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.

On Monday, laFraise revealed the 12 designs which made it into the second round of the €15,000 Contest. From the 4,000 submissions, 800 were approved for the contest – but to then choose 12 from the 800 was certainly not the easiest of tasks. These 12 were chosen based on their score, the amount of pre-orders, the community’s comments, the design’s overall quality and laFraise’s personal taste. And now these 12 are up for another round of votes.

The winner of the contest will become the proud recipient of one of the biggest prizes ever awarded in t-shirt design contest history. Here is your chance to take part in this historical event and perhaps help your favourite win big-time. Time’s a-ticking - voting ends on Monday!

These finalists and other selected submissions will also be on display in the West Berlin Gallery from 11th to 27th September – printed on canvas - a great tribute to the often overlooked artistic value found in t-shirt design. The winning design will appear on 120×120 cm, the 11 other finalists on 80×80 cm. and 40 additional contest designs on 40×40 cm.

P.S. The design above is my favourite of the 12 - but, I could also imagine wearing this one. What are your favourites?

More than four weeks to go to Christmas and yet, laFraise already start to put some mad decent goodies on the table to thank all designers and customers for a wicked ‘08.

For all graphic pros, they launched what is probably the t-shirt design contest with the biggets prize money ever (correct me if I´m wrong): the 15,000 - in words: fifteen thousand - Euro contest. That´s 12k GBP, folks! Deadline for submissions is December 1st. More details can be found in Jared´s art/design/fashion blog with a delicious strawberry flavour.

For all buyers, laFraise offers the following discounts in their shirt and hoodie filled online boutique:

Buy 2 T-Shirts, get 1 free with the voucher code santa2&1*
* = - 34% on all orders with 3 articles minimum.

Buy 4 T-Shirts, get 3 free with the voucher code santa4&3*
* = - 43% on all orders with 7 articles minimum.

Buy 6 T-Shirts, get 6 free with the voucher code santa6&6*
* = - 50% on all orders with 12 articles minimum.

And even though this promotion runs until the end of December, you better don´t wait too long with your order as all products are limited to editions of 500 pieces each.