that stuff I think it is a tall order to ask any fulfillment company to do that for you, so it’s just something to keep in mind as you are going forward and attempting to lock in and develop your brand.

The other reason not to is if you are packing your merch mail outs with goodies like hand written letters, CD’s patches and all that shit. The same can be said if you have a great relationship with a screen printer. That all being said – if you are a band who own your own screen printing machine and run stuff on the cheap then that’s always a good reason to do it on your own. There are admittedly a few great reasons not to do merch on demand, though I think with the dropping cost of these types of service they might go away relatively soon. These are all really cool tools that are basically predicated on how much time you are willing to put into this whole thing, because if you can hustle it, you can really blow up.

There are also companies that will literally let you set up your design and run them on fulfillment where you organize the entire backend. I think there are a lot of really cool ideas in this space, like for example fundraisers that offer to giveaway shirts, but only print them if you meet your goal. From what I understand it is probably wisest to shop around and determine what the best fit is for you. Some spots might have rates on a sliding scale depending on units you move or a small setup fee, all of which makes total sense I think depending on different workflows.

Big business band merch free#

Of course, now you must be wondering how much this costs it sounds too good to be true right? Well as luck would have it most of the good fulfillment places are totally free and just take 50-75% of the sales price. This is simply how the news goes and where we are headed next as a culture, and it’s going to fuck up a lot of warehouses in a big way. While it may not seem that way now, give it five years. If you can’t embrace it, then you are simply going to end up being behind the times. You need to find a way around it and fulfillment is that way. I know how much it sucks and I don’t blame you. We just keep a shit ton of screens in our factory and have them nicely sorted so the people who want to get merch done end up getting merch done when they pay for it and bands don’t need to worry about only selling seven shirts and having dozens left over in their basement making them feel bad. We just have a store front and order forms so when someone buys from us we can send it to them direct and make it, on demand. That is to say, we don’t actually hold any stock at Dropout Merch. So what is merch on demand? It’s essentially dropshipping.

While yes, I do own a merch on demand company, Dropout Merch, I’m not really trying to suck my own dick here, it’s just that this is something I have thought a lot about and want to share with you guys. While right now there are a lot of issues we need to confront, like the fact that streamlining makes it easier for shitty bands to muddy the waters and make your life harder, I also want to talk about one of the great hopes for the future that I’m a huge fan of, merch on demand. These are the things that facilitate growth and which encourage people to be able to be greater in 2018. So when people ask me about the future of the music industry, something that probably happens more than it should, I often talk about the streamlining of the business.How approaches are being stripped down, brought back to the basics and made more efficient.