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Sampan Screen Print Stronger One Year After Utica Flooding

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 14:28:21 +0000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

APRIL 20, 2012

CONTACT: ELAINE KITTRELL 812-282-8499

“We are going under.”

That was the message sent out across Facebook and Email as employees of Sampan Screen Print in Utica, IN read Ohio River flooding reports from the Army Corps of Engineers April 24 of last year.

More than 100 volunteers and 4 semi-trucks showed up within hours to help Sampan evacuate their offices and move 3 buildings full of heavy equipment to a temporary facility in Louisville.

“We had been through major flooding before in 1997, so we knew what to do,” said General Manager, Elaine Kittrell. ”Our number one concern was making sure our clients received their shirts on time.”

Employees and volunteers worked around the clock to set up a temporary shop until the waters receded and worked to rebuild their gutted buildings.

“I’m really thankful for our staff,” Kittrell said. “We’re like a family and they really came through for us and our clients.”

Kittrell said that though the company took a big financial hit from the floods, rebuilding of the facilities from scratch has helped them become more efficient and increase overall business.

“I think we’re stronger today than we were a year ago, even in the downturned economy,” Kittrell said. “We already print most of the shirts in Southern Indiana and a good number of the signs. Now we’re expanding our market share in Louisville, and nationwide sales from sampanscreenprint.com has increased significantly. That being said, we’ll be happy to wait another 20 years before another flood.”

To commemorate the flooding, Sampan Screen Print will be posting the pictures and past flood alerts to their Facebook site at http://www.facebook.com/sampanscreenprint starting April 24, 2012.

T-Shirt Quilt: Great Idea for Old T-Shirts

admin — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:20:23 +0000

This was something else that was neat from the Everyday Has a Finish Line reception. Brittany Moneymaker was auctioning off a custom quilt made of old t-shirts like the one in this picture. We noticed it first because we had printed most of the shirts on the quilt. Then we thought about what a clever idea that was for old college shirts, sports shirts and concert shirts that you never wear but would never part with. There are lots of resources online to do it yourself or services that will make a quilt for you. Pretty cool.

Everyday Has a Finish Line

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:55:04 +0000

Sampan was honored at a reception this weekend as a sponsor for Everyday Has a Finish Line — a foundation that raises awareness for Cystic Fibrosis. We have helped EDHFL build their awareness campaign with t-shirts, polo shirts, banners, wrist bands, racing jerseys, racing shorts, palm cards, display boards, restaurant check cards and car flags as they work to find a cure to this debilitating disease. Everyday Has a Finish Line has raised more than $75,000 for Cystic Fibrosis by speaking about CF and taking athletic challenges like the Iron Man. We are proud of our small part in their herculean efforts.

Photoshop Project for Valentine’s Day

admin — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:02:58 +0000

Being a creative-based company, we have lots of creative people around the shop working on little side projects. This was a fun one we wanted to share for Valentine’s Day. You can do something similar with your kids. We just googled for a high-resolution iPhone image and sized it to the Jelly Belly box we were using. In this case, we did a little advance editing in Photoshop because the Jelly Belly box proportions were a little different from a real iPhone. We added enough black to each side to wrap around the box. Just for fun, we added some little hidden items in the app icons like changing the date to February 14, making a little heart as one of the apps and putting the giver’s face in the You Tube icon. We printed them off from a color printer onto some glossy paper and cut them out. We used some necklace string from a hobby shop for the ear bud cords and Hershey Kisses as the ear buds. The assembly is a fun project to do with the kids and is a hit in the classroom. Think about something like this for next Valentine’s Day or maybe as a birthday party invitation.

T-shirts Make Great Incentives for Great Schools

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:02:32 +0000

Congratulations Thomas Jefferson Elementary for becoming a 4-Star School. Only 162 of 1780 eligible Indiana schools received this honor. Each child at TJ received a 4-Star T-Shirt printed by Sampan. Custom Tees make a great student reward or incentive.

Marketing Tips Blog

admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:52:17 +0000

In the course of printing t-shirts, designing mail, and suggesting promotional products for thousands of customers over the years, we’ve collected a fair bit of knowledge on what works and what doesn’t in the marketing world. Sampan Screen Printing has been around for a long time — since 1979 to be exact. So for more than 30 years, we’ve been helping the marketing efforts of businesses, schools, churches, political campaigns, non profits, fraternities, sororities, sports teams, and every type of family reunion or 5k run imaginable. We’ve noted what fundraisers made money and which ones didn’t do so well. We’ve paid close attention to the public relations or recruitment successes of clients using our marketing products. We’ve paid such close attention that we have compiled a long list of helpful marketing tips.

We always try to steer our clients toward success, but sometimes we feel like we need to help them at an earlier stage in their planning process — before the decision is made to order shirts or signs or promotional materials. To that end, we are starting this marketing tips blog. A lot of our posts will be related to items we print here, but we plan on mixing in a healthy dose of general marketing advice and online marketing advice. We believe that the more successful you are, the more likely it is you will come back and use our services.

We also plan on posting advice for specific client group activities like festival season for political campaigns, formal rush for sororities, booster fundraisers for sports teams or vacation bible school for churches. We hope you enjoy our posts and let us know if you find them helpful. Thanks for visiting!