As we mentioned in the last newsletter and blog post, we have a contest running for Shop Partners during November. You still have the chance to qualify to win one of three great prizes. Give your marketing drum a good pang, whack, bang and get some new customers into your shop. Shops with even one sale are automatically entered into the contest. You can find some great tips on how to market your shop on our Spreaducation pages or in our Forum, where you can exchange and test ideas with Spreadshirt employees and other Shop Partners.

Important information for your customers: Christmas Ordering Deadlines 2009
Santa’s elves aren’t the only ones working hard in the weeks up to Christmas: we also have quite the amount of products to produce by hand. As the production times tend to increase this time of year, we would ask you to inform your customers about our ordering deadlines so they know that they will get their gifts before 25th December. There’s a brilliant little chart in our FAQ section where you can find information about all EU countries.

The ordering deadlines for the UK are:
Standard Shipping: order must be made before 10:59 a.m. (GMT) on 17th December.
Express Shipping: order must be made before 10:59 p.m. (GMT) on 20th December.

Less than three weeks away and we might already be tired of Christmas jingles, the word x-mas and crowded stores.

That doesn’t save us from the fact that we still need gifts. For those who are saying to themselves “This is the year I will start shopping before Christmas Eve”, we have quite the tip for this upcoming weekend. Saturday: get out and grab some of that crisp winter air. Sunday: stay home and simply finish all of your shopping.

We’ve made your lazy Sunday even more convenient — with the voucher code “LAZYSUNDAY“, you will get all orders placed on Sunday, December 7th shipped for free. The voucher is valid in the T-Shirt Designer, on the Marketplace and in all shops.

I even have a gift idea for you: some might have already seen snow this winter, so our knitted mittens and caps certainly deserve a shout-out. They are from Vermont, which means that they are hand-made and extremely comfortable. And with a little creativity, mittens can be quite handy.

The Exclusive Line is here and we kick off our series here in the Blog with Barking Irons from New York. Founded by Daniel and Michael Casarella in 2003, the brand with the pistols (barking irons is an old fashioned term for pistol) is all about bringing a touch of american mythology to fashion. They say, each of their items is based on a character or a story, most probably from the 18th or 19th century.
In our Exclusive Line you’ll find 4 products (two shirts, one hoodie and one zipper), and we also have some more background information about the Barking Irons: Check out their blog, the New York Times article on “Brand Underground”, or the video featuring the Casarella brothers. We also did a short interview and asked Michael Casarella a few questions.

What is the barking irons brand about (one sentence)?

continue reading ‘Exclusive Line Spotlight #1: Barking Irons from New York’

We have mentioned before that suddenly it’s all about Christmas - and see what happened: the tie and the elk got some sisters and brothers, for example the shirt for biiig dogs!

Besides the dog-shirts, we added more colours for aprons and aprons for kids (in case grandma doesn’t want to have a lonesome cookie-session). Also, we are pretty sure we’ll meet them again this year: a range of people wearing (funny) christmas hats, no matter how much you try to avoid them (in Germany this fashion got a little overdone, especially on the christmas markets that traditionally take station in the city centres).

For the other end of our apparel, we have added some more special, limited items in our Exclusive Line. continue reading ‘New and exclusively for Christmas Shopping’

Christmas is, as we know by experience, every year coming all at once and particularly when we are not prepared at all. This year’s Christmas Season was heralded at Spreadshirt with a dedicated brainstorming in the end of August (!) so that we are early enough thinking of some cool gift ideas for you. Meanwhile a lot has happened behind the curtains …

Our list of products has been extended, we are now offering typical Christmas accessories like the tie or the cuddly moose. Some more (and exclusive) will follow, more to be revealed soon. Moreover we have prepared special landinpage for individual christmas gifts  which points out some selected products from the marketplace. Besides there is the “Early Bird”-campaign for Shop Partners until November 20th which we traditionally use to motivate customers to order early. Not to forget a special section for Shoppartners to help you with marketing and offer material for downloads.

Especially our Photo Team was confronted with some interesting challenges: Starting with the question on where to get a tolerable Christmas tree from (simple answer: out of the wood of course!), over the choice of the models (and dogs as well) to the decoration of the scenery (what about a flokati, maybe?) there was a lot to organize. continue reading ‘… and suddenly, it’s Christmas’