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OPEN THEME SEPTEMBER 1 shoutOut on 25/8/11 by DuncanBoxie in wordUp

on 30/9/11 by helainehalpern

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Corporate printing - Running Cheaper than therapy shoutOut on 29/9/11 by DuncanBoxie in wordUp

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On your marks…get set…GO!!!

No matter what kind of corporate printing solution you need, Springleap is here to help you out!

We had to pull off an emergency printing solution for a contact that was running the Cape Town Marathon with three of her friends.

This was not going to be your average screen-printing job, because the client needed us to print onto their synthetic performance New Balance running tees, which he running group were going to compete in. This meant that traditional methods would not suffice and in-fact would make the print look absolutely terrible.

The solution - we would use a special vinyl printing method, which because this was a 1 colour job, would be perfect for the situation.

This was a smaller print run that we are accustomed to making, but hey, we didn’t want to leave them out in the cold and end up having to deal with some other substandard crew.
Springleap…TO THE RESCUE!

We absolutely love the concept behind their design. The design reads: Running – Cheaper than therapy.
That is absolutely classic, so clever and appropriate for their running club.
We tend to agree! There is nothing more uplifting than having a good run. Whether it be a jog along the Sea Point promenade, or accomplishing a full on marathon, there are few things that get the blood pumping and chase away all your negativity, quite like a run.

We are delighted to say that not only were the tees a complete success, but the clients running club also managed to finish the 42km run in less than 5 hours, which qualifies them for their ultimate goal, the Comrades Marathon.

Congratulations to the team!

Check out this great feedback from the client:
All four of us are very happy with the shirts! Thanks again!
I'm telling you, it's already started a "I-also-want-one" buzz. I'm certain that this is just the start of it!

We love to hear this kind of thing from our clients :)

If you would like to find out more, please take a look at our corporate printing page.

Positive Heroes designs - Time to vote shoutOut on 5/9/11 by DuncanBoxie in wordUp

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Hi there one and all,

The Positive Heroes submissions have been coming through thick and fast, with plenty of serious design talent to choose from.

We have already had quite a few designs come through from some of our more ‘well known’ designers. NEN101, Dewedhe, BarmalisiRTB and UncleHani have all subbed some really cool stuff, which I’m sure you are going to like. We even have Springleap veterans such as VickyLee who are back with some great work.

Please remember that voting has already begun!
So you can check out all the amazing designs, which have come through thus far and show your favourites some love by voting them up.
CLICK HERE TO GET VOTING :)

This may also help other designers to better understand what exactly Positive Heroes are looking for in their winning design.

We are still accepting submissions up until 03 October.
You are allowed to submit up to 5 designs. So even if you have sent through a design you are more than entitled to send in a few more and increase your chances of winning.
CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT

You may notice that the closing date for designs has been extended slightly. This is due to the date of the Positive Heroes fashion show being moved by a week.

We hope that this does not inconvenience you in any way. In fact it should give you more time to come up with the perfect concept and send through some submissions.

With a crazy awesome US$1250 grand prize, there is no way you can afford to not get involved in this awesome competition.

This truly is a competition theme with a conscience.
The designs that have come through have had such a strong message of togetherness and encouragement for those afflicted by HIV.

Thanks to everybody who has submitted to Positive Heroes. It really is great to see so many designers taking an interest in this fantastic theme and wanting to spread the word about Positive Heroes. We applaud the work you have all done, well done!!

We can’t wait to see more of your designs coming through.
Good luck to all the designers taking part!

Choose our new hoodie design - WIN shoutOut on 2/9/11 by DuncanBoxie in wordUp

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OPEN THEME AUGUST 2 shoutOut on 4/8/11 by DuncanBoxie in wordUp

on 30/8/11 by charmainrackham

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TOP 10 Marketing and Social Media tips for Designers shoutOut on 11/8/10 by amyabrahams in wordUp

on 30/8/11 by charmainrackham

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Before we get started, have you used the Springleap share bar??

Tip #1

Email your friends and ask them to vote on your design

- Attach the image of your design in your e-mail – tell a story underneath and give people a call to action!
-If they’re not a Springleap.com member tell them to register and provide the link:
http://www.springleap.com/register

-Give them easy directions where to vote for your design by providing the link to the voting page:

http://www.springleap.com/designs/vote

-Include the closing date for the voting process
-Add your own personal note

Tip #2

Make use of your Facebook page

-Upload your design to your Facebook page and ask friends to comment on it. This way you can hear their feedback firsthand.
-Add the link of your design on the Springleap voting page

Example: http://www.springleap.com/designs/view/my-design

-Tag your friends in your design so it comes up on their profiles too
-Send your friends to your profile page
-If you’re really serious about designing, create a fanpage for your work and get as many people involved as possible. Be creative!

Tip #3

Social media groups

-Create groups or write blog postings on various sites about your design
-Network with different types of people to gain maximium exposure for your design

Here are some networking sites you can make use of:

Blogger
Delicious
Digg
Friendfeed
Google Buzz
LinkedIn
MySpace
Netfriendships
Ning
Stumbleupon
Secondlife
Reddit
Yelp
Tumblr

Tip #4

Upload your design to photo sharing sites

Photo sharing is the publishing or transfer of a user’s digital photos online, thus enabling the user has to share them with others (publicly or privately). This can be loosely applied to the use of online galleries that are setup and managed by individual users, including photoblogs.

Here is a list to get you started, remember to include the link to your design on the Springleap website and the caption “VOTE FOR THIS ON SPRINGLEAP”

Flickr
Fotolog
My Opera
Picli
Zoomr
Fotoki
Linkinn
Photobucket
Tagmee

Tip #5

Get onto an existing blog

-Send the administrator a quick email about yourself and your design
-Be sure to include:
1. An image of your design
2. A link to your design on Springleap.com
(include the name of the competition you entered)
3. All the important competition dates

You can also target blogs dedicated solely to t-shirts.

Here’s a list of a few:

T-shirt review
Print Liberation
Busted Tees
T-shirt Legends
Shirts on sale
T-shirt Casserole
T-shirt Advocate
T-addict
Pop culture Tees
Cottonable
T-shirt Talk

If this isn’t enough for you here’s a list of blog directories. You’ll find thousands of sites where you can submit your design to and ask them to do a write up about it.

Blogorama
Top rank blog
Blog catalog
Bloggapedia
Bloggingfusion

You can also try sites like:
iFashion
iMod
2oceansvibe
SA Rocks

Tip #6

Tweet about your design

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets).

If you don’t already have a Twitter account, you can join and ask a whole lot of people to follow you, send out a message with a link to your design on Springleap.com, asking people to vote for your design
OR
If you know somebody else that is already on Twitter, ask them to tweet your design for you!

Tip #7

Social Bookmarks

Social bookmarking allows internet users to store, organize, search and manage their favourite web pages on the Internet. Users save links they want to remember and/or share with specified people or groups.

Check out some of the sites below, tag your design and say vote for this. Ask your friends to do it too, the more people that tag your design the higher it will be ranked.

Backflip
Delicious
My Bbookmarks
Chipmark
Zurpy

Tip #8

Be creative – upload a video

-All you need is your phone or a digital camera to get crazy and creative by
-Find some inspiration and make your own funny catchy video
-Post it on Facebook and Springleap.com’s website.

Here are some popular video sites on the web – you’ll be able to use them to find all sorts of free videos, movies, and documentaries, as well as short films and viral videos.

Zoopy
MySpace Videos
LiveLeak
Break
Daily Motion
Metacafe
YouTube
Video Sift
MegaVideo
Yahoo Video

Tip #9

Keep trying and designing

Carry on designing, submitting and sharing your work on the Internet and amongst friends and family!

Tip #10

Keep your profile page updated and comment

Springleap is a place where people come to discover amazing designers – so take good care of your profile page –show it some love! This is where people get to see your work. Post links, add your facebook details, stay current and comment a lot.

Commenting and keeping your profile current makes for great content and engagement. It’s the perfect way to discuss, learn and share.

GOOD LUCK!

The Springleap.com Team

Corporate and Promotional Printing shoutOut on 11/8/10 by amyabrahams in wordUp

on 30/8/11 by charmainrackham

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Springleap.com is all about supplying T-shirts and other new and exciting products that don’t compromise on quality on any level.

When it comes to quality, Springleap strives to always stay ahead of the pack.If your organization requires promotional printing on the highest quality T-shirts, then you have come to the right place!

Springleap.com specializes in providing finished products that live up to the very highest standards that you have come to expect from us. Whatever your requirement is, whether it be corporate, brand or promotional printing, Springleap has everything you need and more.

We provide a range of services from helping you source the designs you require, to printing to a finished product. It’s the kind of garment that people love to wear day-in, day-out.

Our t-shirts are amazingly comfortable 145g pre-shrunk shaped/fitted Combed Cotton garments with a contrasting backneck binding. We produce at a minimum of Woolworths certification and quality to ensure that the garments look and feel incredible.

Take a look at this awesome example of our corporate printing on the CA Global team t-shirts below.

Why print on a garment that no-one wants to wear? Why besmirch your brand with low quality products and associations? Why take the risk that the garment will look like a mess or deal with the hassles?

Springleap provide corporate garments to a variety of top-end brands ranging from Apple, AMD (International), WooTHemes, Saatchi Saatchi, Jupiter Drawing Room, Truth Coffee and more.

If you would like to see more examples of our amazing corporate designs, please CLICK HERE

To find out how we can help you bring your promotional and corporate printing requirements to life, contact us by going to our CONTACT US page

We look forward to hearing from you!

Hi Claire

Thanks for your enquiry. Please drop me a line with your artwork and proposed quantities so that I can take a look and give you an accurate quote. catherine (at) springleap (dot) com. Look forward to hearing from you!

shoutBack on 21/6/11 by CathRon

Hi ,

please can you send me a quote to have my a t-shirt printed with a vegetable growing theme and my company logo.

Thanks
Claire – Reel Gardening

shoutBack on 21/6/11 by clairereelgardening

Hi there Matsika.

If you can please get hold of Catherine at: catherine@springleap.com

She will assist you in your inquiry :)

Please let her know quantities and supply the image that needs printing.

Have a great one!

shoutBack on 7/12/10 by DuncanBoxie

Hi, i have some designs that i would like you guys to put on some of your great blank t-shirts. how much would it cost and how long would it take. what other information would you need? thanks.

shoutBack on 3/12/10 by matsika

Tutorials and advice for designers shoutOut on 25/8/10 by amyabrahams in wordUp

on 30/8/11 by hollyhomola

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JOBS @ SPRINGLEAP!! shoutOut on 12/8/10 by amyabrahams in wordUp

on 30/8/11 by hollyhomola

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Questions shoutOut on 7/4/08 by Eric in wordUp

on 30/8/11 by helainehalpern

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So you’ve registered, but you’re having trouble with something – ANYTHING?

This is the place to ask…

Do you want to know how to upload a design into the competition?

Or where to start a new blog post?

Or if anything isn’t working the way you think it should?

ASK

Hi Hayley

Welcome! Really excited to see your submissions.

We screen-print all our designs, and each colour is mixed to a specific pantone, and a different screen is used for each colour. Therefore, if you create a beautiful design in 5 different shades of yellow (as an example), each shade would be classified as a separate colour, as yellow 1 may need more white than yellow 2, and then yellow 3 would need a spot of red, etc,, etc.

I hope that helps, otherwise chat to duncan [at] springleap [dot] com for more advice! :)

Happy designing

Catherine

shoutBack on 24/8/11 by CathRon

I want to design a t-shirt and I wanted to ask you about the 7 colours that we are allowed. Are different shades of a colour considered as different colours? what do you mean by unique?

Hayley

shoutBack on 24/8/11 by Animix

Hi Katie

You are very welcome to swap. Please mail lester (at) springleap (dot) com and he will arrange this with you.

shoutBack on 26/7/11 by CathRon

I apologise. I just realised that the t-shirts i recieved with the wrong sizing are the NEXT generation sizing t-shirts.I measured the t-shirts i wanted thinking they were the old sizing. Can i return the t-shirts and get the correct sizes?
Regards, Katie

shoutBack on 25/7/11 by katie77r

Hi there,
I recieved 5 T-shirts today as part of a Groupon deal. My boyfriend and i measured our required sizes exactly and my t-shirt is 2 sizes too small and his are way too large. We did use your measurement guide but this wasn’t accurate at all. Can we return our t-shirts for different sizes?
Regards,
Katie

shoutBack on 25/7/11 by katie77r

Hi @katie77r
Apologies for your frustrations. We do have some new designs in stock, but it takes time to get all the designs printed.

Are the t-shirts that you want sold out or still being printed? If they are sold out, then there is no guarantee that we will reprint them in the near future. Requesting a reprint does not automatically mean that it will be reprinted. However, if you like some of the t-shirts still to be printed, then you can already pre-buy them with your voucher, and you will be notified as soon as they are printed and ready for collection/shipping.

Please email maike[at]springleap.com directly with the designs that you want so that we can see what we can do for you.

shoutBack on 22/7/11 by Maike

Hi there,
I wrote to you about 2 weeks ago asking if there would be more stock of your t-shirts. I was assured there would be. I bought a Groupon allowing me to buy 5 t-shirts of my choice. The problem is time is running out (for me to redeem my Groupon) and all the t-shirts i want are still out of stock. I have requested the t-shirts i want countless times and this makes no difference. I will not buy t-shirts i don’t want, this is unacceptable, i want to place my order and still can’t. I feel i have wasted over R500 on a Groupon i can’t even use, please fix this problem!
Not Happy!!

shoutBack on 21/7/11 by katie77r

Hi there Kimstone :)
Perhaps this tutorial will help.
Let me know how things go!

shoutBack on 18/7/11 by DuncanBoxie

Hi, I’m a complete klutz when it comes to resizing designs. I’m using cs5 photoshop and when I try to resize, the designs look tiny as jpegs. Can anyone give me a step-by-step guide to size the images correctly.

Many thanks
Kim

shoutBack on 18/7/11 by kimstone

Hi Koncept, please email duncan (at) springleap (dot) com. He can assist you with turning your notifications off to stop receiving comments on blogs you have commenetd on.
Hi Groupon supporters, we are so sorry for the stock issues and want to do all we can to make your experience positive. Due to excess traffic, our stock system has a few bugs, so if you email marketing (at) springleap (dot) com with your wish-list (design and size), we can advise if we do indeed have stock and / or whether it is on a reprint list.

shoutBack on 12/7/11 by CathRon

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Hi there one and all,

It’s time to choose!