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Funny T-Shirts, and a relatively funny blog
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Rizzo Tees has one employee - me. My name is Chris, and I operate Rizzo Tees out of my basement (henceforth known as "Rizzo World HQ" or "ManLand"). I have a full-time job, so I work on Rizzo Tees at night. I print, pick, pack, and ship your order myself. I have four industrial shelves filled with 1,400+ shirts. My basement can hold a whole lot more shelving units, and my goal is to grow the business but never grow it out of my basement. I operate the whole business by myself on a MacBook Pro and a couple of printers.
I lied - I do have a little help. I use a local screenprinting company to print all of my shirts, I have a few graphic designers help me vectorize my ideas, and a local web design company built and maintains my site. And my wife sprinkles in the occasional brilliant tee idea.
I sank quite a bit of money into starting Rizzo Tees. But why? Alot of random thoughts pass across my brain (San Francisco has a Chinatown, does Beijing have an AmericaTown?). These ideas are what I think about day-to-day, and I wanted to be able to wear them around. I ended up buying myself some Busted and Snorg shirts for my birthday back in 2007, and realized that my ideas would fit on t-shirts. I learned alot by checking out other t-shirt sites, but these shirts are for the most part my own ideas. When they're not, I've put my own twist on them (like the Home Run King's "756" shirt but with syringes making the asterisk). I have another 500 shirt ideas in the queue, which means I think about t-shirts all the time!
Where did the name Rizzo come from? Honestly, the name appeared before me in a dream, as if some sort of Italian branding apparition. And that's all I needed!
I love interacting with people - customers, people on Twitter, Facebook, blogs. That makes this a very fun business to be in - email me, find me on Twitter and Facebook - talk to me, tell me what's on your mind. The more people I get to "meet," the better. I hope to put alot of shirts on alot of people's backs, but I hope I never have to hire anyone - it's fun being on my own.
Peace to all of you.
Chris
Founder, Rizzo Tees
HARO has a great St. Louis Food PR opportunity
HERE'S THE POSTING, STRAIGHT FROM THIS MORNING'S HELPAREPORTER.COM EMAIL - LET'S GET THE WORD OUT!:
31)Summary: St Louis foodName: Mark EllwoodCategory: LifestyleEmail: mark.ellwood@gmail.com Media Outlet: www.aol.comDeadline: 05:12pm - 03 DecemberQuery:I'm working on the latest installment of the ongoing food-travel series, X
Marks The Spot, for AOLs new Food Culture channel (For an example of the
format, the first installment is already live at
http://www.slashfood.com/2009/09/15/x-marks-the-spot-rhode-island/)
The series focuses on local food -- the treats/traditions/quirks that are
specific to a given area and intriguing to anyone else. The next area
were highlighting is St Louis. Its an intriguing area for one
thing, in one short summer here during the Worlds Fair of 1904, the city
helped introduce not just crunchy ice cones to the world, but peanut
butter, the hot dog, Dr Pepper, iced tea and candy floss too (so if any
city can lay claim to being the capital of the Fast Food Nation, then
its St Louis) Ted Drewes is a local institution for its frozen custards
and would be another brand wed spotlight here.
For this story, I'm looking for two things: 1) Additional suggestions of St Louis-area foods
to feature: either preparations ingredients or recipes or food brands that
started in the area. Of course, the quirkier the better. 2) Potential
experts who can comment on the areas food scene, to talk about what
makes it so special and why it's developed. I'd love to find food
historians or recipe testers/developers who can discuss this in detail.
The story will go live in late December.
Please mark subject line:
ST LOUIS FOOD
No need to follow up on any pitch - apologies in advance
that I can't get back to everyone, but will definitely be in touch if I
need more info; I promise I do read each and every pitch in full.
Rumplo is a Complete Mess
Let's break this down:
but will not accept this tee, "Your Blog Has Zero Readers" from Rizzo Tees?
My tee is 100 times more witty, and I'm a small independent....... I don't think I have to tell you that THIS SUCKS!
Rizzo Tees in a iTouchiPodz Product Review
Thanks to the YouTube reviewer iTouchiPodz for sporting my tee and leading off the video review with it. And big thanks to RadTech for sending my tee along in their package to iTouchiPodz. I think Oh Snap! was lookin pretty good in the video!
"I Survived Swine '09" - updated version
What I've done here:
1. Dropped the vintage fading look - it just wasn't working for me
2. Made the shadow on the letters more white
3. Darker background - this is going to go on an American Apparel tee color called "Asphalt"
Any thoughts?
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