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How to make your next press release suck less

July 18, 2011

I get sent a lot of press releases, some are good and some are bad. I think that most of the bad ones come from people who are just getting started in the business and think that they need to have a grand press release that shows they’re the latest and great people to put [...]

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Advice on Customer Service for Online Brands

July 5, 2011

Mashable have put together an article with the super SEO friendly title of 6 Tips for Providing Better Online Customer Support. Whilst they aren’t aiming any of their tips directly at t-shirt brands (which is hardly surprising as they’re a social web blog, not a t-shirt blog) I think that a lot of them translate [...]

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Fibers offer great advice for submitting to t-shirt blogs

June 23, 2011

Print-on-demand service Fibers have put together a really good guide telling their t-shirt designers (though the advice applies to anyone) about the best practises that they can use when contacting t-shirt bloggers to get their designs written about by guys like me. The main takeaways are very sensible; have a good promo picture, write clearly [...]

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Advice from IAMTHETREND on how to run a clothing line

April 8, 2011

Adam over at IAMTHRETREND (who has just been killing it lately, very impressive work) has done quite a few interviews with some heavy-hitters of the indie world overthe past few years, and he’s put together an article that quotes some choice pieces of advice for people running clothing lines or thinking about starting a clothing [...]

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How Artists Should Approach a Company

March 19, 2011

Andy over at ReThink Clothing (we refer to each other as ‘other Andy’, but I think we all know he’s the other Andy) has written a good article on his blog on the subject of how artists should approach companies that they’d like to work with. He deals with college artists every day, as they’re [...]

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Sell more t-shirts by not sounding pretentious

January 11, 2011

I don’t mean to mention every post that Smashing Magazine make, but I thought this one would be really useful to people working in the clothing business, especially as it’s something that I find lacking with brands that aren’t particularly mature and are still getting a handle on things. They’ve written a guide to copywriting, [...]

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Are you a t-shirt designer? Read this.

August 1, 2008

I think its well established that I’m not good at drawing (see), but I know that there’s a fair few designers amongst you, so I thought that you guys might benefit from checking out a series on Go Mediazine called ’15 Awful Mistakes Made by Designers in the Music & Apparel Industry’ especially if you’re [...]

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