[I don't know what that sign is about, I took this photo in Manchester!]

I’ve got a bit of random site news to bring you, and since they didn’t seem quite big enough to mention on their own, this post is packed with not one, not two, but three things that you might want to look at!

1. I AM THE TREND - I’ve been trying (and failing) to build a directory of t-shirt shops and blogs for at least a year, clearly someone has had the same idea and unlike me, they have the skills to pull it off. I Am The Trend may well sound like the name of a scene band, but its actually an online directory of indie companies which users can rate and comment on. They focus on clothing art an music, and whilst the directory isn’t huge at the moment I can see a lot of potential. If you run a tee site it might be a good idea to get yourself listed now because after Christmas they’re going to start charging for ‘Pro’ listings.

2. How To Start a T-shirt Company - Jon Kruse, the guy behind Mediocore Clothing has set up a new blog (which actually has some old content from when he was starting Mediocore) which, as you may well have guessed, it all about how to start a t-shirt company. By his own admission he’s still got a fair way to go before you can learn everything about getting your tee label off the ground on the site, but its certainly not the worst place to start if you want to start making t-shirts for fun and profit.

3. Buy-Tees T-Shirt Toolbar - I haven’t had a chance to play about with this yet (just installed, but I need to restart Firefox and with about 20 tabs open that won’t be happening anytime soon), but it looks pretty cool. The t-shirt toolbar, put basically, is an easy way for people to find t-shirts, reviews of t-shirts, videos of t-shirts, and even chat about t-shirts. In lieu of a proper review from me, MilitantGeek has given it a good look and I’m afraid its a thumbs down. **** Apparently there are ’serious problems’ with the installation of the toolbar, so its probably a good idea to not install it.

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Four things:

1) It’s end of summer party time! And you know what that means, everyone gets a free pair of 80s style sunglasses in their order, obviously! You can even pick the colour (see one of the gallery pictures for available options), just leave a comment when making the order via paypal. This offer lasts until 21/9. To see a picture of my looking douche-y wearing the previously mentioned sunglasses, click here.

2) The ongoing contest in which you could win Shark Week & TMNT DVDs and TMNT action figures is coming to a close (also on 21/9), I think that you are automatically entered if you make an order in the store.

3) Coupon codes! I think that HIDEYOURARMS might work, but I can’t remember if that’s the code for 10% off. The code AWESOME will definitely get you 10% off though.

4) There are three new designs (Soakers n’ Skulls, Doodle Bolt on aqua, and Doodle Bolt on gold) that are on pre-order, hopefully shipping in early October.

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Mediocore Clothing have got a 20% off sale going on at the moment, and I guess that you could use the coupon code that they’ve put on their own blog to get the money knocked off your order, or you could massage my ego and use the code HIDEYOURARMS, I don’t get anything out of it, I just like the idea of you guys saving money by using a code that was set up for HYA. The code/sale runs from right…. now until next Friday, which as I’m sure I don’t need to tell you, has the date of 08/08/08.

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I first heard about Mediocore when they thought it was okay to copy/paste my entire list of 65 t-shirt blogs, initially without attribution, and later with a link back to HYA. That left a pretty bitter taste in my mouth since I spent so many hours working on that, but I’m sure they didn’t think that were stealing my content, just trying to help others, so I’m not going to blacklist them from HYA, and I like this tee so I guess that every cloud has a silver lining. Incidentally, I’m working on a follow up post that has well over 100 t-shirt related blogs on it with much more info than last time.

The hand drawn style of this tee really lends itself.to the subject matter of this tee, it would probably be a cool guerilla marketing campaign if there was a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie and they put up hand made posters saying that one of the turtles was missing, and the phone number led to some kind of promo.

Costiness=$19.99 Link (shipping at the end of May)

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