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What size shirts do I need when buying in bulk?

What size shirts do I need when buying in bulk?

Are you thinking about buying your merch in bulk? Find out what sizes you need based on Direct data!

Creating Your Band's Identity

Creating Your Band's Identity

So, you're in a band, you've written a few songs and they're sounding pretty good. Now comes the time to let people know who you are and what you do. For that, you'll need a brand

How to sell band merch online

How to sell band merch online

In the music industry, there have been many different ways artists and performers have been able to get their content out to the world that has evolved over the last decade. For a group or artist to transition from a hobby to a business, it is vital to establish a

Christmas 2021 - Final Ordering Dates

Christmas 2021 - Final Ordering Dates

Here’s the dates for your fans to receive their merch in time for the big day. However, we have to say, this year we are also seeing lots of disruption to our stock levels (we can’t get enough blank items to print on) and delivery services (we can’

The 5 Most Common Merch Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

The 5 Most Common Merch Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Merch can sometimes be the difference between struggling to make ends meet, and making a good living from music. Our own research suggests that under 5% of musicians make a living from their music alone!) .So why not take a little time to limit the amount of mistakes you make

Six ways to make money for independent musicians in 2021

Six ways to make money for independent musicians in 2021

We know how important being able to make a living is to independent musicians. Streaming revenues are famously low, so unless you’re in that elite group of musicians getting millions of plays, you’re going to need to supplement that income to make some money. Here’s six ways

Last ordering dates for Christmas

Last ordering dates for Christmas

UPDATE – Order as soon as you can! We’re getting reports of very slow delivery times from Royal Mail and couriers. We’re now recommending UK orders to be placed by Saturday 12th December. Don’t leave it too late to order! With the global pandemic putting extra pressure on

Sell music posters on demand!

We’re excited to announce that you can now create and sell great quality posters direct to your fans! Just login, and create your poster in just a few minutes. Every time one is sold it will be printed on-demand, and sent directly to your customer. They’re printed on

Sell sweatshirts directly to your fans, on demand!

You can now create and sell sweatshirts directly to your fans. And it takes less than 5 mins to get started. Just log in to your store, click “Add Merch”, and select the sweatshirt option. Whether you’re a grunge outfit from Greenwich Village, or a techno DJ from Tokyo,

We're backing the GDPR - You Don't Know How Lucky You Are.

It doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you’ve probably been bombarded by a boatload of GDPR opt-in emails recently. If you don’t know what GDPR is, then in a nutshell, it’s new European Union laws around user data and consent. In essence, it means

Easy Ways to Sell and Stream More Music Online

Independent artists no longer need a major label to release their singles, albums and EPs to the biggest online music stores. Thanks to independent distributors, anyone can start collecting royalties by selling and streaming their tracks. Although it may be simple enough to get music on Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music

Vinyl, bombs and afrobeat - Frank Gossner of Voodoo Funk talks to us.

For most of us, collecting records amounts to a trip to our local independent music shop or digging around at a record fair in the hope of stumbling across something a bit different. Frank Gossner, however, isn’t like most of us. In 2005, inspired after discovering a rare afrobeat

Get inspired — iconic and innovative approaches to music merch

So, you’re in a band, you’ve written a few songs and they’re sounding pretty good. You’ve even chosen a name you all agree on. Now comes the time to let people know who you are and what you do and, for that, you’ll need a

You're buying the wrong size t-shirts for your band (and it's costing you money!)

Get your sizing right, and you’ll earn much more money. It’s really difficult to know exactly how many of each item size to order when ordering in bulk (for when you’re on the road, for example). But let’s start at the beginning… There are two main

Better By Design

Need a design made to print on a shirt or a mug? Or maybe you’ve got a design, but you need it edited for a special event? How about removing the background so it’s transparent when we print it? Design is pretty important when it comes to your

Digital Business Academy & Dizzyjam

We’re delighted to announce our partnership with the Digital Business Academy, an online destination created by Tech City UK in partnership with leading educational institutions, businesses and organisations, to give you the business skills you need to succeed in a digital world. Digital Business Academy academy brings together world-class

Guest Post: Michael Partridge

Hello there! My name is Michael. I’m a bass-playing designer over at Defy Designs, and I also work for Burning Red. I’m writing a guest post for the fine folks over here at Dizzyjam, and I’ve decided the best thing to talk about is the importance of

An AMAZING deal on team shirts for your event/festival

Dizzyjam was set up by a couple of guys with a long history of promoting events and running small festivals, so supporting them is something that’s really close to our hearts. And obviously one of the ways we can do this is by providing sponsored t-shirts for stewards and

Set your own prices, and re-order your products

Today we rolled out two new great bits of functionality that will help you sell even more merch. Number 1 – Set your own prices. Just log in and head to Your Shop page. From here you have two options – if you want to just edit the price of one product,

Facebook and Twitter Guides for Promoting Your Music and Merch

Here at Dizzyjam, we want to give you as much help as possible to promote your music and merch. It’s important for musicians, venues and promoters to have an online presence – especially if you’re selling your music and merch online. Some of our highest sellers regularly tweet links

Dizzyjam Release Their API

Music merchandising and e-commerce platform Dizzyjam is pleased to announce that their API is ready to use, enabling other online services to provide their users with the option to create and sell merch from within their site. Dizzyjam is a print on demand service, offering a no hassle merchandising service

Exclusive New Myspace Beta Access

How to get your exclusive invite at the bottom of the page… Myspace is making a comeback – but fear not, it’s nothing like as camp as the word “comeback” implies. Thankfully, Myspace’s reincarnation is more classy exhibition of artistic maturity than desperate attempt to explode colourfully back into

Dizzyjam's Swn Festival Adventure

What do a singer/songwriter, a man who makes music from games consoles and a master mixer of music and video have in common? If your answer isn’t “they all played the Dizzyjam stage at Swn Festival and were all awesome”, you weren’t there and, well…we’re

T-Shirt Bulk Order Form

Update – we’ve launched a special site just to make it SUPER easy, and even cheaper, to buy great quality t-shirts in bulk. Just head to RampTshirts.com, where you can create your shirts, get data-driven recommendations about the sizes you should buy, and check out, all in under three

New Staff

This past month Dizzyjam HQ added two new members of staff to the mix, giving us a chance to increase our level of creativity and productivity to phenomenal levels – and possibly lowering the average age in the office by a few years. Designer James and marketing assistant Laura were both