May the best-selling shops win! We’ve prepared a little contest to help you boost up your shop sales before the holiday season really takes off. If you sell well in November, you could win some great prizes. We’ve also set up three different prize groups to make sure that even the smaller shops have the chance to win something. All you need is one sale, and you’ve qualified for a prize!

• 100+ sales: 5x exclusive newsletters to your customers (consultation with the winners, created and sent by Spreadshirt).
• 50-100 sales: 5x free flyers for your shop (our graphics team will create the flyers in consultation with you, your logo and your designs. We will then send the flyers to the 5 winners).
• 1-50 sales: 4x help re-designing your shop-layout (e.g. we will create graphics, banners or teasers specifically for your shop).

We will randomly select the corresponding amount of winners from all of the Shop Partners who fall into each of the categories. We will then contact them via e-mail.

Hold your horses – that’s not all … of course, we would like to help you increase your sales: a 15% off everything in your stores would be a good start, don’t you think? This promotion runs during the same time as the above-mentioned contest 9.11 – 23.11 (brilliant, aren’t we?) The voucher code is: NOVEMBERSALE.

This voucher code is valid for the entire contest period from 9th to 23rd November 2009 and gives your customers a 15% discount on all products. You are free to use the ad banner which our graphics team put together for you. You can find out more information about this promotion in the forum.

Happy sales!

As some of you might have read on laFraise’s blog, the winner of one of the largest online design competition prizes ever awarded was announced yesterday. As you can see from the 12 finalists, there was some tough competition to rake in the €15,000.

Can you take the suspense?

You’ll find the winner after the click (drum-roll please, trumpets blare):
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You may have followed it on Twitter. Perhaps you have already seen the news on Tee-Junction or on Hide Your Arms – but you will read it here too: laFraise has launched its new redesigned site with a big bang. Our strawberry-loving colleagues at laFraise have worked hard giving the site a make-over and thought it none better than to mark the event with one of the biggest prizes in t-shirt competition history.

This special contest is the second edition of the 15K contest, but with a big new twist. Instead of awarding 3 designers with €5,000 as they did last year, there will only be one winner to lay claim to the big bag of cash filled with €15,000. This lucky talented designer will have their design printed on 2,000 shirts and go down in t-shirt history.
continue reading ‘laFraise Relaunches with a €15,000 Special Contest’

Some of the recent submissions for the Social Media special contest from laFraise and Spreadshirt have been great. So, we decided to move the submission deadline from today to Monday, June 1st.

As a little extra motivation for all designers, Spreadshirt CEO Jana Eggers spontaneously introduced a special CEO prize. She will award her favourite design which:

• helps people promote their social media identity
• in a fun and cool way
• with an eye-catching design

with an Amazon Kindle - which, for those who haven’t heard of it, is a brand new digital reading device that allows you to read electronic books, magazines, newspapers and blogs on the run.

The Kindle is currently only available in the States so that the winner will be among one of the few first Europeans to hold it in their hands. Keep those great designs coming and get them in by Monday!

If you look to the left you’ll see a screen shot of the official Spreadshirt shop for T-Shirt Day 2009. It looks great, but is still quite a bit empty. We have to change this. Fast.

Calling all Shop Partners and Marketplace Designers! Either tag your favourite shirt designs with “tshirtday09” or upload a new favourite design with the tag “tshirtday09”.

We’ll grab those designs a put them in the shop, and to top that we’ll be sending some of them out in newsletters and slapping them on banners. So, tag on!

P.S. This is just a friendly reminder that you still have time (until Thursday) to submit designs for the “Social Media” T-Shirt Design Contest with laFraise and Spreadshirt. You can find details about the contest here.

If you are looking for some inspiration, check out the video “Cosmopolitan Tribalism” which our blog-savvy Tobias found in Markus Reuter’s blog. Think zeitgeist, mainstream, trends and global youth. Video after the click. continue reading ‘T-Shirt Day 09 - We Need Your Favourite Designs’

It’s that time of year again – where the warm weather provides many reasons for celebration. 21 June is action-packed this year – not only is it both Father’s Day and the official start of summer, but also International T-Shirt Day. Just like last year we are teaming up with laFraise for a special competition where the winner can rake in a prize of €1,500. The theme of this year’s competition:

Take Social Media to the Streets!

Social Media isn’t exactly something you could normally put your hands on, but rather has become the corners of the net which some call their second home, like:

• Blogs
• Twitter
• Facebook (etc.)
• Flickr (etc.)

We are looking for the best t-shirt design which allows people to communicate their social media presence (nickname, name, URL, status update etc.) on a shirt. Create a design for laFraise and Spreadshirt which best and most concisely conveys social media and its importance for the individual.

Requirements for the design continue reading ‘laFraise and Spreadshirt Team up for T-Shirt Day Competition’

September 21st is International Peace Day. Especially in regard of current developments, this seems to be a good occasion to spend some thoughts on politics. But besides worrying about old rivalries becoming new ones, there´s also a reason to celebrate - this year, the famous peace sign celebrates its 50th birthday.

That´s why Spreadshirt and laFraise join forces and launch a special shirt design competition around the topic of peace. The only requirement to take part is to incorporate the peace sign in the design. Not necessarely as the key visual, but it has to be in there somewhere.

The winner will get 1,500 EUR in cash and we´ll also give away some slots in the Spreadshirt end customer newsletter for those designers who not only submit their pieces to the European gallery of laFraise but to the Spreadshirt marketplace (please use “WorldPeaceDay08″ to tag submissions) as well.

Deadline for submissions  is September 12th. The winner will be announced on September 21st.

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The shirt rallye is on! Just as a reminder: if you manage to attract three new customers within the next two weeks you will receive one shirt coupon at 15 pounds. Possibly up to five coupons per person! Also, the best marketing ideas – how to promote and spread your shop - will be richly rewarded. But how? Among the prizes we would like your vote on there are a Wacom Board, Google Adwords credits, photo shooting for your shop and…

continue reading ‘1 2 3 Rallye - additional prizes’

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Sustainability is our big theme in April: Earth Day, Bamboo and Eco-Cotton – Bambi will surely show up too. “Everything beautiful and good,” our production taoist philosophized, who might have just watched too much Star Wars. “You can push yourself as much as you want. As long as you behold the light and not the shadow, Ying and Yang won’t be in balance.”

That sounds unbelievably wise, impressed us greatly and let’s us simply imagine ripping through the forest at 130 km/h.
continue reading ‘1 2 3 Rallye’

Thank you to all who have taken part in the design competition for the Shirt That Stole Christmas. It’s been emotional. We have taken a vote in the Spreadshirt UK Office and from a handful of random punters, and have reached our decision. There were a lot of great designs, and all of them made us smile, so this was a toughie. Here’s how it panned out… continue reading ‘An Anti-Christmas Miracle!’