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An easy way to advertise Esperanto

de sudanglo, 2016-januaro-02

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Lingvo: English

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-05 13:40:16

A (thin fake cloth, the plastic kind that wears out quickly) lernu bag was given out at SES a few years ago and I have a (thin cloth) lernu bag myself, but they aren't sold online. They also aren't big enough to hold any meaningful shopping. The SES one had little pictures of everyday items with their Esperanto names. The lernu bag just has a big logo and the word "Esperanto?" and lernu.net. It was trying to get people to ask while being international enough not to need translation. It's hard to put something like "Learn Esperanto for free" and have it work in a lot of language, each country or group of same-language countries needs to do their own because it's expensive for a website like us to produce a bag in a bunch of different languages.

Haven't seen a really heavy duty supermarket-style carrier bag with Esperanto imprinting but not even all grocery stores sell those proper heavy duty ones. I prefer real cloth or heavy duty woven plastic but not that weird faux-cloth pressed plastic stuff that wears out quickly. Though I have a bunch of them from the annual DC embassy open house day, they are cheap to print. I [heart] EU, anyone?

NJ Esperantist (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-06 02:41:41

sudanglo:
Another thing, I don't believe anybody has produced a window sticker for one's car which also advertises that you can learn Esperanto for free on the Internet at Duolingo and Lernu.net. I would certainly buy one of these.

Any budding entrepreneur out there who would like to put these on the market? I think that there would be steady sales in the Esperanto community.
Usually, companies and organizations take exception to individuals using their logo or trademark to make money. I doubt Duolingo or Lernu would appreciate it if I put their logo on shirts and stickers, even if I priced them very close to cost.

Alkanadi (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-06 10:01:15

sudanglo:Any budding entrepreneur out there who would like to put these on the market? I think that there would be steady sales in the Esperanto community.
I think this would be pretty hard to market. However, I will make some for you if you like.

Option 1: If you want 1, then I will charge you about 6 - 10 USD plus shipping.

Option 2: if you want a larger supply then I can reduce the price. You could add a few dollars and sell them wherever you want.

Check out the attached image and see what you think. I can change it to look cooler if you give me some feedback.

Vestitor (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-06 10:44:58

The design looks great. I wonder though whether people would want to pay for what have now come to be thought of as 'free bags'. I have quite a lot of these from different places: shops. conferences, political party, Christmas fair...

The only shopping bag I routinely use is a sturdy one made of tough hessian and that was a freebie from the supermarket when a new local branch opened.

Alkanadi (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-06 13:44:53

NJ Esperantist:Usually, companies and organizations take exception to individuals using their logo or trademark to make money.
I will have to get permission if I produce a large quantity, otherwise, if it is just for personal use then there shouldn't be a problem.

We can use other symbols also and just have the website as a reference.

Alkanadi (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-06 13:46:46

Vestitor:The design looks great. I wonder though whether people would want to pay for what have now come to be thought of as 'free bags'.
Thanks. The people who want to represent Esperanto might buy it, but other than that, it is a tough sell.

erinja (Montri la profilon) 2016-januaro-06 14:05:13

Vestitor:The only shopping bag I routinely use is a sturdy one made of tough hessian and that was a freebie from the supermarket when a new local branch opened.
Those nice hessian ones usually go for $6-$10+ (at least in the US) unless it's a very special occasion. They are not too cheap to make. I have a couple but I paid for them, similar prices in different countries.

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