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Free Shirt Friday Phenomenom

Posted October 10th, 2007 by Jeremy Schoemaker

Not to long again I started this thing called Free Shirt Friday. Maybe you have heard of it. Basically sites and companies send me shirts… I write about them and post a picture of me in a shirt. The idea came about easy enough…. companies/sites want exposure and I love t-shirts. Especially the shirt kind. Well earlier this week I took this picture and thought I would share. Its basically the 48 t-shirts that I have in a box in que for Free shirt friday.



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96 comments. What say you?

  1. Good Comment?
    MyGoodFinds

    I’m excited to get a shirt done!

  2. Good Comment?
    Joeychgo

    Gotta be a way to get caught up – come on shoe!

  3. Good Comment?
    Brian Mark

    I’d guess clever shirts or by actually knowing you, or by having a good site that you want to mention. I could be wrong, though.

  4. Good Comment?
    Brian Mark

    SPAM = Sites Positioned Above Mine, or Shirts Placed Above Mine in this case. All those spammers aren’t giving anyone new a chance. :)

  5. Good Comment?
    Brian Mark

    Scary… Jeremy in a translucent shirt. Not that I’d be any better, but still scary.

  6. Good Comment?
    Brian Mark

    Now I know what happened to the ones I sent… LOL.

    Seriously, it seemed like it had died off until I sent one to you. Was that the case?

  7. Good Comment?
    Instant Community

    Yeah you are going to have to wait for a while……

  8. Good Comment?
    Rob Schultz

    Wow…that’s quite a queue!!!

  9. Good Comment?
    Joeychgo

    I was thinking the same thing

  10. Good Comment?
    Affiliate Money Maker

    My thought exactly! :-)

  11. Good Comment?
    Celebrities & Blog Tips

    I guess if I send a shirt I’ll be waiting for a while..

  12. Good Comment?
    Web Hosting Reviews

    Except spam is unwanted – who wouldn’t want free t-shirts? He should worry if he starts getting other articles of clothing unsolicited. That would be spam… like Thong Thursdays or something nasty like that. Filter out all free thongs, but keep all free t-shirts.

  13. Good Comment?
    Clarke Internet Marketing

    I’ve sent in 4 tshirts – one of these Fridays…

  14. Good Comment?
    Making The Money

    You could always send them to me, not that I’ll post about them it’s just that I’m poor!

  15. Good Comment?
    DEXTER

    So how to get this shirts..??

  16. Good Comment?
    Beauty Girl

    Or may be more because till the time your shirt reaches shoe he will have another 50 added up in the queue ;)

  17. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    With lots of t-shirts comes great responsibility. Show has to start reviewing :)

  18. Good Comment?
    Joeychgo

    You almost need to do free shirt friday every day to catch up.

    Maybe do 2-3 shirts on fridays til you catch up

  19. Good Comment?
    UK Site-Ads Matchmaker

    Jeremy, as someone who appreciates the value of reciprocal links, do you allow those whose shirts you model on your site to post the photo on the shirt ‘donor’s’ site with a link back to Shoemoney?

  20. Good Comment?
    Michelle

    If there’s another dotcom bust – perhaps we’ll see you all shuffling around in shoemoney T-shirts!

  21. Good Comment?
    Seo Next

    spamming own site is not spam actually

  22. Good Comment?
    Seo Next

    he like t-shirts but not sure can he manage 48

  23. Good Comment?
    Seo Next

    oh no i was looking to send you our tshirt but looks i have to wait for 48 weeks.

  24. Good Comment?
    Rice Blogger

    you look sad to have those t-shirt

  25. Good Comment?
    Tracy Robinson

    Got it, just do a slideshow where you wear each shirt with a link back or a shout out to whoever the person/company is on it, that way you can get them all banged out at once.

  26. Good Comment?
    Tracy Robinson

    Hahahaha, shoefolk, that is a really good one. I almost went to ShoeMonet today, typing too fast.

  27. Good Comment?
    賃貸 大阪

    Or you could expand the album in your gallery with loyal readers showing off their Shoemoney shirt.

  28. Good Comment?
    JeffPosaka

    How about one day where we all where your shirts, pick a day and we will send you photos wearing your shirt.

  29. Good Comment?
    JeffPosaka

    I was thinking the same thing. Isn’t there some village in Bangladesh that could use all those shirts?

  30. Good Comment?
    Jonathan Volk

    LOL I think he needs a tshirt spam filter! ;) Good one.

  31. Good Comment?
    Israel

    hey if you need some help, i’ll wear some.

  32. Good Comment?
    pop culture king

    haha was thinking about sending you a shirt to put up I didnt know so many people sent shirts weekly.

  33. Good Comment?
    Justin Cook

    Maybe you could ship a few my way. I could start a “Justin Cook” FSF, that of course no one would even bother reading…

  34. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    I don’t know if T-shirts are considered SPAM though. What is the definition of SPAM? It seems like the label is used for aggressive marketing too…which is bad for SEO guys…

  35. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    THAT IS AWESOME! One of my dreams was to make a homeless foundation in San Francisco but I applaud you for doing such thang. I will stop asking for free shirts. I have too many so I usually send my old shirts to good will anyways. :)

  36. Good Comment?
    julia wilkinson

    I’ve got it, Shoe! You line up a few of the Shoefolks in a row each Friday for the pic so you can knock out more shirts…say you, Dillsmack, Neil, etc…hehe OK just a thought..;)

  37. Good Comment?
    Susan

    Getting the mail every day is like Christmas thanks to T-Shirt Friday. The response from all of you has been awesome and we have loved the t-shirts, the fleeces, the drinking glasses and today we got the “pimp cup”. Your response and interest in the blog is really appreciated. The biz manager.

  38. Good Comment?
    wethead

    Holy CoW!

    I need to start a free shirt friday :)

    I would never have to buy clothes again!

  39. Good Comment?
    corey

    If you don’t want to break up the acronym you could do Free Shirt February.

  40. Good Comment?
    The Dino

    48 of them you can ave almost 1 for a week wearing and you dont have to use washing machine :)

  41. Good Comment?
    Jason

    Nice collection. We should compare some time.
    Plus, I’ll be sending you one soon too!

  42. Good Comment?
    Theo

    You should sell them at Ebay ;)

  43. Good Comment?
    bobby9101

    Nice facial expression :)

  44. Good Comment?
    Archos 605

    No he reviews them on the site.

  45. Good Comment?
    blogstheme.com

    SO what are you going to do?

  46. Good Comment?
    thatedeguy

    Maybe you need a few Free Shirt Weekends to eat into that stockpile a little.

  47. Good Comment?
    doug m

    that’s a lot of shirts, hey Jeremy you ever think about having a contest to give away some of the shirts you get?

  48. Good Comment?
    Stealth

    Sup guys…. nice shirt box Shoe!

  49. Good Comment?
    Harrisburg Web Design

    So do they make the site roughly in the order received or does shirt design count for anything? I would think you’d want to go for the coolest shirts or the best companies, instead of just basing it on time in queue.

  50. Good Comment?
    seogeek

    I was thinking the same thing.

    Thought Bubble : “Why in hell did I ever start this T-Shirt thing?”

  51. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    Thats actually a good idea… I might start doing one friday, saturday, sunday mornings or so until we get caught up

  52. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    that was the hidden agenda here

  53. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    ya some get priority… guess how ;)

  54. Good Comment?
    ShoeMoney

    I keep some and each week I send Susan down to good will for the ones I would never wear ;) .

  55. Good Comment?
    JoeTech.com

    I’ll have one coming your way after I relaunch my other site.

  56. Good Comment?
    Men's Health Board

    wow… other 4 shirts and there will be a year waiting time before you will feature it!

    i know i had to sent you a t-shirt after i saw you featuring a tee for the first time…

  57. Good Comment?
    Gecko Tales

    I love free t-shirts. If I don’t get one when I got to conferences or seminars I’m pissed.

  58. Good Comment?
    Archos 605

    You don’t look too happy considering you have a BOX of free t shirts !

  59. Good Comment?
    CatherineL

    That is a lot of tshirts shoe. So, if I sent you one, would it take a whole year for you to wear it? Or do you pick your favourite ones first?

  60. Good Comment?
    ritchie

    a translucent shirt with the sm-logo that glows in the dark? :-)

  61. Good Comment?
    ritchie

    Oh my… I had no idea the queue is so long :-)
    And my shirts are still in the printer’s press, does it still make sense to send you fresh shirts?

  62. Good Comment?
    nick Morlan

    Why don’t you send the shirts to other smaller bloggers, we can take pictures of us wearing them and you can post the picture of us in that shirt along with a link to our site for Free Shirt Friday?

  63. Good Comment?
    krillz

    free T-shirt weekend.

  64. Good Comment?
    jim

    hahahha t-shirt spam… nice

  65. Good Comment?
    jim

    That is a LOT of shirts… send some to the donation center after you’re done. :)

  66. Good Comment?
    Chris

    You should start a different piece of clothing for each day, then you wouldn’t need to purchase clothes again.

  67. Good Comment?
    browie

    Oh, I think I see my shirt. LoL

    Lots of shirts man, how will you ever get through them? You’re going to have to do Free T-Shirt Friday but do 3 at a time.

  68. Good Comment?
    Windyridge

    That’s pretty clever.

  69. Good Comment?
    CPA Affiliates

    my shirt is somewhere in there ;) what a craze u have started… but for the people that send them a tshirt is cheap advertising compared to the exposure.

  70. Good Comment?
    Michelle

    What are you gonna do with the box? My kids love a big empty cardboard box!

  71. Good Comment?
    max

    yeah, me neither! :p

  72. Good Comment?
    Googlelady

    May be he re-sell them on ebay? :p Just kidding… But is a good idea no?

  73. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    Wait, so is he giving them OUT or no?

  74. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    yes, send a “green laser”, it’s really fun…

  75. Good Comment?
    Blog Contests

    Haha, thats a year long waiting list

  76. Good Comment?
    King Jacob

    So basically you will never have to buy a shirt ever again.

  77. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    yeah, but is he givin’ them out?

  78. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    Hmm.. you should try sending him a “green laser”

  79. Good Comment?
    Josh

    Diggin the idea. Maybe I’ll give it a shot. Can’t complain about some free shirts!

  80. Good Comment?
    lyricsreg

    Who wouldn’t ? That’s T-shirt SP@M :)

  81. Good Comment?
    A Blog about Nothing

    Exactly. Unless he starts doing free shirt weekends with 5 shirts a day I don’t see how he can catch up.

  82. Good Comment?
    hoodmonkey

    Meaning: stop sending shirts you dumbshits!

  83. Good Comment?
    SonicReducer

    So if we send in a shirt now, it might get posted in September 2008. That’s a big queue.

  84. Good Comment?
    Eric

    lol… You look a little pissed off there.

  85. Good Comment?
    OnlineCashFlow

    I need to create something that Shoe will wear out… Now, to the drawing board! ^_^

  86. Good Comment?
    OnlineCashFlow

    I need to create something that Jeremy will wear out so people will talk about it! Now, to the drawing board to come up with something clever… ^_^

  87. Good Comment?
    Garry Conn

    Ok man… so who does your laundry? That’s just not right. Wear the shirt… stick it in a box? lol Something tells me I see an eBay auction or a garage sale in the near future. :)

  88. Good Comment?
    Jonathan Volk

    Hahahaha well at least they’re ordered in a systematic and orderly fashion! :) I mean, we wouldn’t want wrinkles or anything ;)

    Hehehe… J/k – That’s a lot of tshits :)

  89. Good Comment?
    Michael Kwan

    You know what this means, folks. If you send the Shoe a shirt, your post won’t show up for another YEAR. By that time, some of these sites and services that people are trying to promote may not even exist .

  90. Good Comment?
    Five Dollar Wiki

    Are you giving them out???

  91. Good Comment?
    Chris Jacobson

    That’s a lot of shirts. What do you do with them all (besides wear them)? lol

  92. Good Comment?
    Nick Sullivan

    Wow. A lot of t-shirts. I’ll be sending you one soon enough!

  93. Good Comment?
    Online Cash Flow

    I’m trying to come up with a clever design to send one to you, Jeremy!

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