G's Motorsports Apparel Business (ACLR8) w/MM discounts

[G.Irish]

I'm doing a quick weekend giveaway of Forza 4 for those of you who own Xbox 360's. Like the Facebook page to enter:



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For every extra 100 people I'll be throwing in another copy so pass the word.

[Goodspeed]

Liiiiked.

[Kaan]

me too!

[WRXtranceformed]

Liked

[G.Irish]

If you haven't liked already, I'm closing up shop in t-minus 30 minutes.

[G.Irish]

I've got some new free stickers, PM if you'd like some mailed to your domicile.

[G.Irish]

So after much back and forth, and the struggle, I've got some officially licensed Honda stuff I can sell. Right now the only approved one is the RA168E shirt on my site.

My MM deal is that I'll throw in a Japanese Flag/RA272 shirt (the one on the right) for free for any MM members. Reason being is that Honda approved, then disapproved that version of the design, so now I can't sell it.

For those of you who already bought one (RA272), I'll hook you with a special deal on some of the other stuff that is in the approval pipeline.



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[BLINGMW]

I've got some officially licensed Honda stuff I can sell.

That's cool as hell. Sounds mildly frustrating though!

[G.Irish]

Yeah it's been a bit of a challenge since I had gotten the design approved, made and shipped a sample, then the design was disapproved, made adjustments and shipped another sample which was disapproved, so now we're on the third sample with changes for the same design. The F1 engine design got approved on first try so at least that went better.

Hopefully the next few things will go a little more smoothly and the investment will start paying off.

[ScottyB]

I've got some officially licensed Honda stuff I can sell.

That's cool as hell. Sounds mildly frustrating though!

you're not kidding, that sounds totally awesome and intimidating...i literally wouldn't know where to start...

digging the designs man.

Yeah it's been a bit of a challenge since I had gotten the design approved, made and shipped a sample, then the design was disapproved, made adjustments and shipped another sample which was disapproved, so now we're on the third sample with changes for the same design. The F1 engine design got approved on first try so at least that went better.

Hopefully the next few things will go a little more smoothly and the investment will start paying off.

would you / are you able to share what aspects they disapproved and how its been working with them? do you report to a corporate/HR division for approval or do you get to communicate with their design team?

[G.Irish]

Yeah it's been a bit of a challenge since I had gotten the design approved, made and shipped a sample, then the design was disapproved, made adjustments and shipped another sample which was disapproved, so now we're on the third sample with changes for the same design. The F1 engine design got approved on first try so at least that went better.

Hopefully the next few things will go a little more smoothly and the investment will start paying off.

would you / are you able to share what aspects they disapproved and how its been working with them? do you report to a corporate/HR division for approval or do you get to communicate with their design team?

So they use a brand management firm to manage all of their licensees. The process is that I submit a mockup to brand mgmt company, they show it to Honda client, then approval comes back. Then I make production sample of shirt, send some to Honda in CA, then I get final approval/disapproval.

With the RA272, the first version had the HONDA logo in red. The posted style guide said that was fine, and the mockup was approved. When I sent the samples in, 'no you can't use red version of logo'. They actually wanted me to use the version of the logo that was on the actual car at the time. Ok, no problem. Then after I updated and sent new samples, legal came back and said I had to remove the driver's name from the car. That was on the design from the start, but I guess legal took longer to circle back on things.

This wouldn't be a major deal but the brand mgmt->Honda loop can take days or weeks, and my printer has lead times of a week or more so one round of revisions can take a long ass time.

But it's just a process I'm learning. It is intimidating and I've procrastinated a bit because of that (and baby!) but I think we're getting on track here and I am excite.

[Tyler.M]

so amazingly cool. I'd love an example of either both.