Checking out Zazzle

Zazzle was kind enough to hook us up with a killer coupon code, so we give their shirt building tools a spin. Glad we did. I’ve used Zazzle in the past but it’s been a while. Their shirt creation tools are easy to use, whether you’re adding your own design to a shirt, or building one on the fly. In our case, we uploaded a PNG with our Proud Runner slogan. Upload was a snap and tweaking the size and position of the artwork was very easy.

We chose a standard American Apparel tee, one our favorites. Our mens medium fits great, and as with most AA stuff, sizes run on the slim size. Print quality is very good.

One of the things I like about Zazzle is that as a budding shirt designer it provides you a way to do short run product tests. Print a couple for your buddies and check out how a design actually looks on a shirt – is it too big, too small, does it read well from a distance, etc. Those type of things are hard to get a handle on until you actually see a printed product. It’s also a great way to test various shirt manufacturers and styles before committing to one for a full screen printing run. Give ‘em a spin.

Toms One for One Reaches Beyond Shoes

I always dig seeing retailers getting actively involved in meaning causes. Toms has expanded their One for One donation program and will now be doing the same with glasses. Very smart. Shoot us a link if you’re involved in similar activities with your shirt shop.

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T Shirt Grill

Shop URL: http://www.tshirtgrill.com/

How long have you been selling?
10 Years Online

Give us an overview of your shop. What kind of merchandise, style, theme, etc.
A nice mix of fashion,music,film and funny t-shirts inc our original range of As worn by designs (started in the 90’s)

How did you get started?
Always designed t-shirts since 1988. Seemed natural to start selling them online.
Tell us about the creative side of your business? What inspires you? Are you a designer yourself, or do you hire designers?

Always looking for inspiration from all kinds of sources. We design all our tees in-house. Continue reading

T-shirt Outlet

Shop URL: www.tshirtoutlet.com/

How long have you been selling?
Since 1996. 15 years.

Give us an overview of your shop. What kind of merchandise, style, theme, etc.
Primarily a humor driven t-shirt site. So, mainly funny t-shirt. We sell into the wholesale novelty market as well. Many of our designs can be seen in catalog companies and “brick and mortar” stores around the country. We also sell licensed designs, mainly entertainment. All of our designs come from our parent wholesale company.

How did you get started?
We started as a wholesale company in 1990 during the t-shirt gold rush days. It just made sense to launch an online store. Back in the late 90′s I was building, developing product, and managing online stores for illustrators/animators like Camp Chaos, Romp.com, Angry Little Girls, and Joecartoon.com (that’s old school, I’m guessing most of your readers don’t know who they are.). Continue reading

Geeky Generation

Geeky Generation T-Shirts

Shop URL: www.geekygeneration.com

How long have you been selling?
Established since April 2011 but officially started trading 1st October 2011

Give us an overview of your shop. What kind of merchandise, style, theme, etc.
Geeky Generation is a fresh independent, environmentally conscious clothing brand founded in 2011, based in London UK. The designs are limited and will only be printed once. This will assure people retain their individuality and confidence in their own unique way.

Currently Geeky Generation is trading only online but aims to expand and open their first retail outlet starting in London.

How did you get started?
During College days and University, Goranka always had thoughts in her mind about having her own business. Something which she can make decisions over and create things which not only herself but others would love. After months of thinking what she could do, she came up with an idea of creating T-Shirts!

After her honeymoon she finally decided to register her company and start focusing of the business idea which has been running in her head for years.

6 months after reading, designing, learning and not sleeping, Geeky Generation was born and was officially open for business.

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