Guides

Music Marketing Strategies: Creative Ways to Promote Your Band & Music
There are all kinds of ways to promote your band’s music to the world! One of our favorite music marketing strategies just happens to be creating and selling band merch, especially custom band t-shirts. They’re extremely reliable promotional and fundraising tools, plus they let you show off your design skills!

Pricing T-Shirts to Maximize Your Profits
Now that you’ve created a rocking t-shirt design, it’s time to sell your shirts to your community! Whether you’re selling your shirts through a Bonfire Campaign, or ordering shirts through Bonfire Supply to sell at an event, it’s important you set reasonable selling prices so that you can maximize your

Our Top 5 Band Merch Ideas and Selling Strategies
Every band is different – different genres, styles, and techniques – but they’ve all got one thing in common. If they want to reach larger audiences and really get their music out there, they have to promote themselves and raise some money along the way. Making custom merch to sell

Support Your Crowdfunding Campaign by Selling Custom Apparel
Crowdfunding campaigns are all the rage right now, and for good reason. People use them to fund personal educational experiences, adventures, nonprofit organizations, and more. With so many causes supported by crowdfunding campaigns, think about the ways you can make yours stand out above the rest. Once you’ve picked out

Optimizing Designs for Screen Printing
The Bonfire Design Team works every day to make sure that the vision you have for your t-shirt comes to life in an amazing way! With years of t-shirt designing experience, we’ve collected our top tips for optimizing your design for printing. By following this guide, you’ll create a design

DTG vs. Screen Printing: What’s the Difference Between these Two Printing Methods?
If you’re looking to design and print your own custom t-shirts, you’ve likely encountered these two terms — DTG printing and screen printing. Both screen printing and direct to garment (DTG) are methods of printing custom designs onto fabrics. But what’s the difference between these two t-shirt printing methods? When

The 5 Best Swag Items For Conferences
There are few things people love more than getting a freebie, which is why conferences are like hitting the jackpot when it comes to scoring free stuff. We’re talking about conference swag bags, which are typically given out to attendees when they arrive and are full of items branded by

The Ultimate Guide to Font Pairings for T-Shirt Design
Bonfire’s design tool boasts hundreds of font styles, but sometimes it’s overwhelming to choose which font is right for your design. We’ve compiled a guide of font pairing best practices so you can design amazing typographic t-shirts for your community. And, if designing a t-shirt feels overwhelming, we’ve created typography

How to Sell Your Art Online to Make Extra Money
Did you know that there are lots of ways you can make some extra money selling your original artwork online? If you’ve ever been curious about how you could make money with your creativity, this post has answers to all of your top questions. Even better, we’ll offer up some of