Products of Nature

New Bamboo and Organic Apparel in April

Women’s ‚ÄúEarth Positive‚Äù T-shirt

The Earth Positive shirts from Continental offer a more progressive ethical apparel choice. They are:
1) Made with organic cotton (GOTS Certified)
2) Carbon Neutral
3) Fair Trade Certified (FWF Seal)

Women’s Breathable T-shirt

This sporty t-shirt for women by Alo is made from 68% bamboo.

Men’s Recycled T-shirt

Rough look, yet fleecy-soft to the touch. The new recycled shirts from Anvil are made with 69% pre-consumer recycled cotton.

Organic Shirts with new Colours

The first two are by American Apparel – classic organic t-shirt from American Apparel is now available in the colours pomegranate (women) and cinder (men).

The second two are by Continental Clothing -light blue and light pink complete the spectrum of Continental’s GOTS certified organic cotton products.

So let’s not hear anymore (even from me) about Spreadshirt’s pitiful track record for environmental credentials, they’re probably the best major corporation in the t-shirt print on demand market for green tees right now. Good on ‘em.

Anyway, you can say it with flowers, but well she’s probably sick of the sight of daffodils. You could say it with chocolates, but hey, she’s probably sensitive about her weight these days. So say it with erm… a Spreadshirt t-shirt? Well maybe, I don’t know your mother, she might be that way inclined. I sometimes think Spreadshirt resemble Hallmark more everyday, at least they have a sale on to mark the occassion. Roll on T-shirt Review Bloggers Day, in case you’re wondering what I’d like, it’d have to be a manual flatbed screen printing press for my art (A0 and up). They seem to be rather thin on the ground in this part of the world.

Anyway they’re offering 10% off all women’s gear from the 7th to the 13th of March.

Anyway here’s the code:- GREATESTMUM

Here’s the site:- www.spreadshirt.net

Here’s a banner in case you didn’t read any of my verbiage (garbiage more like):-

Here’s the end of the news…

Full-colour promo with 15% off

The winter has nearly had its day and spring is already fighting to declare itself open for business. Time to feed the retinas their yearly dose of unadulterated colour – grant yourself and your customers a budding bloom and make sure you send the spring breeze flying in the right direction:

From 20th February ‚Äì 1st March 2009, you can order any article with a colourful design (i.e. at least one colour that isn’t black or white) and receive a generous 15% discount!

Voucher code: BABYBLOOM

Duration:

This voucher code is valid for orders in all ‚ÄòPartner Shops’ from 20th February ‚Äì 1st March 2009. The promotion is not available in conjunction with other offers or discounts.

Whilst we’re at it you can get a whopping 17% off any t-shirt for Spreadshirt’s Patrick Day promotion! Design what you like and pay less.

Coupon codes:
USD$: WINTER48
CAD$: CADWWINTER48

*Minimum $30.00 order required. Offer available for domestic US shipping only.

For 20% off all tees include one of the following codes (depending if you’re in the USA or Canada – yes it seems like another corporation has decided to ignore the rest of us).

US: FALL28
CAN: CADFALL28

Make sure that you get your order in by the 31st and they want a minimum of $30 purchases which kind of takes the edge of the whole idea…

Take note it’s the only portion of the CafePress forum moving to Affspot.com. All other CafePress forums will remain at Cafepress.com.

This new affiliate forum will give CafePress affiliates a great place to network and be part of a fast-growing professional affiliate community. If you want to participate in the new CafePress affiliate forum on Affspot.com, please go to Affspot.com and sign in with your CafePress forum username and password. This will let you keep your CafePress forum user ID and post count on the new affiliate forum. If you don’t want to participate in the new CafePress Affiliate forum, simply do nothing.

If you have any questions regarding the forum, please feel free to contact Affiliate Marketing Manager Steve Root directly via email or phone – 650-655-3055. CP are very excited about the new affiliate forum, and are looking forward to seeing many of ou CafePress affiliates participate.

Whilst I’m on the subject I’ve made a rather important contact at Cafepress.com recently, Angela Low is The Community Manager at CafePress and I’ve managed to hook up with her via the business network Linkedin.com so if any of you groovy readers have a relevant question or suggestion you can’t get through to the bigwigs at CP let me know and I’ll pass it on to her. I’m not promising anything but sometimes it’s handy to bypass the usual channels and ask someone at the top.

Nathan McGee (Nathan McGee, Sr. Web Producer/Site Manager, Cafepress.com worked directly with Angela at CafePress) praises Angela for “showing a strong dedication to the online community of Cafepress. An asset to both Cafepress and the community which she manages, she has mastered the task of being able to maintain the groups which demand her attention at the same time remaining calm and cool. A delight to work with!”

Email me at submissions@buy-tees.net and I’ll do my best to get an answer for you.

Take it easy – Paul.

The new license can be found here.

The old license can be found here.

Essentially the differences mean, as far as I can tell, designers will receive no marketplace commission whilst making it far more work and more difficult to get your design to the customer. Why do I say this?

1) Spreadshirt are changing the focus of their website, essentially after a great deal of market research it seems that most of their customers skip the marketplace and head on directly to the Spreadshirt Designer tool.

Therefore for UK users (as an example) instead of being greeted by the marketplace section at http://www.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Buy-t-shirt/Designs-63/

They’ll be sent directly to the T-shirt Designer at http://www.spreadshirt.net/en/GB/Create-t-shirt/Designer-59/

I’m assuming the same changes will be made to Spreadshirt.com and all of Spreadshirt.net’s other country versions.

Essentially Spreadshirt is slowly becoming an online t-shirt design application, perhaps the world has become a vastly more creative place, perhaps not, I think it more likely that Spreadshirt can make more money more easily this way, and essentially are abandoning the people who helped make them the success they are today. I have a feeling that Threadless.com and other crowdsourcing t-shirt sites have taken a large chunk of their profits too, the only competition they’ll have now are Cafepress.com and seeing as their print size and quality are significantly inferior, the only disadvantage for Spreadshirt is the price. Less overheads, less cost, lower prices? Perhaps not, but at least Spreadshirt will be able to survive on less sales by paying less commission and even attention to their army of designers.

I feel most sorry for those who’ve opted to upgrade their account, I could only ever display three of my designs in my free shop at Spreadshirt, I am glad I never upgraded!

2) They are diversifying the market. They give the example that a kid’s t-shirt with a flower design sells better than a man’s. Well that’s a pretty obvious one, but essentially they’re applying the idea that a specific design works for a specific product. Which for a start means far less free designer accounts I’m sure, imagine only being able to sell 3 designs of 3 styles of t-shirts, less products per design mean less profit. Yes it maybe a better experience for the customer, but unless Spreadshirt pay their designers hand over fist as compensation I can see a lot of them straying away for good.

The designers will pay for these changes with more effort for the same profit.

Let’s face it, Coca Cola invented the Christmas we know today, and if it wasn’t for the corporate confectioners out there, I doubt that even Easter would be celebrated these days. What do chocolate eggs have to do with the resurrection of Christ? I’m sure there’s an explanation out there, I just doubt many sweet shop owners know the answer.

Anyway, Spreadshirt are offering up their latest themed sale, The Halloween Sale, obviously…

You can get a whopping 20% off any t-shirt design from the 1st to the 31st of October. I’m not sure if you actually have to plunge for a witch, or a pumpkin, or something relevant, in fact I’m also certain they’d let you design anything as long as you fork up the cash. Spreadshirt is a business after all, not the Halloween police. So, if you’re feeling creative, get down to Spreadshirt and upload your favourite designs now!

The competition runs from August 18th to August 25th.

If you’d like to get in on the act make sure you have a Spreadshirt account and have at least one sport’s related design up your sleeve. Take a look at the prizes if you’re still not convinced! All designs must be tagged with ‚ÄúSport08‚Äù.

Not a member yet? Open your free shop here! Design your own shirts and win!

50% OFF any order of 10 items or more with Coupon Code: FUNNY50

Free U.S Shipping on two or more products.

Buy any 2 items or more and you get Free US Shipping! Just choose Free Standard Shipping from the shipping options during checkout.

Free Canadian Shipping on three or more products.

Buy any 3 items or more and you get Free Standard Shipping to Canada! Just choose Free Standard Shipping from the shipping options during checkout. Please note that any customs charges and/or duties placed on Canadian orders by Canada are your responsibility.

Free International Shipping on four or more products.
Buy any 4 items or more and you get Free Airmail Shipping to any of the countries on our approved shipping list! Just choose Free Airmail Shipping from the shipping options during checkout. Please note that any customs charges and/or duties placed on international orders by your country are your responsibility.

Okay so you have to order in bulk to get the international delivery for free but still seems a pretty good deal to me considering that international postage charges invariably put us Europeans off buying t-shirts transatlantically as it were. Nevertheless you could always team up with a few friends of buy a couple more as early Christmas presents!

Here’s some of their better designs on offer, although be warned they suffer from ‘boxy designs’ – essentially every design is a framed colour square plonked straight in the middle of every t-shirt. The sort of problem faced by most CafePress.com designers (most not all, not me :p). They are rather funny at times, but in all honesty I’d prefer to see these as posters (shock horror – t-shirt reviewer recommends posters the mortal enemies of t-shirts!).

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