Seth Godin had a great post the other day about what he calls the “T-Shirt Rule“. Seth says “It’s a simple test of whether you’ve created a remarkable experience: “Would I buy the t-shirt?” For most things… My answer would be “No”.
However… I got an email from the folks over at the Earners Forum the other day announcing that they would be giving everyone who had 500 pr more posts a free Earners Forum T-Shirt. Unfortunately, I usually just do a lot of lurking but not much posting so I didn’t qualify. The Earners Forum is certainly t-shirt worthy so I asked if they would be willing to trade for some chocolate covered Macadamia nuts, and they DID so I sent them some of Island Princess’ world-famous Mele Macs.
Lee Dodd and his crew liked the nuts so much, they sent me more than one shirt. (Bonus!)
I got several complements on it while walking around Waikiki from some big earners who were here on vacation. One guy who manages a large network of financial and investment blogs was particularly impressive.
Here is a picture my three year old boy took of me in front of Diamond Head with my new t-shirt. (You know you want one)
So… Since I have more than one shirt… I’ll be giving the other away! All you need to do is post a link to my blog and then post something in the comments for where I can find the link and it’s all yours. If more than one person links to me, I’ll pick someone at random.
Aloha,
Dave. 
16 comments
January 8, 2007 at 3:36 pm
You’d better believe it! Those chocolate covered macadamias were amazing and well worth the trade! You are very fortunate to live in such a beautiful place. Thanks for sharing the picture with us!
January 8, 2007 at 5:07 pm
You know i am actually trying to find a way to design and make some Weird Asia News shirts. When and if i get them done i will def have to send you a pack.
January 8, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Hawaii SEO, you know I’ve linked to this blog more times than I can count. Rather than sharing all of the links and risk spamming your blog with reciprocals, I’ll pick my favorite one:
Hawaii SEO Before and After a Conference
PS: I’d move back to Hawaii but the pay there is $hit and the real estate is outrageous. Did I tell you we’re burried under snow here in Denver?
January 9, 2007 at 1:48 am
Hawaii SEO,
I like the “shirt bait” idea! Everyone loves t-shirts.Also, very creative with the nuts trade!
January 10, 2007 at 10:24 pm
Hey Aloha Dave,
I found your MyBlogLog and checking out your site. My folks are in Hawaii and I help them get clicks in Hawaii for OahuTutor dot com
January 12, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Hi Dave,
My all-time favorite, sported by a particularly attractive woman:
Nice shirt! Best part is, you can wear that around Waikiki without getting any funny looks… compared to some of the completely nonsensical t-shirts popular with the Japanese tourists
“I am more than these breasts, LOOK DOWN!”
Thanks again for the e-mail,
Rob
January 14, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Aloha Dave,
I just joined MyBlogLog but don’t know much about how i can make best use of it to promote traffic to my Hawaii blog. then I ran into your Hawaii blog and thought as kindred spirits you might have some extra advice, like your macnuts and t-shirt idea but I actually look more for blogging recommendations.
Mahalo and aloha, Pua.
January 16, 2007 at 6:40 pm
ok ok let me stop you there!
1. I am in England and its far too cold for a t-shirt.
2. Annoyed that you CAN have the weather to wear a t-shirt.
3. Your in Hawaii and that’s just not fair.
Oh but but summer will arrive soon! Ok then shove me in the pot of hopefuls I could get lucky!
January 22, 2007 at 4:14 am
Okay, I’m late to the game but I want one too. And I’ll take a Weird Asia news shirt too Brent since you’ve been on my blogroll for ages. Now those I gotta see. Who else, I can win a wardrobe if I keep at it.
February 8, 2007 at 2:45 am
Aloha! Well we already have way to many Hawaiian shirts, but I did want to say that your t-shirt evoked a smile that only an SEO would understand. Mahalo.
Wave Shoppe Hawaiian Aloha Shirts.
March 7, 2007 at 6:34 am
I am from San Diego, California… Not quite the t-shirt weather of Waikiki, but t-shirt weather nonetheless. That’s one of the most popular advertising tricks around here. I know people that had t-shirt designs before they had a company. I guess if the t-shirts sell, you don’t need the business behind it! As to the wacky tourist shirts, when I was at USC I bought all my shirts from Chinatown, 5 for $10, they all said california or los angeles or something like that. great designs and for $2 each you could just throw them away after a few wears.
April 11, 2007 at 11:04 am
Nice idea for a SEO t-shirt.
Other SEO t-shirt slogan could be: “Linkpartners wanted” ;-).
May 20, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Great T man! Defnitely looking forward to that one. I’ll be sure to mention where I got one from too! Much success to you.
November 23, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Do you have any of those in XXL? Serious - I will pay for it.
December 2, 2007 at 6:34 pm
Still waiting on that T Shirt
December 2, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Sorry Joe… I only had one extra and I gave it away already.