MySoti is an acronym for "My Stuff On The Internet." It is a site where one buy or sell various products like t-shirts, posters, etc. for a price determined by the user on top of the base profit price that mysoti.com wants collect.
For instance, I just wanted to make myself a SCAQ team shirt. I created the art and when asked what percentage over $14.99 that I would like to collect, I put down 0%.
This is a great way for small teams or large to raise money or do "one-offs" for themselves like I am doing. There are other sites too like cafepress, zazzle, which I made use to make a long sleeve t-shirt and I am sure there are many others.
I am collecting no fee, no favor, no gift, nor even a hug or a kiss for promoting this site but small teams that want to make do a beautiful four-color t-shirt can and sell it at a reasonable price.
Nice Tony! I need to make a sweet Rob Aquatics Imaginary National Team t-shirt. I think I need to come up with some kind of logo first though... I'll get around to it some day
ReplyDeleteWell, a ROB-Aquatics certainly demands flames! OR maybe you go with the pork-pie hat vibe and make it look like a blue-note jazz album color.
ReplyDeleteHmm, then you can take that great start photo dive you have on your blog and have yourself diving over you logo-art. ;-)
I've always wondered why SCAQ doesn't promote itself more with t-shirts, caps and the like. Maybe it raises all the cash it needs from memberships, but a little promotion and club unity never hurt.
ReplyDeleteThough SCAQ is the 800-pound gorilla when it comes to swim clubs with more pools, more Olympians, biggest schedule, it summarily capitulated and became a swim club instead of a swim team.
ReplyDeleteI once went to a Cal Tech petathlon and I thought I was the only SCAQ member there. Turns out 4 of us showed up and we didn't even each of us were coming.
2-years or so later, I am not sure, I called up Clay Evans; (founder of SCAQ), and said I am lonely going to the meets by myself. Start a swim team please, I want to be on a swim team.
He said, "okay, let me call Erik and I will get something going." Erik took the mantle and built it from there.
I began the blog, Erik H. started coaching lactic Acid workouts. The first one we had, only 4 of us showed up. The last one I went to which was last Sunday, 13-showed showed up.
I am hoping 20 of us show up at SPMA Regionals and we win first place as a team.
I will be "falling on my sword" and swimming soft events that I am terrified to swim like the 400-IM, the 200-back, and the 1500-meter free. I wll swim the 50-100-200- free and a bunch of relays.
As for caps, we have some now that are made of silicon. We do have a few t-shirts but I wanted to make my own, because that is the way I roll.
If you ask me (I know you didn't!) I'd say that SCAQ is the sleeping giant of the entire US Masters Swimming Organization.
ReplyDeleteI WISH SCAQ swimmers would come forward and represent it's true gigantic-ness!
What Clay Evans and Bonnie Adair pulled off in building this club is unprecidented. Not everyone loves them - but not many hate them.
I just stand in awe of the swimming opportunities they have created for so many in the Los Angeles area.
I'd be proud as a co-member of the SPMA and The Southwest Zone to celebrate the accomplishment of a surge for this club!
If you want secrets on how to swim FAST - make it your business to get to some of the "EHOCH" workouts!
I hope he will come out and coach a sprint clinic for the SPMA this summer!
Get it going SCAQ!