Author: Neil Cocker

Win a startup pack worth £1100 / $1500

We’re working with Startup Stickers, Jon Buchan & Vin Clancy to give away a bunch of free custom t-shirts, a ton of stickers, and two great mentoring sessions to one lucky winner this month + 4 e-books “Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide” from growth-hacking master Vin Clancy for the winner + 3 runners-up. Just enter your email below, and we’ll be in touch very soon if you’ve won!

  • £150 / $200 worth of t-shirts made by Ramp T-shirts
  • £240 / $300 worth of 500 Stickers of your logo made by STKRS
  • £60 / $80 worth of 1 large wall decal of your logo made by STKRS
  • £600 / $800 worth of 2 Skype/Zoom sessions with Jon Buchan & A copy of “Always Be Winning” – his ‘find clients – win new clients’ course.
  • E-books from growth-hacking master Vin Clancy. The winner, plus 3 runners-up, will each receive a copy of “Secret Sauce: The Ultimate Growth Hacking Guide” worth $100.

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Learn how you can make money with screen-printed t-shirts!

5 reasons why you should make custom t-shirts for your company

How to get more customers with promotional merchandise, and how to do it better.

5 things you need to know before ordering custom t-shirts

So, you’re thinking of ordering custom t-shirts?

Good idea! But whether you are getting them for your company, for a weekend away with friends, or as promo giveaways, it definitely pays to spend a few minutes reviewing these questions before ordering custom t-shirts and spending your cash.

The brilliant Buyapowa, with their team t-shirts. For sure they know all the things you need to know before ordering custom t-shirts
The brilliant Buyapowa, with their team t-shirts. Check them out for all your referral platform needs!

Here’s a few things to consider. Hopefully they will save you both time AND money.

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Christmas swag inspiration

Christmas business gifts and christmas inspiration ideasChristmas business gifts, such as sweaters and t-shirts, are great way to say thank you to your employees, your clients, and earn you some good holiday PR. It only takes a little effort to come up with corporate Christmas gift ideas that really stand out from the crowd. Plus, you’ll have created something that people will want (and hopefully wear more than just over the festive season!). And the potential rewards are huge!

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How Sujan Patel’s innovative growth hack of giving away t-shirts resulted in $1m of sales!

Single Grain T-shirts courtesy of SujanPatel.com-an innovative growth hack
Single Grain T-shirts courtesy of SujanPatel.com

An extremely innovative growth hack

I recently spoke to someone who truly understands the power of custom merchandise for business development, and how it delights customers and, crucially, brings you new ones for just a few dollars each. It’s a relatively cheap, innovative growth hack that had huge results!

I stumbled across Sujan Patel’s great blogpost about how he generated $980,000 worth of new business for his company “Single Grain” using t-shirts. It was an amazing read, and I immediately emailed him to jump on a call to chat. And he was just as passionate about the cotton as us! Continue reading “How Sujan Patel’s innovative growth hack of giving away t-shirts resulted in $1m of sales!”

September T-shirt competition. Free custom t-shirts for your team, startup or event!

We’re giving away a bunch of free custom t-shirts to one lucky winner this month. Just enter your email below (and share with your friends to get a load more free entries!), and we’ll be in touch very soon if you’ve won!

It takes less than 10 seconds!

Learn how you can make money with screen-printed t-shirts!

5 reasons why you should make custom t-shirts for your company

How to get more customers with promotional merchandise, and how to do it better.

ClickFunnels use free t-shirts to get more users!

If you’re wondering how companies can use t-shirts to grow their users and build a community, then you need to check out ClickFunnels. It’s a service to help you build any kind of marketing funnel for your website. They’ve clearly thought about it a huge amount, and baked t-shirts into this part of their customer acquisition process from the very start. They’re very smart in using t-shirts to get more users.

t-shirts are a huge part of how they have built a great community around their 48,000 users.

I caught up with Dave Woodward, ClickFunnels’ Chief Business Development Officer, to find a little bit more about their super-smart incentive, and how it works for them.

I'm a funnel hacker!?????

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How to get more customers with promotional merchandise, and how to do it better.

My Google Campus Wallet

Last summer, we were invited to take part in a week-long programme at Google Campus where, along with several other startups, we were given access to some of Google’s finest minds and insights.

It was a brilliant week that helped us refine a lot of the thinking we’d been doing over the previous months. And I’m only being slightly facetious when I say that one of the highlights was the free Google swag. Being the mighty world-beating behemoth that they are, they don’t do things by halves. And what we were given helped me crystalise my thinking around the benefits of promotional merchandise.

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Ramp For Good: Eat Or Heat

Ramp For Good #2

Regular readers will know about Ramp For Good, our project to give away free (or very heavily discounted) charity t-shirts to organisations making the world a better place.

The recipients of June’s donation are Eat Or Heat, a brilliant food bank based in London. With the number of people in the UK needing to turn to food banks now at a record high, the work they do is increasingly important. Eat Or Heat is there to support them as they struggle to pay bills AND feed their families. In other words, you shouldn’t have to make a choice. “Life shouldn’t be eat or heat”.

They accept tinned and long-life foods, as well as sanitary products, and use them to create food parcels for the vulnerable in the community.

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Hotjar’s free t-shirt referral program

At Ramp we’re big fans of Hotjar. We use it to tell us where we’re “losing” people on our website, and where they’re clicking, so that we can make things clearer, simpler and more efficient.

Nick Heim, their Director Of Marketing described it to me as “the closest thing to telepathy for your website”, which I thought was a pretty cool description!

I’d caught up with Hotjar because we were intrigued by the way they used free t-shirts to incentivise referrals, and drive thousands of new sign-ups. We thought it was really smart…

“We launched a super-simple referral program a few years ago, and it’s remained unchanged since then”, said Nick. “It’s a gamified system that simply rewards people with swag for sending new users our way. If you refer 5 users to Hotjar, we’ll send you a free t-shirt. If you’re in the top 5 referrers of that month, we’ll send you a hoodie!”.

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Ramp For Good – Manchester Marathon Match t-shirts

Ramp For Good #1

You may remember that we recently launched Ramp For Good, our project to support organisations doing great work in their communities. By providing free or heavily subsidised t-shirts we hope to help improve their ability to be visible, raise funds, or promote themselves.

Early last week we were in the final stages of organising our next shipment of t-shirts to an organisation making the world a better place. Suddenly we got a message out of the blue from a small group of people in Manchester. They were organising a 24hr marathon of back to back matches. Their cause was to raise funds for the victims of the awful murders of people at the Ariana Grande concert in their city. They needed Manchester Marathon Match t-shirts for the volunteers who would be helping them run the event.

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