MySpace pays off!

I have been adding, adding, and adding friends to our MySpace profile. I have spent hours at it, and it has quickly paid off! One of our friends from the other side of the country ordered two tank tops and a bag! We were so excited to see that this way of reaching people wasn't a waste of our time. Now, people from across the US will see a beautiful woman sporting our products! Hopefully, more orders will follow!

Cheers,
Jennifer and Sarah

http://www.mindbodynspirits.com

Mind Body 'N Spirits is on MySpace

We just put up a profile on MySpace! We are using any means possible to get the word out - and what better way than making friends with various people on MySpace? It is time-consuming, for sure - to do search after search for women who might be interested in our site, but it is all free and has become a fun challenge to see how many friends we can find. We are up to 40 friends and we put the page up four days ago. So, if your aren't friends with us yet - please add us ASAP.

Cheers,
Jennifer and Sarah
http://www.mindbodynspirits.com

Our Screen Printing Adventures!

Hello everyone! Jennifer just informed me that she has out blogged me 16 to zero. Guess it is my time to get writing.

We were just talking about our screen printing experiences. We started our search with Logo Loc in Manchester. We were so excited about a company so close by and with all the things we were looking for. We arrived at our appointment ready to go. After just minutes we were totally put off by the sales rep that we were meeting with. He talked non-stop, entered conversations that were not appropriate, and then made big promises! We were promised information by the next day and it never came, we made several attempts by calling for information with no avail. Needless to say, Logo Loc didn't happen.

Our next stop was another local screen printer in Milford. They were very friendly and happy to serve us. We were off to a good start. We placed our first order and were anxious to get our first shirts. The only flaw with this company was with the sewing of our special labels. The turn around time also developed into a problem, so it was on to the next company.

Finally, our third attempt turned out to be our best! Blue Dolphin in Sommersworth was friendly, happy to meet our requests, and had the ability to sew our labels. We have been very happy and look forward to continuing our business with Blue Dolphin.

catalog???

We were recently contacted by a catalog company that was interested in possibly carrying one of our shirts. We are so excited to put together our sample and send it off for their review. If we make it in the catalog we should hear from them in September. They are looking to have one of our designs exclusively for their catalog - which can be found both online and via the mail to people's homes. This would be huge exposure for us since we mainly reach women in New Hampshire. We will keep you posted if, and when, we hear from them. Cross your fingers for us.

Cheers,
Jennifer and Sarah

http://www.mindbodynspirits.com

The Bedford Bulletin

We were recently featured in the Bedford Bulletin! The newspaper highlighted our artist Dana for adding her artistic flare to our designs. Our photo was in the paper as well. Very exciting for us to be seen again in black and white. Under our photo, they mentioned that you can find our shirts online, at Bedford Custom Baskets, and at the New England Velodrome. They forgot to mention that you can also purchase our shirts at J.M. Princewell on the oval in Milford. Unfortunately, when we send out our press release we have no control of how they edit our information. We are just lucky that we did get in the paper.

Cheers,
Jennifer and Sarah

http://www.mindbodynspirits.com

Sold Out!

Our most popular shirt, the Jarah in raspberry, is all sold out. We weren't planning on ordering the shirt in that color until our friend, Molly, saw our sample shirts and said, "I would buy one in this color." I thought, "Well I know I will get at least one sale if we order the shirt in raspberry." So we ordered 24 raspberry Jarahs and yesterday we sold the very last one. We will be ordering more, since she is such a hot seller, but we might wait until after we order our next design which is the "Vodka on the Rocks" - which you can see on the "Coming Soon" page of our website. You can also cast your vote for the next design to come out after we have "Vodka" completed- we have two posted on the site and dozens more in the idea box waiting to be sketched up. Check us out and see what will be the next design to become sold out!

Cheers,
Jennifer and Sarah

http://www.mindbodynspirits.com

Our artist

I just wanted to write a blog about our artist, Dana. She has been working for us for practically nothing and we could not have done our business thus far without her. Her drawings are so fun and they really capture the vision Sarah and I have for each shirt design. She does several drafts of each design until we get the image perfect. We would like to thank her for all the time she has spent, and we are hoping to cut her another check soon for a small portion of the money we owe her! So help us out and spread the word - the more shirts we sell, the more able we will become to pay her! Dana also has a website - if you would like to see her other pieces of artwork - www.ABreathofFreshArt.com

Cheers,
Jennifer and Sarah

http://www.mindbodynspirits.com