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T-Shirts, Hats, Hoodies, Stickers and more is one of the key ways for you to make money when you are playing live. Make sure you are hooked up with the best merch companies to meet your needs.

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Scrappy Music and Apparel Company

Scrappy Music offers independent musicians and record labels a place to buy your band merchandise. They specialize in low cost t-shirts, hats and stickers. What we liked about them in our research was their focus on the independent musician and understanding their needs. They started in 2005 when friends of theirs in bands needed merchandise and they went out and made it happen (maybe that's how the term scrappy came about) and it grew from there. Their expertise is in screen printing and embroidery. They ship orders all over the US.

Bandwagon Merchandise

Bandwagon Merchandise is full service merchandise and fulfillment company for musicians. They can also do band web stores.

Bandwear is a full-service merchandising company specializing in creating unique branding products and advertising specialty items. They specialize in screen-printing, embroidery, vinyl stickers, custom paper printing like posters, point-of-purchase displays, glossy photos, and thousands of advertising specialties. Bandwear can be a complete merchandising solution for you; handling everything from manufacturing and warehousing to online sales and fulfillment.

Jakprints makes band merchandise for a range of products such as VIP Passes, postcards, vinyl banners, t-shirts, stickers and business cards.

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eBandStore.com sells officially licensed rock, alternative, punk and heavy metal shirts and clothing. Since 2001 they have been selling clothing for bands worldwide. Through customized software they manage your store for you. The main store is viewed by 480,000 customers a year and 5 million page views. The costs start as low as $10 a month. They don't take a % of online sales, you keep that.

Cut Merch is a leading provider of music merch to the indie and DIY community. They also list great articles on venue merchandising, retail, e-commerce, displays, creating collectibles, among other topics to help musicians.

This site allows you to custom print your band logo on about anything and they will ship it to you or they also will sell your merchandise for you on their website and send you royalty checks when they sell it. You set your own royalty between 10% and 99%. The higher the royalty the higher the sales price. They take a 5% transaction fee on the sell price. You can even set up your own retail store on their site with your band merchandise. They also have a merchandise partnership for Sonicbids members.

We Need Merch offers high quality custom t-shirt screen printing for orders as small as 50. They have hundreds of bands as clients which they list on their site. Make sure you get on their list with a link to your site if you buy from them. They ship anywhere in the US, have a 2 week turnaround, and have a full art department with graphic designers to help your band if you need it.

Sticker Junkie is website that focuses on allowing you to make your own band stickers at low prices and high quality stickers. For example a standard size 8.5” x 1.5” sticker costs $105 for 500 stickers.

Stickers Guys have been making stickers since 1993. Since they specialize in stickers only they do it well and offer great pricing. They specialize in working with independent bands and records labels.

Kamikaze Robot specializes in stickers, starting as low as $21 for 125 4" stickers. They are a full service design and printing studio that can take your project from concept to completion. They also offer high quality t-shirts with low minimums and 10 day turnaround. If you buy stickers and shirts together you get additional discounts.

CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services.

Just Buttons provides custom pin-back buttons, seven sizes, three shapes, and free shipping. This is a great resource for bands. They will ship to you while your on tour, rush production, and work with you to make the order work.

MusicSkins offers high quality vinyl skin products that music fans can buy from you with your band logo on it to go on their phones, ipod's, computers and more. This could compliment your shirts, hats and stickers sales and give your fans something new to buy as well as promote your band wherever they go. Instead of them just downloading a cell phone wallpaper and ringtone from you complete the circle by offering them this vinyl skin. You could bundle it with your other cell phone products to encourage fans to buy them. MusicNomad has seen and tested the product and it did not leave any residue and was easy to remove from the device.

Red Star offers a full service merchandise strategy for bands. They help in the design and production, help manage sales strategies and inventory levels while on tour, and manage your online merchandise store.

Tinman Merchandising

Tin Man Merchandise offers a full service merchandise strategy for bands. They help in the design, production, and tour management of your bands merchandise. They can hire your touring staff for worldwide tours.

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Author: MusicNomad

Singing greeting cards are growing in popularity. Would your fans buy them to give to friends for the holidays and birthdays? Support your fellow musician instead of hallmark

Author: MusicNomad

More Bands are finding they can make more money on tour selling exclusive tour merchandise

Author: MusicNomad

Music fans are willing to pay more for better quality and finer fabric merchandise.

Author: MusicNomad

Limited Edition CD albums or singles on tours are a great way to sell some disks they can't find elsewhere.

Author: Jeri Goldstein, Music Author, www.performingbiz.com

Be accessible to the audience during the intermission and after the show. Invite people to the merchandise table from the stage. Let them know you'll be at the merchandise table and would love to meet them. Don't be shy about promoting the merchandise table. Even though the merchandise table is placed in a conspicuous spot, a direct invitation builds crowds clambering for your stuff during intermission.

Author: MusicNomad

Keep in mind when pricing your merchandise that some venues take 25 to 30% of the gross sales.

Author: MusicNomad

Know your audience before pricing your merchandise. T-shirts may go for $10 in Austin but people in New York expect to pay $20 and won't even buy shirts for $10 as they think something is wrong with them.

Author: MusicNomad

Data collection about your fan base is key so get emails and zip codes when you sell merchandise to them at shows.

Author: MusicNomad

Data collection is key from your fans so push them to e-commerce by offering them 20% merch discounts in emails and when handing out gig cards.

Author: Scrappy Music

When screen printing on dark garments make sure you always use a white underbase. This allows the colors to "POP" off the shirt.

Author: Scrappy Music

Don't ever pay for the underbase screen when it is only white ink on a dark garment. Some screen printers will try and make an extra buck and charge you a flash fee as well as a second underbase screen.