Rainbow coloured flags? A massive parade? More Lady Gaga tunes than you could shake a stick at?! Yes that’s right, this bank holiday weekend saw Manchester Pride descend on the city centre. The annual event aims to promote gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights and equality. While I happened to be wondering around the city centre and enjoying the parade, I was reminded by an order that we had here at clothes2order.com that I thought might be of interest to you all. The order came from the London Frontrunners.

The Frontrunners is a running club for gay men, lesbians and gay friendly people who love running. For the seventh year in a row they were organising ‘Pride Run 2010′ down in London. The aim of the run is to bring straight and gay/lesbian people together through sport as well as to raise money for various charities. Having just started with 200 runners taking part, the event now boasts over 1000 competitors with more than £23,000 having being raised for charity to date.

The Frontrunners were looking for their design to be printed on T-shirts, so after a Google search they found clothes2order. Impressed by the price and variety of products they placed an order and got a product that they were happy with. A big congratulations to all that took part in the event, especially to the London Frontrunner who managed the 10km course in 35 minutes 51 seconds (far too quick for my liking!).

Thank you to Martin for answering all my questions, we hope to hear from you and the London Frontrunners again soon!

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With the economy how it is, there is no shame in not having a job at the moment. Most  seem to be ‘career planning’, ‘weighing up their options’ or at the very least a ‘freelance facebooker’ (aren‘t we all?!). If only we could we could all invent dream jobs for ourselves!

Enter Jason Sadler or as Fox Business dubbed him ‘Entrepreneur of the Century’. With his salary in excess of $80,000 a year and a job description of ‘wear some printed t-shirts’, I feel that title might just be justified.

‘How the heck does he do it?!’

To put it simply, Jason Sadler’s body is for sale.…well, his torso at least. By putting his chest on sale to any business, charity or freelance facebooker that wants it, he offers to become their living and breathing billboard for one day of the year.

Jason Sadler has managed to create a cost effective marketing strategy which firms are willing to take a risk on. By wearing a promo t-shirt all day and writing about it to his facebook friends and twitter followers, a company’s logo can be exposed to potential customers. Jason even posts videos on youtube and holds webinars via his website (http://iwearyourshirt.com/) to inform people about the company that temporarily owns his chest. With over 17,000 followers on twitter, and 7,000 on facebook, he offers a business a new and innovative solution to social media coverage.

The power of a promo t-shirt has really gone global!

The demand for Sadler’s body and cheeky smile has been so great that he has had to employ someone to help him wear all those t-shirts. Sadler admits that his dream is to have to do nothing at all, but rather pay other people to do all the ‘hard work’ for him. His search for new recruits might be explained by him having to wear printed t-shirt 365 days a year and to any event, including weddings and funerals.

What the case of Jason Sadler proves is that companies are constantly looking for new ways to be innovative with their marketing strategies. By taking the hallmark of many companies PR strategies, the promotional t-shirt, and giving it a fresh twist, has Jason Sadler managed to create a job to make you all green with envy?

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Well, no but I have got an excuse…its only my fourth day! I’ve only just started working for clothes2order.com and I have been lucky enough to have been given the task of managing the blog for you. So from my still uncluttered desk, I thought it was about time to introduce myself and tell you what you can expect from future posts. I am hoping to bring you a range of topics with my content focussing on three fronts:

Case Studies:  From businesses to charities, stag-dos to artists, we have a massive range of cliental who all use our services to suit their individual needs. I’ll be bringing you the scoop on some of our most interesting designs and customers so that you can gain some inspiration for you own orders!

Inspiration: Sometimes its hard to know exactly what would look good on a t-shirt, or the best way to make a promo t shirt. So if the case studies aren’t enough, I’m here to help you! I’ll be bringing you ideas of what you can do to make the most of your personalised clothes.

A bit of fun: I’ll be scouring the web to find you things in the clothing world to make you crack a smile or raise a surprised eyebrow.

There will also be room for debate, so you can really get involved and let people know what you think! All that’s left for me to say is enjoy the blog and I’m here if you have any questions or comments. (Duncan@clothes2order.com)

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We love getting feedback, and it’s even better when we get to see our products in action, so we were delighted when Dive the Gap – a Scuba centre for Gap year and career development sent us a review and a video of their printed t shirts in use around the pool.

They ordered Black Stedman V Neck T Shirts Printed with their logo and were delighted with the quality of the garment and the print:

Dive the Gap MD Robin Knight: “Outstanding quality clothing with everything exactly how we asked. The new black T-Shirts that we ordered are light weight, comfortable have washed very well and the printed names have come out perfectly. Sophia, one of our instructors, said what a nice girls shirt she had. Not being a girl I cannot comment, but she is not easily impressed. You can see them in action on our dive centre video”:

Thanks for the video guys!

Want to review your products? We’d love to feature you on the blog! Email us your review and photos or video of your products in action and we’ll get it online. Email simon[at]Clothes2order.com

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Awful news about Beckham this week. Granted he may not have been first choice but he will be sorely missed in the squad, and you’ve got to feel bad for someone who was clearly desperate to make the plane to South Africa.

We want to show our support for Becks so have created this t-shirt ‘Beckham for Brazil 2014′. Whilst we know in our heads that at 39 he’ll be beyond past it, our heart goes out to him and we wish him a speedy recovery. Retweet this t-shirt to show him your support!

What message would you wear on a t shirt this week – tell us in the comments or tweet us @clothes2order

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Thanks to @Boolbar for this weeks winning TweeShirt design. We asked people to tweet in a new years resolution so they would have a record of it on a printed t shirt for the year ahead.  The semi-serious aim of trying to help motivate people to uphold their new years resolutions quickly drifted away with this ‘Geek Sheek’ comedy entry however:

This made me laugh, and i’m sure it will delight other techies out there!

Whats your favourite techie t shirt slogan? Either leave us a comment or tweet it to us @clothes2order

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We love t shirts, we print them every day with funny slogans, we see original promotional slogans, and at this time of year we get to print t shirts for christmas presents; so we know how entertaining t-shirts can be.

But what about out there in the wider world? We decided to look for where t shirts have made the news in the past couple of weeks, either through hilarity, controversy, or through sheer awesomeness (did I just make up a word there!)

1) Outrage over risque t shirt slogans on babies clothing range…..

This story is unbelievable, we’ve seen some controversial prints in our time but never like this on babies clothing! Do you think the campaigners need to get a sense of humour, or do you agree that prints like this on babies are a bit sick?

2) Evolution t shirts cause a stir…..

Wear t shirts printed with images depicting evolution at your peril, at least in Missouri!

3) Getting nasty with t shirts can make the news….

Especially when the t-shirt’s are focussed on Barack Obama…. These Obama t shirts initially seem supportive, but when you read the Psalm they refer to it’s anything but. Don’t accidently buy this t shirt in support of the president – they’re actually wishing a whole host of nasty things befall him.

4) Disney have been advertising using a woman lifting her t shirt…

yes you did just read that right! Disney had an online advert showing a picture of a woman in a t shirt, asking users to click to reveal all. When users clicked, everything was blacked out and then they were quickly redirected to an ad for their new film ‘Adventureland’. The complaints flooded in and the advert has been removed. Censorship gone mad or should a company of Disneys stature steer cleat of such tactics?

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This years war for the Christmas number one spot is hotting up already. The X Factor winner is a dead cert to occupy it yet again….. or are they?

There is a massive Facebook and Twitter movement encouraging people to boycott the X Factor winner and instead propel Rage Against the Machine to the top of the charts. So far it’s got 300,000 members, which is pretty impressive – If this sounds like your thing check out the group here

Although they’re making great progress, the fact is that last years X Factor Winner sold over 500,000 copies in her first week, so there is someway to go. So we’ve designed a t shirt for all you ragers and Cowell haters out there:

You can buy your Rage against the machine for Christmas number one t shirt here . 10% of all sales on this t shirt will be donated to the official charity of the campaign, Shelter .

Love the X Factor and think all this camapigning is a load of nonsense? Why not design your own printed t shirt to support your favourite finalist?

……Who will you support?

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Celebrities say the funniest things…..

It struck me that some celebrity quotes would make great printed t shirts, so we’ve decided to launch a new regular feature mocking up t shirts with our favourite topical quotes.

Todays Quote shirt has to be good old Arsene Wenger following his refusal to shake Mark Hughes’ hand last night.  When Wenger was questioned as to why he didn’t shake Hughes’ hand he replied… ‘I have no professional courtesy’. Now that strikes me as a great t-shirt for Tottenham fans, Manchester City fans or just anyone who isn’t too fond of Arsene:

You can buy this Arsene Wenger Quote T Shirt here from just £3.91 – Just add it to your account and follow the simple instructions.

We’re going to be on the look out for more quotes so would love to hear your suggestions – either leave us a comment with your ideas or tweet us @Clothes2order

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Regular visitors to Clothes2Order will already have noticed a big change to the website. We’ve just launched our brand new site design, and it’s better than ever. We’re always working towards improving our service for you, the customer, and we feel this new site launch will enable you to order your customised clothing quicker and easier than ever before.

Not only does it look good, the new layout is designed with the customer in mind. Providing an easier shopping experience, it ensures you can use our fast, efficient service in even less time and with a fraction of the hassle.

We want our website to be a pleasure to use for our customers, so please keep giving us your feedback on your shopping experience with us at Clothes2Order.

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