Here’s our latest press release:

T-Shirtmonster.ca, a dynamic ecommerce company that provides an online platform for sellers and buyers, today announced the launch of 6 new stores for The Shoppers Drug Mart Weekend to End Women’s Cancers, a national fundraiser benefiting hospitals and cancer research centers across Canada.

Featuring t-shirts for men, women and children decorated with Weekend to End Women’s Cancer logos, the stores will enable thousands of supporters to personalize t-shirts by adding photographs or text and contribute to the greater cause of breast and gynecologic cancer research.

Funds raised from breast cancer t-shirt sales will be distributed regionally to benefit each of the Weekend Walk partners, including Princess Margaret Hospital, B.C. Cancer Foundation, Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation, Jewish General Hospital and the Alberta Cancer Foundation.

 “T-Shirtmonster is pleased to partner with Weekend To End Women’s Cancers in the fight against women’s cancers” said Roland Mackintosh, CEO T-Shirtmonster. “By taking this initiative online, we’re making it easy for participants and supporters to wear their support for the Weekend to End Women’s Cancers and feel good knowing that every purchase contributes to such a worthy cause”.

 Through T-Shirtmonster, progressive organizations and individuals can launch online stores to sell digitally printed T-shirts and apparel featuring their own designs. T-Shirtmonster handles shipping, billing, inventory and logistics so sellers can focus on creating t-shirt designs and building communities of people who share in their values.

 About Weekend To End Women‘s Cancers

The Shoppers Drug Mart ^® Weekend to End Women’s Cancers is a two-day 60km walk, or a one-day 30km walk, bringing together thousands of women and men in support of the fight against women’s cancers. As research suggests a linkage between breast cancer and other cancers such as ovarian, The Weekend realized the need to expand and broaden the focus of the event to impact all women’s cancers. In 2009, 8,200 new cases of women’s cancers such as, cervical, endometrial and ovarian were diagnosed in Canada. Thousands of women and men will unite in various cities across Canada between June and September and walk in a display of courage and commitment in the fight against cancer. For more information go to www.endcancer.ca

 About T-Shirtmonster

T-Shirtmonster empowers individuals, businesses and Non-Profits to generate revenue by selling customized apparel online. The company develops and provides sellers with free, e-commerce tools and technologies to create online stores to market print-on-demand apparel through T-Shirtmonster.ca. For more information please visit  www.tshirtmonster.ca.

 Weekend To End Women’s Cancers Important Dates

Ottawa, June 5-6, 2010, Benefiting the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation

Calgary, July 24-25, 2010 Benefiting the Alberta Cancer Foundation

Edmonton, August 7-8, 2010 Benefiting the Alberta Cancer Foundation

Vancouver, August 14-15, 2010 Benefiting BC Cancer Foundation

Montreal, August 28-29, 2010 Benefiting Jewish General Hospital

Toronto, September 11-12, 2010 Benefiting The Campbell Family Institute at The Princess Margaret

The “Save Ferris” town water tower is a nice touch, but “Abe Froman Meats” takes the cake! You have to be a die hard Bueller fan to remember who Abe Froman is (think back to the fancy restaurant scene!). Ahhh, good old Abe Froman, King of the Sausage Meats of Chicago! PS. Check out their Gallery (very cool header) for more movie related t-shirt designs: http://www.tshirtmonster.ca/Designer/moviequotes/

All Breast Cancer t-shirt designs are fully customizable and 25% of every purchase is donated to help raise funds for much-needed breast cancer research in Canada.

“ We are delighted to have partnered with T-Shirtmonster” says Executive Director, Marsha Davidson. “Many of our supporters are looking for shirts to enhance their fundraising activities.   T-Shirtmonster looks after all of this for us and gives us a significant donation.”

Users can upload a photograph or add text to create a personalized t-shirt. All custom t-shirt designs are available on over 150 different styles and colours, including organic t-shirts, American Apparel, baby clothing and hooded sweatshirts.

T-Shirtmonster’s proprietary web platform empowers individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations to generate substantial income from T-Shirt sales by opening a free Gallery to upload and sell their designs. All profits from the sale of the T-Shirt go directly to the owner of the Gallery.

About Breast Cancer Society of Canada

The Breast Cancer Society of Canada is a registered, national not-for-profit, charitable organization dedicated to funding Canadian breast cancer research into the detection, prevention, treatment and to ultimately find a cure for the disease that women fear most.

About T-Shirtmonster.ca

Founded in 2008, T-Shirtmonster provides free tools, technology, and a user friendly Design interface for anyone wanting to create or sell custom T-shirt designs. T-Shirtmonster requires no minimum order and eliminates the need for inventory by printing apparel on demand. T-Shirtmonster provides shipping, billing and customer service so that individuals and organizations can focus on generating income through profitable, sustainable online Galleries.

“Put simply, our goal is to encourage people from all over the world to say “Thank You” when you cross paths with a member of our military.”

Dave contacted us to design a special line of t-shirts so that anyone can show their support for our troops.

Wear with pride! Dave is donating his monthly earnings “to predetermined Military Memorials and museums from the country in which each sale originates.

For the complete collection, please visit Thank A Soldier Gallery

The Walk Now for Autism Gallery enables walking teams to create personalized t-shirts online, using T-Shirtmonster’s fun and easy to use Design Lab.

Walk Now for Autism Speaks events are held this year in Toronto, Edmonton and Vancouver. T-Shirtmonster is pleased to partner by donating 40% of the t-shirt sales to Autism Speaks Canada, which will be attributed directly to Walk Team’s fund raising totals.

“The Design Lab lets team members upload a photograph and add text, such as ‘I’m walking for Christopher’, says Ben Duncan, co-founder, T-Shirtmonster. “The Walk for Autism logo can be added with the click of a button to give the shirt an authentic look. Once the user is happy with their design, they can choose to have it printed on over 150 different styles and colours of apparel, including organic t-shirts, baby clothing, American Apparel and hooded sweatshirts.”

T-Shirtmonster’s proprietary web platform empowers individuals, businesses and non-profit organizations to generate substantial income from T-Shirt sales by opening a free Gallery to upload and sell their designs. All profits from the sale of the T-Shirt go directly to the owner of the Gallery.

About Walk Now for Autism

Walk Now for Autism is North America’s largest grassroots autism walk program, taking place in communities across Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. Powered by volunteers and families with loved ones on the autism spectrum, this successful grassroots fundraising effort not only generates vital funds for autism research in Canada but also raises awareness about the increasing prevalence of autism and the need for increased research funding to combat this complex disorder. To learn more about the walks or to register, please go to www.walknowforautism.org/edmonton or www.walknowforautism.org/bc.

About T-Shirtmonster.ca

Founded in 2008 by Roland Mackintosh and Ben Duncan, T-Shirtmonster provides free tools, technology, and a user friendly Design interface for anyone wanting to create or sell custom T-shirt designs. T-Shirtmonster requires no minimum order and eliminates the need for inventory by printing apparel on demand. T-Shirtmonster provides shipping, billing and customer service so that individuals and organizations can focus on generating income through profitable, sustainable online Galleries.

James Ready beer is a premium lager at a discount price. Their marketing strategey involves cutting costs on traditional media spending, so they can continue to sell amazing beer for only a buck a bottle. ‘Share a Billboard’ allowed fans to upload photos (almost as smoothly as adding a photo in our Design Lab!) and messages to avoid paying actors/models for their billboard campaign. 100 billboards were created and die hard James Ready fans got to see themselves all over town!

James Ready beer is the beer of choice for T-Shirtmonster. We’re proud to partner with James Ready to allow fans to create their own personalized James Ready t-shirts.

Check out the James Ready Gallery to create your own custom James Ready t-shirts. Feel free to add a photo, text or artwork to make it your own. James Ready t-shirts are available at a discount price. Please use coupon code: James

Cheers!

Siberian Republic has an avid appreciation of Eastern Europe and the Cold War politics that dominated his parents generation. Travelling to places like Hungary, Slovakia and the Ukraine led to the creation of ‘Siberian Republic‘ t-shirts, which feature Soviet parody and dark humor.

“I created Tsarbucks as an obvious parody of Starbucks. The mega-rich coffee company epitomizes American capitalism. Most Americans I know are completely addicted to Starbucks, thereby making it ‘the People’s Coffee’. I felt that by twisting their logo into one that looked obviously Soviet-inspired was a very appropriate idea.”

The above t-shirt designs are taken from The Spotted Olive’s Gallery. The Spotted Olive has a great line of Earth-friendly designs, all displayed on organic t-shirts.

As every Canadian that loves hockey knows, CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada Anthem Challenge is about to be decided! T-Shirtmonster is proud to be the official supplier of “Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challenger” T-Shirts. Anthem Challenger T-Shirts are only available to Canada’s Hockey Anthem Challengers. CBC encourages all participants to customize their Anthem Challenge T-Shirt with the title of their anthem entry.

One dollar from every purchase goes toward the Hockey Night in Canada Foundation for minor hockey. To find out more, or to cast your vote, please visit http://anthemchallenge.cbc.ca/

Step 1: Registered his domain name (www.barackobamaforpm.com) specifically to gain traction with Search Engines. Canreg.com is a Canadian site that charges $29.95 for a full years registration. This is an important step if you want search engines to pick up specific key words. Try to Google “Barack Obama for PM”…you’ll notice his blog comes up #1.

Step 2: Redirected his domain name to his blog – this is so he can update content on a daily basis. Blogger.com offers this service for free. Here’s a photo from his blog:

Step 3: He contacted as many political bloggers and news reporters as possible. Getting published is a sure fire way to instantly increase your T-Shirt sales!

Step 4. He sent Reporters that were interested in his concept a FREE T-SHIRT. Nothing makes a reporters morning better than receiving a free T-Shirt and a newsworthy story!

He was published today in Vancouver 24hrs.ca

It’s a low res clip, so here’s the highlights from reporter Buzz Bishop:

“This is one of those ideas you wished you’d come up with. A few weeks ago, Sean Kane received an invitation from some UVic professors to go to an election party. But the party’s not on Oct 14 when Canadians go to the polls , it’s on Nov 4th – he’s going to a party with Canadians to watch the American results come in. That’s when Kane, an illustrator for the likes of Amazon.com, got an idea.”

“He recalled polls that had been published recently that said Canadians were more captivated by the drama and personality of the American election, than our own plodding candidates. Sean’s idea was to start a grass roots campaign: Barrack Obama for Prime Minister. The idea was not so much to get him legitimately elected, but to sell T-Shirts. In an internet age, having a money-making idea like that and getting it launched can happen instantly.”

“Sean’s idea cost him $10 for a domain name and a few hours of graphic design work. ” ‘I registered BarrackObamaforPM.com and then through the host company, I just redirected it over to Blogger for a free blog. When you have an idea for a cool .com site, you don’t need to worry about hosting and servers – you can point the registered address to any other webpage and in this case, Sean gets his cool web address and just redirected it to a free blogging site from which he could launch the Obama for PM campaign.”

“Finding a way to have the T-Shirts printed up took a little more effort. Sean didn’t want to have to buy dozens up front, he was looking for a site that would handle the fulfillment as the orders came in and just cut him in for his share of each sale. After some poking around for a Canadian operator to save cross-border shipping charges Kane landed on T-Shirtmonster.ca”

” ‘Once I had that figured out, I was off and running to Photoshop to create some content. Within five hours the site was up and it was live’ says Kane.”

“To spread the message, Sean posted a few comments on some relevant discussion boards and sent some emails to political bloggers, created a Twitter Profile and his idea went viral. The Obama for PM campaign is non-partisan; he’s taking a parodying shot at each Canadian party and re-working the logos to read Obama for Prime Minister, even oddly cropping in the heads of our leaders wearing the shirts and showing their support for Obama.”

” ‘It’s a lot of fun and if I can get people engaged in our own campaign here, maybe people who never would have thought about what’s going on in our federal election, then I’d be pretty pleased.’ ”

Congratulations to Sean Kane for his hard work! We wish him all the best this fall in his T-Shirt sales.