Archive for April, 2008
Cafepress Voice Voting Polls Open
There are seven openings for Cafepress Voice representatives. “CafePressVoice is a panel of Shopkeepers elected by the Community to help us evaluate new features, services, merchandise and programs.” You can learn more about Cafepress Voice, meet the candidates or go ahead and vote. But remember you need to be a Cafepress member to vote for […]
Advertising Oversight? Zazzle Offers Personalized Nazi Products
Sometimes when a company reaches a certain size certain small but important details seem to get overlooked. During some research of few culturally sensitive search terms for my Banned T-Shirts blog I found Zazzle right there as the second result in Google for “Nazi T-shirts”.
I am not here to make judgments on Zazzle’s design […]
CNN T-Shirts - Spreadshirt System Exploited
Yesterday we posted about how Spreadshirt made it possible to buy CNN headlines on t-shirts. Well, someone figured out that you can change the url for products and it will change the title/image on the CNN t-shirts. A Digg user created a shirt that said “ABC News Fucked Up the Pennsylvania Debate” and over 849 […]
CNN Headlines on T-Shirts - Example of the Spreadshirt API
CNN launched a tool today thats enables users to purchase recent news article titles on t-shirts. You can sort results by title or date added but you better hurry because they are only available as long as the article is featured as latest news on CNN. Click on a title and you will be […]
Interview with Founder of Printfection.com
Listen to a podcast of Casey Shorr, co-founder of Printfection on Startup Story Radio. Learn about how Printfection started, information on their sales, insight on how being young has impacted the business. Learn more about this “technology company that happens to print t-shirts”. You can also follow the company on the Printfection Blog.
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Cafepress Addresses Their Better Business Bureau Record
In a recent post, T-Shirt Talk highlighted 13 t-shirt companies and their Better Business Bureau (BBB) records, which unearthed some issues with the Cafepress service record. The post generated some buzz in the t-shirt world and as a result Cafepress was made aware of their outstanding complaints at the BBB.
Last Friday, Cafepress responded on […]
Tips for Building a Successful Crowdsourcing T-Shirt Community
Adam Fletcher has been active in the crowdsourcing community and even wrote a Master’s thesis on Threadless entitled “Do consumers want to design unique products on the Internet - a study of the Virtual Community of Threadless.com and their attitudes to Mass Production, Mass Customisation and Collaborative Co-creation”. You can check out his full thesis […]
Interview with Founder of NerdyShirts.com by GearCrave.com
GearCrave interviewed co-founder Jacob Fatoorechi of NerdyShirts.com, “your one stop shop for the most awesome shirts in the world” (if you are a nerd). Learn about how NerdyShirts.com got started four years ago, the co-founders favorite t-shirt, their favorite t-shirt designers, and a bunch of personal and geeky info about Jacob. Check out the full […]
Threadless Tee-V (TV) Episode #3 - Go Fight Win!
This weeks Threadless video isn’t about t-shirts but it is a great example of a unique way to get attention for your company. Yes, I am referring to running a race dressed like a fridge with kids magnets that have your domain on it. This episode has two parts:
1. Refrigerator is Running! (a foot race […]
Zazzle Chooses SEO over Usability, Community Recognition, and Overall Experience
If you raised $17 million is this how you would design your homepage?
Personally, I think this just looks like Zazzle hired some SEO firm who convinced them they needed more text links on their homepage because its the right thing to do for SEO. It isn’t inviting, it isn’t pretty, it is just a […]
