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past tense of draw aka Drew Evans is a 22.05 year old boy, has been a member since January 14, 2008, has scored 367 submissions, giving an average score of 1.77.

Jan 16 '08 by past tense of draw

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blog, votes, friends - AND SELF PROMOTION >>>>

I just wanted to raise a subconscious issue that i have [well conscious now anyway], plus i am new to the site.

Do you need to promote your own design in order to even likely succeed at a print or will the fan community be honest enough to vote? I don't have a lot of friends..hahah ... what i meant was friends in the design arena. I usually keep design seperate from all my other crazy friends and i'm not going to effectively spam them when i believe they would have no interest in the site.

Plus it appears that everyone has there own blog sites these days, myspace, facebook etc etc. I'm only new to facebook and i'm 'trying' to set up a blog but will these impede the number of votes or am i being unrealistic..Can anyone measure the success of their voting on their personal advertising and campaigning.

How effective is it to have a personal blog. I am more than happy to advertise over the net, but i'm not going to force my friends to vote for something which A) they don't like or B) have no intention in joining the site???

i hope everyone is following my logic, if it's logic at all... maybe it's just schizophrenia.

cheers..

welshalex on Jan 16 '08 at 8:04am

Usually I think designs get about 2,000 votes during their time in the running. The way I look at it, 10 people from myspace voting on your design really isnt going to make much difference.
Besides, a high score dosent necessarily mean you'll be printed, it's probably a better idea to put your energy into a cracking design.

past tense of draw on Jan 17 '08 at 12:10am

yeah that's what i was hoping. We're all here for more or less the same reason i just wasn't sure on how big a contributor outside marketing was.

thanks for your reply.

geewally on Jan 17 '08 at 12:16am

Having a blog off this site will do virtually nothing to help your designs score higher. Blogging about the design on Threadless might give the design more exposure, but it doesn't mean that the design will score higher because you made a blog about it. In fact, it may hurt your score. Threadless blogs aren't personal. Don't treat them like a diary that nobody sees, because this forum is a very public place where people will give you shit for any little word. If you try to defend yourself or your designs too strongly, people will purposely give your design low score out of spite.

That said, the best approach is to not do anything: if it's a print-worthy design, people will find it on their own without you promoting it all over the internet.

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