RX8 Shirts
 

Hey guys, its been a while since I've posted on here. Life's been busy.

Some of you may remember me, I'm the stupid guy putting a 2JZ in his car.
Its still not running, lol. been on the back burner a while now. last year I had my first baby, its a girl, and she has consumed a lot of my time. shortly before she arrived i got out of the mechanic business and unfortunately got back into retail. Since then I have concentrated more time towards my SC300 daily drifter, but its pretty close to where i want it so this summer i'm going back to the RX8. Not real sure which direction i'm going to take yet though, we shall see.

Anyway, Last year I spent more time home with my daughter and had some ideas for some shirts and stickers and decided to start a small automotive apparel and lifestyle business.

Status:Low

I started the site StatusLow.com, and finally launch my first product this month.

Now i'm not even sure if I'm allowed to post here but i figured it couldn't hurt. Not trying to advertise myself, Just want to let you guys know about my first T-Shirt.
Just let me know what you guys think. If anyone on here does want be sure PM me I'll sell them here cheaper than on my site.
I have them for $25 online, I'll do $20 +s/h for you guys. Max shipping will be is $5.50, that's Priority flat rate first class is around $3 depending on location. All i have is the color in the picture.
Sizes are S, M, L, & XL.
I don't know what I would of done without this site when I was building my RX8.

Congratz on your baby girl and good luck with the biz! If you come out with any girl apparel, let me know! Maybe I could model some shitz for the site.

Lata!

love the shirt it looks great, i might have to get one :)

The site could use some creativity and style, its a little plain to me. I think it could be a great site if you turn it into kind of a StanceWorks or StanceNation and add car pics daily. Not many people will visit the site if you just sell some clothes and have a blog, but if you add pictures people will keep coming back daily to check them out and everything.

Also you definitely need to be doing a lot of SEO (search engine optimization) to get your page rank up and get on search engines. I have started up and ran a few sites on my own related to cars and did my own SEO. If you would like some help feel free to ask I would love to help a fellow 8clubber out, maybe even do a bit of free work for you.

Looks sick! Will there be other colors too? I really like you have the Autoexe SE-02 front bumper too!

You should contact an administrator and start a group buy, it's cheap an pretty convenient!

great idea, pmed....

yes pics on your site about our cars would be great. I'll email you some pics

Thanks, and I may have to get you to do that. Interested in modeling the RX8 Shirt.



Yeah its in the baby stages. The plan is to get a lot more pics on the site, probably won't be a daily thing for a while but at least once a week if not more.
And I would love for some help/advice on SEO, I don't know a lot about that kind of stuff, I just did a search and went through 20+ pages and still didn't see Status Low



Thats the only color.



Who should i ask about that.




Yeah that would be great.

I actually might start a thread and post my email there.

I'm down! Just hit me up :)

pmed

It would be great if you could get daily pictures so people will return daily, but that can be down the road. for SEO you will need to do a lot of blog commenting, forum posting (with site link in signature) on sites related about cars like here, directory submission, article submission and some other stuff. The reason you are not on google is because you have not submitted yourself to their directories and search engines. You will need to go and submit it to all search engines like Google, Yahoo, Alexa and so on.

Your page rank and where you stand in search engines all relate to the number of backlinks you get, or the number of links that lead to your site. Here is how you can get a lot of backlinks:

Definitely go to a lot of blogs related to cars and post comments on the blogs and add your link to the comments. You will understand what I mean when you comment on a blog. Make sure your post is related to the blog so it doesnt get deleted. You also have to make sure it is a do-follow blog, this is extremely important as the links will not count if it is not do-follow. To find out if it is do follow you can download a plugin for firefox and it will tell you. Also the higher page rank the blog the better it is for your page rank.

Post on forums like this one and other car related ones and put your link in the signature if it is allowed. Every post counts as a backlink so posting a lot is good just make sure the posts are useful and not pointless. Do this on a lot of car forums, there are tons, you can also use forums to let people know about your site. As above, the higher the page rank of a forum the better it is for your page rank.

Submitting you site to car directories is really important as well. Many sites require you to put a link to their site on your website but there are ways you can do that without people noticing them. Directories are a great way to get backlinks and are very important for page rank and SEO. Just google 'car directory' and go ham submitting your site. You might want to copy and paste the info you type into the first submission into a word document so that you can just copy and paste it into other submissions to save time and hassle.

Article submission is an awesome way to get people to notice your site and visit them. You can type articles about any cars or anything car related, even about your own site, and post them to article submission websites. You can find a great list of the best ones on google if you just google it. You can type up a couple articles and then submit them to all the article sites. This gets great backlinks and again is better if the site has higher page rank.

You can find out websites page ranks by downloading the SEO toolbar plugin for firefox. As you get more and more visitors, backlinks, and grow in search results your page rank will go up. It takes a long time for this so do not get discouraged if your takes a couple months to go up. It will take a lot of work doing SEO, but you can also hire freelancers or companies to do the work if you are too busy or if you would not like to do it yourself. I find it fun to do my own SEO and watch my site grow from my work but it is all up to you. It is a lot of work as i said and you will have to spend a lot of time of SEO to get good results.

Social media is a huge great way to get customers and visitors these days. I noticed you have a Facebook page and a Twitter which is good, so now you need to grow them. I know on Twitter it is cool to have way more followers than people you are following but following more people will get people to follow you back and notice your site. My current business follows 2k but only has 550 followers. We keep growing daily though, and people will retweet you and tweet about you to help you out. You will then start to notice you getting random followers to follow you back daily. Just make sure the people you follow are people that are interested in cars. I would recommend going to a twitter like STanceNation and following the people that follow them. That will guarantee that the people you are following are interested in cars and will be interested in your site and clothing.

Well that is basically a short guide on SEO and all that. If you need any help feel free to pm me. It is a lot to learn but dont worry you can do it, I am 16 and do it all so you can to. I would love to help you and do some SEO for free in my free time.

wow great info!!!

Can't wait to see more products/colors. I will definitely get some shirts soon.

Thanks Crazy.8 That helps a lot. I have quite a few more designs for shirts and stickers, it just depends on how quickly I sell the first shirt. Most likely, once I sell all of this shirt i won't make it again, and I will probably release 2 new shirts. If you guys have any color request, let me know.

I didn't see a price on the shirt; how much are they? or is it by size?

looks good, I want one

$20 for guys on the forum.

new shirt idea maybe?
 

I was wondering if maybe I could present you with an idea for a shirt or hoodie, hell maybe you even made one like this already. A shirt/hoodie listing several reasons why the RX8 is better then a girl. I sorta got the idea from a beer mug that has 21 reasons, and I started thinking how to apply this to the car, even girlfriend found this amusing.

haha nice! Girls will need a version too :rofl:

Looks good. Definitely interested.

judging by the rear wheel tilt, can I get one that says "STATUS:RETARDED" ?

lmk when you have different colors. ill take one or two but prefer white or grey

Shirt looks awesome! A monster green would be a good shirt color to have ;) I am PM'ing you now to order the ones you have now, I would like one :) Good luck with this and definitely get the admins to get you a vendor account setup!

Hey man, did you see I sent you a payment for 2? One Large and one Medium please on the shirts :)

Yes they will , and I have some ideas what girls might think haha. Could even apply sexually , like the rx8 can go for more then 30 minutes without stopping lol ,
There are many cool ideas and maybe its time someone made a tshirt like that for both guys and girls :Peace:

LMFAOO.

I concur! I'm sooo gonna design one now.

website looks a ton better now! the header needs to redirect to the home page so that when you click it it takes you back to the home, right now there is no way to get back except click the back button. looks a lot better with the new header but i think you could get a cleaner picture and put your name on it.

I made 2 quickly in photoshop but i do not own the rights to the photos, i just used 8's but you could always do a lineup of multiple cars or a different car.

isn't that tiltmode's car? (the wwp)


I liked the original shirt idea.

Thats a pretty good idea. Some things already come to mind lol.

To be honest though I probably won't make another RX8 shirt for a while, however I will work on a design (if you have some ideas for the list PM me). Once I have, I can post it up for a group buy.



Just PM if you want one




LOL, its not literal and its not for every one



I probably won't have this design in any other color. Once I sell out, if there still a want i will do a group buy and I can offer different colors then.



This is in the works, just not with this design.



I'm going to work on one, shoot me a Pm with any ideas on ways

closest i have seen is Klutch Republic

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I have to say I like wordpress a ton better. I can actually track traffic also.
I'm glad you pointed out about the header, i hadn't noticed that, I'll work on that tonight.
and i have a better image for the header in the works as well. I am very picky when it comes to that stuff so sometimes it takes me to long, not to mention i'm trying to do it between work and family. I have almost no time Wed-Fri, i have some afternoons on Sat and Sun and i'm off most Mon and Tue. But i'm watching my daughter those days while my wife is in school, so its hectic right now, but it will get done.

I did have some other questions for you if you don't mind, i'm having trouble getting the site submitted to google, and was doing some research on it and found this article Link Let me know what you think.
and is that you i keep seeing named Gamergripz

I will check out the link soon. and yes GamerGripz is my company although we are changing our name within the few days. Curios to how you found out about that?

About the article, his way will work but i do not agree that it is a bad thing to submmit it to google. Submitting it will not have any effect on slowing down your progress to getting the site indexed and shown in the results pages. What he was suggesting doing was getting high quality and page rank backlinks, which is very important and crucial for your website anyways. So why not do that and submit it to google and yahoo etc. it cant hurt in my opinion and research, it can only help.

you said your war 16 and and you liked my Facebook, didn't know who it was at the time, and then i saw gamergripz on twitter then on my blog with a link and just thought SEO.
But i just checked and if you google statuslow.com i'm #1 so not sure how it got on there but it is so. I may still do that article thing though.

great thats awesome, i just typed in statuslow and you are up there too so that is a good thing. Google has indexed your site then. It will still be a great idea to do the article though for great quality backlinks.

Not a lot of shirts left, if anyone else wants one, please let me know asap

+1 I got stuck somewhere in the middle while looking at the pis of your car.

I'm not a fan of the the whole "hella-flush" stance thing that's hitting the streets lately. And I know I'm not the only one. Parhaps you can can split the demographic into 2 categories. form and function separately.

Edit: I really like the status:low signature at the bottom of your pics with the bar-code. Any chance of getting stickers made up of that?

I can't get the header to be a link. I did add a link to the home page that should be on the right hand side.

And I know The Stance movement isn't for everyone, but honestly what is. you can't please everyone. So i'm going to do the things that I like and leave the rest up to everyone else.

Now thats not to say if I see a super clean car that isn't "hellaflush" i'm not going to put it on my site. I love anything that looks race prepped.

But the lower wider mentality has been around forever, and is functional. i may have pushed the envelope on the shirt a bit, but it is a shirt. I have a couple of cars that will be featured very soon, but i am looking for more and would love to have some RX8's
I guess I need to start a thread for Feature car submission.

Any idea what section of the forum would be best fit and get the most views.


As far as the barcode sticker idea, I think i might do that. Thats actually my Photography business logo. any picture I take will have that logo, if you just see status low on the picture, you know it was take by someone else. And actually the only thing holding up the features right now is me getting a more visible logo.

There is probably a better place for this thread actually, we have talked more about the business than the merch

True that. understood.
Start a thread for the website for ideas and submissions. The lounge would probably be the most appropriate place given your variety or cars that will be on the site.

My wheels just came in last night. my coilovers are coming in in a couple weeks hopefully. Ill get some nice pics of my stx setup that you can have the rights too if you want once im done.

Got mine in the mail last week, i love it! =D

If you have any left I would love to get one. I will be able to make the payment tomorrow.

Yeah I have about 8 left. thats appropriate lol
i'll PM payment info to ya

payment has been made. also pmed regarding info for shipment and size

yeah i got them and pm replied.

thanks for ordering

pmed. Where you go? I want one. Let me know where to send payment

Yes that is Tilts car in the white, its smexy i know..