Along with accepting daily submissions, they also offer a limited edition t-shirt for $10 each week that they curate from some very awesome artist in the community.

How it works!

Weekly Invasion
Each week they feature a new design. If you have a design you would like to feature for Weekly Invasion, please contact the art curator and well known designer Wotto directly. Do not submit.

On-Going Contest
Submit your designs to be in the running for $350. The amount of winners will vary per month. The artist also earns Invader Bucks.

Invader Bucks
Invader Bucks is the commission artist earns on their designs. $1 per shirt. Artist will be able to keep track of their commission in their profiles.

Golden Ticket
Each month they feature a prize they will be giving away. You can only win this prize if you find the “Golden Ticket” in your package. They will be randomly placing these each month in one order/package.

Visit Tee Invaders

Originated by show host Jenaé Plymale, Girl in Your Shirt began as a small project to earn some extra cash and find a fun way to market web startups by wearing swag t-shirts and spreading buzz with online social media tools for pay. However, the small project instantly turned into Internet phenomena, literally overnight. It was soon both heralded and disputed among countless web blogs, podcasts and major editorial publications world-wide. Today Girl in Your Shirt appeals greatly to web entrepeneurs and much of the startup crowd for introductions on new startups and is seen as a creative marketing tool for startup companies to be placed into the limelight.

Here is a recent episode:

For a couple of hundred dollars it can be a good way to get out the word for your brand or startup. Visit girl.inyourshirt.tv for details.

The current contest is the epic battle of GOOD vs EVIL! Who will come out on top? The only rule this week is that the design must contain an aspect of good *and* evil in it. The winner gets $500

Submit your designs, vote on your favorites, hang out, win cash & prizes and buy shirts. Visit ShirtFight

Back in Black 2 features Godmachine, Jimiyo, Hydro74, Pale Horse, Mumford, Brian Morris, 123 Klan, and like a million other insanely talented folks. It is seriously nuts this time.

The site just went up recently at
backinblackapparel.com

See what you missed last year

If you aren’t able to make it out to the show, you can still order a shirt or twelve at the site starting today!

If your in the industry or love the culture of t-shirts you need to see T-Word Magazine. It is a publication ompletely focused on T-shirt culture and every facet within. Created by and produced for T-shirts enthusiasts. It might seem a little pricey but I have a couple past issues and it is really worth the money. You can get details on obtaining the current issue here

Teextile is another one of those design communities were people submit their tshirt designs to be voted on by the community, and then printed and sold if picked as a winner. They print a new series of 5 shirts every week, and then move on to another series. each design has its sale date one day a week where its up for only $12, then its sold for 15 bucks the rest of the week.

They have some great designs and I love the clean and simple layout. A lesson in web 2.0 for the t-shirt industry.

A t-shirt search engine is a good idea and Please Dress Me has a nice web 2.0 feel and is simple and concise. It is neat way to shop, especially if you are not involved in the industry and can search out sites all day long. You can search the site by keyword, tag, price, shirt color or through randomly served up designs. There’s also a little fun area called How They Dress which profiles what shirts some web innovators like. They also giveaway some free shirts if that interests you.

A week ago my DSL went out. After 5 hours on the phone talking to no less than 16 different people it was finally understood that my service was disconnected in error. At that point is where the “great customer support” took over. Apparently, the phone company as they stated “Can Not Just Flip A Switch and Restore Service” even though that is how it got turned off in the first place. A trouble ticket was created to restore the service at this point.

The next day I received an automatic call from the phone company saying they had a service person come out and do a line check which resulted in them discovering a problem with the line. After a call back they told me the problem was that there was no DSL service on my line even though this was verified before the trouble ticket was issued.

So now a new trouble ticket was created to reconnect the service and was to be expedited. The next day I get another call telling me that after a line check on the latest trouble ticket problems were found with my line, repaired and that DSL was now working, which it still was not.

This is where it became more entertaining than frustrating. I got an older gentleman named Charlie in the technical department. Charlie was a hoot and brightened my day up a bit. After reading the voluminous information regarding my recent problems he came back with “What the hell is going on, are all this people a bunch of numbskulls.” Charlie was the only person so far that understood what was going on. My service was disconnected in error, the company sent out someone to check the line and there wasn’t service on it which was already known, a second trouble ticket was issued to do the exact same thing for the next day and there was an order now to upgrade the speed of my service.

Now as Charlie put it: Why the hell haven’t they reconnected you, why the hell did they do 2 line checks for the same thing when it was already confirmed the the service was disconnected and who was the dummy who put in an order to upgrade your speed which what the hell would matter since you don’t have service in the first place. I had a smile on my face at this point.

Charlie issued a reconnect order immediately and sent it to an office that expedites fixing these situations when the company has made a mistake. Feeling a little more confident that this would finally get resolved, Charlie and I parted ways. I wish Charlie was the person taking care of this from that point on.

The day that this was all suppose to be resolved by noon came and went. I called again and was assured that it would be done by 5pm which came and went. I called again and the technician assured me that the order was marked to be completed by 5pm and it was now 7pm. He would get in contact with the correct office and get it fixed before they closed at midnight. As you’ve probably can guess that didn’t work out.

The next day between getting online at various places, having friends and family relaying online info to me by phone and trying to keep a half dozen businesses looking like they were seamlessly operating to my customers, I plotted my options. At this point it is 24 hours from the time the service was to be reconnected.

Today, I made the arraingments to have broadband connected from a local company who will have me up and running in less than 24 hours of contacting them. Finally, after over 10 hours on the phone talking to 22 different people, I had to give up and accept the fact that the company I have done business with for 25 years was never going to get my DSL reconnected. With a solution on the way and myself accepting that the giant phone company gave up on me, I received a phone call from the phone company. Was my DSL reconnected? No, but my service had been upgraded to a higher speed.

Paul Baines, the publisher of Buy-Tees.net has put together a rather comprehensive t-shirt toolbar that includes plenty of t-shirt links to keep you updated on news, views and resources. There are one-click links to t-shirt review blogs, tons of t-shirt site newsfeeds, t-shirt resources, a chat room, and plenty more!

I took it for a test run just now and it looks like it will be useful for anyone involved in the business or a fan. Take a look for yourself, the browser addon is free, easy to install and will be constantly updated with more content.

Get it at http://buy-tees.net/t-shirt-toolbar

As part of our expanding network of sites Tee Biz has now been launched. Tee Biz is an online publication covering the t-shirt business and culture. Whether you are a designer, printer, business owner, a fan or collector, you will find a wealth of information here. From how to start and run a clothing brand to discovering the latest fashion trends. Everything is covered by experts in their respective niches and I’ll be contributing with what I have learned being a designer, printer and business owner over the last decade since the start of the internet t-shirt boom. I’ll also be publishing several upcoming books under the brand, with the first being available in a month or two entitled How To Get Lots Of Visitors To Your T-Shirt Website Without Spending A Fortune