Setting up a t-shirt shop can sometimes be a little overwhelming. Wouldn’t the world be a perfect place if someone spent half an hour showing you the ropes, walking you step by step through the most important steps in creating a Spreadshirt shop?

Well, those t-shirt shop newbies out there are in luck! We’ve started the Spreadshirt Webinar Series and are kicking it off with an introductory webinar for new users: the Spreadshirt Bootcamp.

The Spreadshirt Bootcamp provides live instruction from one of our employees on how to:

• customise your shop
• create new products
• upload designs
• use the Marketplace and the Design Gallery

Click here to learn more about the upcoming Bootcamp Webinars. You will find links to register for one of the convenient afternoon and evening times. For the more seasoned users amongst us, we will be providing more webinar topics in the future, so stay tuned. Happy learning!

As we mentioned in the blog and forum a couple of weeks ago, we want to better optimise your t-shirt shops so they are placed towards the top of the organic search results.

Part 1 went online yesterday (yeah!). The meta tags (title, description and keywords) will now be semi-automatically generated for your t-shirt shops.

Speaking of semi-automatic, you will have to do your part. Trying not to sound parental, this improvement won’t work as planned without a little elbow finger grease. Once again, here are the most important points:

1. Enter the meta data for your t-shirt shop home page. This advice is especially meant for shop partners who had entered their meta data in their own header.
2. Give your t-shirt shops a name (instead of the default 1234567.spreadshirt.co.uk). Both search engines and humans really, really don’t like “naked”, name-less shops.
3. Enter names, descriptions and keywords for t-shirts, hoodies, tank tops, etc. which appear in your shops. This can be done for each product here by clicking on details under the product images.
4. If you use your own categories, also give them a description.

More tips and information can be found in our SEO tutorial for t-shirt shop partners.

We’ll keep you up to date on any future changes. Happy optimising!

A little shop-narcissism doesn’t hurt! For those of you out there who love their shop so much that they could sit around all day and order from themselves for themselves, tomorrow until Sunday is your dream-come-true. Every purchase made from your user area from 13th to 15th March will be rewarded with a 15% discount. Simply make your purchases through My Spreadshirt, enter the voucher code MYSHOP during checkout and, poof!, there goes the 15% (by purchasing here, you are also improving your Marketplace ranking ;-). Note: this voucher is not valid in your shops and only works when purchasing through your user area. So, stock up on some spring promotional material, surprise someone with one of your favourite shirts, and have fun shopping!

© Utopia

A post by Anne Henneken, editor for Utopia, a German platform for “strategic consumption”. She´s also a columnist for jetzt.de which is a part of the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” network.

D: Nice shirt!
U: Thanks. Can you hand me over the juice, please?
D: Here you go.
U: Thanks… ahh, sh**. Who makes up these stupid openings? That will never come out again…

In all of us, there´s a latent juice-on-the-pants-tilter, red-wine-spiller and coffee-fiddler. Creating stains is something everybody can do easily, fast and in almost every situation. People like Jackson Pollock even make art from it - but usually the spiller causes only anger and sometimes even insurance cases.

What are stains? Cleaning pros divide stains based on the elements which cause them. For example fat (Nutella, butter, shoe creme), proteins (blood, milk, garlic gravy) or pigments (juice). The hardest to remove stain are those which are made from a combination of these elements. A cacao-stain, therefore is a stain for semi-pros as it contains protein alongside dark color pigments and fat.

You can find a whole arsenal of stain removers in any given drug store. However, from an eco perspective, these aren´t very “clean”, as they often contain aggressive chemicals for bleaching and dissolving. These not only attack the fabrics but also pollute the environment. At the same time, there´s a fabric- and eco-friendly instrument to remove almost every stain out there. And it doesn´t hurt to know some of them:

continue reading ‘Move and go away! Ways to get rid of stains the gentle way’

This got a little note in the newsletter, but its definetely worthy of a full post. A great new tool for producing vectors ready for your shops from a standard bmp image.

Its a project of Standford University and we’re really excited about it. Its web based and free, with really high quality results from our tests. For those of you with Illustrator or Coreldraw, this is highly recommended (the sites has comparisons between it and Adobe/Coral here).

http://vectormagic.stanford.edu/

Hi! Today a tip on the User-area and some News. When working in the Products section of your shop admin, always pay attention to the dropdown menu on the left, that has the options Show All, Marketplace, and Shop ######. To create or edit the products directly for your Shop, you simply select ‘Shop#####’. Here you can also create categories within your product range.

If you’re creating products within Show All-Focus, you can then add these products to Marketplace and Shop. This way you can manage your Halloween Stuff frighteningly efficient…

Did you know you can buy the products in your Shop without paying the commission? Under ‘Products’ select Show All in the dropdown menu. When you click the ‘Buy’ button on the right of the product, you only pay the base price without any added commission. But beware; products that are sold over the Show All focus are not counted as your own sales, and will not help you save up for any free vector uploads.

Don’t forget to upload scarily cool gallery images of you wearing your Halloween kit under ‘Shop ######’ and then selecting Upload Gallery image’ . Give your customers a shopping experience they’ll never forget.

Sorry for the lack of posts of late, I’ve been on holiday attending Latitude Festival (pics coming) and generally milling around England. I’ve returned to see that Spreadshirt has been mentioned several times (with quotes from our CEO Jana) in a recent article over at Entrepreneur.com, which you can read here

“T-shirts have become a blank canvas on which consumers are expressing their innermost thoughts, wants and needs–and they’ll gladly buy shirts that represent these personal statements. The time is right to express yourself, too, and make a profit while you’re at it.”

I found this via the indispensable t-shirtforums. If you’re not using it I highly recommend you check it out and connect with your peers. Theres over 8,500 really knowledgeable t-shirt sellers/enthusiasts over there. There is a Spreadshirt sub-board as well. I think we might have mentioned it here once or twice before.

This is an introduction to the new admin system. Some of the partners who tested the new beta asked us about the restructuring of the Shopadmin and why we structured a whole relaunch project around it.

continue reading ‘The new Spreadshirt User area.’

Justin (t-shirt entrepreneur and spreadshirt shop-partner) from bluefish has written on a similar topic to my riding a viral wave post entitled “How to sell the next big thing”
Threadchat is shaping up to be a great blog, so go check it out, its full of informative posts about seo, interviews and insights.
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How to sell the next big thing

Here is one for any new shop-partners, or those looking for a revision on the basics, the US team is putting on another of its popular webinar series:

This webinar will review the basics of setting up your shop, creating some products and how to share your shop with the world. The format for this webinar about 20 minutes of presentation from the Spreadshirt team, then an interactive 15 minutes of questions from you, the audience.

When: Wed May 16th, 3-4pm EST, 8pm-9pm (GMT), 7pm-8pm (ECT)

Reserve your virtual seat now: https://www.gotomeeting.com/register/870056749

Click here to view our past webinars.