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Design Contest: Harness Your Inner Spreadshirt – $750 to the Winner

Design Contest: Harness Your Inner Spreadshirt – $750 to the Winner

You’re creative, you run a SpeadShop, and you’re a whiz at selling your art and products by promoting and gaining exposure online. So here’s the big question: with your vast array of design and marketing skills, do you have what it takes to express exactly what makes the SpreadShop attractive for new partners?  Can you create a design so magnetic that it attracts new users to enjoy the fruits of the Spreadshirt platform just like you? If so, you may well be in the money—a $750 paycheck is at stake for the winning design.
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How to promote your Designs on Instagram

How to promote your Designs on Instagram

Instagram is a very popular social network that’s fully dedicated to visual art in all of its shapes and forms. You can use it to promote your designs and draw public attention to your t-shirt Shop. There are a few things you need to be aware of, though. Here we’ve put together a few key facts for you to leverage its power for your designs and help you promote your shop on Instagram.

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Facebook Ads – Tips for Shop Partners

Facebook Ads – Tips for Shop Partners

Many successful Spreadshirt Shop Partners are heavily engaged in social networking and use a large range of portals to interact with their target audiences. Some of our Partners also promote their designs and products with Facebook Ads – oftentimes with great success. Incorporating Facebook Ads into your marketing mix is a great way to not only gain exposure, but to also lead people to your Shop.  Here are a few tips to get you started:
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This Isn’t a Typo

This Isn’t a Typo

Design Trend: Typography

T-shirts are the perfect vehicle to transport messages. Sparkling wit on statement tees in the guise of witty typography gets a lot of recognition these days. There’s a whole creative world beyond Times New Roman in bold, so we’ve summarized the current typography trends to get you inspired to spread your wit on T-shirts that people want to wear.

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Vectorizing with Inkscape: A Tutorial

Vectorizing with Inkscape: A Tutorial

Back by popular demand, and thanks to a lot of positive feedback from our Partners and blog readers, we bring you another helpful and informative tutorial straight from our design experts in the Asset Management team. This time, we’re hoping to give you a helping hand in creating good, high-quality vector designs with an amazing free online program called Inkscape. Follow the instructions step by step to create a simple cat motif, and then see where your skills and imagination can take you. Have fun!
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Spring Trends 2016

Spring Trends 2016

Looking for some fashion and design inspirations, we had some of our interns poke around Vogue Magazine’s site and were pleasantly surprised (and sometimes baffled) at what the world of high fashion has on tap for the spring season. We took some liberties with what the world of haute couture has coming down the runway and put it in Spreadshirt context so that you, as Partners, could stand on the cutting edge as the warmer weather approaches and profit from staying in the know.

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It Ain’t Easy Being Green

It Ain’t Easy Being Green

Lads and lassies, little did ye know, but St. Patty’s Day marks Spreadshirt Partners’ most profitable holiday after Christmas. Who’d have thought that 16 centuries after the death of ol’ Patty, his Irish affiliations and the green beer celebrations to follow would turn into such a fun and profitable opportunity? This year, Partners have churned out some top o’ the mornin’ designs that are sure to reel in the best kind of green—money! Have a look at some of our Partners’ Patty’s Day designs after the jump. Be inspired, load your Shops with green, tag them appropriately and take full advantage of the holiday.

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Trend Report: Winter Designs

Trend Report: Winter Designs

A thorough investigation into search and design analysis numbers provides us with our quarterly look into trending topics from November 2015 through January 2016 on both the Spreadshirt Marketplace and Google. According to countless Partners and Marketplace designers, the following information is one of the many keys to opening the door of success. Incorporate this knowledge into your strategy, and you’re bound to benefit from this inside knowledge.

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