CreateMyTee Blog

CreateMyTee has officially partnered with uSurvive, the newest site for college students, as the offical apparel vendor.

uSurvive is a college student only social networking site. On uSurvive, you won’t have to worry about mom, dad, or your creepy uncle checking up on you. You must have a .edu email address to join, making uSurvive strictly for college students or recent grads.

Sure, you can create a profile and upload pics/videos and music, blog, post events, create groups, etc…do all the things you can on other social networking sites, but uSurvive is different for 1 big reason:

uPoints-Earn uPoints simply by being active on uSurvive. (posting blogs, uploading pics/videos and music, creating groups, etc…) You can then, cash in on your FREE uPoints for really cool stuff, like concert tickets, SWAG, iPods, digital cameras, spring break trips, and much more. You can even plant a tree or save part of the rainforest!

Look for the new double-sided palm cards on a campus near YOU!

"I had a great experience with CreateMyTee the first time out.

Obviously the order placing was very simple for me but I was duly impressed with the speed of the design and ease of the approval process. The confirmation of the approval and estimated dates for completion were wicked fast too.

Not only that, the order showed up on my door step early yesterday morning. Amazing turn around for sure in this day and age.

In short I was most impressed with the whole process and the shirts and sweatshirts look great, exactly as I had expected.  Please thank your team for a job well done.  I am a believer!  Keep up the good work and know that I will recommend CreateMyTee to others."

Bob Burnside
President- Fireside Home Construction
www.Firesidehomeconstruction.com
 
Winner: 2010 Energy Value Housing Award- National Association of Home Builders

Shirt Happens to:

1) Campus Reps.

2) Babies eating food.

3) Hotties taking pictures of themselves.

4) Women's Basketball.

If you are a high school student, it's time to start thinking about prom!

Prom is the most exciting event of your high school years. Most schools have their prom in April or May but the planning and preparation start months before. The word "prom" has a much different meaning for me now that I have experienced it compared to when I was in high school. Like any other teenage girl I started getting ready for prom a month or two before it actually happened. My friends and I shopped for hours looking for the perfect dress. We searched in magazines to find ideas for our hair up-dos and tried versions of them out on each other...even though it never actually looked remotely similar to the picture. The prom finally came and we all had a great night. Now I look at prom and laugh at the money I spent on my dress which I will never wear again. The best thing about prom was the memories that my friends and I shared getting ready and hanging out after prom. Pictures are great but a prom t-shirt brings back all of the great memories you had. T-shirts Capture Moments in Time like nothing else. Whether it is for your prom or for your senior, junior, sophomore, or freshman class, tees are timeless reminders of all the best moments in life.

So start looking ahead to those special end-of-school events, like prom, and think about what you would put on a t-shirt to remember it by. We will print your design to a Tee!

Talk to you next Wednesday!

-Hannah (the Intern)

It's Wednesday and I (Hannah the Intern) would like to annouce the CreateMyTee office has decided to take steps towards decreasing it's carbon footprint! Here are a few simple, constructive ways we (and you) can start reducing our carbon shoe size without bashing the budget.

1. The Three Rs: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Buy less, reuse and fix things when you can. 
2. Pay attention to packaging. Bring your own bag to the store. We re-use each box our garments arrive in. Please recycle or reuse the box your apparel arrives in.
3. Ditch bottled water. Buy a reusable water bottle or canteen for your water.
4. Go native. Use native plant species to landscape around your home or business. If anything, plant something, anything — it helps.
5. Unplug it! Unplug appliances that you don't use frequently.
6. Chuck your microwave. Okay, this is a bit drastic. Cook fresh food when you can, and you'll also find yourself eating out less often.
7. Use cold water. Not in the shower... in the washer. It takes a lot of energy to heat water — multiply that by the number of loads, and your footprint just got bigger.
8. Buy organic and local. Our shirts are purchased in our local state of Michigan and buy and offer organic or "fair trade" apparel.

Talk to you next Wednesday!

-Hannah (the Intern)

Fore more tips, visit 15 ways to reduce your carbon footprint.

It's no secret that our Reps are the backbone of our success.  Not only do they deal with our customers on a personal level, they help us to build a brand from scratch on their campuses or in their regions.  They are our greatest asset, and for that, we would like to show our appreciation for them by introducing them to you, our customers!

Heather Riecker

Our first Spotlight Rep, Heather Riecker, is currently a junior at Albion College where she is studying Business and Communications. Heather has stepped up as our top Rep in 2010.  In the past six weeks, Heather has already collected an astonishing 17 orders!

In case you were wondering, Heather is addicted to cheese pizza and wears her "Fire Up Brits" tee (a CreateMyTee exclusive) every Tuesday.  She attributes her success as a Rep to making her presence known on her campus.  Her number one tactic for success is to personally assist her customers while placing an order.... It appears to be working!

Heather aspires to be "as cool as the people from CreateMyTee" when she graduates in 2011.  While this is a major feat, we'd like to think she is well on her way to achieving her dream.  When asked what her favorite aspect of being a Rep was, Heather said "(The job) is really fun, and the people at CreateMyTee aren't that bad either!"  Thanks, Heather, you aren't so bad yourself!

To apply to be a CreateMyTee Rep and join the T-Party click HERE! 

This ain’t your average campus job.

Help people get everything they need and expect from a t-shirt creating experience. Network with student organizations, promote CreateMyTee through Facebook and other marketing campaigns, and ultimately get people to use CreateMyTee.com whenever custom apparel is needed. Michigan State Campus Reps will be paid on commission and earn $$$ every time one of their customers chooses CreateMyTee.com. Ditch the desk and spread the t-shirt love all over MSU's campus.

This is why being a Campus Rep is sweet:

• You will have by far the absolute best job on campus.
• You’ll gain resume building, real life work experience.
• You will network with people who you never knew (and more importantly, who never knew you).
• You’ll make money. Lots of money.

We are looking for people who are:

• The life of the party.
• Kind of a big deal.
• The type of person who gets out of bed in the morning yearning for a heavy dose of success.

If this sounds like you, look no further… it is your gig! What are you waiting for? Join the T-Party!

Visit our reps page for more information or Apply Now.

It's Wednesday again, which means it's hump day and time to gather around for Hannah the Intern's inside perspective!!!

My sorority, Kappa Alpha Theta, recently ordered T-shirts from us. My sorority made the mistake of ordering the wrong style shirt. Upon opening the box we realized just how teenie tiny they were! BUT, since I work with such a great group of people, CreateMyTee decided to reprint our shirts on a different style. I was so excited, I picked them up myself and delivered them to my sorority sisters and they LOVED them!

That brings me to the start of today. When I brought in a sample of the teenie tiny shirts, I figured I would simply display how small the shirts were. Seems normal enough, right? Wrong. The morning turned into a full fledge fashion show with Josh (El Presidente), flexing in a junior "Juicy Couture-esque" women's fitted t-shirt. This might be the only place anyone could ever see their boss voluntarily posing in a shirt 10 sizes too small. It was as strange as it was humorous and genuine. I doubt anyone's boss has the personality, courage, or guns to even think about modeling in a shirt like this. 

I guess it's appreciation for little things like this that lighten the mood, lift your spirits, and make me love my internship so much more :-)

Talk to you next Wednesday!

-Hannah (the Intern)

Here are two reasons why using CreateMyTee is a no-brainer:

• Work with a professional graphic designer on every order
  No more fiddling around in Microsoft Paint or bugging your roommate who dabbles in graphic design, just tell our designers what you want and we we'll take it from there. Check out The Closet for some samples!

• Free Instant Quotes
  Is it 3am? Other custom apparel companies aren't open? Doesn't matter...you can get free instant quotes at CreateMyTee any time of the day.

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