Come To Think Of It…

Dry performance is not just about underwear anymore. Technical performance fabrics aren’t new but continue to be the most influential trend in active sportswear. We are offering performance wear in a wide variety of styles this Summer.

Dry performance wear is engineered to wick moisture away from the skin and transport it to the outside of the fabric where it will evaporate. You stay cool, dry and comfortable even when the heat is on.

This year the boundaries of performance technology is being pushed. New performance features include UV protection, stain resistance, odor-resistance and anti-microbial. Our dry performance shirts are ideal for anyone who is active and wants comfort.

We offer dry performance wear in men’s, women’s, and youth sizes in a wide range of styles including polos, t-shirts, mock turtlenecks, reversible tanks, shorts, muscle shirts, and team uniforms. Of course we can expertly embroider or print your dry performance wear.

High Tech Performance Golfwear

Performance Team Polos

Dri-Power T-shirts, Moisture Management For Peak Performance

Ladies Performance Shirts

The big trend in the LogoSportswear market is getting back to mother nature. New earth friendly organic shirts, caps and bags have hit the market and are made from 100% organic cotton–containing no chemical bleaches or dyes.

So what does “organic” mean? The term defines the process of growing and processing a variety of agricultural products, including food and fibers, without the use of poison fertilizers and pesticides.
About 1/3 of a pound of chemical fertilizers and pesticides are used to produce a single pound of conventionally grown cotton fabric and much of these chemicals find their way into the soil, air, water and the food we eat, adversely affecting our life. Organic apparel is grown without chemical fertilizers and is colored using organic dyes.

Our research indicates that companies haven’t considered purchasing organic apparel because they perceive a significant cost increase. That has all changed and switching from non-organic to organic
is now not only relatively inexpensive but also great for the environment.

Click here for our full line of organic shirts, caps and bags.

Today is the official rollout of our free, Share & Sell service. You now have an unique opportunity to Design, Share and Sell shirts online–with zero costs and zero inventory investment. Set-up is fast and we manage every aspect of your online store.

This is a service that can help every business, school, team and organization make money and build spirit with online, custom sportswear stores.

Budding designers, entrepreneurs, teachers, coaches can design their shirts using our easy-to-use Online Design software tools or can customize any of our thousands of free custom Design Tshirt Templates.

Once a design is created (our community has created over 570K designs), you can use template driven Widgets to transform product designs instantly into an online shop.

I can not wait to see the ingenuity and ideas get brought to market by our design community.
I encourage you to create your online shop today. Soon we will be offering an online marketplace that will serve both product designers and shop builders who want to sell and shoppers on the lookout for unique items.

www.SellSportswear.com

Spring has sprung and now is a good time to promote your business, team or event with our new, full-color banners. We have just added a new Banner Designer to our online LogoDesignerTM software suite. I encourage you to use this technology and see how convenient it is to design, proof and order custom banners.

Designing full color banners can take graphics time and expertise. We make it easy. We have created custom Banner Design Templates that you can personalize for large, wide format banner printing.

Your message on living, breathing, high impact full color banners. Our banners feature:

· Four color printing at no additional charge!
· Long lasting 13 oz outdoor vinyl is reinforced and stronger than canvas. Each custom banner design
comes with brass grommets placed in all four corners.
· Print any size that fits your message
· Fast Turnaround! Our Banners ship in 6-days or less. 2-3 Day FastTrack Service available.

CustomBannersFast.com

We just surpassed another milestone…..over 500K designs created in our Online Designer. It is a testament to our great Online Designer, creative design templates and to our staff who work so hard each and every day.

These designs tap into the collective experiences, skills and ingenuity of our design community and we thank all of you for your support. Here is a sampling of some of the best designs.

Our website is being used by thousands every day and we are enabling some cool user-generated commerce through our Share & SellTM service soon.

Later in the year we also will launch an online marketplace which will serve both our product designers who want to sell and shoppers on the lookout for unique, Mass Personalized items.

Thanks for your support!

Our proprietary product design and editing software, LogoDesignerTM , provides an easy way to design, proof and order custom products online. This software suite is the only online design tool that can be used for custom print, embroidery and team uniform applications.

We have just made upgrades to our Team Uniform Designer that we would like you try out. Our developers have incorporated rich internet features that significantly improve navigation, access to product information, ordering and user experience.

Ordering team uniforms has never been easier! The Designer organizes our best selling team uniforms, by sport. You can select from our team uniform design templates and create your own unique look by adding your team name and colors. As you update your design, changes are dynamically generated for quick proofing without having to refresh the page’s browser each time.

What’s hot in 2008 is custom, dry performance, wicking team uniforms and t-shirts. We carry of full-line of performance t-shirts in 15-colors in both youth and adult sizes. Dry Performance Wicking Shirts

See Our Team Uniform Designer

I am excited to announce that we have launched a beta version of our new social commerce service, Share & Sell. This new, free service allows visitors to unleash their creativity to design and sell tshirts online on their own personal web spaces.

Many of you have used our Online Designer. In fact in 2007 along over (355K) shirt designs have been created using the designer. The designs take many forms from uploaded computer graphics to photos to customized designs using our library of thousands of free t-shirt design templates, TshirtDesignTemplates.com.

To take advantage of our Share & SellTM service and to sell tshirts online, customers need only create a design, register as an account and then use our template driven Widgets (self-contained sell applications) or Swickis (social media widgets) to transform shirt designs instantly into an online shop.

Our Share & SellTM service has zero costs and zero inventory investment. Set-up is fast and we manage every aspect including shop building, hosting, order management, fulfillment, secure payment processing, and customer service. It is a great way for websites to monetize their traffic. Our affiliates will earn 15% commissions for each sale coming in through their Widget. They need only to share and promote their shop to friends and visitors on their site.

The forces of Mass Personalization, Social Media and User-Generated Commerce are colliding and we are hoping this program generates viral and syndication buzz in the social communities. To learn more about our Share & SellTM service and sell shirts and sell tshirts online: SellSportswear.com

My apologies for not posting to my Blog for awhile. Two things have kept me quite occupied. First, we are having a banner year in 2007 and managing a growing small business is full of challenges. I am humbled by the support of our customers and grateful to our employees for working so hard this year.

Perhaps the biggest challenge we face as a company is to continue to innovate and stay competitive on the internet which evolves at such a dizzying pace. It is truly an “Eat or be eaten market.”

I once heard that when the rate of change in a market exceeds the rate of change inside your company then you have lost your edge. Well I can promise you we will not be complacent. We are conditioned to eat change as a part of our daily diet here at LogoSportswear.

The second reason why I have been away from this blog is that we have been hard at work changing our websites and marketing in order to leverage the new social media and networking opportunities that are taking over the internet like wildfire.

What are we doing? Learning lots about Social Media and User-Generated Commerce. We have been hard at work developing online tools and platforms for customers and visitors to share designs, opinions and experiences. Our new customer review and feedback surveys are being read by all our employees so that they stay conscious about what their part is to ensure our ultimate goal of providing a quality product that exceeds expectations.

But this is just the tip of the iceberg. Soon we will announce a new service that captures the merging trends of Social Media and User-Generated Commerce. Please stay tuned………….

Our company’s culture is built upon innovation.

Broadband internet access coupled with new Web 2.0 tools and techniques are changing how customers interact on the web. We have been developing new rich interaction technology and it can now be seen on our new site, SchoolSportswear.com, launched in time for the back-to-school season. The site offers students, teachers, coaches, family and alumni the opportunity to design and purchase customized school, team, and class apparel online.

State-of-the-art, on-demand, digital imaging technology enables users to view and customize school spiritwear designs from over fifty thousand K-12 schools. The magic begins when you select your specific school. Our software automatically generates PERSONALIZED designs incorporating school-specific colors and mascots. The fun continues when you personalize text, designs, and sports themes. There is an infinite number of designs you can create. You will be amazed at this design technology.

The Spiritwear design and creation process is very simple to use. There is no need to download multiple Web pages. And our unique print-on-demand and embroidery-on-demand production makes it possible to buy SchoolSportswear, without minimum order or setup requirements.

Enjoy the magic of personalized, SchoolSportswear. Your comments and feedback are always welcome.

The Software & Information Industry Association unveiled its top-ten most significant e-commerce developments of the decade. It should be no great surprise that Google properties made up three of the top 10.

Thankfully these developments have helped our company and other companies across the internet to grow. Of particular importance to us is number eight, User-Generated Content. Flickr, YouTube, and yes even us offer a new form of collaborative production that has revolutionized markets.

This “Customer-Made” trend can be seen our LogoSportswear.com home page. Since the advent of our Online Designers, our customers have created well over 100,000 designs–the most recent of which are now featured regularly on our home page.

SIIA Press Release

1. . Google (Sept. 1998): Google did more to fundamentally change the way we use the Internet than any other event in the last 10 years. The simple search engine that began with a couple of smart guys is now used by 30% of Internet users to help find precisely what we’re looking for online, map our world, create simple yet highly targeted advertisements and much more. Americans conducted 6.9 billion searches online in February 2007 and nearly half of those were on Google

2. Broadband Penetration of US Internet Users Reaches 50% (June 2004): When the Information Superhighway first opened, it felt more like an old dirt road – until broadband released its full potential. Available and affordable broadband took longer than expected to arrive – but when it finally reached 50% penetration in 2004, a milestone was reached that signaled a dramatic change in how commerce gets done online, how consumers use and share content, and how the world communicates. It took broadband roughly 4 years to reach 50% – but it is estimated that it will reach 90% penetration of Internet users by the end of the year.

3. eBay Auctions (Launched Sept. 1997): eBay showed us that the Internet could be used to reach massive national — and even global — markets better and faster than ever before. The launch empowered hundreds of thousands of power sellers to quit their day jobs and work exclusively online. Individuals could also compete directly with each other in ways unimaginable in a physical market.

4. Amazon.com (IPO May 1997): Amazon showed the world what an online store would look like and made online shopping popular through its ease of use and wide selection. Amazon’s public offering told the world that online commerce is legitimate and here to stay. It signaled the increasingly important role that e-commerce would play in the American economy.

5. Google Ad Words (2000) Key word advertising has become the biggest online advertising vehicle, representing 40 percent of that market and $6.8 billion in revenue. Keyword ads are the simplest and most cost-effective mechanism to reach targeted audiences, affordable to even the smallest business.

6. Open Standards (HTML 4.0 released - 1997): The standards for the web embodied in HTML are overseen by the World Wide Web Consortium, which is not controlled by any company or government. The formats are open, well documented and designed to work with different software and hardware. It has probably been the most influential and important data standard in the history of publishing. Open standards can grow an entire industry, leaving more room and more opportunity for everyone.

7. Wi-Fi (802.11 launched - 1997): From desk to board room to beach, connectivity is never lost and communication is never delayed. The development of Wi-Fi removed the limitations of desktops and cables and shifted focus toward mobile solutions. Wireless Internet enabled road warriors to be connected anywhere in industries like real estate, transportation, travel, and financial services.

8. User-Generated Content (YouTube 2005): Right now it is impossible to say what the full ramifications of the “citizen journalist” era will be – but the dramatic impact of YouTube tells us more than any other recent development. At first a playground for kids with video cameras, YouTube is now the embodiment of Web 2.0. It is a must-be-seen place for presidential candidates, a battleground in the copyright wars, a vital distribution point for major media – and most of all, a place where anyone…absolutely anyone…can deliver a message to the world.

9. iTunes (2001): In the aftermath of Napster and the P2P battles, iTunes legitimized the digital music industry, revolutionizing the music industry. The importance of CDs declined while music as digital content grew, leading to developments in everything from Digital Rights Management software to increased bandwidth use. Today, more than US$2 billion worth of music was sold online or through mobile phones in 2006 (trade revenues), almost doubling the market in the last year. Digital sales now account for around 10% of the music market

10. BlackBerry (1999): The BlackBerry makes communication instantaneous, and mobile. A comprehensive communications device creates a new mobile business culture. Giving road warriors the freedom to move to any location and maintain connectivity increases cooperation and efficiency. By having the web in the palm of your hand, Internet connected devices enable ecommerce anywhere, anytime.