Archive for August, 2007
T-Shirt Contests Web Sites - Will the Contest Trend Continue?
T-Shirt design contests are all the craze. It was Threadlesss that really got t-shirt contests going on the internet starting in 2000. Skinny Corp founded Threadless.com with less than $1000 and zero loans. The founders Jake Nickell (26) and Jacob DeHart (25) met online at a design competition forum called Dreamless (doesn’t exist anymore). Nickell [...]
Spreadshirt Open Logo Project
Spreadshirt is ready for a new company/web site logo and you can design it for them as part of the Spreadshirt Open Logo Project (OLP). It was 1.6 years ago that Spreadshirt had a logo contest similar to this and used the logo submitted by an artist. (see current logo below)
The logo contest is open [...]
Cafepress is Down - Cafepress Site Updates (cafepresssiteupdates.com)
While no internet company wants or plans to have a site outage or performance issues, they always happen. The big issue is how do you communicate with your customers or members when your site is down. Cafepress has just launched a Cafepress Status page that is hosted off CP for customers or members to view [...]
Zazzle Templates (EZ Templates)
A few weeks ago Zazzle announced a tool to offer easier customization of designs. Zazzle’s new system called EZ Templates are supposed to be easy to set up and make it really easy for customers to personalize a design with their own text. They provided the examples of being able to add a name to [...]
Spreadshirt US is now available in French (Français)
Spreadshirt announced that they will be offering the U.S. Spreadshirt web site in French for all those French-Canadians. What is crazy about this is that in the Spreadshirt Marketplace the design titles can be viewed in French. So somehow those users who submitted design titles in English are translated to French. Seems pretty cool but [...]
Donating Profits & Social Responsibility (Cafepress, Goodstorm, Zazzle and Spreadshirt)
Companies choose to donate for many reasons but usually its either based on customer demand for increased social responsibility or an owners passion for a particular social issue (less common and frequently more transparent). As a result of corporate donations a company can have increased product demand as a result of “social responsibility” driven marketing. [...]
Cafepress Chat - Shop Organization (8/28/07)
Cafepress is holding another online chat for Shopkeepers centered around shop organization. Many shopkeepers stores grow significantly over time and there is not always a plan at the stores beginning. The Shopkeeper chat on August 28, 2007 (4-5pm PST) will have details on how to manage your navigation, show products your customers want to [...]
Zazzle T-Shirt Design Contest ($1000) - Fake Mascots
Just a few days after Zazzle announced the winners of their Talking Food Contest they have launched another with the theme of “Fake Mascot”. You can check out all the details of the contest on the Zazzle Blog but the idea is to “take all your high energy, cheering, and chants to design a mascot [...]
Spreadshirt Newsletters - Send me old ones and I’ll send you a free t-shirt.
I want to write an article highlighting the changes at Spreadshirt over the past few years and I am looking for some of their old newsletters. Does anyone have copies of any of the Spreadshirt newsletters from 2005? If you do can you please forward them to me at info [at] t-shirttalk.com. If you can [...]
Follow the new CEO of Spreadshirt
As we mentioned in our post about Spreadshirt in Business 2.0 Lukasz Gadowski stepped down as CEO of Spreadshirt and his shoes were filled by Jana Eggers. Jana’s blog Life on a Shirt is all over the place from general insight on business, life as a CEO, thoughts on viral marketing, or even about a [...]
