2. Sales
Mifflin Cart:
● Shirts Sold: 537
● Total paid: $12,645.86
● Total collected (no shipping or tax): $9656.45
● Profit: $1634.48 (16.9%, based on total collected)
Other Carts:
● SVA: 78 shirts - $952.26 revenue
● High School: 66 shirts - $500.64 revenue
● Pi Beta Phi: 12 shirts - $396.20 revenue
Totals:
● Revenue: $11,505.55 (no tax, shipping)
● Collected: $14,494.96 (with tax, shipping)
● Profit: $1634.48
● Items sold: 693
3. Customers
● UW-Madison Students
● Mifflin attendees visiting
from other schools/cities
● Students who use
Facebook
● Our own personal
Facebook friends that
were invited
5. How We Sold
● Facebook Event
● Invited all of our friends
to the page
● Over 1,600 RSVP’d as
“Attending”
● We made the event date
the day the cart actually
ended so people knew
the deadline to put in an
order
6. Challenges
● Making sure the shirts ship in time
● Working with Steve to choose a day to end
the cart
● Finalizing the design in collaboration with
Steve’s artists
● Answering questions from customers on
Facebook
7. Key Lessons & Advice
Lessons
● If you have a deadline such
as an event, end carts early
to avoid stress
● Find an event or market that
people are genuinely excited
about
● Make your design fit the
market
Advice
● Avoid saying for a “class
project,” market your design
as the design.
● Make a professional looking
facebook page and use social
media to market
● Get designs set early and
maximize the duration of the
cart
-When we added up the total sales from all four of our carts….
-As you can tell by the pie chart, our biggest contributor to sales were the mifflin t-shirts, we’ll focus on that cart for the remainder of the presentation
-We sold a total of 538 shirts, including tanks, tees, and long sleeves in two different designs for total sales of almost $10,000
-The first design was inspired by the show Friends, with the front featuring the word "MIFFLIN" as the Friends logo. The back design is the outline of Wisconsin with the phrase "I'll be there for you".
-The second design features a Mifflin street sign and Madison city skyline
-As mentioned, these were each available in a tank, tshirt, or longsleeve tshirt
-we sold by creating a facebook event, and each of the four of us invited everyone from UW-madison on our friends list
-we made the event open so people could share it with one another and invite their friends as well
-on it we just shared a couple images of our design as well as the link to the cart online
we had all seen mifflin shirts for sale on facebook before, so we essentially copied this method