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.
Threadchat

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.

The Puzzles will very soon be de-listed. Rumor has it that there are only 10 left in stock. That means:

a) They weren’t very popular, hence the delisting
b) The last one we ever produce will be a sort of collectors item

I’ve reserved the last one and we’ll give it away on the blog once the other nine have sold. Alternatively I’ll sell it on ebay and move to Hawaii, oh no wait the puzzles weren’t very popular, I’ll sell it and move to Harlow. On second thoughts, I’ll just give it away.

Recently we ran a little name our pirate contest. The winning name has been chosen. Guess it and you win the last puzzle (with the pirate on it). Here are some clues:
a) It’s more than a little nordic

b) Its managerial, Nancy.

Easy, peasy (for a brit).

If we think about the key components of a good selling store, I’d suggest they are:

continue reading ‘Riding a viral wave - how to generate sales’

Individualitee shop just got a nice write up over at t-shirt alert. Tshirt blogs are a great place to get some traffic for your store and love for your designs. The writers of these get a lot of mails with requests to be featured though, so it might take some patience and even a little persistence to get coverage even if they really like your shop.

Some tips for getting featured:

continue reading ‘Individualitee writeup @ t-shirt-alert’

A new(ish) tshirt blog entitled Tshirt-Review has a nice write-up of various options for generating traffic to your tshirt site. I think we’ve covered most of these over the months, but this is a good intro and groups them all together.

It covers seo, social media marketing, ppc, blogs amongst others.

Check it out 

Content shamelessly “borrowed” from the US blog. Doesn’t affect the quality of the tutorial though

“For anyone who is interested in t-shirt design, check out this nice tutorial from the Layers Magazine website. T-shirt designer Jeff Finely takes you through creating a t-shirt design using vector graphics in Illustrator.
This gives a pretty nice, not too complex overview of turning a photo into a vector graphics for t-shirts. The t-shirt used as as the example is a bit too complex for Spreadshirt´s print types.

Since Christmas I have been on the hunt for a way to turn a photograph into a vector graphic. This tutorial is a good overview of that. If you are going to use your vector for a Spreadshirt design, make sure it meets the minimum requirements so that it is possible to turn your design into a design on the shirt. For more information on the specifics of preparing vector graphics for Spreadshirt visit the shop partner admin. “