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Assault T-Shirt Release ONE, Gangland Chicago
Our first “cycle” release of t-shirts is finally complete! This time around we’ve ventured into our roots as native Chicagoans to explore a gangland theme. Tommy guns, zombies, cops, and your favorite deranged looking cartoon characters make up our first line of shirts for 2011! 5 designs, 50 prints, 1 free cd with free shipping for $29.99 and then they’re gone forever!
Oswald Vs. The Braineaters
Dr. Oswald Hobbes, our resident music-snob, puts down his headphones long enough to take on the greatest threat known to man: muthafuckin’ zombies.
Tutorial: How To Create An Online Storefront With Storenvy
Recently, the geniuses over at Storenvy relaunched their online storefront system with a totally revamped ruby on rails environment that can be completely customized from head to toe. We’re going to walk you through the steps we took to customize ours.
How to reset your Myspace Profile Theme using CSS
Download this free Myspace Theme that resets your Myspace to look like a cool band style theme.
HTML Emails – A quick rules and primer tutorial
HTML emails have become a great way to solidify your brand with internal and external emails. Along with their popularity, there seems to be some common misconceptions about how they work, and how long they take to build.
Rise Against Audience of One Music Video
Rise Against is a constant source of inspiration for many of our t-shirt designs and ideals. Their videos are equally as powerful and moving as most of their music and the new, “Audience of One” video is no exception.
Jobby Monster – Regal Clothing
Darren let us know that he’s started his own gig called Regal Clothing. He’s got some great stuff including my favorite, the Jobby Monster.
The Boomtown Rats – I don’t like Mondays
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).
Chicago T-Shirts – Supporting the Local Scene
With Assault in it’s infancy, we’ve decided that the time has come to execute the old punk rock motto, “Support your local scene.” We’re in the t-shirt business in Chicago, and there plenty of other local companies that are in one way or another associated with the apparel industry–here are some of our favorites.
E-Commerce selling tips explained with human behavior psychology
Do you know why we sometimes find ourselves excitedly buying things we don’t really need? I came across this outline from a book by Dan Ariely called, “Predictably Irrational” that had some incredibly insightful information about people and why we at times seem to act completely irrational. It covers giving away things for free, putting high price points on products to create demand, and even the benefit of arousal!
Black Friday T-Shirt deals
I must say I’ve spent almost zero time the past week doing any major site updates of any kind besides the When Every Sale Counts blog post and a few miscellaneous twitter posts. I did however, finally move around our homepage to get a few more of you signed up for our monthly newsletter.
When Every Sale Counts
If you’ve just started out with your first e-commerce store you know that getting people to your store to buy your product isn’t easy. Unlike most online marketing blogs, I’m here to tell you that creating a page on every social network out there may not be the best answer for you. Read the full list of tips if you want to see a few things that have worked for us.
E-Book: How to Start a Clothing Line
We recently wrote a quick tips and resources blog post about getting your t-shirt site off the ground–with impeccable timing, Fuel For Design has released an e-book entitled, “How to Start a Clothing Line.” Get it while you still can!
