First, I decided on full color. Then decided on much more text and less emphasis on the brand of characters, and more on the essence/spirit of the cartoon, that is, the theme of the cartoon would be similar, even if the subject matter was often different. There is so much one can “brand” in a single panel. I also realized that I didn’t want to just tackle one subject, but many. So I categorized them into medical, science, law, celebrities, music, sports, relationships, etc. This opened doors to all kinds of potential markets. Keep in mind, if one is marketing to, say, university textbook publishers, and one only creates physics cartoons, not a lot of textbook publishers are going to take a second glance, that is, unless they only publish physics textbooks. Hence the variation of subject matter.
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A boy was sent to an orphanage because his family could not support him. He became an apprentice and mastered the ins and outs of the business and turned it into a personal fortune of more than $11.5 billion. When he began his job, thousands of other workers were also an apprentice but they worked like workers while he developed a business mentality and special skills that would earn him a fortune.
New Orleans businessman Josh Harvey agrees that Pitt will make a great mayor for the city. He took the original t-shirt design from Bayer and printed up a batch of “Brad Pitt for Mayor” t-shirts. The t-shirts can be purchased for $20 at the Storyville T-t-shirt shopping on Magazine Street. They have been flying out the door as local residents are scooping them up as fast as tourists coming in to browse. A portion of all sales will be donated to Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation.
We went through a number of evolutions, trying different varieties of cartoons in various subjects. The cartoon that branded us the fastest was called Panel Hollywood, in which we portrayed the caricature likenesses of a number of film stars, musicians, politicians etc. and mailed each a copy with a request for a review. Out of the two hundred or so we mailed, perhaps fifteen or so responded, but they were big enough names that we now had a Hollywood following and potent “reviews” page. It was my strategy from the start, but, it was difficult finding a decent caricature artist. I was and am the idea person, and recruited a team of illustrators willing to work speculatively. It was based on the Disney model (only not animated).
Then, the right-wing meme machine spearheaded by Matt Drudge went to work. He featured a picture of Snooki heralding the “news” that the Jersey Shore star was opposed to the tanning salon tax being imposed by Obama’s health care reform plan. I was surprised — in a way, because how can one be surprised by someone named “Snooki”? — by the bovine, stupid face of the young woman featured on the Drudge Report.
What I would like you to do is to pick a group of your possessions – for example I’m going to say your collection of t-shirts. You’ve got over 50 t-shirts ranging from souvenirs to casual t-shirts to your “special” t-shirt – that one you save for the best occasions. In the first instance, 50 t-shirts is quite a lot! How many of them do you wear? How much money would you spend on your clothes? I’m going to ask you to start eliminating those t-shirts – slowly but surely. Give them away or better still, donate them to charity. Let’s face it, if you’ve kept a t-shirt for a year in the hope of wearing it, and you haven’t as yet, chances are it’s a while before you will.
While creating your products digitally (may sound difficult but it is not), and if you frequent the forums, Acttee other creators/shopkeepers are very helpful, continue article marketing, social bookmarking, opt-in emailing (if you wish, many don’t like it), or whatever your marketing style is. I try to use a little of each and even set a small budget on Google AdWords for several of the stores (and even specific products in some ads that lead to the destination product itself instead of main landing page. This can be done with article marketing as well with embedded links (these are the blue hyperlinks you see in this, and other articles.