Who agrees that Cameesa desperatly needs some mainstream adversting?

I agree some press would be nice,
The only big name shirt people I can think of are that I wear your shirt dude Jason Sadler, or Mr. Crush it Gary Vaynerchuk of please dress me and wine library fame, but cameesa can easily do what they do. Just get on the twitter or ustream, throw together a contest, and talk to people daily or weekly.
I would much rather hear from the founders directly then a spokesperson anyway.

- quakerninja commented 52 days ago

Twitter is so easy to promote with. Use Hootsuite, preset your posts, and promote! It's really not that damn hard. While I curated with RIPT, I could sit down 15 mins a day, set up a day's worth of promo posts and preset them for times during the day (and I programmed 6-8 posts a day for them). Now, they're barely out there.

Look, I get it's just text. It doesn't show pictures. It's not in your face. But jeeze, we pulled in at least a third of RIPT's current customer base in 3-4 months. I think we also did that with curators (to which, I am going to say, cameesa probably should NOT jump on the curation band wagon as I doubt that would better the site. You've got to get product out there first, and if you are struggling to pay out things now, you don't want to bring on curators with the promise of a bonus that you will never be able to pay out), but we pulled in a lot more people with click-thrus to the site. I used to watch the stats on every link I posted thru twitter. It costs nothing, which is totally economical for the sites out there who are struggling with finances for advertising. Hell, even talk with IATT-TV (IAmTheTrend.com) and see if they would promote your product. Or any other number of sites that do write ups, since you changed the t-shirts back to AA.

The thing that gets me is that struggling artists who are desperately trying to catch a break out in the t-shirt world are the ones that are telling you guys how to advertise. Most of us have bupkiss for advertising in our budget (hell, most of us don't have a damn budget). By all means, please listen to us and advertise, already. Get the word out about the site. I think I've honestly promoted cameesa on twitter more in one week than you guys have since you've had your account.

- JadenKale commented 44 days ago

"struggling artists who are desperately trying to catch a break in the t-shirt world are the ones that are telling you guys how to advertise"

"most of us don't have a damn budget"

" I think I've honestly promoted cameesa on twitter more in one week than you guys have since you've had your account."

- ditto!

- Everae commented 36 days ago

In the near year my design has been up at Cameesa, I'vee literally busted my ass to promote it. It's my design, I SHOULD be promoting it. HOWEVER, it's YOUR company... get off your asses and promote it through every free avenue you have at your disposal. Jesus... It's not that hard. Make big announcements saying a shirt has printed... don't just email the supporters. Let the masses know it printed and that we who didn't support it, missed out on yet another opportunity. Twitter your favorite pieces of the week. Twitter your favorite artists of the week. Facebook your artists of the week. Have give-aways. We know you have product you need to get rid of, take advantage of that... do some community service work that allows you to give a portion away as a donation and have the local community you live in do a story about it and what you're doing. Then tell the shirt blogs about it so they also do write-ups about you and the site... I may not have a damn marketing degree, but I know what to do to pull people in (without selling out for every cheap pop-culture trick out there) since I had to do all of this as part of earning my degree.

I feel like I've wasted my breath because Kamil and the Cameesa staff won't even acknowledge this crap. You guys actually want to make money? Stop messing with the prices and taking away everything that makes you unique, and... oh, I don't know... burn the midnight oil, as well as the candle at both ends, and ADVERTISE!

If I'm willing to suffer for my work, and I don't even have a business at this point, the LEAST you can do is go a week without sleep to make this company the best it can possibly be. Not just beg your dwindling customer base for more cash to support their favorites.

- JadenKale commented 32 days ago

Thanks. We've been spending a little more time trying to ge followers in twitter and actually increased by 100 this week, and we are currently having a t-shirt giveaway.

We are very open to any specific examples you may have of how we can improve our online advertising/marketing (withou spending money at the moment). I don't take any of this advice personal as I know that you are trying to do what is best.

Thanks for your advice in advance.

- kamil commented 32 days ago