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		<title>App Review: Six String (iPhone)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>I don’t often get sent stuff to review for <a href="http://assault.it">Assault.it</a>, so when I do, I figure it’s probably because the product has already been tested by the Assault team and they can’t find anything good to say about it, or they know right off the bat that whatever product it is will suck so <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ZKEuRrR3E">hardcore</a>, that it’s not worth wasting their time.  That’s right: my time is not valuable and my opinion sucks.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Six-String_Gameplay.jpg"><img class="alignright" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Six-String_Gameplay.jpg" alt="Game Play" width="288" height="192" /></a>HOWEVER, as a pleasant surprise to yours truly, I was offered the new iPhone app <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/six-string/id356766847?mt=8&amp;uo=6">Six String</a> as a result of me being the only member of the Assault team to actually play an instrument, and guitar no less! (<strong>Editor&#8217;s note: </strong>I&#8217;d be remiss not to step in and point out here that Assault.it&#8217;s editor-in-chief <a href="http://twitter.com/OswaldHobbes">Oswald Hobbes</a> [myself] totally shreds on a number of instruments, and has recorded numerous popular recordings under monikers including [but not limited to] The Vampyre Syxx, Knuckle Beach, and Chee Chee Flaco &amp; His Uptown Players. Craig is full of shit.)</p>
<p>To get this out on the table, this is not a cheap iPhone game.  My first initial reaction actually came when I investigated it in the App store and saw its $4.99 price tag.  That’s right, 5 bucks for an iPhone guitar game.  Don’t count it out though, as this game was surprisingly fun.</p>
<p>The game comes loaded with 6 songs:</p>
<p>Peter Frampton – &#8220;Show Me the Way&#8221;<br />
Tom Petty – &#8220;Runnin’ Down a Dream&#8221;<br />
Bon Jovi – &#8220;You Give Love A Bad Name&#8221;<br />
Fall Out Boy – &#8220;Thnks Fr Th Mmrs&#8221;<br />
Scorpions – &#8220;Raised On Rock&#8221;<br />
<a href="http://www.assault.it/2010/03/15/video-orianthi-according-to-you/">Orianthi – &#8220;According To You&#8221;</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Six-String_FeaturedTrack.jpg"><img class="alignleft" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Six-String_FeaturedTrack.jpg" alt="Featured Track" width="288" height="192" /></a>At the time of this review, there were a total of 27 songs that you could play, all of which, with the exception of the 6 initial songs, cost $0.99 each.  There are songs from No Doubt, Kaiser Chiefs, Sum41, Rise Against, &amp; even 3 Doors Down!</p>
<p>Where Guitar Hero &amp; Rock Band focus more on the fret playing part of guitar, Six String focuses on plucking &amp; strumming the correct strings at the right time.  For notes that ring out, you hold the string for the duration.  In the harder levels, you are responsible for changing the chord via a button further up the neck of the guitar.</p>
<p>All in all, this game was a lot more fun that I imagined it would be.  Despite my preconceived notions about a guitar game for iPhone, it was built in a way that plays well on this platform.  So if you’re looking for a good music game to pass the time and have a few bucks to spare (or preferably a gift card to iTunes that someone bought you as an impersonal gift), I say pick this game up and let your inner Eddie Van Halen out.</p>
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		<title>The Best Tool to Organize Your Broken iTunes Library &#8211; TuneUp</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finally. A tool that will find all the correct album art, and song information automatically for my iTunes library automatically. The best iTunes add-on since iLike is here.]]></description>
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<p>So if you’re anything like me, you get you’re music from any source possible.  More often than not, this source is completely unreliable and does a number to your iTunes library.</p>
<p><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-4596" title="TuneUp Your iTunes" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/i-tuneup-itunes-plugin.jpg" alt="TuneUp Your iTunes" width="167" height="167" /></a>I recently had a chance to review <a title="TuneUp" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4" target="_blank">TuneUp</a>, a program for your Mac or PC that automatically “cleans up” your iTunes library.  Now, like many, I feel the coolest part of my iPhone is the ability to flip through the album covers when in landscape mode.  Unfortunately, due to the lack of accurate resources (see paragraph 1), I was often searching through a stack of iTunes music notes.</p>
<p>Of course, if you don’t have the cover artwork, you can have iTunes search the store for the artwork, but again, this was often prevented due to incorrect song titles, album titles, or an unnecessary “The” before a bands name.  Who has time to fix that?</p>
<p>I thought I was doomed to forever have an iTunes catalog of unorganized, improperly titled, cover-less songs.  Until today.</p>
<p><a title="TuneUp" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4" target="_blank"><img class="alignright" title="iTunes Blankypoo?" src="../wp-content/uploads/2009/12/itunes-blank-300x162.jpg" alt="iTunes Blankypoo?" width="300" height="162" />TuneUp</a> installation was a breeze.  And as &#8220;Third World&#8221; Timmy will tell you, I am the LEAST tech savvy person around.  I have trouble logging into this blog.  Anyway, the concept is easy.  Once you install <a title="TuneUp" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4" target="_blank">TuneUp</a>, you choose what you are trying to do: Clean Your Mislabeled Music, Find Your Missing Cover Art, Explore Your World of Music, &amp; Never Miss Another Show.  I’ll start backwards and work my way up.</p>
<h3>Never Miss Another Show</h3>
<p>Based on the music in your library and the location you set, <a title="TuneUp" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4" target="_blank">TuneUp</a> notifies you of upcoming concerts in your area that may be of interest to you.  While I currently have the unfortunate luck of residing in Fort Wayne, Indiana, I could definitely see this as being my best friend if I were lucky enough to be back in Dallas or Chicago.</p>
<h3>Explore Your World of Music</h3>
<p>Based on the current song playing, <a title="TuneUp" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4" target="_blank">TuneUp</a> has a little pop-up window which lets you completely delve into the realm of the song/artist.  In my case, The Red Strokes by Garth Brooks was playing (don’t hate).  Within the little pop-up window attached to iTunes, I had full and instant access to Garth Brooks tagged YouTube videos, Artist Biography, Concert Notifications, Album Recommendations, Song Recommendations, Google News, Merch, Ebay, and more.  A pretty cool set of features that will definitely help me waste valuable time while at the office.</p>
<h3>Find Your Missing Cover Art</h3>
<p>Sounds simple enough, and it is.  TuneUp simply scans your library for missing cover art and then gives you up to 4 options to select the picture art from.  I didn’t play around with this feature too much, as I needed more help than this.</p>
<h3>Clean Your Mislabeled Music</h3>
<p>Here’s the good stuff.  Simply drag your library to the pop-up box attached to iTunes (says it can do them all, but that it works best when doing only up to 500 at a time, so I abided).  TuneUp then scans your songs and assigns them to 3 categories: Matches, Likely Matches, &amp; Not Found.  Matches are said to be definite finds, Likely are said to be “pretty good results, but you might want to verify” and Not Found, well, yeah.</p>
<p>For this review, I decided to take my entire library and scan it.  I have 900+ songs on my work laptop, and had 16 tracks Not Found.  These tracks were either self-recorded Garage Band tracks, or live concert tracks.  None that I felt should have been “Found”.  I had several return under Matches, but a majority of them came back as Likely.  I, of course, didn’t feel like verifying any of the Likely ones, so I took all suggestions and decided to see how it faired out.</p>
<p>To scan my roughly 900 songs and save/accept changes, it took about 20-25 minutes.  What impressed me the most was that not only did it fix song names, band names and album titles, but it also added album artwork as well as meta information.  It changed my Sugarcult songs from Rock to Punk Pop, my Rick Astley from Other to Adult Contemporary (touché).  This program is awesome.  As of yet, I haven’t found an incorrect switch.  I’m sure it’s out there and I plan to search for one, but as of now, it certainly beats me actually doing any work to fix anything.  And the best part is, all but 16 songs in my library have cover art, so I can flip through those albums to my hearts content.</p>
<p>This program is Flippin’ Sweet.  Pun Intended. You can pickup the yearly license for $19.95 or splurge and get the lifetime license for $29.95 over at the <a title="TuneUp" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4" target="_blank">TuneUp</a> website.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/click?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4"><img src="http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;bids=182994.10000020&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&amp;gridnum=13" border="0" alt="TuneUp Media Inc. Simple Type Banner." /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Disclosure: </strong>We were provided a free review copy of this software, and we do get a small affiliate percentage of every sale we make of this software&#8211;but we wouldn&#8217;t endorse it if we didn&#8217;t like it, and thoroughly test it out.</p>
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		<title>How to Start A Clothing Company</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>craig</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so many different facets of information and steps needed before you can even print your shirts it's easy to quit before you even get started. We've compiled a detailed how to on starting your own t-shirt company. Get at it, it's good.]]></description>
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<p>With so many different facets of information and steps needed before you can even print your shirts <strong>it&#8217;s easy to quit</strong> before you even get started.</p>
<p>With all the different, well-documented sites out there, I&#8217;ve found that <strong>there still hasn&#8217;t been anyone who managed to get everything just right</strong>, and more importantly, just right on a limited budget. The only thing that comes close  is the <a title="How to Start a Clothing Line" href="https://www.e-junkie.com/ecom/gb.php?ii=318221&amp;c=ib&amp;aff=85055&amp;cl=32428" target="_blank">How to Start a Clothing Line E-Book</a>. If you&#8217;d rather not swing the $37 bucks for the e-book we&#8217;ve done our best to compress everything you need to know to start your own clothing line here in this blog post. (Disclosure: We get a portion of the sales of the E-Book and recommend it if you need more in depth information.)</p>
<h3>Spend only what YOU can afford</h3>
<p>We&#8217;ve been lucky at <a title="Assault Shirts - Rocker T-Shirts for counter culture enthusiasts" href="http://www.assaultshirts.com/" target="_blank">Assault</a> to have made all the right moves so far to a point where we have <strong>no credit card debt</strong>, <strong>no binding agreements with any poisonous partners</strong>, and <strong>no investors to pay back</strong>. <strong>We&#8217;ve started Assault with our own money</strong>, and it currently runs itself, <strong>independent of outside funding</strong>.</p>
<p>One thing to keep in mind during this read is that <strong>there are no definite right or wrong ways to forming your own company</strong>.  In the end, your decisions need to be based on what works best for what you are trying to accomplish.  This article is a compilation of what worked (or didn’t) for Assault; as well as some of the complications we ran into.</p>
<h3>Before you EVEN start your t-shirt company</h3>
<ol>
<li>What makes you different?</li>
<li>What makes your t-shirts or clothing buzz-worthy?</li>
<li>If you saw your product on a website, would you tell your friends?</li>
<li>Would you pay $$$ for your product?</li>
<li>What separates you from your competition?</li>
<li>Who has been successful with similar products in the past, and what did they do?</li>
<li>Who is your ideal customer? Age? Sex? Interests? Where do they hang out? What do they like to eat?</li>
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<p><strong>These are all questions that you should have addressed before you drop a penny into your clothing line.</strong></p>
<h3>T-Shirt Printing Equipment</h3>
<div id="attachment_4152" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 280px"><a href="http://www.storenvy.com"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4152" title="Storenvy Printing and Free Online T-Shirt Stores" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/storenvy-free-t-shirt-stores-300x97.png" alt="Storenvy Printing and Free Online T-Shirt Stores" width="270" height="87" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Storenvy Printing and Free Online T-Shirt Stores</p></div>
<p><strong>Don&#8217;t buy any.</strong> There are plenty of professionals who are GREAT at screen printing and have been doing it for years. (Exhibit A: <a title="Nick Roccanti Twitter" href="http://twitter.com/nickroccanti" target="_blank">Nick Roccanti</a> over @ <a title="Storenvy" href="http://www.storenvy.com/" target="_blank">Storenvy</a>) Your product will suffer if you try to learn to print on your own and you&#8217;ll be too busy with other day to day activities to learn to print and fill your orders.</p>
<p><strong>Trying to learn to do it on your own will only make your bank account dwindle. </strong></p>
<div id="attachment_4155" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 190px"><a href="http://www.akumuink.com"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4155 " title="Akumu Ink" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/akumu-ink-300x167.png" alt="Akumu Ink" width="180" height="100" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Akumu Ink</p></div>
<p>An exception to this would be if you only plan on doing one or two color prints. <a title="Akumu Ink" href="http://www.akumuink.com/" target="_blank">Akumu Ink</a> does just this, and have been extremely successful at it.  For Assault, if we were to do this, one color pressing would have been too constricting for the majority of our designs as they&#8217;re oversized and multiple colors.</p>
<h3>Online Store Systems</h3>
<p>For many of you with limited or no web experience, you are going to have to go with some sort of hosted cart solution like <a title="Storenvy" href="http://www.storenvy.com" target="_blank">Storenvy</a>. One thing I do recommend is going to a service that will suit your needs and only charge you a flat rate per month. (Or no rate per month&#8211;as in free beer&#8230; like <a title="Storenvy" href="http://www.storenvy.com/" target="_blank">Storenvy</a>.)</p>
<p><strong>You don&#8217;t want a cart system taking a cut of your payments no matter what,</strong> because your bank is already doing that on your merchant account. (more on that later.)</p>
<h3>Domains are CHEAP! Buy one and forward it</h3>
<p>One thing I cannot stress enough with a hosted system is to <strong>buy a cheap domain name</strong> and <strong>forward it to your site</strong>. It&#8217;s just a bit more professional to have a store with yourname.com instead of yourname.etsy.com or yourname.bigcartel.com.</p>
<p>I never understood why people were okay with that&#8211;and why they were willing to put a .etsy.com or .bigcartel.com appended to THEIR brand name on a large banner for an event or festival.</p>
<p>Spend the $8.00 bucks or whatever it is and buy a domain name. That should be one of the first things you do after deciding on a company name.</p>
<h3>Sole Proprietorship, Partnerships, Incorporation</h3>
<p><strong>This gets confusing and again, there are no right or wrong answers. </strong> Because we are talking about starting a company, and on a budget no-less, I&#8217;m assuming that you’re a small company.  With that assumption, I&#8217;d suggest not starting out with a corporation.  Corporations have their tax benefits and depending on your growth, are definitely something to look into, but they are fairly complicated to setup.  The cost to have a professional setup for you runs approximately $500, but considering the complications that could arise if not done properly, is money well spent.</p>
<p>To start, Assault formed as a partnership. (We have more than one founder)  What this meant to us was that the Assault company name was personally held by me (Craig) and Tim.  This included any liability, gains, losses, etc.  So if Assault made money, as far as the Government is concerned, Tim and I made money.  Same goes for if we lost money, if there was any litigation, and so on.  Obviously, on a larger scale, <strong>this could create some major troubles in ones personal life when their company gets sued for say, copyright infringement, and the lawsuit now bleeds over into their personal assets.</strong></p>
<p><strong>One thing to keep in mind is that you can always incorporate later. </strong>At that point, you would need to choose which corporate structure fits best for your business.  If you would like more information on this, request it in the comments, and I’ll do a separate post on that in-depth topic.</p>
<p>The alternative to a partnership, or incorporating, is a sole-proprietorship, also known as a DBA, or &#8220;doing business as&#8221; which is the cheapest solution to starting your company if you are the sole driving force behind your brand.</p>
<h3>&#8220;Doing Business As&#8221; or DBA Certificate</h3>
<p><strong>The best way to get a &#8220;doing business as&#8221; certificate is to place an ad in a local publication with the name of your company and where you will be doing business.</strong> This ensures that no one else has the same name as you, and that you are officially on record in public as operating your business.</p>
<p>This is only necessary if you (1) are operating as a Sole Proprietorship or Partnership (ie-not incorporated) or (2) if you have formed a corporation and do not plan to operate as your corporation name. In Chicago, we ran an ad at <a title="Chicago Reader" href="http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/Home" target="_blank">The Chicago Reader</a> for $100 bucks. <strong>They&#8217;re used to doing running these types of ads</strong>, and they mail you a copy of your ad when it&#8217;s done running.</p>
<h3>Federal Taxes, State Taxes</h3>
<p>You need to register your business with the federal, and the state government you intend to do business in so you can start paying money to Uncle Sam just like the rest of us do with our businesses.</p>
<p>Even if you don’t plan on paying any employees or having any payroll, you still must register with federal to get your Federal Employer ID (FEID).  What you register on a state level varies by state, but will be for any state employment taxes as well as state sales tax.</p>
<h3>Small Business Checking Account</h3>
<p>To get this you have to have the proper documentation. The proper documentation consists of your partnership agreement. (Or incorporation documents) your FEID (federal employer ID), and your local (state) business formation paperwork. You can obtain the FEID from the <a title="IRS" href="http://www.irs.gov" target="_blank">IRS</a>, and your local state tax registration can be done at your respective state&#8217;s government website. (Googling County Clerk +IL is how we found out where to do this cause we&#8217;re in IL, duh)</p>
<h3>Accepting Credit Cards</h3>
<p><strong>This is going to be your one of the essential costs associated with your store.</strong> We were lucky enough to get this right the first time.</p>
<p><a title="Paypal" href="http://www.paypal.com" target="_blank">Paypal</a> has one of the best, and easiest to implement online payment systems. It integrates with plenty of stores already including <a title="Storenvy" href="http://www.storenvy.com" target="_blank">Storenvy</a>, <a title="Magento Commerce" href="http://www.magentocommerce.com" target="_blank">Magento</a> and <a title="Big Cartel" href="http://www.bigcartel" target="_blank">Big Cartel</a>&#8211;plus it&#8217;s very competitive with anything that Authorize.net or Checkout2Payment could offer you.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 94px"><a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fiswipe-pro-credit-card-terminal%252Fid309329440%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30"><img title="iSwipe for iPhone" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/iswipe-application-icon.jpg" alt="(Link opens in iTunes)" width="84" height="84" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">(Opens in iTunes)</p></div>
<p>It varies per amount, but <strong>for $30.00 per month and a small percentage of every transaction</strong>&#8211;<a title="Website Payments Pro" href="https://www.paypal.com/uk/cgi-bin/?cmd=_wp-pro-overview-outside" target="_blank">Paypal&#8217;s Website Payments Pro</a> is the way to go. It&#8217;s the payment system we started with and it&#8217;s worked. If you need to have a terminal on site for street-fairs etc, we recommend using <a title="iSwipe Pro" href="http://click.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/stat?id=*lbPAAF8vSs&amp;offerid=146261&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=http%253A%252F%252Fitunes.apple.com%252Fus%252Fapp%252Fiswipe-pro-credit-card-terminal%252Fid309329440%253Fmt%253D8%2526uo%253D6%2526partnerId%253D30">iSwipe Pro</a> on the iPhone. (opens in iTunes) <strong>It&#8217;s only $.99 cents</strong> and easy to setup. Thanks to Judd from <a title="Shirt Fight!" href="http://www.shirtfight.com" target="_blank">Shirt Fight</a> for helping us out with that at our first street festival.</p>
<h3>SSL certificate for secure online transactions</h3>
<p>If you&#8217;re hosting your own store like we are at Assault you&#8217;re going to need an SSL Certificate to ensure that your server is encrypted when making credit card transactions.</p>
<p>Back in the day there was only one place to do this: Verisign, and it cost a whopping $300 bucks a year! Thankfully, the great people at <a title="GoDaddy" href="http://www.godaddy.com" target="_blank">GoDaddy</a> started <a title="GoDaddy SSL certificates" href="https://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/ssl/ssl.asp" target="_blank">selling their own version of the SSL certificates</a> which works the same way and costs a fraction of the amount. I believe we ended up paying only $17 bucks per year after all was said and done.</p>
<h3>Launching your store</h3>
<p>You&#8217;ve got your shirts designed, bank account setup, and your website is successfully processing credit cards legally and safely. <strong>Here&#8217;s the most important part about launching your store: making sure you get people there</strong>, and the only way to do that is with links!</p>
<div id="attachment_4159" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 250px"><a href="http://www.iamthetrend.com"><img class="size-medium wp-image-4159 " title="I Am The Trend - Your Guide For All Things Independent" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/i-am-the-trend-logo-300x59.png" alt="I Am The Trend - Your Guide For All Things Independent" width="240" height="47" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">I Am The Trend - Your Guide For All Things Independent</p></div>
<p>When we got started, we compiled a <a href="http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgr8kzdc_55hkt338gs" target="_blank">list of places that you can post links about your store launch</a>, and have actual people come to the store to buy your products. <a title="I Am The Trend - All Things Independent | Clothes &amp; Music" href="http://www.iamthetrend.com" target="_blank">I Am The Trend</a> will review your shirts live via a ustream video podcast if you send them one. They&#8217;ll even pimp your stuff all over their website.</p>
<p>We&#8217;ve also recently added a <a title="User News Submit Link Feed" href="http://www.assault.it/category/user-news/">User News section</a> to our website which <strong>displays prominently on our homepage and sidebar</strong> where you can submit links to us for approval. If you&#8217;re launching a store&#8211;<a title="Submit User Link" href="http://www.assault.it/submit-user-link/">let us know</a> and we&#8217;ll pimp you double hard.</p>
<p>Launching and marketing your new store could be a post of it&#8217;s own, and is on it&#8217;s way, but in the meantime you can refer to these two posts for some <strong>additional SEO and Google tips</strong> that will help bring in some organic traffic to your online store:</p>
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<li><a title="How to float to the top of google search results pages without paying" href="http://www.assault.it/how-to-float-to-the-top-of-google-search-results-without-paying/">How to Float to the Top of Google Search Results Pages Without Paying</a></li>
<li><a title="SEO – Tips &amp; Strategies you aren’t hearing from high priced consultants" rel="bookmark" href="../seo-tips-strategies-you-arent-hearing-from-high-priced-consultants/">SEO – Tips &amp; Strategies you aren’t hearing from high priced consultants </a></li>
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		<title>Interview with Paul Baines from Buy-Tees.net</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[<span>When we released our summer line of shirts we put out the word that we were looking for some honest reviews of our new work. Of all the reviews we received, one particular site stood out--so we decided to interview the brains behind the operation, Paul Baines from <a href="http://www.buy-tees.net" title="Buy Tees">Buy-Tees.net</a></span>]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/feature_paul-baines.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2764" title="Paul Baines from Buy Tees.net" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/feature_paul-baines-300x223.jpg" alt="Paul Baines from Buy Tees.net" width="300" height="223" /></a>Almost two months ago, <a title="Assault Shirts Review at Buy-Tees.net" href="http://buy-tees.net/2009/05/counter-culture-fights-back-at-assault-shirts/">Assault had the honor of being reviewed by Buy-Tees.net</a>.  After reading what came from that review, I felt compelled to dig in on the mind of Paul, co-owner and main contributor at <a title="Buy Tees" href="http://buy-tees.net/">Buy Tees</a>.  I was very impressed with both the writing style and in-depth review of the art itself, rather than just a bland t-shirt review.  If you aren&#8217;t familiar with <a title="Buy Tees" href="http://buy-tees.net/">their site</a>, I recommend you<strong> BEG</strong> Paul to check your stuff out; he has this uncanny ability to actually tell you things about your work that you may not have known.</p>
<p>I had the honor of interviewing him to try and get a little insight into what drives him, enjoy!</p>
<h3>First and foremost, what is <a title="blocked::http://buy-tees.net/" href="http://buy-tees.net/">buy-tees.net</a>?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Hmm&#8230; well I suppose the clue is in the name heh. It&#8217;s a t-shirt reviews blog first and foremost&#8211;although it&#8217;s probably not quite like any other you&#8217;ve read. I do have a tendency to quote the world and his wife and just about every homespun philosophy imaginable when I get cracking on a review. I am probably what you&#8217;d call a &#8216;natural blogger&#8217; &#8211; I&#8217;m from a creative background in both the fine arts and literature and so I suppose it made sense to hone my abilities by venturing into blogging. It just so happens that I use the excuse of t-shirt reviews to express my opinions to the world.</p></blockquote>
<h3>What drove you to start it?</h3>
<blockquote><p>There are two answers to this. The first was simply to promote a few of my own t-shirt designs, way back when I&#8217;d decided to set up my own independent t-shirt label, I was sick of the enormous profits and poor service that many major print-on-demand sites were offering and so I thought I&#8217;d have a bash. Promoting the label was a total nightmare, besides which the overall costs of setting up a label were beyond my reach at the time and so I thought a blog would save on marketing costs and be a good way of drumming up business. The second reason came along within a week or two of blogging. Essentially, I found that a lot of other designers were in the same proverbial boat &#8211; vis-a-vis they also hadn&#8217;t two pennies to rub together and needed quality sources of promotion and marketing without the extortionate expense of traditional advertising such as Adwords or hiring an SEO expert. So I filled the gap, featuring designers&#8217; work in return for a back link to the blog.</p></blockquote>
<h3>I know <a title="blocked::http://buy-tees.net/" href="http://buy-tees.net/">buy-tees.net</a> is made up of yourself and another silent partner; is there anyone else that is part of the team?  Do you ever have guest posts and if so, how do you go about selecting the individual?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Short answer no &#8211; I have had offers &#8211; although for the main part they&#8217;re rather self-promotional in the main. I&#8217;m not exactly an objective reviewer myself, I am however an artist and so I know when I see something conceptually or visually superior and that always urges me on when it comes to deconstructing the mindset or ethos of a brand/designer. I&#8217;m also not &#8216;in it for the money&#8217; as they say &#8211; I make a few dollars from the odd banner now and again but it doesn&#8217;t even cover hosting most of the time.</p>
<p>I have always enjoyed the company of artists, whatever medium they may choose to specialize in &#8211; it just so happens that I believe t-shirt design has until recently been treated as a rather lowly distant cousin of say illustration or graphic design and thought it&#8217;d be rather satisfying both personally and for the arts community at large if someone could give this niche a boost.</p>
<p>My partner helps out with some administration of the site from time to time and we discuss our reactions to designers&#8217; work, we like to bounce ideas off of each other and see if there&#8217;s anything more I can add to the review than the usual &#8216;pic and click&#8217; offerings out there.</p></blockquote>
<h3>How did you go about setting up your site, and what tips/suggestions can you give to others?</h3>
<blockquote><p>In truth I&#8217;d say exactly the same thing now as I always have, if you enjoy what you do, if you take pride in your work, if you can offer something truly original in whatever form the world will slowly rub its eyes, stand up and take notice of what you&#8217;re doing. There are plenty of options out there for marketing but I&#8217;m not the best person to ask, I am not a marketing expert, I simply enjoy being creative and sharing the results.</p>
<p>I designed the blog myself, I suppose I could revamp it but &#8216;if it ain&#8217;t broke why fix it?&#8217; There are plenty of gorgeous looking sites out there with very little to say or offer, no matter what niche they cover, it&#8217;s funny how people make a distinction between the online and offline world.</p>
<p>Salespeople annoy me, they are for the most part impatient, desperate to sell their wares and rarely listen to their prospects views and opinions. I&#8217;ve actually worked for a few major companies in a marketing capacity (many of whom probably rather I hadn&#8217;t) and they all seemed to make the same common mistake, forgetting that the public consists of millions of individuals, each with their own way of seeing and doing things. The only thing I have learned about marketing this last year is that excitement is infectious, if you can share the thrill of what you do then others will want to as well.</p></blockquote>
<h3>What sets <a title="blocked::http://buy-tees.net/" href="http://buy-tees.net/">buy-tees.net</a> apart from the many other resource sites/blogs out there?</h3>
<blockquote><p>When I first set up <a title="Buy Tees" href="http://buy-tees.net/">Buy Tees</a> almost every t-shirt reviews blog out there knocked out posts with a title, a photo, a price and a link. They may not like to admit it but I&#8217;ve seen a lot of those very same blogs turn my way, almost all of them will now,  at some point or other, wax lyrical about a designer or label. I am of the opinion that if you can&#8217;t pour your heart and soul into what you do why bother?</p>
<p>I have received so many emails from designers thanking me for helping them reach the next level of success, for saving a brand, even reinventing one that I can&#8217;t keep track anymore. I suppose the biggest difference, without wanting to sound arrogant, is me. I am different, I am an artist and I need constant sources of inspiration and so it&#8217;s a two-way street, creative people contact me, ask for my opinion or help and I, for the main part, am glad to help. You could call it a calling, or perhaps that&#8217;s a little over dramatic, but it certainly adds something special to my life.</p></blockquote>
<h3>You appear to get very personally involved in each of your reviews.  What approach do you take when reviewing a brand or particular shirt?</h3>
<blockquote><p>I can&#8217;t say there&#8217;s a formula, I&#8217;ve always been good at &#8216;reading people&#8217;, I don&#8217;t mean I am some kind of psychic, I don&#8217;t tell fortunes or read tarot, I just understand basic human motivation, especially when it comes to creative outlets such as t-shirt design. It&#8217;s as if I sit down and look at a body of work and imagine I have created the tees in front of me, then I work out why, where the inspiration came from, and how well it has been conceptually resolved.</p>
<p>I do have a habit of making up my own layman&#8217;s terms for things and this I&#8217;d call &#8216;logical progression&#8217;. You take things, no matter what they are, one step at a time, a creative mind follows a pattern, built up over years of experience, interactions, events, actions. If you for instance had been a backpacker for the last decade I&#8217;d expect a lot of cultural reference in anything you did, an openness to new experiences, an understanding of geo-political and historical boundaries, a longing for freedom, a zest for adventure. That would show in any creative outlet you pursued. I suppose I&#8217;ve specialized in &#8216;what makes people tick&#8217; and try to connect with them personally through my opinions of their work.</p>
<p>Being creative is rewarding, connecting with other creative minds is probably as exciting as it gets for me.</p></blockquote>
<h3>I am very impressed with your writing form and style; do you have a background in literature?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Thanks, I have to admit I do get quite a bit of praise for my writing style which even now surprises me. I write the way I talk, which yes, must be exhausting for everyone involved. My mother was an English teacher, she taught me to read and write within the first few months of my life.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m the guy at the party at the end of the night, when you&#8217;re trying to get everyone to go home, who just won&#8217;t shut up.</p>
<p>I did write a screenplay once, it was almost accepted by Fox Searchlight in the mid 90s, they decided against it in the end saying it was too hot to handle, imagine The Matrix with more body parts and you&#8217;re half way there. I actually trained in conceptual arts at college, don&#8217;t ask, it&#8217;s all twaddle, but the tutors did force us to justify everything we created, however absurd the reasoning, and so I got into the habit of deconstructing everything and everyone around me until I felt I was about to burst &#8211; hence the outpouring of opinion at the slightest opportunity.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Are you involved in any other sites other than buy-tees?  If so, what?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Yes, I&#8217;m an artist, you can visit my site at <strong><a title="blocked::http://paulbaines.co.uk/" href="http://paulbaines.co.uk/">http://paulbaines.co.uk</a></strong> &#8211; there&#8217;s also my arts blog at <strong><a title="blocked::http://paulbaines.co.uk/category/blog" href="http://paulbaines.co.uk/category/blog">http://paulbaines.co.uk/category/blog</a> </strong>where I review other contemporary artists. I&#8217;ve recently been approached by a major arts publisher who wants to feature my designs in a student textbook for illustrators which quite surprised me as I&#8217;d never considered I was an illustrator &#8211; but there you go.</p>
<p>I work on rather a large scale, at the moment I&#8217;m offering digital prints up to 44&#8243; x 55&#8243; in size however I&#8217;m in the midst of creating my own silk screen print studio and will be hand printing limited edition signed and numbered A1 prints by the end of summer if all goes well. It&#8217;s hard to explain my work, you will probably either love it or hate it. I have a few ties with the UK graffiti movement, I&#8217;m also hoping to have a few outlets and galleries selling my work by the end of the year.</p></blockquote>
<h3>Where do you see buy-tees heading from here?</h3>
<blockquote><p>Who knows? I was recently offered a very tidy sum for the blog, a major t-shirt producer wanted to buy it, and keep it as an archive which was very tempting and rather flattering. However I&#8217;d had so much feedback asking that I continue I didn&#8217;t have the heart to sell up. So what does the future hold? I really couldn&#8217;t say, perhaps it&#8217;s time for a t-shirt book? In the long term if the art career really takes off I will have to find a worthy successor, if not I will probably continue to review t-shirts until I drop. Either way it will be an exciting ride!</p></blockquote>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you're anything like me, you don't like Mondays....or any weekday for that matter.  In honor of this super crappy day, I want to share the following video with you (along with some play by play highlights by yours truly). ]]></description>
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<div id="attachment_911" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><a title="Boomtown Rats" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0" target="_blank"><img class="size-medium wp-image-911" title="I Don't Like Mondays" src="http://www.assault.it/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/dont_like_mondays-300x228.png" alt="I Don't Like Mondays" width="300" height="228" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Boomtown Rats - I Don&#39;t like Mondays</p></div>
<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, you don&#8217;t like Mondays&#8230;.or any weekday for that matter.  In honor of this super crappy day, I want to share the following video with you (along with some play by play highlights by yours truly).</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yteMugRAc0</a></p>
<p>This guy REALLY doesn&#8217;t like Mondays.  Don&#8217;t get me wrong, I feel his pain; however, starting each week off by watching this video helps me feel a little better about myself &#8211; and the upcoming week.  Really, anyone who not only spends their time and talent (I use this word loosely) to not only write this song, but also to make a fully produced music video about their hatred of Mondays has some serious issues.  Anywho, its a totally sweet video, and here are some of my favorite parts:</p>
<p><strong>00:06</strong> This intro reminds me of a early &#8217;70&#8242;s TV show, a la HR PuffnStuff  <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-yLYz6ejqw">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-yLYz6ejqw</a> / Pink Floyd music video  (sweet facial expression shot @ 03:44</p>
<p><strong>01:17 </strong> This girl obviously loves Mondays and is disgusted by this song&#8230;..</p>
<p><strong>01:43 </strong> HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p><strong>01:50</strong> Those dudes scared the hell out of him. WAIT!!!  They did it again. AND AGAIN!!!!!  Will he ever learn?</p>
<p><strong>02:11</strong> Whats happening off screen that we aren&#8217;t seeing???</p>
<p>I&#8217;m gonna stop my commentary here.  Leave a comment with your favorite part and ENJOY!!!!!!!
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		<title>Limited Edition Zombie Bait Shirts!!!!!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 15:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to those of you lucky enough to snatch up one of our very limited edition Zombie Bait Shirts!!!&#160; You are one of a total 37 people IN THE WORLD (provided we sell out of the few extras we ordered) who will ever own this shirt (unless of course there’s some huge spike in demand….Hey, [...]]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Congratulations to those of you lucky enough to snatch up one of our very limited edition <a title="Zombie Bait Shirt" href="http://www.assaultshirts.com/zombie-t-shirt.html" target="_blank">Zombie Bait Shirts</a>!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span> You are one of a total 37 people IN THE WORLD (provided we sell out of the few extras we ordered) who will ever own this shirt (unless of course there’s some huge spike in demand….Hey, we gots to get paid).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span> If you pre-ordered it, you received one of the most rockin’ mixed tapes ever. Period.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span> In fact, you’re probably rockin’ out to it right now whilst wondering what shirt you will be using the $10 off coupon code for while simultaneously pondering how awesome you are to be only one of 22 people to be allowed to use that code.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span> And you’re probably basking in your wonderfulness since you were able to crack the morse code (do you always multi-task so well?)…..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span> And if you happen to be the one who had enough time to crack the morse code on track two for the grand prize, post it below in a comment so we can get you your stuff already!!!!!!!!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;">Craig</span></p>
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		<title>Assault Shirts Nominated for best osCommerce!!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 02:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[THAT&#8217;S RIGHT!!!!! Someone, somewhere, nominated Assaultshirts.com for one of the most beautious osCommerce sites around! Props go out to Mr. Chieftan for his mad skillz. If you agree, go check out the voting pages here: osCommerce Hot 100. Give us a vote! Good or Bad&#8230;.just know that if you do happen to vote negatively, we [...]]]></description>
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<p>THAT&#8217;S RIGHT!!!!! Someone, somewhere, nominated <a href="http://www.assaultshirts.com" title="Assault Shirts Mainpage">Assaultshirts.com</a> for one of the most beautious osCommerce sites around! Props go out to Mr. Chieftan for his mad skillz. If you agree, go check out the voting pages here: <a href="http://www.assaultshirts.com" title="Assault Shirts Mainpage"></a><a href="http://www.clubosc.com/hot100/" title="OSC Hot 100">osCommerce Hot 100</a>. Give us a vote! Good or Bad&#8230;.just know that if you do happen to vote negatively, we will hunt you down and castrate (or impregnate for the ladies <img src='http://www.assault.it/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  ) you!</p>
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		<title>Biz master Craig&#8217;s marketing and business buzzwords</title>
		<link>http://www.assault.it/2008/01/29/i-hate-timmy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a few long weeks months of starting of a business (and all the complications that go with it), I have finally made myself available to come here and post. I’m not good with technology. I’m not good with marketing. I don’t know what it means when Timmy yells at me for trying to transfer [...]]]></description>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">After a few long <s>weeks</s> months of starting of a business (and all the complications that go with it), I have finally made myself available to come here and post. I’m not good with technology. I’m not good with marketing. I don’t know what it means when Timmy yells at me for trying to transfer him a 4.7MB .bmp file. And I certainly am not good with blogs. BUT, I am good at running a business and its operations. Timmy sucks at that stuff. But he’s good at what I’m bad at. Unfortunately, Timmy is good at 4 things whilst I’m only good at 2. I’m mainly making this post to appease him, so if you were stupid enough to read this far, I recommend that you stop reading now.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal">With Assault, my main job is going to be the handling of orders. I don’t know how I got lucky enough to get this task, but I did. In doing this, my goal is to implement a system that will allow me to leverage my skill sets thus, making me more efficient. Assault is an enterprise that cares. With direct lines of communication to the owners, we have enabled our customers to communicate directly with us….and this has NOTHING to do with the fact that Timmy and I are the only employees. This simple fact is a result of us streamlining our organization to a horizontal structure. We want to get things done. We want to think outside the box. We want to be dynamic. We want to synergize. We are the next generation company. We are building a client-centric brand….oh ya, we also wanna sell some shirts and stick it to the man. Now watch this cool video.</p>
<p><o:p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5zRe8wa4pM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5zRe8wa4pM</a></o:p></p>
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