Much Ado About Tshirts

Another summer season is upon us and with it comes the 3rd Annual Springfield Shakespeare Festival presented by the Swan Repertory Theatre and the Skinny Improv.

This years main attraction is Much Ado About Nothing. The director chose to set the play in the mid 40’s just after the end of WW2 and it’s quite an interesting juxtaposition stylisitically.

The weather is a perfect 75 degrees with a light breeze and no humidity. Perfect weather for selling tshirts and watching some Shakespeare in the park.

8 killer sites for small business

Here is a cool list of some useful online tools for just about any type of small business. From note taking to app building, this list includes some really cool web 2.0 sites and resources for your organization.


http://www.zemanta.com/

Add tags and improve content automatically with this unique service

http://www.lovelycharts.com/
Simple elegant 2.0 charting


http://www.sendsteps.com/

Get SMS feedback during Powerpoint presentations


https://www.shoeboxed.com/

Receipt management made easy


http://www.springnote.com/
Wiki style notepad for groups or individuals

http://www.pipelinedeals.com/
CRM and sales pipeline management

http://produle.com/
Data driven apps and modules


http://www.viewbook.com/

Slick professional gallery & portfolio site

5 Different Ways To Use T-Shirts as a Marketing Tool

At Swagbot we call ourselves “the different t-shirt people” because we do our best to create human billboards that provide a highly leveraged return on our client’s marketing investment. This is important since a number of our clients are small businesses, churches, charities and other non-profit organizations.
We are constantly exploring new ways to utilize the t-shirt as a “billboard” and we’ve included some interesting examples in the photos above.
1. Tweepared Real Time Tweet Shirt - This was a charity event that we put together for the Greater Ozarks Chapter of the American Red Cross to help get the word out about emergency preparedness. We used Twitter to create a series of Real Time Tweet Shirts in order to drive new followers to the GOARC’s Twitter account.
2. Coffee Ethic Staff Shirts - Nothing really new here, however by simply changing the word barista to suggest one of the Coffee Ethic’s single origin coffees, the potential to upsell higher end products is highly probable. The t-shirt in this example gets seen between 150 to 300 times daily to a loyal customer base.  It’s easy to underestimate the combination and power of a suggested sell, friendly smile and award winning customer service.
3. Stacia Skinner Resume Shirt - A student from a local Paul Mitchell affiliate school approached us with an interesting concept, she wanted to put her resume on a t-shirt as a promotional tool as she heads out on her job search. We created a short promo video, marketing piece and these resume shirts.
4. Mother’s Day Kid’s Drawing Shirt - For a Mother’s Day present for one of our clients, we scanned a few drawings and converted them into this t-shirt. I use this as an example as a potential promotional tool for a number of different businesses, for instance what about a drawing contest where the winner gets a free shirt, a gift certificate and their picture on the website. 
5. Katherine Wolf Hidden Message Shirt - This is one of our favorite shirts that we’ve ever made, we were approached to print this shirt and were humbled by the request to be a part of such an amazing fundraiser. This shirt is printed on an Alternative Apparel Vintage Cotton Tee which has a translucent quality when back lit. Katherine’s amazing story is printed on the inside so only the wearer knows the full meaning of the story and to the casual observer they only see the Heart in Hand design. Erika at www.sugarpaper.com did a really awesome job on the design and we’re so happy we could be involved with the project.

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First 3 “Tweet dirty” orders ready to ship out

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Tweet dirty shirt | charcoal

Good Vs. Evil

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Knitting is my Therapy


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Brew to Brew Training Week 1

About a week ago I started training for a 5 mile leg of a 44 mile race called Brew to Brew. The race begins at Boulevard Brewery in KC and ends at the Freestate Brewery in Lawerence, KS.

First week I’m running a solid mile and a half, which I am excited about since I’ve never really run before in my life. Training mishaps this week include very sore calf muscles, stomach cramps and taking a spill on the treadmill.

Valentines day was great here in Springfield, we had a great meal at a korean joint and then went to a show at the Skinny Improv. All in all a good week.

Scavanging at Steve & Barrys

Today we scavanged the remaining furniture, fixtures and inventory at our local Steve and Barry’s store. After a brief mishap on the liquidators end, we walked out with a carload of stuff for free.

In fact we are redesigning our packaging as we speak and have decided that in 2009 all of our packing materials will be recycled or scavenged.

God bless liquidation!

308 Container house fabrication

One of the greatest assets of our shared workspace has been the ability to observe first hand some really cool projects that the Workshop 308 has been involved with over the past year. With plasma cutter in hand, Mardis makes room for a future window.