Several of us here at BlueCotton are big fans of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. The wide range of fun and useful apps are often a topic of conversation around the office. One app in particular that has really become a popular source for some friendly competition is Words With Friends.
If you’ve ever played the popular board game, Scrabble™, then you already know how to play Words With Friends! That’s what it essentially is–a mobile, turn-based version of the casual crossword game. One really great thing about WWF is that you can have several games going at one time! I currently have 12 games going simultaneously. So, do you have an iPhone or iPod Touch? If so, play with us! Just download the app to your device, create a new game, and search by any or all of our usernames below!
If you start a game with one of us, let us know that you’re a BlueCotton customer. I must warn you, though. We are pretty competitive. We will not show you mercy!
Don’t miss out on this amazing St. Patrick’s Day offer! Take 10% off your ENTIRE order at BlueCotton.com when you use coupon code “GOODASGOLD” at checkout! Hurry! This offer is only valid Wednesday, March 17 through Friday, March 19, 2010!
UPDATE: This special offer has expired. Keep your eyes open for future promotions!
As you might have noticed, this blog has been–to put it gently–lacking for quite some time now. Well, we’ve finally gained a renewed vigour and a sense of what we would like our blog to become. Like any corporate blog, this blog will be one of several avenues where we will broadcast our lastest news and promotions with our clients. But, in addition to that, we aim to convey the warm, fun, and family-like personality of our company. Hopefully, you’ll see what I mean by that in the near future.
Now, a quick tour around the new layout. Along the top of the site are the categories and sub-catagories for all the entries on our blog. To only see entries from a particular category, simply click on that category! Along the right side you’ll find a search field to search for specific terms or phrases in our previous posts, an archive listed by date, as well as feed of our most recent posts on Twitter! Keep your eyes open for new features and enhancements as the site evolves.
The old adage “April showers bring May flowers” has never been truer here in Bowling Green. The spring of 2009 was extremely wet and even approached soggy! Climate data by the University of Kentucky indicates rain on seventeen of April’s thirty calendar days. April’s 4.4 cumulative inches of rain resulted in some very lush (read: overgrown) lawns and gorgeous spring flowers all over the SouthCentral Kentucky area.
Similarly, BlueCotton was showered with several significant press recognitions and appearances this spring. The April 2, 2009 USA Today Lifestyle cover featured the Favorite t-shirt survey we conducted back in February.
On April 11th, our fearless leader Mike Coffey went live on Barry Moltz’ podcast, “Business Insanity Talk Radio” to discuss t-shirts as the original microblog. Click here to listen!
Mike was interviewed for Business Week’s publication Small Biz. In the April/May issue, “Turn On, Tune In, Tweet Out,” Mike discusses Twitter’s impact on our customer interaction. Twitter is a positive addition to our customer service tools, and we enjoy using the 140 character limit to engage customers. You can read the article here.
Through April, We’ve been using TwitPic to send photos of customer t-shirts hot off the dryer, actively issuing daily coupon codes for a free custom t-shirt, and tweeting discount codes up to 50% off the total order. We’re continuing our Twitter campaign through the summer and have some special BlueCotton and Twitter-themed t-shirts on deck to give away very soon.
We’re confident this publicity shower will push us to blossom through the summer!
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While everyone’s taking a closer look at their expenditures and analyzing each dime, you oughta know BlueCotton wants to help you stretch your apparel dollar further. We’re ready to bail YOU out of our overpriced competitors’ trap and show you how to get the most shirt for your money. There are many ways to create a striking t-shirt design without breaking the bank. Anyhow, let’s start with a few basics on how we price our shirts.
1. The more garments your order, the less expensive each one will be. This allows us to spread the cost of production out over more shirts and save you money. 50 shirts will be less expensive PER SHIRT than 25 shirts. 100 shirts will be less expensive PER SHIRT than 50 shirts. It’s kinda like buying a pallet of cheese curls from Costco…its cheaper PER BAG in the long run to buy the whole pallet instead of buying one bag at a time. You get the idea?
2. The fewer ink colors we print, the less expensive the shirts will be. A one color front is cheaper than a two color front; that much is obvious. I will show you later on the blog how you can use the color of your shirt as a “free color” and save money on ink colors. A shirt printed only on the front is less expensive than a shirt printed on the front and back. Makes sense, right?
3. The cost of the blank t-shirt is factored into the pricing. Premium brand shirts–like American Apparel and Bella–are more expensive than more standard brands like Hanes and Gildan. 50/50 cotton / polyester blend shirts are less expensive than 100% cotton. Depending on your personal preference, a 50/50 is not necessarily a “cheap” shirt. 50/50s are lighter in weight and resist significant shrinkage. If price is a factor, 50/50 garments are the way to go. Since white tees do not go through a dyeing process, they are less expensive than color shirts. For the absolute lowest cost shirt, you want a 50/50 in white.
Holla back.
Order your custom St. Patrick’s Day shirts now! Make sure you show up to work or school in green to avoid being the designated pinch-ee on St. Patrick’s Day. Are you having a St. Patrick’s Day party or planning to go out with your crew for a pub crawl? Customize your group’s shirts here! You can start by editing one of our templates or start from scratch in our Design Studio. We have tons of great Irish, leprechaun and clover clip art for you to use!
From Wikipedia:
St. Patrick’s Blue, not green, was the color long-associated with St. Patrick. Green, the colour most widely associated with Ireland, with Irish people, and with St. Patrick’s Day in modern times, may have gained its prominence through the phrase “the wearing of the green” meaning to wear a shamrock on one’s clothing. At many times in Irish history, to do so was seen as a sign of Irish nationalism or loyalty to the Roman Catholic faith. St. Patrick used the shamrock, a three-leaved plant, to explain the Holy Trinity to the pre-Christian Irish. The wearing of and display of shamrocks and shamrock-inspired designs have become a ubiquitous feature of the saint’s holiday. The change to Ireland’s association with green rather than blue probably began around the 1750s.
Here’s a few of our customer-created St. Patrick’s Day designs:
