Archive for November, 2007
Zazzle Teams up with Signatures Network to Bring “Big Time” Music Artists to Zazzle
Zazzle makes another huge deal with the Signatures Network. They have blown away the competition with strategic partnerships. Signatures Network deal with bring Who, Kiss, Fergie, the Black Eyed Peas, Velvet Redvolver, Slash, Maroon 5, ZZ Top, Rob Zombie, Tommy Lee, Pantera and Alice Cooper t-shirts to the Zazzle empire. The bands mentioned and others […]
Interview with the Founder of Etsy.com
Etsy.com is a place for crafty folks to sell their goods including t-shirts. Currently there are over 11235 t-shirts listed for sale at Etsy and they are all “handmade”. Etsy was started in June 2005 by Robert Kalin and two of his friends now has over 100,000 sellers and is the place on the internet […]
Improved Cafepress Packaging - Part 1: Fancy Receipt Jackets
Customer surveys at Cafepress have shown that customers are happier about their order when everything is presented well. One of the components I am sure most t-shirt retailers and other companies have ignored are receipts. Personally, I can’t think of an online retailer that has made a receipt memorable. Until now Cafepress receipts have been […]
New Specialty T-Shirt Inks and Printing Methods Now Available at Threadless
Threadless used predominately basic screen printing techniques until 2006 when they launched a Select line with expanded inks and printing methods.
Now those inks and printing methods are open to all artists that allow for 8 colors, super glow, puff, high density, suede, UV color change, shimmer, metallic clear, glitter, blister, flock, vinyl, foils, embroidery, gradients, […]
Cafepress Gift Certificates Makes Gift Giving Easier (but less personal)
Cafepress announced that they will now be offering the option to purchase and give Gift Certificates. To be honest, I love receiving gift certificates because I can pick out what I want but they are kind of weak gifts because they aren’t personal. Regardless, they are for sale in the main parts of the Cafepress […]
Spreadshirt Starts Offering Direct to Garment Printing (DTG) as T-Shirt Printing Method
Spreadshirt is expanding their printing options from Flex & Flock Plot Printing to Direct to Garment Printing or as they are calling it “Digital Direct”. According to Spreadshirt the Direct-to-Garment technology has finally reached the point where they feel comfortable offering it to customers. This type of printing will not replace their Flex & Flock […]
Design By Humans T-Shirt Order Review
My Design By Humans t-shirt order arrived and the packaging was like no other I have received when ordering a t-shirt. It was a silver lined on one side and a logo on the other side with areas that you can see through and actually see the t-shirts and stickers inside the package.
I didn’t […]
