I always wanted a Phoenix Real Estate Guy t-shirt, so when the e-coupon arrived from OvernightPrints.com (a fabulous site by the way) offering 20% off on a t-shirt, I no longer had an excuse.
Now they say that bloggers can develop an ego over time. Getting an inflated head over something like a real estate blog is just plain silly. Oh don’t get me wrong, I like to see traffic, and I love getting links and comments. I like it even more when the phone rings and people ask me to be their Realtor. That is after all, pretty much the point. So of course ego had nothing to do with the catchy little tag line on the back of the shirt. Who’s to say what is really the “best damn real estate blog on the planet”?
I do however now have a t-shirt that says it and I’m not too shy to wear it (if I can get it over my head). And we’ll see in a few minutes what Google thinks is the “best damn real estate blog on the planet”. 
(Edited to add: 9 minutes after posting this, Google made its decision)
Believe it or not, I’ve already had several people ask where they can get one. Some are serious, some not-so-much. OvernightPrints doesn’t have a “store” you can set up so others can order. But there are sites that do exactly that. Any recommendations?
Marketing a real estate blog off-line isn’t a bad way to increase brand/blog awareness. I’m going to order a few more. You just never know where these things might start popping up. . .
Updated: OK, if you really want one… Please note this one is slightly different than what is pictured above. Pick a shirt style/size, pick a color. You can also customize it! I get 10% for every shirt purchased, which I will donate to breast cancer research.
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Nice shirt! You need a custom paint job for your ride next! Hmmm… not a bad idea actually. RSS icon all huge on a white care, you couldn’t miss it!
**Brian Tercero´s last blog post..Vigas & latillas, the ceilings are being built!
Uh, I’m gonna need to find one in XXL.
Wait.
Maybe XXXL.
Tammy fed me pasta tonight.
**Justin McHood´s last blog post..Ignite Phoenix: 5 Minutes Sometimes Feels Like 5 Hours
ssaawweeettt… If you cut the neck out, it should fit over your head just fine.
**Nick Bastian´s last blog post..More Metro Light Rail Grand Opening News
Jay, check out Zazzle to create shirts and have a sorta store and also their is cafepress
**Loren Nason´s last blog post..Real Estate Marketing version 6.9
Let me know if you decide to start renting backs to plaster this on. I could use a little cash.
Jay – The understatement of the century – “bloggers can develop an ego over time“. Now add to that ingredient the egomania driven industry we eat, sleep and breathe and it’s a recipe for a terminal case of “bigheadatosis”. Where’s my t-shirt?
**Bobby Carroll – Crystal Coast Blog´s last blog post..Swansboro Mullet Festival Draws Big Sunday Crystal Coast Crowd
Very impressive, only 9 minutes for Google to make its decision.
**John´s last blog post..Baltimore Real Estate
I’ve seen you try and wear a hat. Ain’t no way that things getting over your head, Gazoo.
**Jonathan Dalton´s last blog post..Namwest Files for Bankruptcy
Hahaha too cool. It’s kind of hard not to take advantage of offers like this, I’m guilty as charged too. But when you have a great site and it’s making money, why not make yourself into a walking billboard!
Congrats on the Google rank too, 9 minutes is one of the fastest indexes I’ve seen.
**Alex´s last blog post..Bashing bloggers without a cause
Jay,
This really is a cool idea. The online brand combined with the offline merchandise. Make sure you look to sign a deal with someone to represent all of your offline ventures
Joey
**Joseph Bridges´s last blog post..The Absolute Wrong Way to Use Pay Per Click Advertising
No more writer’s block I guess huh?! LoL.
Are you going to wear it the next time you LiveStream your AZREBN meeting?
**Ricardo Bueno´s last blog post..5 Things That’ll Ruin Your Blog
That’s to funny Jay. I have always been a big fan of novelty shirts. We have something called “bathtub weekend” here in Nanaimo, and every year for many years, myself and 4 friends would get together and have a little fun – part of the deal was, each year one of us was responsible for coming up with the shirts, ah youth.
Probably my favorite shirt (that I still have) is the “what happens at Google (Front) Stays at Google (back) that I had custom made for my team and I the last time we headed down to Google HQ – I gotta tell ya, they made quite the impact, and got people talking (even to us) – Just surfed the web looking for a pic, this is the best one I could find from Jim Boykins blog: http://www.webuildpages.com/seo-pictures/morgan-seoguy-jim.jpg
**Morgan Carey´s last blog post..Brokering Our Way Out of Foreclosures?
Is this a preforeclosure sale for your business?
Was that directed at me? No it was not, in fact I didn’t write that blog being referenced, apparently this blog has a neat little feature that tries to determine a blogs last post – but for me, I didn’t write that, it’s just the last post by some other member in our group blogging community.
Is this a preforeclosure sale for your business?
**Morgan Carey´s last blog post..Day Care and Financial Planning
How many did you have printed?
Morgan, what’s going on? are you going to Pubcon this year?
Barry Cox
Hey Barry,
How are you – Pubcon – nah, have never really been much of a fan (Love Brett) but not really my vibe if ya know what I mean.
GMAC asked me if I was going to NAR next outing, I am considering it, don’t suppose it is in Vegas is it?
**Morgan Carey´s last blog post..Highlights of Greenville South Carolina Real Estate–Views from Riverplace
Nice shirt!
J.
Never mind getting the shirt over your head. The real question is:
Does the RSS logo hide a beer belly? :>)
**Larry Yatkowsky´s last blog post..Vancouver Homes Have Deadly TV’s
Larry –
It’s going to take more than that logo to hide my beer belly..
I need one in 5xtl. Those are neat. I need to make some shirt for my company again.
Shirts are an excellent idea. You have a great blog by the way.
**Jeffrey Buettner´s last blog post..New FlexMLS Tutorial – Contacts
Nice way of advertising. I like the t- shirts I would want a M size.
Now this is the best way to advertise your blog
a very innovative and affordable way of advertising
I love it! I’m ticked I didn’t think of it first. I have been printing t-shirts for a couple years now to hand out to former clients “I found my home on JustNewListings.com” and “real estate 2.0 where consumers win!” on the back w/ logo and all.
Anyway the t-shirt is excellent and a great gift to all clients in the past year and going forward, Jay.
jay
Considering its a localised site, I think shirts are a great idea as they will mostly be worn around your home state.
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Dear Toronto Lofts –
WTF? Seriously dude, you may want to lay off the alcohol.
I’m assuming this is some sort of auto-generated comment left in a lame (very) attempt to get yourself a back link.
But you see, it failed as I have the power to remove the link. I thought though about leaving it so people cold see how foolish you’re being.
I ‘m not sure I would do this for my blog. But it’s a great idea.
**Kirsten Mason´s last blog post..Kamloops Real Estate Blog’s Cartoon Of The Week
Cool T-Shirt,
Did you get any traffic from it?
It’s virtually impossible to say if any additional traffic was gained. There is a lot of noise in the traffic numbers. I doubt it lead to much of anything significant.
BUT, there is *no question* that it’s a conversation starter. Several folks have engaged with me when they see it in stores, standing in line, whatever. And that is clearly a good thing.
Love the shirts, I have been planning to get something along those lines. Not sure if I will go with shirts to begin with but thats something I want to strive for! Thanks
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