Stoked Nation / Stoked News is a one person operation. I’ve been very happy to share in excess of 54,000 blog posts by late 2017 by working before, at lunch time and in the evenings after my full time job.
With no advertising or marketing of any kind, the site was drawing 50-60,000 visitors per week. It has been a labor of love for me and I’ve enjoyed every minute of it. I’m still having fun and intend to continue posting for the foreseeable future.
Why the change to Stoked Nation?
Like most fans of action sports I live in t-shirts, hoodies and caps when not at my full time job. My favorites were starting to get pretty worn out and I started to look for replacements.
Looking at the offerings from the major industry brands made me feel like they should be paying me to advertise for them. I would feel like a NASCAR driver with all their branding on everything.
I looked at some of the online sites and their clothing items. I would be embarrassed to be seen wearing their products. They felt very amateurish in design and there was no “soul” to them. I couldn’t “feel” the sport displayed in the design.
What’s the solution?
I have experience with the manufacturing and sales of embroidered and screened clothing items.
Starting now in late 2017, I’m having a Stoked Nation clothing line designed by artists who actually skate, snowboard, surf, bike, etc. The clothing items will be made using organic materials when possible and sold exclusively through Stoked Nation.
These designs will express the soul of your sport, something you can “feel” and without all the in-your-face branding of other brands. It will be a celebration of what I feel action sports is all about: Fun, Friends and Adrenalin.
Thanks for visiting this incomplete Stoked Nation web site. Check back soon for our completed site and new designs. Please let me know if you know of an artist who can express the soul and feeling of your particular sport.
Larry