We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
Quick question - what kind of thing would you be interested in buying and which logos would you want to use (Wikipedia globe? Wikimedia? Wiktionery? Complete family? [1])
[1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete.svg
Please let me know either by personal reply or just reply to the list.
Regards,
2009/9/13 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
Cost price? What is the point of that? Merchandising is a great way of making money. I don't think the existence of members-only merchandise is going to get many extra people to sign up. I would be happy to pay a little extra for my WMUK t-shirts.
Thanks everyone for their responses. Back to the original questions:
- what kind of thing would you, personally, be interested in buying or getting as a gift? Tshirts, mousemats, cufflinks? - how much would you be willing to spend? - what logos would you like? Wikipedia? WMUK, complete family?
Discussions so far have focussed on very limited sales, order on demand only. No one wants to spend lots of effort doing this, or taking any significant levels of stock. I don't think it has any potential to be a major source of funding so I don't suggest we go down that route.
We're an association, a group of people with a common interest. The best way to encourage more and more people to join is to generate an enthusiasm for what we have in common. Stuff like Wikipedia T-shirts have a great potential to do that. Please don't pile in to rubbish the idea before it even takes shape.
Andrew
On Sep 13, 11:04 pm, Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com wrote:
We've received approval from the Wikimedia Foundation to produce merchandising with Wikimedia trademarks and copyrighted logos on it for sale to our members - anything from mugs and mouse-mats to cufflinks and ties. The plan is to sell them at cost price to members only.
Quick question - what kind of thing would you be interested in buying and which logos would you want to use (Wikipedia globe? Wikimedia? Wiktionery? Complete family? [1])
[1]http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikimedia_logo_family_complete...
Please let me know either by personal reply or just reply to the list.
Regards,
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2009/9/14 Andrew Turvey andrewrturvey@googlemail.com:
Discussions so far have focussed on very limited sales, order on demand only. No one wants to spend lots of effort doing this, or taking any significant levels of stock. I don't think it has any potential to be a major source of funding so I don't suggest we go down that route.
The final sale price would probably be lower if we bought a significant number and added a profit margin.
We're an association, a group of people with a common interest. The best way to encourage more and more people to join is to generate an enthusiasm for what we have in common. Stuff like Wikipedia T-shirts have a great potential to do that. Please don't pile in to rubbish the idea before it even takes shape.
I'll rubbish whatever ideas I want, thank you very much! I'm not convinced this will attract sufficient members to justify doing it. It doesn't further our charitable goals so if it doesn't raise significant funds, we can't do it. By all means, do some market research and find out for sure, but I think merchandising for profit is the way to go.
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