If you are in the Pittsburgh area tomorrow - I will be the guest speaker for Craftology, a monthly workshop for crafters that is organized by the Pittsburgh Craft Mafia.

We will be talking about branding, marketing and selling stuff online.  You can check out some of the past presentations we have done about these topics here.

Pittsburgh Craft Mafia’s Craftology
Saturday, June 30, 2pm
The Beehive, E. Carson Street

Whether you are making cool stuff by hand or designing cool stuff on Spreadshirt there are tools and tips we can all use.  What is you favorite tip for selling online?

We learn about so many cool websites because they set up shop with Spreadshirt. Check out Blogumenta, which is an art gallery on Facebook.

The folks behind Blogumenta have already blogged about us twice.

Thanks for the rave reviews over your first t-shirt purchase.

Blogumenta has used the edit text option to let you create your own slogan for your Blogumenta t-shirt.  They will even post a picture of you in your custom t-shirt on the Facebook group.  Your slogan could become the official slogan of Blogumenta.

You can hear me talking about Spreadshirt in this podcast.  Back at BootCampPGH, Joel Witt from FolkMedia.org did some interviews.  I had a few miniutes to give a quick run down of what Spreadshirt is all about.

You can listen to the little podcast interview with me here- I am episode 9.

Thanks to Justin for blogging about this podcast and mentioning Spreadshirt.

It’s time for another shirt selection hand picked by one of the Spreadshirt staff. Next up is Jesse from the Spreadshirt graphics team.

Why did you choose that product?
I selected the Medium Baseball Tee because it’s kinda chilly sometimes when I’m riding my bmx bike to work in the morning. So it seemed to be a great choice for that reason but also reminds me of the movie Sandlot.

Tell us about the design?
This is the first design that I really attempted to make here at Spreadshirt, so I thought it’d be great to have on a shirt for myself. It’s also kinda cute, humorous and bitter at the same time
What was the most fun part of ordering?
Creating the design was really fun or opening my apartment mailbox and finding a small mailbox stuffed with a Spreadshirt bag haha. Go postal service!

I am testing out the new BlogThis feature in the all new Spreadshirt Marketplace. I just wanted to show off this design because it rocks. I love the shape and color and I know it will look great in flex. If you have ordered a “Monkey Love” shirt please share some pictures of it with us.

If you would like some “Monkey Love” for your self just click the image below.

monkey love

We have been stumbling upon websites via StumbleUpon for a few months now.  You can check out our Stumble Upon page here: http://spreadshirt.stumbleupon.com/

StumbleUpon is a tool bar that you download and add to your FireFox browser that lets you mark websites you like and helps you to stumble upon other websites.

Over in the Spreadshirt Forums some other Spreadshirt users have been raving about the traffic that they get from using StumbleUpon.   I just wanted to share the tip and let you know that Spreadshirt is on StumbleUpon.  Has anyone had any success with StumbleUpon groups? Do you think we should upgrade the Spreadshirt StumbleUpon account and set up a Spreadshirt StumbleUpon group?

We missed you! Here is the presentation from today’s webinar…

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Usually I get write about what other members of the Spreadshirt staff have created when they are tagged in our game of Spreadshirt tag.  This time I am writing about me.

I thought I would show you a picture of the package, as you know we love getting packages here at Spreadshirt.

I choose  to create an apron because no one had created an apron yet in our game of staff tag.   I  love this apron beacuse the ties are  totally adjustable.  I tried to think up a new design but in the end I choose the design from my website.  I have not ordered this color combination before.  I LOVE love LOVE the gold metallic flex, it looks awesome on the black and I don’t know if you can see but it matches my gold shoes.

I am really happy with my new apron.  I really like how the text that makes up the url turned out - I put the word “heart” in gold.

Another reason I like the apron is that it makes a good gift because you don’t have to worry about ordering the right size.  Ordering from the new Spreadshirt site was super easy and my apron arrived lighting fast.  Spreadshirt is super fun.  My sister and I have already thought of some aprons to order for my mom.

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