We are very pleased to announce that LTL Prints will be participating in the Philly Startup Leaders Entrepreneur Expo on April 2nd.

What is Entrepreneur Expo, you ask?

Philly Startup Leaders presents: The Entrepreneur Expo. To be held on April 2, 2009 from 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, at the Science Center, 3711 Market Street in Philadelphia. Over 40 entrepreneurs will display their dreams, ideas and hard work in a trade-show like setting, with a select number giving a brief presentation of their projects. The event is OPEN to the public and admission is FREE.

As a Philadelphia based start-up, we at LTL are very excited to be a part of an event that will be showcasing the exceptional talent and diversity of the Philadelphia entrepreneurial community.  So come on out and see not only what LTL Prints has to offer, but some of the other cool projects and companies that are “growing up” in Philly!  Get your free ticket here or if you are a start-up that wants to join us in showing off the amazing things being done by Philly’s start-up community, click here for more info.  Hope to see you there!

(This post brought to you by Gloria Bell on behalf of LTL Prints.  Inquiries regarding this post can be directed to gloria@ltlprints.com)

We are pleased to announce our partnership with Poptropica.com.  Poptropica is a virtual online world in which kids can travel, play games, customize their character, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely with each other.  Larger Than Life prints is now offering over-sized wall graphics made from popular Poptropica characters.  Please checkout our Poptropica catalog page and watch this short video for more information.

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Dear Internet Friends,

It is with great pleasure that we are here to announce the winners of the first ever Larger Than Life prints design competition.  Before we jump into it, everyone at LTLprints wants to sincerely thank each and every one of the designers for their submissions.  We are humbled by your creativity and vision.  Thank you!

During the past few weeks we got thousands of visitors and over 2,000 votes.  The leader changed multiple times and resources like multiple facebook fan pages were useful in helping some artists gain more exposure.  As internet junkies we love to see facebook pages (shameless plug - have you joined ours yet?)

Third place goes to Paul Hamilton with his ‘Lambo’ design. Paul wins a 3ft  (38”x24”) custom print.

Second place goes to Brett Mogavero with his Octopus design.  A 5ft print goes to you!

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First place goes to Alisa with her ‘Anchor’ design!  She receives an LTL - Larger Than Life print of her choice!  FTW!!!

We really appreciate all the submissions, voting and support. We got so much
posititve feedback that we’ll repeat pretty soon.

Stay tuned for interviews with the 3 winners why the came up with the design
and what they’ll do with their prints. Also check back to see real pics of
the winners with their images.

Congrats and thanks to all of the participants!  You guys rock!

Sincerely,

Carsten Petzold & Kendall Schoenrock
Founders, LTLprints.com - Larger Than Life prints
@LTLprints on twitter

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It won’t come as a surprise that Larger Than Life prints is a big fan of Twitter.  Since LTLprints was a smudged idea on a whiteboard we knew that customer and community interaction was a key part to the success of our company.  Recently there has been some intense debate that has taken place at the Larger Than Life prints headquarters regarding this question, “are we miss managing or under utilizing the @LTLprints twitter account?”

The debate originates with our desire to balance the increased exposure to the company, but also add value. And do so without blatantly self promoting or forcing a hard-sell. We believe the fundamental reason that twitter is powerful is that it adds value to the users.

The way that I normally solve problems like this is to investigate the ways other companies have utilized new technology. Also I seek advice and feedback from others that I respect.  One suggestion was that we should use @LTLprints account to “celebrate our company”.  This includes discussing interesting prints, designs, customers, and lastly, being open about the trials and tribulations of starting a business.  But we also want to hear from you.  How do you manage your company’s Twitter account? What specific goals have you set? How do you interact with your own private account i.e. @Schoenrock and @cpeLTLprints? What advice do you have for @LTLprints?

Update -  We are going to try out @cotweet and see how it goes!

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