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[Colesy]

Electric blue

Chrome seems to be a good idea, similar to the Woodworm Hard Drive stickers in terms of colours.

[Ayrtek Cricket]

Chrome is good but will need a decent printing company to do it properly, gives a good mirror finish when given a gloss coating as per our stickers of late

[steelcouch]

The white on black background looks very dated.
It is not bad.

You logo is "killer instinct"
meaning  Threatening, meaning basic raw emotive instinct.
So, for mr your image does not say that , so there is an "imbalance" between the name and the image.

TO create a balance and if your wanrted to stay with the name, whihc i thik is quite good,
then for me you would need image that were bolder, even aggressive.

The paw, but with claws, mad crazy eyes, or even if you wanted the thin rectangel image in the middle of the bat then perhaps you could turn it into a knife. These are just ideas off the top of my head, but i hope this makes some sense

On someone elses point:
Anyone who starts a company with the aim of selling 200 units a year, propbably should save themselves a lot of time and money and do something else.

Just becuase you start small doesnt mean you should not aim high and do the best you can at everything you do and actually as i think we being honest have to confess that image has a lot to do with buying cricket bats

A designer can do a job like this for a couple of hundred pounds or less.
If you go with ideas of the images that you want to portray then they add a professions touch.

As we know a couple of hundred pounds is not a huge amount of money to invest in a bat let a lone invest in the first thing anyone is going to judge your companies efforts on.

on a tangent, does anyone know which companies have sold the most bats in the western world last year?
Be interested to compare the numbers against which ones i would say have the most professional imaging

My point being the better the imaging the more you sell

1) Kooks  ( interchangable with Puma)
2) Puma
3)Slazenger
4) GN
5) Addidas ( i think has the best branding, but is playing catch up)
6) GM   probably the best bat out of them

[SillyShilly]

Leo - i think you should concentrate on making a few bats first - no point putting a fancy sticker on something that resembles a garden trowel - be happy with the product you want to sell then think seriously about getting some stickers done.

[SillyShilly]

by the way - that wasnt me saying your last bat resembled a trowel!!!

[Black Cat Cricket]

My point being the better the imaging the more you sell

1) Kooks  ( interchangable with Puma)
2) Puma
3)Slazenger
4) GN
5) Addidas ( i think has the best branding, but is playing catch up)
6) GM   probably the best bat out of them

Nothing to do with them sponsoring most professionals in the 'Western world'..?

[steelcouch]

Of Course, but sponsorship is all about creating an image, in sponsorship's case via the medium of vicarious association.

My point is, lets test my theory and that is all it is.
In my minde the bats with the most professional design that use all the latest design and sports marketing tools available to them will sell the most bats.

Could be wrong, but even professional will consider the look of a bat or bat sticker when deciding on a sponsorship deal in this day and age.
We are so bombarded by marketing adn design these days, apparently something like 1000 advertising images through all mediums  A DAY that something bad sticks out like a sore thumb.

Just worth considering thats all.

There is a big difference between "classic and understated" than not very good.

I have not put my money where my mouth is and i think it is great that people do to be honest.
 I look forward ot the day when peopl eon here are sell good numbers of kick (No Swearing Please) products and shake up the market. Good on you all.
Very sucessful products do have the "full package"though.
Think Mongoose in this one.
 Bad marketing and they would have sold 50 units with jus tthe bats alone and a bit of PR, where as actually they have shaken up the market and we now see genuine innovations, unimaginable five years ago coming through. Obviously there are either factors such as timing, budget, but they are the full package.
Actually i think it can be done on a smaller budget that they had by looking hard at every aspect you can effect. Ayrtech for one is guess has a smaller budget, but does a good job

[Howzat]

Give most people the budget mongoose have and they will sell bats too

[Black Cat Cricket]

Give most people the budget mongoose have and they will sell bats too

Maybe there's a reason why most don't have the budget monoose has..?

[petehosk]

Who did your Black Cat stickers Charlie?

[peplow]

Leo how did you do those off your own printer? would they rub off in rain?

[Colesy]

I think they're just samples mate

[peplow]

yeah i just meant what are the samples made of??

[Colesy]

Looks like printed off from the computer then stuck on with selotape.

[Howzat]

Printed off on paper with vinyl stuck over them.

Charlie from black cat made some great stickers for me... will upload pics later.