Online Store Helps Businesses Get Their Names on the Street

April 20, 2006; 02:58 AM
Advertising is expensive and people are always looking for effective, cheap and unusual ways to get their business in front of the masses.

Online store, givitup, is set up for people to email them their URLs and they will put them on: hoodies, sweatshirts, t-shirts, mugs, hats, buttons, magnets, bumper stickers, license plate holders and even your dog's clothes. The domain address on each item is lettered in blue and underlined so it looks like a live link to your site. Owner Nancy Geiger advises business owners to think outside the box and have some fun in the process. "Most people are proud of their businesses and enjoy having a website. Showing it off is fun for them and a great advertising technique," she said, "Nowadays businesses need to market both on and offline. The general public is saturated with information and it takes a combination of variety and repeated exposure for maximum effectiveness."

Givitup also take custom requests at no extra charge. Turn around time for new design takes less then a day.

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.

givitup is located at www.givitup.com

Nancy Geiger, owner 828-324-8399 [email protected]