Satisfaction!....or in our case some advertising.  It's unbelievable!  No wonder google's stock/profit keeps rising.  Granted, we're a small company right now but we've got the only online design center for embroidery and that's 1/3 of the market that Zazzle, Spreadshirt and Customink are going after.

I've been researching and emailing for weeks trying to find some relevent place we can advertise but haven't had any luck.  I just got a response from Spreadshirt.com that they declined our ad.  Spreadshirt offers banner advertising in-house and text ads through adbrite.com that anyone can purchase.  But, even with the most comparable product they could advertise, we were rejected.  Bummer.  I can understand.  Maybe they want to go into embroidery, maybe they don't want folks to think they're partnering with us or they feel we offer a competitive product.  Just too bad we couldn't find out why and at least open a dialog.

I also contacted Zazzle.com to see if we could advertise our offer of custom embroidered apparel but they're not interested.  I guess i need to try CafePress.com next!  Anyway, we're trying to get out our free custom hat offer out and not having much luck.  So, if you know anyone with a small business or community based content site that would like to sell advertising (without a $10,000 for the first order like Facebook.com) please have them email me at andrew@corporatecasuals.com!  thanks!

We've tried other avenues as well. I got the cold shoulder from Staples after the ad was approved and ready to run the next day! Cindy L' ecuyer emailed me that they have some super-secret deal with Awards.com and can't run our ad (again, we were happy to pay for it).  Awards.com is an online promotional products dealer waay top-heavy with fancy names on their management team and big bucks to blow.  They filed a $900 million suit against Kinkos after they severed a deal to give Awards.com space in each kinkos.  Maybe they'll only sue Staples for a 1/2 billion after someone gets smart and nixes their deal.

I also emailed a few PR firms but haven't got a reply.  So, if you know anyone in PR that deals with small companies we're interested! We're offering a Free custom Embroidered hat to anyone willing to pay $5.99 for S+H.  I can't think of a small business or group that wouldn't give us a try...so our only problem is getting the word out!  Thus we'd welcome any Satisfaction in advertising or PR!