Problogger has a post today that lists 10 ways to find readers for your blog.  The list the basics, like adding a link to your email signature.  I think that these ideas would also be helpful for promoting your shop.

I especailly like the idea of adding a background image on Twitter.  What have you found has been helpful in finding new customers for your shop? continue reading ‘Finding New Customers for Your Shop’

Here is a list of new colors and products that will be available for digital direct printing starting tomorrow (12/11/08) and some important info for anyone that has a shop with Spreadshirt about these new items and digital direct printing.  We have also posted information about this in our forum.

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Hello Spreadshirt Users,

As you may know, Spreadshirt offers several printing methods for our digital images, Digital Direct being the newest, which until now has only been available for a limited range of products. The goal for Digital Direct is to eventually phase out the other digital printing methods, Digital Transfer and Digital Transfer Overlay. In order to do this, we are extensively testing all products for Digital Direct. For a list of current available products for Digital Direct, please visit this helpful FAQ.

We are happy to announce that several products have completed our testing process, just in time for the holiday season! The following products will be available for Digital Direct printing tomorrow.

• Women’s Heather Jersey Tee
• Women’s Plus Size Wide Strap Tank
• Toddler T-Shirt
• Men’s Hemp Tee
• Unisex Tie Dye T-Shirt
• Unisex Organic Heather Tee

Also, the following products, which have only been available in white for Digital Direct printing, will now be available in all colors…

• Men’s Muscle Tee
• Men’s Organic Jersey Tee
• Men’s Long Sleeve Tee
• Women’s V-Neck T-Shirt
• Women’s Spaghetti Strap Tank
• Women’s Long Sleeve Jersey Tee
• Women’s Maternity Top
• Junior’s Cap Sleeve Tee
• Junior’s Aerobic Top
• Junior’s Organic Jersey T-Shirt

Finally, the Female Longer Length tank will be added for Digital Direct printing in white only.

Since switching these products to our Digital Direct printing method will affect articles in your shop we wanted to give you some important information before we activate Digital Direct for these products:

• Products that are already designed using Digital Transfer or Digital Transfer Overlay will automatically switch over to the Digital Direct printing method in your account, so you don’t have to recreate the products.
• You will want to check the pricing and your commission though, as Digital Direct print adds $4.50 to the cost of the product, which is $1.50 cheaper than digital images on colored apparel and $1.50 more on white apparel with digital images.
• Digital Direct uses 200 dpi, so your current uploaded digital images may appear smaller when using Digital Direct, as Digital Transfer only requires a dpi of 120. This will be apparent in Designer Shops and depends on the dpi of the original uploaded image.

We are still continuing to test Digital Direct to eventually replace all products with the new technology, but wanted to release some new product types for you to utilize in your shop and the Marketplace.

Happy Creating,

Your Digital Direct Team

With Christmas just 15 days away - there is still time to save on a custom gift from Spreadshirt!

December 9-11, 2008 - 15% off all orders orders over $30.00, shipping costs do not apply
December 12-15, 2008 - 10% off all orders over $30.00, shipping costs do not apply

Coupon codes:

US$: NOW
CAD$: CADNOW

* minimum $30 order, shipping costs do not apply

Here are some cool things that I checked out on the web today.

Super Vintage T-shirt at TeeCycle.org - Teecyle Tim has posted some pictures of a t-shirt that is 32 years old - it is a perfect vintage t-shirt worn into to perfection.  While the shirt won’t be 32 years old - you can get the vintage look at Spreadshirt with the heathered t-shirts and the semi-sheer tee.

TshirtWin on Twitter - TCritic’s Karl Long is now on twitter - I am excited to see what he will be tweeting about.

Product Pictures Flickr Group - I recieved an invite to this group today and it is a neat idea - post pictures of products that you use.  It will be cool to see what products people in other parts of the world post.  Also a good place to share a picture of your favorite t-shirt.

What cool websites have you looked at today?