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воскресенье, 20 ноября 2016 г.

Откриване на изложбата Design Museum е представя реакции към един сложен свят

 Първата изложба ще се проведе в новата лондонския Музей Design изследва спектър от въпроси, които определят нашето време, с инсталации с OMA , Хюсеин Чалаян и Нери Oxman .
Изложбата страха и любовта представя 11 инсталации с 11 различни архитекти и дизайнери, които всеки сблъскват с различен въпрос оформянето днешния свят.
Това е първата изложба ще се проведе в новата локация Южен Кенсингтън музея дизайн , отваряне за обществеността на 24-ти ноември 2016 г.
Изложбата страха и любовта представя 11 инсталации с 11 различни архитекти и дизайнери, включително Хюсеин Чалаян - който представя две носими устройства, които той първоначално създадени за неговата пролет лято 2017 шоу
Музеят е нов дом е в бившия Commonwealth институт, сграда от 1960 на Kensington High Street, която е ремонтирана от архитектурен дизайнер John Pawson .
"Когато Музея Design открит през 1989 г., първата изложба, търговията и културата, е за стойността на промишлените продукти," каза главен уредник и Dezeen колумнистДжъстин McGuirk .
"Три десетилетия по-късно, ние сега да вземе тази стойност за даденост. Страхът и любовта отива по-далеч, и предлага дизайн е замесен в по-широки въпроси, които отразяват състоянието на света."
След гласуването Brexit по-рано тази година, архитектурна фирма ОМА е създал Паневропейския Living Room
Сред въпросите, разгледани от 11-те изложители са в мрежа сексуалност, съзнателни роботи, бавна мода и се заселват номади.
След гласуването Brexit по-рано тази година, архитектурна фирма ОМА представя Паневропейския всекидневна, която е обзаведена с едно парче дизайн от всяка от 28-те страни членки на ЕС.
Общоевропейски Всекидневната е обзаведена с едно парче дизайн от всяка от 28-те страни-членки на ЕС
В центъра на стаята е гигантска, шарени слепи, които фирмата проектиран през 2001 г. като флаг на ЕС .
Моден дизайнер Чалаян изследва страховете, изпитани от хората, живеещи в големите градове, включително и страха от терористични нападения, и сексуалните желания.
Архитект, дизайнер и MIT професор Neri Oxman се проявяващи серия от 3D-печатни смъртни маски, включени един създаден за музикант Björk
Той представя две носими устройства, че той първоначално създадени за неговата пролет лято 2017 шоу през септември - един чифт слънчеви очила и колан.
Слънчевите очила са с вградени сензори, които измерват мозъчната дейност, пулс и скорост на дишане. След това тези данни се предават към проектор, вграден в колан, който хвърля визуално представяне на емоциите на ползвателя за външния свят, за да видите.
Амстердам графични дизайнери Metahaven представят филм за морската опазване на дивата природа групата Sea Shepherd придружено от серия от знамена
Втори моден дизайнер, Ma Ke, се показва текущото й проект Wuyong, в което тя отхвърля консуматорството и "бърза мода" от лечение нейните творения като произведения на изкуството.
Набиране на нашите страхове и тревоги, свързани с изкуствен интелект, мултидисциплинарен дизайнер Мадлин Ганън създаден Mimus - 1200-кг промишлен робот, който може да усети и да реагират на присъствието на посетителите от рамките на своята заграждение.
Холандски продукт дизайнер Christien Meindertsma избра да проучи потенциала за рециклиране на текстилни изделия, и създаде инсталация, съставена от дъгата с оттенък на купчини от влакна, предприети от 1000 изхвърли вълнени пуловери
В средата на стаята, японски графичен дизайнер и Muji арт директор Кения Hara е създал дисплей на прости фотографии, които се фокусират върху основните хранителни продукти по целия свят.
А уединена стая показва работата на архитект Андрес Жак , който е създал аудиовизуална инсталация на име Intimate Strangers.
Японски моден дизайнер Ma Ke се показва текущото й проект Wuyong, в което тя отхвърля консуматорството и "бърза мода" от лечение нейните творения като произведения на изкуството
Вътре, серия от екрани присъстват четири късометражни филма, всеки обсъждане на начина, по който нашият стремеж за секса и любовта на приложения и социални мрежи медиите се променя начина, по който гледаме на града, телата ни и нашата идентичност.
Към задната част на изложбата, Arquitectura Expandida - активист архитектура колективно от Колумбия - е инсталирано копие на училище го проектиран и изграден в една от общностите на Богота най-неравностойно положение.
Две рамо до рамо заграждения покажат творбите на Neri Oxman и холандски продукт дизайнер Christien Meindertsma .
Хонг Конг базирани на селските райони Urban Рамковата е създал юрта като структура, която изследва как номади Монголия се адаптират към градския живот
Oxman се проявяващи серия от 3D-печатни смъртни маски, включени един създаден за музикант Björk .
монтаж Meindertsma му, озаглавена Fibre Market, изследва потенциала за рециклиране на текстилни изделия. То се проявява в купчини от цветни влакна, предприети от 1000 изхвърлят вълнени пуловери.
Хонг Конг базирани на селските райони Urban рамкова изследва как номади Монголия се адаптират към градския живот, докато Амстердам графични дизайнери Metahavenпредставят филм за морската опазване на дивата природа групата Sea Shepherd придружено от серия от цветни графични знамена.
Да попитаме нашите страхове и тревоги, свързани с изкуствен интелект, мултидисциплинарен дизайнер Мадлин Ганън създаден Mimus - 1200-кг промишлен робот, който може да усети и да отговорят на посетителите от рамките на своята заграждение
Страх и Любов Изложбата е проектирана от Сам Яков и се намира на партерния етаж на новия музей на Design. Той е отворен до 23 Апр, 2017.
В пресконференция днес, директорът на музея Деян Sudjic разкри, че предстоящите изложби ще включват шоу за значението на Калифорния пост Чарлз и Рей Иймс , цвят експонат курирана от Hella Jongerius , и една годишнина на руската революция.

суббота, 19 ноября 2016 г.

Studying the Social Potential of Technorati’s WTF : A Statistical Analysis and Conclusion

Built on the backbone of the largest blog index and search engine in the world, Technorati’s Where’s The Fire (WTF) seems to be an anomaly that doesn’t fit in any preconceived model. Is it primarily a social news website (ala Reddit/Digg) that focuses on each user’s editorial power? Or is it simply a meme-tracker which groups and connects search topics on a deeper level with Technorati-indexed blogs?
My initial experiment on WTF was aimed at uncovering the potential of WTF as a marketing/promotional tool because no one had ever done so in detail until now. The lack of statistical information or analysis on WTF makes understanding WTF’s role in social media/blogging harder to discern.
As promised in my previous post, here’s my detailed report on WTF. I’ve waited three days before publishing this, in order to collect sufficient data for analysis. The aim of this is to examine the amount of traffic that would result from being on WTF’s frontpage and top spot.
I want to first say thanks to all who have voted so far. Your votes have allowed my blurb to stay on the frontpage for the past few days and gave me a chance to study its impact on an individual blog.
I was pleasantly surprised to note that Dave Sifry, Founder and CEO of Technorati voted for the blurb as well (Thanks, Dave!). Perhaps this reflects the importance of having more analysis and information on how WTF can affect each individual blogger or contributer.
The blurb I’ve submitted to WTF reached the Top spot under the Today’s Hottest Blurbs section and stayed there for three whole days while alternating between second and third place alongside several other submitted blurbs when they were voted up as well.
Currently, the blurb has received 41 votes in total as of this moment and is still at the top spot.
I’ve collected all the traffic data for the past three days and have written this little report on my findings. I’m sure the question on everyone’s mind is how much traffic came from staying on the WTF frontpage and top three spots for the past 3 days.
Another possible question of importance: Is Technorati WTF a social website you should use to promote your blog and content?
My answer to this is a simple yes. Technorati WTF is a social tool you should explore if you’re interested in getting more exposure to your blog. My reasons for saying so are indicated in this article, so please read on for more information.
Revealing the Potential of WTF: Issues of Usability and Growth
A commenter in my previous post suggested that revealing traffic details and encouraging others to get on the WTF frontpage will lead negative repercussions, mainly in the form of overcrowding on WTF, heavy competition and a drop in content blurb quality.
Perhaps so. I would expect that some bloggers after reading this post will start to use WTF has a marketing tool to promote their blogs. This will indeed intensify the competition, making it more crowded with possible junk content that results from mob voting.
Self-promotion is fine in my opinion, at long as you offer unique content on a specific topic and add to the discussion. Dave Sifry’s post on WTF gives an example of the blurbs you can write:
You can write a WTF on any topic that someone would search for, and provide information and resources to them about that topic or subject. So, you might want to write a WTF about yourself or your friends names, or your company (or maybe even your competition!)
Dave is also pretty explicit on the issues of vote gathering:
If you think that you’ve got a better explanation than the one that shows up on top of Technorati search results for a term, no worries, just go and write your own, and get your friends to vote for it. When you write something great, tell your friends to go and vote for it.. and the voting system will take care of the rest.
My goal in publishing this mini-report is to ultimately encourage more discussion on the purpose of WTF and also more usage of WTF to share quality information on a variety of topics.
For most bloggers, proof of WTF’s ability to send traffic is validation for its worth as a social website. If you’ve never used Technorati’s WTF before, this report will probably give you some reason to start today.
A Look at the Traffic Statistics
According to Google Analytics, I’ve received 425 visitors in the span of three days from being at the top or second and third spots in WTF’s Hottest Blurbs section. The blurb was submitted on Sunday, 1st April and received around 18 visitors an hour after it was voted to the top spot of WTF.
The next day, it received more votes as well as 160 visitors before slowing down to 140 on Tuesday and 107 on Wednesday. However, the article continues to remain at the top of WTF and I should expect a similar flow of visitors for today and Friday.
As you can clearly tell, the traffic is puny by the standards of other social websites like Digg or Reddit. Note that blurbs on other popular topics might do much better but I guess we can safely assume that this should be minimum amount of traffic you’ll get from being on the WTF frontpage.
The additional benefit of using WTF is that you’ll get prime position on top of Technorati search results pages. For example, if you do a search for ‘Technorati’, you’ll see that my WTF blurb shows up right on top because it has gathered the greatest number of votes among all other blurbs.
This might bring long term traffic if the topic is fairly popular. I can imagine that topics such as Paris Hilton or American Idol will have much larger search volumes.
Observations on the Nature of Traffic from WTF
  • Visitors consist of Bloggers. This is the number one point about Technorati’s WTF. Unlike other social networks the people visiting your blog are very likely to be bloggers instead of your casual web surfer.
  • Traffic comes in a steady stream. There is no surge of visitors to your website and I particularly like the fact that the number of visitors doesn’t seem to wear out over the span of a few hours.I’ve been receiving visitors from WTF ever since I’ve submitted my blurb and it does seem like it will continue as long as the blurb remains on the front page.
How does traffic from WTF benefit my blog or website?
The most ostensible and apparent benefit from visitors from WTF is the fact that they are very likely to be bloggers, which means that:
  • Your subscriber/reader base will increase . I’ve seen a rise in feed subscribers in the past three days. Although I can’t confirm that most of it was due to visitors from WTF, I’m very certain it had something to do with it.Bloggers are feed-savvy and are likely to subscribe easily when presented with content they like.
  • It might generate incoming inks to your website. Bloggers are part of the linkerati, a group of individuals that are web-savvy and link-friendly.I’ve only received two incoming links for my blurb but that’s probably because the topic might not be interesting for everyone. I’m sure intriguing pop culture, tech or political topics might perform better.
How do I get on the Technorati WTF frontpage?
WTF operates through a voting system which designates blurbs as popular or hot according to both the freshness and number of votes. These factors ensure that blurbs will gradually fall off the front page once it stops receiving votes and more blurbs are submitted.
Getting on the Technorati WTF frontpage is relatively easy. Let’s start by looking at some of the characteristics of the Technorati WTF frontpage:
  • Lack of other WTF submissions. There doesn’t seem to be many Technorati members actively using WTF and I’ve only seen several new submissions which joust for position on the frontpage. Most of them received 5 to 12 votes and remained on the frontpage alongside my blurb.
  • Longetivity. Links can remain on the top spot or front page for several days as long as it receives a small number of votes everyday. After getting on the frontpage, 2 to 5 votes a day will ensure that your blurb continues to maintain or improve its position.
  • Ease of getting listed: It’s actually very easy to get on the WTF front page. Approximately 5 quick votes after your blurb has been published will easily get you to the top spot, and you’ll need around 14 votes over the next day to hit the top spot.
  • Votes are absolute: Unlike Digg, your blurb cannot be buried and your vote counts for perpetuity. You don’t have the chance to unvote a specific story and group behavior from other members cannot influence your position. This ensures that votes are the ultimate deciding factor when it comes to being on the WTF frontpage.
  • User profiles do not matter. It doesn’t matter if you’re a power user who’s submitted many blurbs with high votes. Each vote will count as a positive recommendation which pushes it towards the top. There is absolutely no correlation or relationship between user profiles and blurb voting or submission power.
  • Lack of user interaction. There’s no option to ‘friend’ other Technorati users or send them private messages, nor is there the ability to comment on a blurb. Likewise, there is no way to easily track stories submitted by specific WTF users although there is the option of subscribing to their WTF RSS feeds. This means that vote gathering has to be done through alternative means like post requests, IM or email.
  • Freshness matters. As shown by the following screenshot, blurbs with votes lesser than mine can still reach the top spot. I’m assuming that the newness of both blurbs and user votes are a factor in determining the hottest blurb for the day. To remain in the top spot, you’ll need fresh votes everyday.
Of course, all these factors might change once more bloggers start to use Technorati WTF. However, the basic principle remains the same: you need votes and nothing else to get to the frontpage.
Steps to take..
  1. After you’ve published a specific post on a topic, create a WTF blurb.
  2. Go back to your post and insert a link to the WTF blurb and ask your readers to vote for it.
  3. Email/IM other bloggers you know and ask them to vote for your story.
  4. Encourage fellow bloggers or friends to subscribe to your WTF feed for future stories.
These four steps should be adequate enough to ensure that your blurb hits the front page. Getting regular votes over the next few days will depend on the strength of your audience and traction it receives over on WTF.
19 Comments - Share Your Thoughts
  • francesco mapelli on April 5th, 2007
    Grat post, Maki!
    I think you discovered a new and still “not polluted” social service.
    Well done!
  • Anita on April 5th, 2007
    Francesco – not polluted until now! As soon as people learn of a new way to self-promote, that channel slowly becomes saturated with:
    1st: Quality content, such as this
    2nd: Content that is useful to some, but generally banal
    3rd: Carefully masked ads
    4th: Spam
    As soon as the popularity causes submissions to reache the 3rd or 4th stage, the social site starts putting up blockades to getting your content listed/front-paged. If WTF becomes popular, I expect the same, although something tells me it won’t ever become THAT popular.
    Why? Because Technorati still hasn’t gotten their act together with network responsiveness. The whole system is slow, even WTF. Google Blog Search stinks compared to Technorati’s, but is now more popular because you get instant results … as opposed to Technorati’s where you sometimes wait 20 seconds just to be told the site is having problems.
  • francesco mapelli on April 6th, 2007
    Anita,
    It’s sad, but true…that’s the reason I said “still not polluted”
    We have to cross our fingers and hope wtf will not become too popular… smaller social sites are far more usable and of higher quality than big ones…
  • shokthx on April 6th, 2007
    This is the first I have heard of WTF. I find their site a bit hard to navigate for some reason.
    Very interesting idea.
  • Maki on April 6th, 2007
    Anita,
    I share your concerns as well.. I’ve been following WTF closely for a while and have noticed that the WTF admin team does remove spam blurbs pretty quickly.
    My main concern is that bloggers with large reader bases will exploit the absolute voting schematic by keeping their blurb consistently at the top of WTF.. I think it would be nice to see more variety on the frontpage.
    Skokthx.. you’re not the first one who told me that this is the first time they’ve even heard about WTF
  • Roberto Alamos Moreno on April 6th, 2007
    Great analysis Maki, thanks for sharing it with us. I think that by now is clear that WTF can’t compete with digg or reddit because the amount of traffic it generates is minimal for an established blogger, but it can be interesting for a new blog or website to make promotion there just to get those 100+ daily new visitors.
  • John Loch on April 6th, 2007
    Nice post Maki.
    I do wonder why they dont bother with a CAPTCHA though. Be it for voting or signup. Maybe they’re still waiting for that ‘critical mass’.
    But until they do, Technorati’s reliability is conspicuously undermined. It seems social sites can be distilled to an expression of object popularity, and the way I see it, it’s far too easy to compromise that process with Technorati.
    The WTF voting process (regardless of how a voting entity comes about), is in my opinion a fantastic way to measure popularity. It also lends itself to efficiency where abuse detection is concerned.
    Again, a wonderful post, and well worth the effort given the QUALITY of traffic you saw from WTF.
  • digitalnomad on April 6th, 2007
    Thanks for the update on your test. It will be interesting to see where this goes, based on the comments.
    Anita seems to have a handle on this. I suspect that over the next few days we will see many people posting to “WTF”.
  • Lilly on April 6th, 2007
    I think you have some of the best posts for indepth information I’ve found yet!
  • Antony Berkman on April 7th, 2007
    Maki,
    Interesting stuff.
    What enhancments could they introduce that makes WTF more than a blogger’s play area where the game is to be at the top of a list?
  • Garrett Albright on April 8th, 2007
    Hmm… Check out this WTF blurb about the Big 3 search engines announcing their support of rel=”follow”. I’m pretty sure it’s BS, since I can’t find any news about it anywhere and nofollow is not part of XFN as the author says it is, but still it’s managed to get ten votes so far. There’s no links in the article, though, so it doesn’t seem like spam… How odd.
    Anyway, I’ve been experimenting with WTFs too, since Maki’s first post. First I did one on the TRS-80 Model 100, with a link to an article on my own blog about it (of course), but then I realized that that’s probably too specific of a topic for someone to search for. So I tried HD DVD and Blu-ray, and, after seeing “art” in the “These topics need WTFs!” column, I did a semi-serious one on that subject. There hasn’t been a real noticeable bump in traffic from Technorati since I wrote those, but I guess every little bit helps.
  • digitalnomad on April 8th, 2007
    Thanks for the updates. Keep them coming.
  • Maki on April 9th, 2007
    Maki,
    Interesting stuff.
    What enhancments could they introduce that makes WTF more than a blogger’s play area where the game is to be at the top of a list?
    Antony, Technorati could develop a comment system, which allows voters and bloggers to interact with each other. Increasing the length of the frontpage to include more entries will also develop diversity in information shared.
    I guess you can call it a ‘game’ but the ultimate emphasis is the fact that bloggers are given editorial ability to determine news and influence Technorati’s search results page listings.
    The development of voting mechanisms will inevitably lead to group based strategies and competition and that’s an inevitable effect of decentralization in social websites like WTF, Reddit and Digg.
    In some way, WTF can’t evolve beyond that but encouraging more users and allowing more interaction will probably extend WTF’s focus beyond mere voting and rankings.
    @Garrett
    You’ll definitely need to get some friends to seed the article or else it’ll be lost in the wilderness. The 10 votes for the XFN piece probably came from friends of the blurber.
    Agloco spam is also starting to show up on WTF as well due to group voting..
  • The Constructivist on May 3rd, 2007
    I’d like to say this inspired me to Declare War on Technorati, but I only bothered clicking on this today. It was actually my frustration with WTF and the fact that some religious guy who criticized Technorati and pledged never to read it again made it to a #1 search recently that was the initial inspiration for the post.
  • Bobby Revell on August 19th, 2007
    Great post. My first WTF has been#1 for 8 days straight and has 123 votes. I did gain 21 new subscribers since I wrote it. I find it easier than Digg and it’s easier for me to get voters as I know a lot of people on Technorati.
    I have been getting some new traffic that is looking for what I wrote about! I also pointed to this post for my readers to check out:)

So You Want to Make Money Online: An Extensive Guide to T-Shirt Affiliate Marketing

Everyone loves cool T Shirts with great designs or slogans. And why not? They aren’t expensive and are generally affordable to a large market of consumers, from your average college student or high school kid to your corporate executive or housewife.
Because of its implicit connection with internet, sports and pop culture, T-Shirts with snarky or humorous designs are appealing and can easily sell themselves effortlessly. Here’s where this applies to you.
Did you know you can make money by simply promoting T shirts from clothing companies online? Like most other affiliate programs, you can earn commissions on every T shirt bought by a visitor that visits an online store through your affiliate link.
This article will touch on how you can get started as a T-Shirt affiliate and includes a comprehensive list of thirty one T-shirt and clothing companies with affiliate programs you can use to kick-start your T-shirt marketing experiment.
Types of T-Shirt Affiliate Retailers and Programs
T Shirt retailers fall into two main categories, the niche T-shirt seller as well as the general retailer. The niche retailer specializes in selling T-shirts and no other products. Depending on their size, they usually offer some of the best rates, customer support and promotional tools.
The general retailer offers T-shirts alongside other merchandise such as hats, bags and other apparel. The T-shirts they sell will appeal to a large demographic and are generally not theme-orientated.
There are mainly two types of T-Shirt affiliate programs:
  1. Direct T-Shirt affiliates – You’ll work directly with the retailer so there’s leverage for rate negotiation if you can pull in a large amount of sales. Note that stats tracking may not be as efficient as third-party affiliates.
  2. Third-party affiliates – These companies run their affiliate program through affiliate networks such as ShareaSale or Commission Junction. If you already have an account with these networks it’ll make the whole process of getting started faster. The middlemen also acts as a guarantee that you’ll get paid whatever commissions that are due to you.
Eleven Quick Steps to becoming a Successful T-shirt Affiliate
You probably want to get started immediately so I’m going cut to the chase and tell you exactly what I did to make a yummy amount of money every month. I love selling T-shirts and these steps are fail-proof methods which will guarantee that you’ll make money too:
  1. Get your own domain. Go for older or expired keyword domains if possible. I would suggest using your own hosting and domain because you’ll have a lot more freedom at the backend. Also, you can flip the site for profit in the future if you ever get tired of this niche.
  2. Set up Wordpress. Choose a fresh, attractive template and create one or two web pages, which contain specific product type or brand (Men/Women, T-shirts/Hats etc.). Make sure you don’t put any contextual ads on it.
  3. Import the product/data RSS feeds that the T-shirt company offers or manually insert image and text links to specific products.
  4. Pick various keywords you want to target. Check their search volume through Overture or other tools. Include several long tail keywords and don’t forget to optimize your images.
  5. Submit articles to free directories. Hire a cheap freelancer to write and do article submissions. This might cause a few dollars for each article and will build lots of backlinks to your website. You’ll also get traffic and sales when your article is syndicated by other publishers. My guideline is at least one article a day for the first month.
  6. Hire a content writer to put up content on a regular basis. Content doesn’t even have to be related to T-shirts. General Humor, TV and movies are a great place to start. Put up a minimum of one post a day. This also makes your website attractive to other websites/blogs and helps in link exchanges.
  7. Buy links for specific keywords. I usually buy contextual blog links from several brokers I am familiar with. This will allow you to rank fast for mid-level competitive keywords.
  8. Set up a YouTube Channel and upload wierd/sexy/funny videos. Include links to your webpage on the video and channel page. This is an awesome method to get free targeted traffic from an interested demographic. I have gotten at least 100 visitors a day for videos that were relatively popular.Upload at least one video a day. Maximize the exposure by submitting the videos to Digg, Fark, StumbleUpon and Reddit. Also post video responses to popular videos and leech their traffic.
  9. Link Bait as much as possible. I usually write a linkbait piece once a week for each website. I isolate it on a separate webpage and include sidebar or post banner ads. As I’ve mentioned above, video and picture link baits have been the most successful for me. Doesn’t matter if the content is cheesy or Made-for-Digg, as long as it gets you traffic.
  10. Get on Myspace. You can buy a Myspace Profile with thousands of real friends and use it to send out (spam?) bulletins about your website. This will definitely will get you some buyers if you don’t overdo it.If you’re not interested in buying, just start your own MySpace page and hire an experienced MySpace pimp. If you really want to DIY the whole process. Add a minimum of 30 friends a day to your account for the first month.
  11. Drive traffic to your website using PayperClick Campaigns. I’ve also used StumbleUpon’s advertising program as a word-of-mouth promo tactic because it gives you the ability to designate age/sex and location. SU doesn’t convert well but the traffic is very cheap so it’s worth it, in my opinion.
And the list of ways to promote your website goes on and on. I’ve only listed what I think are some of the more effective ways to get you started. Keep in mind the ultimate goal is to drive a large amount of targeted traffic to your website and direct them on to each T shirt company.
This works because almost all of these T-shirt companies use cookies which ensure that even if the visitor doesn’t make an impulse purchase, you’ll still be credited with the sale as long as she returns to the website and makes a purchase within a certain time period (e.g. 30 days to lifetime).
Why Use Wordpress instead of building a normal website?
I chose to use Wordpress and the format of a blog because I’m very familiar with how it works. You can choose to create your own website using any other platform, it’ll probably work just as well if you know how to drive traffic to it.
Here are other several reasons why I use Wordpress:
  • Wordpress templates are attractive and most importantly, are free. Saves you a lot of time from buying/building a template or hiring a designer. Also useful when you want to run multiple websites. Pick one from this list of great themes.
  • Blogs can easily add fresh content daily which makes it easier to rank for specific keywords.
  • Wordpress can can be designed to look like a magazine or professional store. See this tip on tweaking Wordpress.
  • A lot of functionalities (plugins) are available for Wordpress and it is a hassle-free Content Management System. It allows one to add, manage or tweak content very quickly.
  • Wordpress is very easy to optimize for search engines. See this SEO Guide for Wordpress.
Dosh Dosh’s List of 31 T-Shirt Affiliate Programs
The following collection of T shirt affiliates is currently the largest online list at the moment. All links in this list point directly to affiliate program homepage for each T-shirt or clothing company.
I’ve not included any referral links whatsoever for the entire list. Unless otherwise stated, all descriptions below also come from each respective affiliate program.
Recommended T-Shirt Affiliate Programs
The following list might be too much to plow through so I’m going point you to some of the affiliate programs out there that worked for me. I’ve used T Shirt Hell (#3) and Deez Teez (#2)for some time and they are two of the T-shirt companies you can start with if you’re completely new to T-shirt affiliate marketing.
These two companies have products that are geared towards the college crowd and will convert well with social website traffic. There’s also a decent amount of promo material provided by each. Other companies I’ve tried include Busted Tees (#4) and Split Reason (#11). Both are recommended as well.




1. NerdyShirts
We will pay you 15% of each order you send us. That’s $3.00 per t-shirt ordered and $4.50 per BeatBuckle sold!


2. DeezTezz
Place a banner or text link on your site with your personal ID URL and make $7.00 per lead. We also offer Tier II, get paid $2.10 for affiliates under you that make a sale. Operates via ShareASale.


3. T Shirt Hell
We’ll pay you $4 for every shirt a visitor you send to T-Shirt Hell.com buys! That’s right, $4 for every single shirt that’s sold. Doesn’t matter if we’re selling the shirt for $7, $10 or $17…you make $4 for every shirt sold!
You also make $1 for every shirt a webmaster who signs up under you sells, using our 2-tier program. Real time tracking for states included.
4. Busted Tees
Every time you send someone who puts in an order with us, you get 10% of that order. It’s that easy! Powered by Commission Junction.


5. Crack Smokin’ T Shirts
Every person you refer to our site that buys something will earn you a 20% of each sale. If your lead signs up for our program and gets a sale for our Tier II program… you get another 5% from their sale.
Your clicks get stored in our database for up to 365 days, so if your refferal leaves and comes back another time to buy… you still get paid. Powered by Shareasale.


6. Snorgtees.com
Earn $5 for every sale that you refer us. 45 day cookie tracking. Our ideal affiliates are content-driven sites, blogs, or online stores that cater to a similar demographic as us and can send us unique traffic.


7. T-Shirt Humor - broken website renamed site
We pay you a 20% commission on every sale resulting from a visitor who reaches T-ShirtHumor.com through a banner or link on your site. Powered by Shareasale.


8. Spreadshirt
Spreadshirt pays partners at least 20% commissions for each sale they generate. Tiered commissions give up to 25% of each sale to our partners for outstanding sales performance. Includes hundreds of product feeds.


9. tShirt Freaks
We’ll pay you $4 for every shirt a visitor you send to Tshirtfreaks.com buys! Sales are tracked through Shareasale.


10. CafePress.com broken website
The CafePress Affiliate Program powered by Commission Junction is scheduled to launch on April 10, 2007.The base commission rate is 15% and the cookie duration for the CafePress Affiliate Program on CJ is 30 days.


11. SplitReason.com - broken website
We pay $4.00 USD for every t-shirt you sell, period. Every single customer you refer to us remains your customer. If you’ve referred a customer to us that has made a purchase, you will make an additional commission on everything that customer ever buys at SplitReason.com


12. RadRowdies.com broken website
Affiliates earn up to $4 from every item they sell. (US funds). We use a 30 day cookie too! So if someone uses your affiliate link but doesn’t buy anything right away, and then they come back within 30 days and buy something, you still get the commission. As long as your affiliate payout balance is over $30, just send us an e-mail and we’ll send you your commission via PayPal.


13. BrownTurtle - broken website
Get a industry high commission of 25% on the entire order you bring to Brownturtle.com. That’s $4.25 per sale and our average sale is $34.00, which gives you a commission of $8.50. For every webmaster that signs up for Brownturtle.com under your link ID, you will receive $1.00 for every sale they generate.


14. ChoiceShirts renamed site
We pay 15% of net sales, plus give you the opportunity to earn bonuses as well. Promotional ads individually tailored to your site; we have ads and text links available in just about every one of our categories.Complete data feed of our entire product line is now available.


15. Tshirts.com
We will pay you a commission equal to ten percent (10%) of ‘Net Sales’. This excludes any returns, applicable sales tax, coupons, and shipping and handling charges. If your site has earned $25 or more in commissions in a month, your site will receive a check after the month ends.


16. Jiggy.com
You’ll earn 10% on all sales made during user sessions originating from a link on your site. Includes 24/7 Real Time tracking.


17. T-Shirt King
New 2-tier Payout Structure: Get paid 12% on all sales commissions that you generate, PLUS, 3% earned on all sales generated by webmasters that you refer to us. Direct link capability without the need for affiliate links. Includes lots of promotional material.


18. AllPosters.com
Allposters.com pays you a commission rate of 25% – 30% on all shipped products made through your affiliate links. For each Website you recruit, you will earn: $3.00 when they make their 1st sale, $5.00 when they make their 2nd sale, Plus 5% of every sale they make for life.


19. Karma Loop
Part of the Linkshare Affiliate Network. Provides you with a large variety of banners, logos, product links, text links, images and more. Affiliate commission is 5 to 8%.


20. CoultureCandy
Commissions are 15%. Since our average order is $239, that would earn you $35.85 per sale referred through CoutureCandy. CoutureCandy’s affiliate marketing program includes the latest tools and features that will allow you to maximize your earning potential. You can choose from a terrific selection of banner ads, text links, product catalogs and more


21. ThinkGeek
ThinkGeek uses Commission Junction to conduct our affiliate program.Earn commissions of up to 8% from all qualified sales that came from your site.We maintain a 45-day cookie, meaning that if a visitor clicks on a link from your site, you are credited with the sale as long as the visitor purchases within 45 days.


22. Bantam Apparel
You send us a sale, we give you 20% of the total item cost. Sales are tracked by entrance referrals and are valid for 45 days. Partner accounts are credited thirty days after an order is shipped. All partners are paid via PayPal.


23. ihateclowns.com
Earn 15% per sale and 1% on all 2-tier sales. Cookies that NEVER expire!The average sale amount is $20, which means you will be earning approximately $3 per sale with your 15% commission. ihateclowns.com has teamed up with ShareASale to offer a simple affiliate signup process


24. Vintage Edge
Also allows you to insert a personalized T shirt store on your website with tracking functions. VintagEdge Affiliates are paid on a monthly basis once they have reached the $25 minimum payment threshold.


25. ONS Shirts
Earn 10% for every sale that you refer to us. 60 day cookie tracking. Powered by Shareasale.


26. T Shirt Black
Features sexy and funny T shirts. Affiliate program accessible by private arrangement only. Email T Shirt Black for more information if you’re interested.


27. Skrew Gear
All our affiliates get a 15% commission on sales. Powered by Shareasale.


28. American Hockey Center
By joining our Affiliate Program, you earn a 10% commission on T-Shirt sales generated through your site. If the customer returns to our site at a later time (even if they never enter your site again), our system will remember the affiliate code of the the last referring site so even if your customer doesn’t purchase T-Shirts right away, you still get paid.


29. KlearGear
17.5% commission on all net sales (less shipping and tax) for new Affiliates. Affiliates who generate consistent results over time may be upgraded to our Platinum program with 20% on commissioned sales. Features Geek T shirts and Apparel.
30. TasteeTees.com
We Pay a generous 15% on all sales! We don’t limit you to a per sale amount – if you send us a sale for 4 Tee Shirts you make 15% on the total sale! If a customer that you sent us – purchases t-shirts from Tastee Tees anytime within 60 days – you get your commission.
The more you promote us – the more you make. For any month that an affiliate sends us $1,000 in net sales – we will pay them 20% on all sales that month!


31. Threadless
You can start earning points right away. One of the best ways to earn StreetTeam points is to link to Threadless from other websites or through email using your unique StreetTeam URL. If your referral results in a sale, you will receive 2 StreetTeam points ($3.00). You can use the points to buy Threadless T-shirts.
(Threadless doesn’t actually make you money but I’ve included it because you can redeem the points you earned for some pretty cool shirts.)
And that’s a wrap.. good luck if you’re starting out as a T-shirt affiliate!
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