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Whoops, it’s mostway through 2009

Jake — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:52:59 +0000

0. Intro

Oh boy. it has been like 40 years since our last update, so we have lots of news. Well, three news. Now we sell stickers, have more designs, and you can track your orders online.

1. Stickers

A lot of people have said they want to buy stickers AND magnets. Now you can. Our stickers are like the magnets but stickier. Same high quality, indoor/outdoor grade material. We are so very proud. If you want a sticker, just create your design and when you are all done you can choose if you want it to be made of magnets or stickers! They cost the same as the magnets, so it’s really up to you. Yeah!

2. Track your order, find your old designs

Tired of emailing us to find out why your order is taking like five weeks? Now you can track your order through our website. It will tell you pretty much the same thing we do, but without the pleases, thank you’s, or apologies. Computers have hearts of steel. Create your account here and you can also look up your old designs. Just be sure to use the same email address you did when you placed your order. Right!

3. We have some new designs

We have some pretty neat new designs
with hearts
and pink camoflauge
and dress uniforms
and stars
and puzzle pieces
and stuff
You can look at them.

4. Outro

So that’s pretty much it. We will be back next month (5% chance) or before winter (80% chance) with something interesting to say (0% chance) next time. By the way, not to make this awkward, but we miss you.

With warmest regards,
Jake
Support Our Ribbons

Free Shipping for the Holidays

Administrator — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 04:36:27 +0000

ECONOMIC MEGA CATASTROPHE

Well, as you have probably heard by now, we are in the middle of an economic mega catastrophe three thousand times worse than the Great Depression. Ford and GM are moments away from driving their factories into the ocean, and the banks are — once again — using dollar bills for kindling. The economy’s lone hope is massive alien government intervention in our economy, and we have to ask ourselves if we are ready for anti-grav powered cars and ray-gun revolvers. Support Our Ribbons, for one, welcomes our new ET economic overlords. To celebrate their impending takeover, we are offering our customers FREE PICTURES on their ribbons, CUSTOM COLORS in any of our ribbons, and SUBSERVIENT ACQUIESCENCE after the alien takeover.

FREE PICTURES

As you may know, you can customize our ribbons with your own pictures for only a dollar. This is an incredible value. But you know what is an even better value than one dollar? FREE. Just enter the coupon code ‘freeimages08′ after you have added something to your shopping cart, and you can pay ZERO MORE DOLLARS and get images on all your ribbons! Start designing your ribbons now.

CUSTOM COLORS

After a massive investment in infrastructure and new technologies, we are proud to offer CUSTOM COLORS on all of our products. You can now get our designs in any colors you want. Love chartreuse but think our yellow-green ribbon is more green-yellow? Just use our online design tool to get the exact color you want. Start designing your magnets now.

SUBSERVIENT ACQUIESCENCE

As a part of our commitment to Really Good Customer Service, we are humbled to offer SUBSERVIENT ACQUIESCENCE (boy that is hard to type) to ALL ALIEN SPECIES who help “levitate” us out of our current economic quagmire. Until they arrive, we will continue to offer POLITE, possibly HELPFUL, and definitely PERSONAL service to anyone who wants it. We promise to actually READ your emails and THINK about our response to you! Hooray!!

Irrationally Optimistically,
Support Our Ribbons

Super Secret Blog Post

Jake — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:28:51 +0000

Psst. Hey. Shhh.

Hey there. Glad we got your attention. We probably shouldn’t be telling you this, but we have secretly added some things to our web site. What? It was stupid of us to make these changes without telling anyone? Oh. Man. I might not have put it so bluntly. But yeah. It was dumb. Anyway, we figure it’s too late now, so let’s keep the cat in the bag. So you need to swear secrecy on what we’re about to tell you. Give us your pinkie. Yes, that pinkie. OK.

Super Secret #1: Images on Ribbons

Our Magnet Scientists have been working their ferrous buns off on this for the past six months or so and they have finally done it: images on magnets. You can now upload your photo to our web site and add it to any of our ribbon designs. It costs $1.00 more to get a ribbon with your picture on it. We hope you agree that this is a pretty fantastic value.

Super Secret #2: Mini Magnets, Mega Magnets

These same rust-colored scientists did not stop with images. In response to a massive outpouring of requests, we have added a new size: Mini-magnets, perfect for your fridge or your 2-seater. We have also expanded Mega magnets to our oval shape. This means that all shapes (ribbon, oval, bumper) are now available in all sizes (mini, regular, mega). But shhh!

Super Secret #3: [REDACTED]

About six months ago, a small [REDACTED] crash-landed behind the magnet factory. We went out to investigate and discovered [REDACTED] [REDACTED] [REDACTED]! We were as shocked as you. If you have ever had a similar experience, especially one involving [REDACTED] or [REDACTED], please let us know.

Secretly,
Support Our Ribbons

Feeling charitable?

Chris — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:04:53 +0000

How about supporting our troops, veterans, and their families by helping them get in contact with their loved ones this holiday season? Two great charities supply active military personnel and hospitalized veterans with pre-paid calling cards, and they need your help.

Operation Uplink and Cell Phones for Soldiers are two worthy causes you should considering supporting today.

Donate to Operation Uplink here.

Donate to Cell Phones for Soldiers:
Old phones
Money

Happy holidays and best wishes for a new year!

Mom was right: You’re gonna poke your eye out with that.

Chris — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:59:49 +0000

The folks at Prevent Blindness America are working hard to bring awareness to the issue of toy safety. ThatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s why they have declared December Safe Toys and Gifts Month. Nearly a quarter of a million kids end up in emergency rooms each year and 7,820 of these injuries are eye related. Lets stay safe this holiday season. You can learn more about toy safety here.

Speaking of toy safety, thereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a lot of concern this year about lead and other dangerous materials in toys being manufactured overseas. HereÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s a pretty extensive list of American toy companies and manufacturers you can turn to when looking to find the perfect holiday gift thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s made right here in the USA.

Speaking of Made in America, all of Supportourribbon’s custom magnets are printed and cut right in the land of the red, white and blue!

Like buying American made?

Spread the word, check out this ribbon!

Three Great Causes for November

Chris — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 23:28:24 +0000

November is well under its way, but its never to late to learn about worthy causes. Did you know that November is American Diabetes, Lung Cancer and Alzheimer’s Awareness month? These diseases affect 6.9 million Americans. Check out these ribbons in support of these worthwhile causes.

Diabetes Awareness
No One Deserves Lung Cancer!
Support Alzheimer Research

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Jake — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 02:42:06 +0000

Hello.

October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We are, respectfully, offering a 10% off coupon for all pink ribbon magnets and cancer awareness magnets. The coupon code is ‘bca07‘.

You may browse breast cancer awareness magnets or personalize your own.

Please contact us if you have any questions or if we can help you with a custom design. Once again, the coupon code for Breast Cancer Awareness Month is ‘bca07‘, and you can see some ideas here.

If a web site falls in the forest. Haiku reactions to our broken web site

Jake — Wed, 30 May 2007 16:24:16 +0000

Our web site went away over Memorial day weekend. DUH. In response, and as either a form of apology or continued torture, we present these Haiku in response:

1.
Support Our Ribbons?
No way, bandwidth exceeded.
A butterfly cries.

2.
The ribbons are gone
on busiest day of year.
What were we thinking?

3.
Empty Myspace page.
No one knows who you support.
Oops! that was our fault.

If you would like to contribute, we will take the best haiku from the comments below and post them.

Have we said, “Thank you?”

Jake — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 03:18:14 +0000

Support Our Ribbons is a small company — six individuals — and we owe a huge debt to our loyal customers. Word-of-mouth drives our growth, and word-of-mouth comes from our customers. We have been looking for a way to show our appreciation for all the help you have given us, and with that in mind we would like to announce SOR Affiliates as our way of saying, "Thank you."

SOR Affiliates is our affiliate rewards program and it works quite simply:

Your friend enters your email address when they check out.
For every two orders you refer, you get one free custom magnet.

Heard enough? Sign up now or read more about the program.

If you sign up during our launch period, we will credit your account with one free referral. That means if you refer one order, you will get a custom magnet.

We hope SOR Affiliates, with its frighteningly generous one free magnet for every two referrals, demonstrates our sincere thanks for your business. If you have any questions or suggestions about this program, please contact us or email info@supportourribbons.com.

Join SOR Affiliates here or learn about SOR Affiliates here.

New Military Templates

Administrator — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:28:51 +0000

Check out the new military templates for ribbons and bumper magnets.

Navy, Army, Air Force and Marines
Check em out