One of the questions we often get is: what are the best-selling products at Spreadshirt? Since this question is pretty easy to answer and the results are relatively constant, we came up with this nifty image of the top 10 products for you. The image also shows the top colours which sold best for those products in the first quarter of 2009 (in order of their popularity).

Here are the products with links to their detail pages:

1. Men’s Classic T-shirt
2. Women’s Girlieshirt Classic
3. Men’s Hooded Sweatshirt
4. Men’s Slim Fit T-shirt
5. Men’s AA T-shirt
6. Cooking Apron
7. Men’s Contrast T-shirt
8. Men’s Hooded Jacket
9. Men’s Retro T-shirt
10. Women’s AA T-shirt

Just because these products sell so well doesn’t mean you should immediately flood the Marketplace with these products our apparel assortment has much, much more to offer.

A few months ago, we sent one of our test lab employees over to the relatively young Berlin fashion label Emperor’s Clothing. They have been working hard on developing a new fabric and we thought that “Earth Month” would be the right time to introduce, drum roll please, the “Revolutee”! The name might sound a bit presumptuous at first glance, but give it a chance. We are definitely expecting a lot from this product, especially since the most common reasons for shirt returns are: wrong size, wrong colour or that the cut doesn’t fit.

Those are exactly the points which our test lab teamed up with Emperor’s to solve – and they hit the nail right on the head. Their shirt is not only unisex and available in every colour imaginable, it is also suitable for every occasion – and it is the first unisex shirt which has truly earned that title. What does this mean for you? Simply add a design and order it. There’s no more need to find the right style and size, washing it is elementary and it’s 100% organic. Note: the Revolutee(on) is expected to be available this coming Monday when we roll out the other new additions to our assortment. Stay tuned!

I´m currently in London for Barcamp 6 for which we sponsored the official shirts. For all of you who are not familiar with the concept of a Barcamp - go here. For all others who know what a Barcamp is but couldn´t attend this time: try to come here when you get the chance next time.

The Barcamp London 6 not only takes place in very inspiring surroundings - we´re in the new office of The Guardian, the people here are also very inspiring to listen and talk to.

My definite highlight so far: Sam´s talk about The Guardian´s open API and the Data Store which allow developers and publishers to make apps with news and facts in the making. Besides that, I also really enjoyed a small discussion about how to manage your customers expectations, a presentation about “making kick-ass video navigation” and lots of chat to interesting people like Jan, Tobi (love his Barcamp shirt variation), Carl, and Oliver just to name a few.

P.S. Find more pictures here or here or by just keeping your eyes open for the tag “bcl6″.

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!

You can’t say that no one told you – 22 March is a very special day on mum’s calendar.
Some call it Mothering Sunday and others have grown used to calling it Mother’s Day. This may be something that’s up for debate and feel free to let us know what you think!
The fact of the matter is: mothers are not to be forgotten. I was thinking about a special way to make mum smile on 22 March.
Chocolate? Not again.
Flowers? There’s got to be something more original than that.
Surprise her with custom apparel you made yourself? Yes, that’s it! Make her a personalised gift or choose from some of our Marketplace products.

It’s that time of year where we are clearing out our warehouse for the new spring apparel additions. That’s why we are now offering 19 Spreadshirt products at discounts of up to 30 percent! Some of the great deals include the Women’s One Shoulder Top and American Apparel’s Summer Dress for the gals, jerseys and striped shirts for the guys, the Kid’s Country Shirt for the little ones, and knitted caps and gloves for everyone.

P.S. To find out how this clearance looks for shop partners, check out this forum post.

Want to make your beloved customers a great offer for Valentine´s Day?
Include the following banners in your shop and allow them to save 14.2% on their Valentine´s Day presents by entering the voucher code HEART2K9.

See the banners after the jump.

continue reading ‘Valentine´s Day Campaign for Shop Partners’

Once again, a year is fading out making way for the next one. This time: 2008. And once again, we – my colleagues and I, Torge – would like to know what made this year important to you, what moved you to tears and who really ground your gears.
Short review: Last year you nominated Al Gore as the most polular person of the year. The silver medal went to Sébastian Chabal, a guy who I never ever heard of well-known rugby player of the Sale Sharks. The real surprise, however, was to be found at the lower end of the scale where George W. Bush handed over the Golden Raspberry to Paris Hilton. By the way: Knut (the famous Berlin polar bear) got stuck somewhere in the middle.
When it came to the vote for the most important website of the year, there was of course just one possible winner: Spreadshirt! What actually surprised me was that you guys like MySpace more than Facebook…
Anyway, additionally to some questions you already know from last year, we want to elect the most beautiful city and risk a short glimpse into the future this year.
All participants can hope for awesome prices like the Acer Aspire A150X.
So take the survey. Have fun!

Tomorrow, December 1st, is Cyber Monday. Save 25% on your orders using the coupon code “CYBERBLOG” during checkout. Have fun buying shirts!

One week to go, and everybody is doing his part for the presidential election race - be it action figures, artworks, prints, dance-offs, pumpkins, or simply t-shirts! Since we believe in the t-shirt thing and the game called “wisdom of the crowds”, we joined the party and gathered some completely irrelevant, but interesting figures of our database for you.

continue reading ‘The Spreadshirt Election Forecast’