February 2012
2 posts
Let's talk about cash
Hey everyone!
This week, I want to talk about money. Cash. Wonga. The green stuff.
As a designer, each month your designs earn you $$$ (or £££ or €€€ depending where you are). We do all the hard work in getting those products out to eager customers around the world (did I mention shipping times are grrreat ?), and the designs you’ve toiled over get to millions of people everywhere....
Brrrr!
Hey everyone!
Nothing exciting to say this week… and I promise I won’t mention shipping… well, maybe just the once. It’s faster and better :)
We aren’t letting the adverse weather dampen our spirits. All here at MySoti HQ have smiling faces (and carrot noses in some cases). Keep those designs coming, and see you next week!
Aaron @ MySoti HQ
January 2012
4 posts
No apologies this week!
Hey!
I think I’m getting the hang of this! If I’ve got it right, you should be reading this message just a couple of days or so after it goes on the blog.
So, what have we got to talk about this week ? Yeah, I’m going to talk about shipping again. We’ve had our best delivery times for the past year, so don’t be shy, fill up that basket! We’re still trying...
Apologising for the apology that referred to the...
Hey everyone!
Just when I thought I’d finished apologising, I’m apologising again. That last newsletter… which may now be this newsletter by the time you see it was the same as last week’s. I screwed up. Again. Sorry!
We’re continuing to make good progress on shipping and we’re also working hard on sorting out customer services. We are now putting more...
Did I push the wrong button ?
Hey everyone!
If you’ve read the blog from last week, you’d have seen that I still haven’t got this newsletter thing right. I thought I’d had it all figured out. I didn’t because you saw exactly the same message as the previous week! Damn!
So here’s hoping I’ve got it right this time, so if you’re reading this in your mail program, it worked!
One...
How do you drive this thing ?
Happy New Year!
So first an apology: the last couple of newsletters kept coming up with different designs from the proper Most Wanted ones. My bad. I’m still trying to figure out which button to push! Fingers crossed that it’s going to work this time!
I guess you’ve already heard about my New Year resolutions. While it’ll take a little time, these are some resolutions I...
December 2011
3 posts
Times Tumbling
Hey there everyone.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve eaten waaay too much during the holidays!
While many others have ground to a halt over the holiday period, our little elves haven’t stopped! Our shipping times are gradually getting shorter, and we’re working hard to keep them that way!
It looks like the rest of you haven’t completely stopped either! There’s another bunch of great new...
Hello from the New Broom!
Hey there everyone. I’m so pleased to be writing this first blog entry from the MySoti hot seat and help Steve keep the MySoti dream alive. He said you guys are special, and he’s totally right! Just look at the new cool stuff available this week alone. So I know there are a few things Steve wanted to sort out to give both designers and customers a smoother ride. It isn’t...
Big changes are a' coming
So, as I alluded to last week - and on my twitter-feed (@HuntyHunt) there have been some movements within MySoti and finally I am able to talk about them. In a nutshell, because of other time commitments and my increasingly strange personal life I am standing down from my day-to-day duties and handing over to my good friend and the new chief of MySoti, Aaron. Aaron has been aware of MySoti...
November 2011
2 posts
Stuff, nonsense and things...
As always there’s a load of cool, new stuff on MySoti. But you all new that.
Most of you are here reading this news because of the nonsense happening with our delivery times again. Well, we ARE shipping and we ARE getting your orders out as quickly as humanly (and in some cases robotically/computationally) possible. Obviously with the holiday’s fast approaching we’ll be working...
MySoti FREE Money - and err... Holidays SOON!
Right. Time is precious.
So let’s get to it…
If you sell stuff with MySoti there are many benefits: 1) It is FREE. Designing with us costs you NOTHING! Nada! Zilch! 2) If you sell stuff through MySoti - stuff that you’ve designed - you MAKE MONEY! 3) What? You didn’t see the FREE MONEY MAKING benefits above? How much more do you want!?
So with that said…
...
October 2011
3 posts
Writing these things is hard...
…seriously, how are you supposed to write a new thing every week? I mean we’re just a small company who print, sell and ship designs created by YOU across the GLOBE day in and day out - helping you all earn money and make your chests, walls and rooms look more and more awesome by the day.
It’s not like we’re amazing or anything.
YOU’RE the AMAZING ones!
Until...
Shirts, Prints and Stuff...
…you know the drill.
YOU make COOL stuff using MySoti and sell it using our services!
Check it!
MySoti HQ x
Looking for one of those new phones?
…then if you’re a designer on MySoti you might be in luck?
Sold any shirts or posters this month? If so, check your PayPal accounts and you could be pleasantly surprised.
We’ve just made all of the payments of sales made from August 21st 2011 through to September 20th 2011.
And if you don’t fancy one of those new swanky, voice-controlled phoney-woney things, well…...
September 2011
4 posts
Oooh-weeee-ooooh! Weeee-ooohh!
Do you know what that noise is? Nope, it’s not that.
It’s the theme tune to Doctor Who - obviously.
Why are we singing it? Well, partly because the series comes to an end this week but mainly because this week sees a [time and space] relative TARDIS load of Who inspired designs being made Most Wanted.
Co-incidence of timing? Is Melody Pond the Daughter of a robotic Roman and...
It's nearly OCTOBER - How did THAT happen?
So September kind of got away from us didn’t it? I guess now it’s time to get stocked up with candy and putting money aside for the thanksgiving, Christmas, Guy Fawkes night parties?
Maybe you should design some Halloween shirts and see if you could make a little extra money that way? Just a thought…
Until next week,
MySoti HQ x
p.s. Not sure why last week’s email...
24% off at MySoti for the next 24 hours!
Yes - it’s a lame marketing attempt!
Why? Because contrary to popular belief MySoti isn’t making millions of dollars a day in sales and we’re not all sat around the pool using $100 dollar bills to pick the caviar out from our teeth.
So.. if you’ve got shirts on MySoti that you’ve had your eye on - OR you are a designer who wants to email or tweet ALL OF THEIR...
Today felt like a Thursday. It's already been a...
…so cheer yourself up with loads of new shirts and prints courtesy of the awesome community of awesomeness that is MySoti.com!
Spend wisely my young MySoti’ans.
MySoti HQ - x
August 2011
3 posts
MySoti Money Mail - We've just paid our THOUSANDS...
Ola MySoti’ans!
We get a few emails a day here at MySoti HQ complementing us on our designs and we’re always immensely flattered. Mainly because our shirt design days were average at best and what the mails really want to do is to complement YOU, our amazing designers on the work that you guys upload day after day.
So it’s nice to be able to pay you all back every month with...
No news today - just the USUAL, INCREDIBLE SHIRTS!
Cute bears, clever band-aids, a wonderful Dr Who/House pastiche, a cool play on the old stag party idea, a clever samurai/Super Mario mash-up, a zombie/playing card thing, cute pirates, a sweet octopus and just a cute illustration.
And that’s just the stuff for this week that’s been voted on. You should see everything else…
MySoti HQ x
Stand Out From The Crowd!
Regular readers - of which there are some I am told - will have seen that we added a new, little feature to the site a couple of weeks ago. We’re now offering PREMIUM STORES to all of MySotians who have signed up as designers within the site.
MAKE THE MOST OF YOUR DESIGNS - RUN YOUR OWN STORE!
Your current MySoti profile - and all of the designs that you add to it - are listed completely...
July 2011
4 posts
Last few days of discount! And somehow this week...
Co-incidence is a wonderful thing. Or it’s some, weird, tactical voting… BUT this week we’ve had a glut of ‘movie’ related shirts make it through to Most Wanted status.
Oh… And you know there’s still discount to be had until 31st of July right?
Forward it to your mates!
MySoti HQ x
Shirts, Shades and Sketches (on canvas)
I know last week I promised Premium Store details but we’re still tinkering with a few things - you can sign up for yourself and see for as little as $3.00 a week within your Profile if you’re super-keen though!
For now you’ll just have to make do with the AWESOME shirts on Most Wanted this week!
Short, sweet but perfectly formed! MySoti HQ x
12% discount - give us another go... We're...
You all know the details of our shipping problems in the past (if not please see ourblog). Well, we’re back and shipping quicker than ever! And we wanted to let you all know… because we know how hard it is to win back the trust of people that we’ve lost along our long and lonely road of the past six months.
So here’s a 12% off voucher valid until the end of the month....
Premium Stores Available - Let your designs out in...
New Site Stuff Over the coming 48 hours we’re slowly releasing some new functionality. I know a few messages ago I said that we weren’t doing any more development but this work has been lying around for a while so I thought we should push out what we could.
We really hope that you like it.
General Site Updates: We’ve tidied up a few of the graphics and given a few little...
June 2011
6 posts
It's PAY DAY! May through to June money is here!
So here’s the thing… ALL of the products that are for sale on MySoti.com are actually made by YOU… I mean, not definitely, absolutely YOU but people like you; designers and illustrators who use MySoti for free to upload their artwork and to create amazing stuff!
And when people sell this stuff to other people - in other words; YOU sell your stuff to other amazing people like YOU...
We're Nearly There!
I have never seen so many shirts be printed on one week - honestly, the speed at which our printers are clearing everything out is RIDONKULOUS!
At this rate all orders up and until Tuesday the 14th of June should be cleared and shipped out to you by the end of this coming weekend. This is very good news for us and we’re so pleased that [most] of you hung around and stayed for the ride.
...
Thank you ALL for being ACE - 12% OFF until 20th...
And if you’re a designer - don’t forget to forward your MySoti URL along with this voucher on to your friends, clients, sugar-daddy, pets, grandparents, agents, nurses, psychiatrist, Rabbi, Priest, accountant, lawyer, wife, boyfriend, goldfish et al
SHIPPING UPDATE - Back on track!
Hi everyone,
I’m doing an out-of-regular- blog posting today to announce some good news with regards to our continued shipping woe…
As you know, ALL SHIRT orders have been subject to a 20-35 day turnaround over this past month due to supply issues (please see previous blog posts for details).
I can now happily confirm that these issues are now COMPLETELY and FOR ALL ETERNITY FIXED!
...
GOOD NEWS for DESIGNERS!
So to say it’s been an interesting week would be an understatement. And your kind words of support after last week’s newsletter have been so incredibly humbling. Thank you.
In return for your support I can offer all you designers who have created and sold shirts/artwork or lampshades via MySoti.com your money earned for the month of April 21st through to May 20th 2011 - and it’s...
Humbled
Thanks all of you who have emailed and sent messages of support. I’m really doing all that I can to make the site better and to process orders quicker; in fact I’m installing some stuff now that should get us back to 5-10 day turnarounds within the month.
To those of you who are upset and feel the need to insult me via email please think before clicking send. I know you’re...
May 2011
5 posts
Strength Lies In Small Things
I hope you’ll excuse me whilst I take a break from the usual, ‘lacking-in-substance-other-than-marketing’ messages and instead allow me to indulge in something a little deeper. In all honesty this is a post that I have been trying to write for 12 months or so now but for several reasons haven’t been able to. This is a fittingly brief story about being small; not necessarily in vision but...
Weather Rap-TEE-ure! (ahem, sorry).
So do any of you remember when THIS happened at this time last year?
Well, we do… because we’re still suffering some of the effects of it because the backlog of orders that it created played near-fatal havoc with our cashflow.
So we’re not especially excited to see a new ‘end of the world style’ fallout being forcast for this week :|
BBC Weather - More Icelandic...
Shirts, Shades and Sh... Stuff for your walls!
I’m the worst alliterator I’m afraid. In fact, I’m not even sure that alliterator is a word.
What I do know though is that we’ve had some wonderful designs come through MySoti.com again this week…
Just see for yourself!
MySoti HQ x
Give some AMAZING ARTWORK a home in your... erm......
Hello MySoti people!
I trust that you’re are all well this fine, May morning?
I’m not sure what happened but this week seems to have us swimming in a positively overflowing pool of artwork. There’s some incredible posters and canvas prints available and for the quality of both the print and the mounts the prices are an absolute steal!
(And you’ll be pleased to know that...
MySoti Money Mail: Are you a designer? Then you've...
*Assuming that you’ve actually sold some shirts this past month of course!
So then, if you sold any shirts, artwork or lampshades during the month of March 21st through to April 20th then you should have received your PayPal commission by now!
See, we promised you better news this week right?
If you didn’t earn anything this month then either a) get signed up and start designing...
April 2011
3 posts
No News Is Good News
Nothing to report this week. Zilch, Nada. ZERO.
This is probably a good thing I’m sure… But don’t forget that you’ve only got until May 1st before the prices go up!
Next week is PAY YOUR COMMISSION WEEK - so that’ll DEFFO be good news!
Until then, Bye!
MySoti HQ x
Price Increases for May 1st - Please don't hate...
As promised (although a *promise* kind of sounds as if there is good news) I’ve got the details on the price increases that I spoke about in this blog/newsletter last week.
I’ve tried my hardest to soak up as much of the costs as possible but here are the main changes:
BASIC TEES
Was £14.00 - Now £14.50
Was €16.00 - Now €16.50
Was $18.00 - Now $19.50
PREMIUM TEES
Was £16.00...
Bad News Wednesday :(
This blog often seems like nothing but a string of excuses - and I wish that this post was something different, but sadly the times within which we live seem to want to dictate otherwise. So it’s with a heavy heart I have to let you know about some necessary price rises forced on us by our suppliers. Because of the rapid changes in both cotton and oil prices over the past year we’re...
March 2011
5 posts
MySoti Money Mail: February - March Money Madness!
It’s that time again - the designers of MySoti will find lovely little gifts of PayPal funds in their accounts today (assuming that they’ve sold any of their designs of course ;p).
The funds today are for all sales made between February 21st through to March 20th 2011.
If you haven’t made any sales this month then it’s probably for one of two reasons:
1 - You...
Got an idea for a shirt? - Design your own with...
I send these mails out every week to you guys and I have to be honest, I’m never really sure if you’re someone who’s bought shirts or artwork through MySoti.com or perhaps you’re one of our wonderful designers?
If you’re someone who’s already designed a shirt with us then thank you - you’re a hero in my eyes and - if you’re someone who’s...
SWEATSHIRTS ARE GO, GO, GO!
It wasn’t so much as a leak, more of a full blown announcement last week - but custom designed SWEATSHIRTS are NOW AVAILABLE at MySoti.com!
Made from wonderfully soft Belcoro yarn, these sweats have an amazingly soft feel and they handle the DTG print perfectly.
So check out the designs already available as Sweatshirts and if you don’t like the look of those - then why not DESIGN...
The one in which having nothing to say turns into...
So if you hadn’t worked it out by now we send the newsletters out every Wednesday.
Why Wednesday? Well, it used to be the only day in the week when other T-Shirt companies didn’t send out a mail of their own so it kind of made sense.
Now of course there’s a gazillion shirt companies, each bombarding you with the next best thing to wear on your chest. But, if there’s one...
MySoti Money Message: Yay! Designer Pay Day Today!...
What time is it?
I’ll tell you shall I? It’s nearly spring; I’ve got flowers close to blooming out in the garden and I took a walk on the beach last week in short sleeves! I know, short sleeves in February?
Wonderful.
Oh and it’s pay day today too - so (if you’ve designed and sold stuff through MySoti) please start checking your PayPal accounts because...
February 2011
12 posts
9 New Things to LOVE!
We’ve hit a bit of a sweet-spot these past weeks - just look at the amazing designs coming through the Most Wanted ranks…
It's almost sunny out there!
So here in the UK - where I am writing this - it’s been cold, wet and miserable these past few weeks. But today… Well, today the sun is shining, there are signs that the daffodils are starting to shoot from the ground and the influx of new, amazing designs is really starting to blossom too.
With the warm, spring and summer weather just up and around the corner it’s never been a...
January DONE.
So despite being one of the longest months of the year, January went by too quickly :/
AND… I am sad to say that we didn’t get every 2010 order shipped out within this time. I’m very sorry.
The good news is that over 90% of them have been sent though and it should only take us a couple of more weeks to get the remainder out. If you are able to wait on another few weeks then...