Jana (she is the CEO of Spreadshirt) sent me a link to this shop and I am in love. Volvo Love is filled with great t-shirts for Volvo lovers. Here are just a few of the reasons to love this shop:

• Enthusiasts are Passionate People - This is a great enthusiast shop - some of the most successful Spreadshirt shops are ones where people can buy merchandise about something they are passionate about. I just had my Saab towed away to the junk yard yesterday. It was my second Saab and I loved that car a lot - I don’t even like cars but I did love the Saab brand. I loved how passionate people were about their Saabs. When I lived in Ithaca, NY there was one place to get a Saab serviced - Pellegrino Saab - Nick and Rose are passionate about Saabs and the people who drive them (see rave review here). The Pellegrino’s were a great help and if I could buy a Pellegrino Saab t-shirt, I would order one right now. When you are working on building your shop - think about t-shirts that express things you are passionate about.  Check out a Saab Spreadshirt Shop here.
• Text It To Me - I am not talking about text messaging. The shirts in this shop are mostly text on a shirt. Text on a shirt is super easy to set up a Spreadshirt and looks great. You don’t have to have a complex t-shirt to have a good looking t-shirt. Also check out the text placement - same text but putting it in a different place on the shirt can create 2 different looks.

• Variety is the Spice of the Shop - Volvo Love does a great job of offering an assortment of products beyond t-shirts. Items like totes and hats make it easy for people to send a gift with out having to worry about sizes.

Just a reminder about the 1-2-3 Free Promotion.  Get three new orders in your shop before May 3, 2008 and earn a $20 gift certificate from Spreadshirt.  You can earn up to 5 gift certificates.  Plus we are giving away 2 Ipod shuffles for the best tips for selling shirts.  All you have to do to enter is leave a comment on the post.

Click here for all the details and to leave a comment with your favorite sales tips.

Earlier this year I wrote about some of the many uses for the very versatile cinch sack.  One of those uses is the knitting bag.  I like that you can leave your yarn in the bag and cinch the sack while you knit - which works perfectly to keep your yarn from getting tangled.

The post inspired Gladditudes to add this cute “Chicks with Stix” design to their shop.

There are quite a few knitting bloggers out there who have blogged about their favorite knitting bags.  Which come in all ranges of prices.  I think the cinch sack is just the right size to take a knitting project with you.   The price is right too - the “Chicks with Stix” bag is $16.

Mother’s Day is near, don’t panic - think custom gift for mom and save.

Use coupon code Mom4 (in Canada - CADMom4) to save 20% of the order of any women’s product. Minimum purchase $20, offer is good until May 5, 2008.

Tobi (he blogs on the German Spreadshirt Blog) just sent me a link for T-shirt Magazine.com.  I did a little clicking around and I think there is a lot of good stuff here.  I especially liked that the editors pick of the day is from a Spreadshirt shop - The Tee Party.  Check out The Tee Party shop - I love that they have some pictures of people wearing their shirts.

A fan of Spreadshirt and American Idol sent us this tip and we just had to share. Yes, that is a Spreadshirt T-shirt that Carly Smithson held up last night. The shirt says “Simon Loves Me (This Week).” We are just thrilled that a Spreadshirt has made it to American Idol - and we didn’t even have to sing.  Visit Create Own Shirt.com to make your own shirt and share your ideas on a t-shirt.

And here is a video clip of the preformance, the shirt appears at 3:15 into the video.

I swear I didn’t know this article was coming when I wrote about the tote bags yesterday.  Check it out, Spreadshirt is featured as one of 4 alternatives for reusable shopping bags in the lifestyle section of today’s USA Today.  Click here to read the whole article online.

Here is a color picture of the tote from the USA Today website.  I love the green on the black tote bag.  There is still time to save on your own custom tote - our Earth Day sale runs through midnight tonight.  Click here for the coupon code and all the details.

We have simplified pricing for vector designs and text. Here is Temple’s post from the forum with the details:

Many of you have talked about complexity charges, specialty color charges, etc and wanted to see some changes….well we have some good news for you. Within the next couple days, we will be changing pricing for vectors.

ALL vector designs, regardless of complexity will be $3. There will be no additional charges for complex or super complex designs. Two and three colored designs will remain the same pricing, so a two color design will be $5.50 and three color will still be $9.

ALL flex and flock colors will be priced the same, so there will be no additional charge to glitter, glow in the dark, sparkle, metallics, etc. No matter what vector design you choose and color, the price will be $3 for a one color vector, barring any design commission of course.

One last thing…Text up to 5 lines will be $3, so you can print one line or five lines and the price will remain the same at $3. If you add an additional design or additional text box, then as it is now it will be an additional $3.

Digital Design pricing will remain the same. At this time, we are expecting to fully launch this on the 17th. When we do launch, then your existing products will change to reflect the new pricing, so product pricing will go down for products that are using complex, super complex, specialty flex, metallic flex, or two or more lines of text in the same text box. All other product pricing will remain the same, since those designs would not be affected.

The race is on to reduce plastic bag use across the US. Spreadshirt offers custom totes - so you can express your self on your reusable shopping bags. The reusable bags from some of the stories are very pretty but I like to bring my own so that they don’t get confused with other people’s totes and it is a great way to promote my blog. Our totes and all of the other products in the eco-friendly category are 15% off through April 22, 2008 - use coupon code EARTHDAY4- click here for all the details.

Plastic Bag Fashions

Whole Foods will stop giving out plastic bags on April 22, 2008. To celebrate the Whole Foods in Raleigh will hold a fashion show of clothing made out of plastic bags. More details here.

What came first the Chicken or the Bag

I saw this little guy at a great shop here in Pittsburgh, Fresh Heirlooms, that only sells items made from recycled items.

We have had so much happening here that I thought I would post a little round up of 3 cool things that are happening now on the Spreadshirt blog that are worth a look.

1. Earth Day Savings until April 22, 2008 - save 15% on any item from the eco-friendly product category.
2. 1-2-3 Free - Get three new orders in your shop and get a $20 gift certificate from Spreadshirt - plus a chance to win an Ipod shuffle
3. Spreadshirt TestLab - check out or highly scientific and detailed look at how much an American Apparel t-shirt really shrinks