What your Startup Schwag bag may contain
Over in Silicon Valley, near San Francisco and home to hundreds, if not thousands, of web companies, a company exists that sends you a bag of “schwag” in return for a monthly subscription. This bag of schwag is not the spoils of some bank heist but t-shirts and stickers from web 2.0 start-ups. Each month subscribers don’t really know what is going to be in this goody bag but they can be safe in the knowledge they will be sporting the latest geek logo whilst wearing a lovely soft American Apparel t-shirt (and will get some free stickers).
The concept is not new. In fact this site took up the idea from a company called RubyRed Labs in San Francisco but in April 2007 they stopped doing it. StartupSchwag.com sprung up in September of the same year to fill the void.
This is a fun idea in an industry that has been churning out funky new logos for years, combinded with a fan-base that loves to wear t-shirts. I am sure a similar idea could work well for the music industry but of course there are those expensive licences, required to sell band merchandise.
Some codes for you to use at our favourite t-shirt store on the web!
- 25 % on all grey t-shirts with the voucher code GREY. Only valid until Monday
- Free Shipment on all Organics t-shirts with the voucher code ORGANIC.
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I have noticed of late that the Indigo blog has been short on t-shirt and fashion news and has started to become more focussed on what we are doing at Indigo. I am keen to bulk up the fashion side to the content so we are looking for a blogger or writer that likes t-shirts and fashion to contribute 25-50 articles to the blog per month.
You don’t have to work in our office and you can work when you want. You can even write your blogs in batches on lazy Sunday afternoons if you have full time employment and then we’ll stagger the publishing of them.
We have tonnes of source material and good blogs for you to find inspiration from. We’ll pay monthly on a pay-per-post model.
Interested? Send us a sample blog post (say 300 words) to jobs@indigoclothing.com with the subject “tshirt writer” and tell us how much per post you would like to be paid and we can go from there.
Screen grab of student cashback page
We are all pretty excited here at the Indigo office as for the Autumn season, and for the return of students to university, we have cooked up an extra special promotion for hard-up academics in the form of a student cashback deal on core products such as t-shirts, hoodies and rugby shirts.
To claim the discount quote code SCASH08 and prove you are a student (uni email address, NUS number etc.) and once you have paid and placed your order, we’ll send you your cash back within 60 days.
Simple! Interested? Call Jo or her team today, on freephone 0800 061 2207, and she’ll sort you out a great quote.
SAF Long sleeve T-Shirt
We have just added five new products from organic cotton supplier SAF to the product catalogue. Check out the baby romper and baby organic t-shirt as well as a rugby shirt, polo and long sleeved t-shirt.
Front Row Sale
Our rugby shirt suppliers are having a clear out to make room for all the new and exciting ranges for 2009 so they have lots of Front Row stock on special offer.
All styles found on this Front Row PDF are available for £5.50 each. This offer only applies to stock on the PDF and it is first come, first served, so be quick
Doris clearly knows a thing or two about t-shirt customisation!
September is almost upon us and that means Fresher’s week will be commencing up and down the country at nearly every university. If you need t-shirts printed for your student union, halls, JCR then get in touch.
Don’t forget Indigo Clothing offers screen printing and embroidery and not just tshirts but rugby shirts, hoodies and many more customisable garments.
Indigo offer up to 20% student discounts on selected garments and incredible prices.
It makes for happy reading:
From: Sara Sweet - Sonkai Jewellers
Sent: 14 August 2008 11:00
To: Eleni Panayis
You guys are AMAZING!
In less time than it should take for my BACS payment to reach you, you have got the £££, sorted my approval and made / posted my shirts - everything within 48hrs. I would say I was speechless apart from the fact I am quite clearly still managing to email lol
Big thanks to you all.
We shall certainly be ordering again in the future and recommending you to anyone that will listen. Our postman has already had a full run down this morning and had to patiently wait whilst we modelled our new rags!!!
Very best wishes
Sara
Sara Sweet
look: www.sonkai.co.uk
visit: 4C Exchange Street, Norwich, NR2 1AT
Do you ever wish you were a good designer? Do you put your t-shirt artwork together but are then disappointed when it doesn’t quite look like it did you your mind’s eye? Then you need Roland!
Roland is Swedish. He is a pro with over 10 years design experience in a multitude of sectors. He can offer you anything from logo design, corporate identity or just a cool illustration. For example, check out this t-shirt design concept he came up with for Annie Vernon, a GB Rower who wanted some t-shirts for her supporters at the Olympic games this summer in Beijing:
He made all these variations and the Annie just picked the one she wanted. If you want Roland to help you give one of our team a shout and they can sort something out.
Annie Vernon, Indigo’s second client, and one time blog contributor, happens to be rowing for the Great Britain team in the upcoming Olympic games in the Women’s Quadruple Sculls. Her crew enter the tournament as reigning World Champions and everyone is hoping they can bring home gold. Indigo Clothing made up this embroidered logo, featuring both the Chinese and Cornish flags, for polo shirts worn by both her supporters and her family.
I am personally delivering the polo shirts (and some cool t-shirts designed by Swedish graphic designer Roland) to the rowing lake. Back in the office on 19th August. The team will be ably lead by Jo Myronidis during by absence as an international courier.
