New Year’s Resolutions

Day343
Only 2 weeks until New Year’s Eve! This is about the time I started my store last year. My original idea was putting what you were giving up for your New Year’s Resolution on t-shirts, sweatshirts, mugs, aprons, caps, mouse pads, stamps, buttons, magnets, etc.

The store has evolved quite a bit and my New Year’s Resolution items are now just one section of the shop. But, givitup is still all about fresh starts and positive changes. Whether you are giving up a bad habit or putting on a good one it' s been proven that goals shared stick better! So show the world - it might just inspire them to make a change too!

Whether it's: regrets, excuses, or road rage, share it with others on your choice of over 90 items. givitup

Someone affiliated me!

Day17
Googled myself and found quite a few of my press releases! Then I tried givitup and got quite a scare! Saw “givitup for your New Year’s Resolution” – but someone else’s website! Apparently someone has created a blog about t-shirts on the web and he featured mine! He’s probably affiliated himself to my site – with it going through CafePress you never really know if anyone is doing that. Hope he sells!

Going nuts with gebbieinc.com

Day8
I really like the way my site looks. It is so clean and pretty! Some people really junk up their sites. I don’t think I have enough content though. Am thinking about starting to Blog. Am thinking maybe this is it!

Day9
Found gebbieinc.com and LOVE it! 24,000 media sites! I started sending emails to radio stations all over Illinois suggesting they mention the giving up/New Year’s resolution idea, but then suggesting the “no TV” to the DJs for themselves. One emailed me back that it was very cute. Did newspaper press releases all over NY and the states A through F using gebbieinc.com. I did each one individually since I didn’t want to spam anyone.

My first press release

Day 4
I sent a press release to the local papers with the "Wear Your New Year’s Resolution" theme and a lot about CaféPress in general:

"Just in time for New Year's new online shop offers you the opportunity to wear your resolution on their stylish apparel; sweatshirts, hoodies, tank tops, t-shirts, baseball caps or display it on mugs, buttons or magnets.

givitup is part of CafePress.com which won a Webby Award, the leading international honor for web sites, as the Best Retail web site of 2005 beating out other finalists: Target.com and Home Depot.

Since 1999, CafePress has empowered people to create, buy and sell customized merchandise through CafePress.com on-demand manufacturing and e-commerce services. Powering a network of more than one million independently-run CafeShops™ as well as syndicated and corporate stores, the company offers online retail services for storefront web development, order management, fulfillment, secure payment processing, and quality customer service.
Today, CafePress.com is a global and growing community of merchants who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into new revenue streams and diverse products.

Whether you are giving up caffeine, sugar, excuses, whining, snacks, guilt or a host of other things, you can tell the world with the help of www.cafepress.com/givitup "

I know of at least 2 papers that printed it.
I also made up a couple dozen flyers and put them up at grocery stores, the YMCA and the library.