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thank you guys...i could only start new episodes on the radioshow if things in my real life took a dive off a cliff...which i hope does not happen. Basically it takes a lot of info to make an episode on tycoon radio, and I dont have time to track it all down. But i am trying to bring smashwear back and once again into the top ten global clothing companies. One step at a time...I cant wait to get back into CBK london, myself

NEW!!! 2013/2014 shirt designs from Smashwear... http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/Fighting%20Organizations%20custom%20clothing/smashwearsuicide_zps04a5674d.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/smashwearsamuraishirt_zpseb33e3c3.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/smashwearmythicshirt_zps61ae332b.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/smashweargoryshirt_zpsa755cd86.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/smashwearsamurai2shirt_zpsdc7e4b0f.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/smashwearunclezombieshirt_zpsbd4ec4e0.jpg http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/smashwearninjashirt_zps70a0dece.jpg

Glad to be back. I have been training three fighters for about 2 months now. I still havent bought my VIP time yet, but I will eventually resurrect Smashwear Clothing and restore it to its former glory...2011 clothing company of the year and one of the greatest clothing companies of all time.

Thank you...glad to be back!

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT CLOTHING! This is David Goliath once again, although on a more serious note this time around. Today I have no smart-assery, or silly one-liners to unleash upon the unsuspecting, media-consuming masses, nope. Today I am here to help those of you who are in the clothing business. In the past, my business tips have helped completely change the game for some clothing owners, and forever change a "set in stone" global top ten list. Although I may be guilty of overstating the influence I have had on an average manager's common knowledge, I can say that I have advised companies in the past that have incorporated my suggestions, and suddely skyrocketed into the global clothing scene. I myself was once a noob clothing owner, and novice photoshopper...After collecting information about the system we all use, I quickly grew into the number one global clothing store for 4 straight months. It's not that I am any better than any other clothing owner either...There are guidelines I followed and with a little time and effort, anyone can master the clothing industry just the same. I would like to give to the public a detailed strategy for success in the clothing industry. These are not just simple tips, or a tutorial on selling clothes...This is the holy grail of ancient clothing proverbs from the edges of the Tycooniverse. This will be a reference guide to all levels of clothing owner from first day empty shop owners, to global players, this will cover everything you need to know in the short and long term to comprehend the clothing system, and master it. Hype. Hype, among other variables, determines your store's ranking. More hype = higher citywide ranking. Stores are listed on highstreet in the order in which they are ranked in their base city. Other things that effect the ranking of your store are sale numbers for the week, amount of cash inflow for the week, how many fighters mentioned your store after a win, how many fighters you have sponsored and how well they perform, and how well your partner organization's events are doing. When you sponsor a fighter, you gain a small amount of hype from them. If they win a fight and gain hype, your store gains with them. If your sponsored fighter loses and his hype takes a hit, so does your store. The strategy is to have a balance between sponsoring high ranked fighter to ensure a nice hype level, but also sponsor the small-time fighters who need your money the most. With enough good fighters winning fights, you can afford to sponsor many beginner fighters, which eventually will change for them with training and your sponsor money. NEVER just go with all big time fighters, as you are not contributing to your cities well being, only your own personal agenda... The object or point? Debatable at best, as there are many opinions on the point in a clothing store, but one thing we all agree on is making money. Selling clothes, and making money. Here are the things you need to know about the system we use... Free market. It's just like owning a real business. (in america, 90% of all brand new small businesses fail withing the first 3 years) You start out with nothing. You have no clothing, no company logo, no customers...You literally have to create your own clothing by downloading templates from the "create new designs" section of your store manager menu, or track down some original templates, create the best designs you can and host them in your shop at an affordable price. Its a free market so the better the designs and price, the more customers you build. I.M.O., no regular clothing item is worth more than $25...and only that high if its a design that took you hours, and speaks for itself. Normally everything is $20 and under. It's just like opening a real business...you have to have a reason fighters choose your clothing store over others, when they all have the same quality items which is 150. Make it look good, and make it affordable. Some ways to boost sales and build up customer loyalty are... Make a partnership with a young org. very early, so both your companies grow together, and you can build a history with them. You can serve the fighters of just a few orgs in your city, supplying custom clothing exclusive to those orgs...offer discounts to fighters in those orgs, and always sponsor their fighters. You will grow with the org, and as time goes on, a majority of those fighters will shop at your store exclusively...This can become quite a high number of regular customer if you do fair business, and be polite, while serving the needs of the fighters. With customer loyalty, you can have success with only one org in a verbal partnership. Starting a merch. partnership with an org is a great way to really cement this verbal agreement, and earn your store some cash without an inventory loss...but more on that later. Treat all these fighters with respect, and listen to their needs, do your best to make everyone happy. Over time these customers have seen your name around a million times, and always have a nice exchange with you when they come in contact with you, they will always buy your clothes and support your store. After a good relationship is established with an org you will have steady sales. Always update your items with new stuff monthly, while lowering prices on older, slower moving items. You now have a financially successful store that is sustainable and in the green. Sales tips -Make sure to have a good variety in both styles and price. Stock items that anyone can afford, regular prices items, and premium items. The more selection available in your store, the more fighters you can appeal to. -Offer a "no proft" item set, such as an outfit that is priced at $4.50 an item. This will boost sales, but not income. Its a good thing to make your 500 sales for the week, and to serve the non-vip managers with clothing. -Make the best designs that you can. Pay attention to which ones move fast, and which ones sit around. You can order less of the slow items, or put them on sale, while ordering more of the popular ones. Sometimes even removing an item if noone buys it. You can only display 75 items in your store, and only order 3500 units per month, so make wise choices on spreading out your orders to last the whole month. -Offer sponsorships to all the fighters in your partner org...always serve their needs, sometimes even getting the owner to post a survey in the smacktalk thread asking what the fighters want in their store. Support their events, and offer additional bonuses for good fights. Always take care of the non-vip guys that come in. One day when they buy VIP, they will remember when they lived off of your sponsorships, and this creates customer loyalty. Other ways to make money with a clothing store... Custom designs. Learn photoshop and start making custom images for your customers...It pays very well, and honestly a store cannot get ahead without selling the occasional item.Some of the big time stores actually start a thread in the forums offering to make custom items while including examples of their work. This is like using craigslist. If you have good work and it's cheap compared to the competition you will get tons of orders, as there is always plenty of people in need of work. A good display in the forums can make you more money in a year than all your clothing sales combined. Some guidelines for pricing are... Logos...7k for a new company. It can go higher depending upon the satisfaction of the customer. That price includes a 100x50 thumbnail, a 205x175 logo, and a 468x60 banner. 3 piece setup for a new company. Championship belts...3k - 5k depending on satisfaction. Event posters...2k - 3k depending on satisfation. If you verbally agree to make "X" amount of posters for an org, you can charge a little more this way, as long as you hold up to your end of the bargain. Fighter skins...5k for 20 sets is the lowest I would go. This is the market thats full of wealthy managers who want the perfect skin for their best fighter...If you can make a skin to please a guy like this, he will pay 25k willingly...but you have to be very impressive as there are many great artists in this game, and some of them are professional level legendary designers. In the beginning, keep things cheap, around 5k for 20 sets at . Try increasing price based off of how good you think it is compared to others you have done. Once you are real good, you can tell them that "we will talk about price once I show you the finished skin". If you are very impressive, guys will pay prices that some managers wouldn't believe. Not only that, they will come back for more and bring friends with them. A great designer can make 1 million plus a year just from custom skin sales. It's all resting on how good you are, and your price. Always offer to add additional sets to your standard 20, adding about 1k to the total price for every 20 sets added. Sometimes even offer lifetime refills on sets to those customers who deserve YOUR loyalty. I was once offered 30k for 40 sets and lifetime refills. Advertising... Just like in real life business, you have to advertise your store. It is not a must, but when you first start out, it is a great way to familiarize your city with your store and make people curious about what you offer. There are many small ways to advertise. Placing your store logo on your forum avatar picture is a good one, as well as a banner on your forum posts. There is a whole other world in the forums, and it is a very busy place, full of mngrs who love to read. If your posts have your store's logo on it, you can get the name out there very well. Another way you can advertise is something I invented...Store circulars updated at least monthly. Any more than monthly is bothersome and rude I.M.O. so don't push it. Write a commercial for your store taking whatever angle you choose whether it be funny, serious, or to the point about new items or sales. Update your stock every month and mention this to your customers, but always find an entertaining way to get your point across. This makes you stick in their mind, and keeps customers shopping...If you have a strong partnership with your org, and you have built a lot of customer loyalty with it's fighters, then one email a month form the org owner posting your circular is all you really need to do. Just like with designs, the better you write, the more reaction you get in your store. If you have a long time, great relationship with an org's fighters, and your circular is actually enjoyable to read, people will shop your store just because they laughed their asses off at your advertising circular. If your writing sucks and you haven't built any customer loyalty, then this is actually spam, and can annoy your customers and have a bad reaction in your shop. Its a fine line to walk, but believe me, done correctly this method can make you a favorite shop in your city, and create lifetime customers who love your designs, and your ads. Be careful though, I wouldn't advertise to an org's fighters unless at least 30% of your total inventory is dedicated to that org. If your shop is partially dedicated to a certain org, then you have to serve those fighters well and advertise to them. Unless you make big contributions to that org, and are actively helping those fighters become successful, there is no reason to even ask an org owner to post your ad to his fighters. You have to have serious writing skills, or pay someone for their writing skills otherwise its a waste of time. When used correctly though, this can double your sales, and also creates customer loyalty and repeat business. Post these ads into your "Latest News" box inside your manager view on your store, also adding these ads to your official store forum thread. People appreciate multi-talented artists. 500 week sales and managing inventory... A 500 sales week means that from last sunday to this sunday you sold over 500 items. This is a good sales week by game standards, and the system keeps track of how many 500 sales weeks you have had. You get a trophy on your manager profile for 5, 500 weeks...a silver at 25, 500 weeks, and a gold at 50 500 weeks. The problem is you sometimes run through your monthly ordering cap and end up with the last week of the month selling nothing and losing ranking. You have to ration out your stock for the month. You want to shoot for around 700 to 800 items sold each week of the month. This way, you get 4 weeks of 500 sales out of every month, and you never have empty shelves. start by ordering only 20 units of each item in the beginning, keeping a daily tab on sales so you can restock without getting caught with an empty shelf. If you have a minimal amount of items in your store, then you can save money by ordering in bulk. Personally, i can't do this because I sell out by the third week each month, so I have to save back orders to replenish hot items and save some orders for skinwork. It's just something you have to keep an eye on. In the beginning its probably safe to order 150 units of each item, saving some orders to replenish things that sell out. Laundry... Laundry is a great way to boost sales and cash inflow, while doing a favor that customers appreciate. The new cash transfer tool has lowered the need for laundry, but there is always someone who wants to move a big amount of money while avoiding the 10% fee the tool charges. This fee goes into the system and not into the economy so, it's not helping anyone at all...why not pay it to a trusted store owner... Laundry is placing an item in your store priced at the maximum $300. A few hundred of these can be bought by fighters who want to move their money to their manager's account. Customers simply buy $300 items from you until they have spent what they need to move, then ask you for a bookie sale to get it back. You can start a bookie company and place their money into the bookie account, while offering a direct sale of the bookie to that manager for $1. Normally you charge a fee for moving money...it is totally legal in game so don't be scared when you hear Money Laundry...It is a public service. Most managers charge between 10 and 15% to launder money, although it is more appealing to your customers if you do it under 10%. It is also doing your city a service to launder money for preferred customers at no cost. Many owners like to make a 160x160 item for the store, that portrays what it is used for on it, and placed at the top of your store display for easy use and recognition. Something like money soap, money cleanser, laundry, whatever you think looks good. You may not get very many guys wanting to launder money, so never over-order your money soap item. Start at around 150 to 200 units, and see how far that gets you into the month. High volume stores may need as much as 1000 units of laundry items to keep up with demand. Special agreements and promotions... One last thing that can help the success of your store is special promotion. This is the term I have given to a verbal agreement with an org to sponsor a big event...This normally involved offering cash and/or free gear to stand-out performers of the event. You can add cash and/or items onto the already in place "Of The Night" awards, or even come up with your own. For example I used to run an offer where I wanted the event to get a high rating so I offered big cash to fastest knockout of the night winner...most strikes landed in a fight...even every fighter who finishes in the first round. This can motivate fighters to have exciting fights and also builds your brand name...further supporting your city's fighters. When running a promotion like this its a good idea to ask about placing your store logo on their event poster, and announcing to the fighters the awards that you are offering. Sponsor some big events and your name gets around pretty well. Before you know it orgs are asking you to sponsor their event, and they will promote the hell out of your store for helping them out. Merchandise partnerships... There is a new feature for clothing designers that allows you to choose a fight organization, and offer them a partnership deal to sell your store's merchanise at their events. It is fairly new, but here is what I have learned through reading and experience. You gain hype along with the org. If their event does well and they gain hype, so does your store. It's just like sponsored fighter's hype effecting yours. The bigger the org.(as far as ranking, and successful events) the more hype bonus you gain from them. Same for them, the higher ranking clothing stores provide a larger hype boost to the org. Try to sign with the biggest org in your city that you can. Maybe start the offer at 60/40 split in their favor to make the deal attractive to bigger orgs. You can set the contract for as long as you wish, spliting the money however you specify. What governs your sales numbers at a certain event is the attendance. It is possible that other factors about the event effect your sales at that event, especially advertising money spent, but a majority of what governs your merch sales at an event is the attendance. Go with an org that has high rated events twice a week and you can make some big money! The best part is these sales do not effect your limited stock supply. These figures simply auto-generate when an event is over, and the cash is added to your company account without taking any inventory out of your store. This is very helpful with smaller clothing companies, giving them the ability to sponsor fighters for hype, and give charity to the needy fighters. It is not unusual to make 20k from your 40% cut from one event. Use this new feature. Partner up with an org and make some extra money, but choose wisely because although you cannot lose money on the deal, you can waste your time with orgs that have lazy owners...or those that consistantly have low event ratings. These are the ins and outs of the clothing business as I see it. Others will have different opinions on all subjects I have covered, but there is always more than one way to do things right in the tycooniverse. These are strategies that have worked for me, and have been tested time and time again. Feel free to use this editorial to guide your path as a clothing owner, or even make up your own methods and strategies for success with clothing. The beautiful part of it is, there are no rules. Make your own if you wish, and become the next big clothing company that are doing things in a different way. Any way you look at it, one thing we all can agree on at the highest level of clothing is...Always treat your customers with respect, and fulfill their needs. Make them happy. If you have to go load up photoshop and make one dinky little change to an item that a customer has requested, then do it. Never half-ass your customers, and always make them happy. Be helpful to the noobs, as you may be the means to increasing their game experience and cause them to buy VIP time. Always provide cash to the small time fighters, and all non-vip mngrs as this is an unspokan rule among those of us at the top, and it promotes growth of the game itself, and creates customer loyalty. Your reputation will grow with your deeds, however slowly. Never do bad business, never break an agreement, and always make the customer happy with the item and price. If you practice this in every transaction you do, your company will only grow, and get the attention of other big fighters and managers...which is where you want to be. Earn respect through good and fair business and you cannot fail...unless your designs suck, lol. One last thing, if your designs suck, just price them really cheap and keep practicing. Look around the tycooniverse at other successful stores and see whats popular, or get an idea of a new method to try. You may want to give some attention to google and look for photoshop tricks and tips that can help you along your way. There are many great designers in this game and they have set most of the current trends...There is no shame in gaining inspiration from their designs as long as you don't copy the design, and make it different in your own style. Practice until you are making better designs...go look up real life shirts for ideas...The goal is to come up with an original design that is hot and only available at your store. Be patient...Like everything else in this game, it all comes in good time, although you can shoot up the rankings overnight following these guidelines. I hope this helps out as many clothing owners as I can possibly reach. If you are a noob and have additional questions, please feel free to mail my inbox and I will get back to you shortly. Good luck managers! I hope I have been helpful! David Goliath - Owner/founder of Smashwear clothing, producer/co-host of MMATycoon Radioshow 2.0, top skin artist, editor of Tycoon Times, man of the people, martian citizen.

Smashwear will be making A return soon!

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So I went idol and noone in my alliance could take Smashwear off my hands and it was lost...(wonder if Mike could help out?) but at any rate I would like to sell some of these legendary designs that helped rocket Smashwear into Clothing OTY 2011...and one of the GOAT clothing companies in game to date...I have a giant library of crazy nice skins and clothing designs...

I fought in that ascention event, lol Eddie Miller. So what, the total merch sales were approaching 300k for that one?

Makes me curious to know...maybe I should start a self awareness program for clothing companies where the top 20 share little tidbits just we can all gauge ourselves...a pipe dream...guys dont like to share shit...but i do, lol Wow, no shit @ 6k an event...Damn. I didn't realize the scale between little and big partnerships...huge gap huh? Well, I am lucky and I promise to give away lots more money before it's all over.

So, I have never really spoken in depth with any other clothing owners...I assume these are good number...I mean, I know they are, but on a global scale...all time companies. Prime sold for 100k is a suprise. You guys really were set to be big. Has anyone ever done a single event that brought in $168,138.30 of merch in one event?

ONI 86 End of Year Bash 2011-12-31 food and drinks - $68,813.70 total merch sales - $168,138.30 org. cut - $109,289.80 my cut - $58,848.50 This is the best event ONI/Smashwear has had since starting the merch partnerships I do half that without fail. 4 events a month...PLUS clothing sales. When I launder its for friends so i only charge a restocking fee...

Between clothing sales and the merch deal with ONI, I stopped doing a lot of skins long ago. I do over 100k a month with the merch deal alone...no bullshit. I'm somewhere between 150k and 200k without lifting a finger.

Well, This is what is going through my head. I am bored with clothing and designing. Smashwear has done everything that I set out to accomplish, and then some. Could go for another company of the year award (and I have a good shot too as i will almost double my voters in another year) But really, I can't sit through another real year of this industry. I have become so bored with it that I infodumped my secrets in the public newspaper...again. I kept just enough tricks up Smashwear's sleeve that we currently sit @ 3rd company worldwide, and last two weeks first in the game. I have spent enough time chasing this that I might be done with it. I want to transfer my skills into another project (yet to be announced) and become successful somewhere else... Let's say I wanted to sell Smashwear right now...If I do actually sell, it will be soon because I want to go out on top like Seinfeld and Rocky Marciano. The point in this thread is to start getting an idea of what a top company is worth. I can give Smashwear's credentials here, but I will only show business records to serious buyers... With all bullshit smooth talk and exaggerations aside, this is whats up... - Smashwear is very popular and gains first time walk-in customers every month from banners and random sightings. - Smashwear has built a large regular customer base, guys who shopped here since day one...these are my voters - Smashwear enjoys a six figure profit each month without selling any customs. - Fully stocked showroom with some of the best designs in the game...All designs and clothing included - Long term partnership with ONI and AJFC fighters... - G.O.A.T. in Tokyo clothing and contender for G.O.A.T. mmatycoon clothing companies. Basically, it's decked out. You dont even have to follow my business model...just stock the shelves on the first of every month and make big money. I can show all my business records to back up my claims...Smashwear has made 6 figures every month for a long, long time. Also, with all the noob help I give and these $1000 sponsorships I give to any non vip who asks, Smashwear is a beacon for all the things this game could and should be. Very well respected and really there isn't a single manager in the game who hasn't heard the name Smashwear...Even Mike Tycoon buys his Chip Freedom skin from Smashwear still. Point is, I am handing over something big...and even if you are not into all the history around here, or the role playing, this company is a cashcow for an amputee farmer...You are getting the milk In the amount I stated even if you log in once a month to restock. I am only interested in buyers who are big into this game and really want to run a famous company with somewhere near the passion that I have. I can pass on all the background information about Smashwear, it's long, decorated history, and all of the verbal agreements we have across the tycooniverse for custom items and posters...I would like to pass on the full responsibility and see things continue to grow and I am willing to spill the beans and set up the connections you need in-game to stay at this level. Anyone who is serious about purchasing Smashwear can PM me and we can talk business and look at some records...Anyone else who wants to chime in leave a comment... What is a company like this worth? The Smashwear Corporation

Nosmo King would like to remind all the jargon-tossers than he has only lost to Brody...and noone else has even come close...He feels he will not drop from the top 5 ever, and will get many title shots to come...

http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/hardcorejetskin.jpg Second jet skin ever for Smashwear...The guy said make it colorful and include IKBL in it somewhere...also offered 20k initially

I install rub an tugz in all of my jets!

http://i1214.photobucket.com/albums/cc499/smashwear1/PartyRocketSkin.jpg My first jet skin...The guy offered 20k for it...

This is David Goliath here and I run The Smashwear Corporation. I have done over 100 sets of skins and hundreds of other things floating around the game. Now - a - days I do very few skins, and only to big-time managers because my skins are time consuming and I want all of my RL time invested to return with loyalty and high visibility. Recently Mike added Private Jets to the fray...And they can be skinned. I love looking at these jets and imagining something over the top awesome...whatever theme doesn't matter. I want to do a jet skin so bad I have contemplated buying one just to design it. Better yet, a thread! I am looking to do some jet skins...Jets are a useful tool for managing fighters and their logistics, but are also every bit a status symbol in the way a 160 supp. is. I am looking to design only a few jets for a handful of managers...High end, one-of-a-kind jet skins. I plan on making something stunning, Not just a skin, but a graphic designed piece of art...I can base it on any theme we can come up with together. I promise a skin that noone else can get except from me. I am asking for a sliding fee...start it out at 7k and go upwards...depending on time invested and level of detail. I will let you choose your own price based off of satisfaction, with no questions asked. Really, I just wanna do some legendary jet skins and the money doesn't matter BUT, never spend RL time without a fee so.. Anyone can just PM me in-game and we can start brainstorming on a theme and some images...I can have the skin done quickly, with short waiting times since this is a high-profile design. We can talk about price after I deliver work, and my price starts at 7k...While you choose your price based on satisfaction... Anyone interested? I do not have to brand any jet skins, for those who want a clean look...and I can do them with other company logos as well...

Jay Roc is looking for that re-match with Julius Schoonover....Will I get it?

I guess Groovemonkey is just looking for a quick 50k...I'm looking for a good fight. Two different pages obviously... SO, WHO WANTS THEIR ASS KICKED? OR ARE TOP MANAGERS SCARED TO LOSE TO SOME CLOTHING DESIGNER?

FUUUUUUUCK!

Oh yeah, the Milwaukee guy...I did the logo for the nutrition division and for the 160 product...I love you guys...Probably the greatest supp company of all time... With all due respect, I think I can take you...

I dont wanna put any money on the line as managers have the advantage of seeing my gameplan and being able to create a purpose-built fighter. I appreciate the gesture and the balls that goes with it though. It excites me just thinking that I might get a good fight with someone confident enough to drop 50k on it. Leave your money in your purse honey, cause I'm picking up the tab tonight! Please see Kojiro Sasake to sign up... With all due respect my friend, I don't care about what you have done, I only care about what you think you are gonna do... ANYONE ELSE WANNA GET IN LINE FOR AN ASSWHOPPEN?