I haven't really gotten a chance to blog/talk about Las Vegas. Crooked Monkey Funny t-shirts took quite a large booth this time at the tradeshow out there. It was twice the size of last year's booth, and it really helped increase our Wholesale Funny t-shirt customer base. We got it into a slew of new stores and introduced our fall line. We've got a great picture of Ben wearing our I recyle boys t-shirt.

If you'll notice in that picture my tri's look pretty big. Well there's two way to grow those babies. You can either spend time in the gym or wear smaller shirts. I've chosen the latter.

Back to the topic at hand. Tipping in Las Vegas. It's such a ridiculous "custom" in Las Vegas. Every single person in the entire city expects hand outs. My brother and I played a little game where we tallied up all the tips that we were expected to give in a day. I also had a pocket in my wallet that was dedicated to tips--I figured I needed about $50 in singles a day to satiate the Las Vegas obssession with tipping. At the end of my trip I was giving bills to anyone walking within a five foot radius--lest I upset someone for not being forthcoming in offering tips.

Next year, instead of handing out tips, I'm going to hand out our "I do it for the tips" t-shirt. Maybe that'll cheer them up.

Labels: Las Vegas, Life stories, Tradeshows, wholesale

Over the last week we've had some issues with our processing center and we've been working tirelessly to get it back up and running so that people can finally enjoy their C monkey funny t-shirts.

It's been pretty annoying dealing with it--we've had to switch over merchant services and jump through hoops just to get back up and running.

Customer service is real important to us so we contacted each and every individual who tried to order one of our funny t-shirts over the last week. We emailed them with a discount code apologizing for our issues and offered 20% off their order.

So thanks to BB&T for getting everything finalized. I'm pretty psyched. Now that we're at the top of page 2 for Funny t-shirts, we're getting a bunch more orders and we can finally process them. Our wholesale customers of funny t-shirts are also now back on track--thank god!

Labels: customer service, thank god, wholesale