Cafepress - Outsource your merchandising

And why not? Can you really afford to pay for a run of 500 T-shirts and then have to sell them at a loss when the band splits? Basically, if you haven't somebody else's money to play with why should you risk your own when others can do it a lot easier than you?

Okay, so the Cafepress thing has been around for a while and is possibly only really viable if you live in the USA, but there are sites that offer similar services whatever your geographical impairment.

It will cost you nothing and may even give you a little bit of exposure in a field that you wouldn't normal venture into - it's worth a try isn't it?

GotSeen.com

After what seems to be await of eternity there finally appears to be a site that offers what Mperia used to do all those years ago
GotSeeN is a new UK music discovery site that allows artists to sell their mercahandsise on line as well as allowing listeners to stream and download material.

At the tiome of writing it is only acouple of weeks old, but the site appears to have gone down the payments via PayPal route to get the moula to the artist

Interestingly enough, the site also seems to be geared up to allow bands to sell merchandise, though quite how thias works needs further investigation.

The site is primarily UK based, but given the trans-border nature of the internet there should be no reason why artists outside the UK cannot benefit from the service

New Music Strategies

Just a quick nod towards an excellent reference site that may be of interest, namely New Music Strategies, which contains a bit of advice that may (or may not) be of use to you when trying to negotiate your way through the minefield of trying to market yourself & your material via the wonders of the worldwide web .