marketing of personalised canvasses

[simon7]

Ive just been reading some threads on here and i have just had an idea, i sell personalised canvasses,that incorporate favorite football clubs etc. at the moment i only sell on my website, which as been up and running for about 3 weeks, by the end of the day i will have one liverpool canvas on e-bay,that can be personalised to see what kind of response i get.

How else could i promote this kind of product

I thought of party plan, but not really my scene, unless i could link up with someone who does partyplan and think that a canvas product would fit in with thier current portfolio.

Any advice would be appreciated

simon

[profitxchange]

Get in touch with the local paper's business editor - they may like to run an article on you and your business. Talk to them first and see if they can give you a steer - you will need to write the copy.

[fisicx]

Do you have permission from the clubs to sell their images? I would imagine that they have copyrighted their logo so you could end up with a threatening letter from their legal depatment.

[simon7]

Interesting question fisicx, i assumed that as i am not marketing the product as official merchandise i would be ok, there are hundreds if not thousands of places i have seen football products for sale, i cant imagine for 1 minute that they all have permission. simon

[Ian J]

Simon - I think that you need to check that out as I think that you are breaching copyright whether you are marketing the stuff as official merchandise or not.

Surely if it isn't "official" it's "bootleg" and illegal

[fisicx]

They probably don't - but they aren't advertising their products on the Internet! If you want to use the club's symbol, you need to get permission, that's basic copyright.