Kevin Baumgart, VP of Business Development at Hireology stops by to chat on how he grew a sales organization from scratch. Kevin offers tips to help print shops find, hire, train and create a successful sales department. Transcript Bruce: Hello, everybody. This is...
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Scheduling, quoting, approvals, payments, customer communication, automation and more. With Printavo, you’ll work smarter–not harder.
When should I hire my first employee?
You should consider hiring your employee after carefully addressing a few key aspects of your business. First off can you afford it? Can you keep them busy or will you have to lay them off when it is slow? It is important to think about the livelihood of the employee....
How Losing His Job Turned into a 25 Employee, Live Printing Machine
Max Hellmann from Family Industries tells us how he created a 7 figure printing business with 25 employees and 2 automatic presses. How he was able to hire with little revenue Providing outstanding customer support Buying the first automatic press Transcript...
How To Take Advantage of Your First 60,000 Shirt Order
In this episode we hear Justin Moore talk about how he grew Barrel Maker Printing over 8 years to now having over 18 employees and 3 automatic presses. Justin will touch on what helped them grew, moving to a new location, hiring and keeping your team happy. ...
Join Us – PrintovationConf 2017!
PrintovationConf is Chicago's first full day conference focused on the printing industry. PrintovationConf 2017 is the first annual conference for the decorated apparel industry organized by Printavo. This conference will provide a unique opportunity to grow, develop...
A Fresh Printavo Redesign & More Functionality
On Thursday, March 29, you will see a new look to Printavo when logging in. We updated our interface to increase simplicity, combine similar features & give room for future improvements. Important improvements to note: A sales tax field will be added...
When Should I Hire My First Employee
We know you are there. Sweating the details of every facet of your business because you are the sole employee. Lead salesperson, chief designer, and CEO of your budding empire. But what once looked like it just might be a part time gig, has now...
The Story Behind Ryonet – Leadership, Persistence & Self-Investing
Learn how printing t-shirts turned into a supply empire. In our latest Lessons & Learnings podcast we bring you the behind the scenes story of Ryonet (Screenprinting.com). We'll cover: Investing in your business Processes Systems People management...
Webinar: Getting Organized Live With Printavo
Wondering how efficient your shop can be in the future? Want to get streamlined and see how real shops do it? Join us live every Wednesday at noon CST to learn how to organize your shop with Printavo. Designed for print shops that use any decoration technique,...
How Campus Sportswear Dominated the College Market
Discover amazing lessons from fellow print shop owners. Our latest video/podcast series is going to help you by learning from your peers. Learn how Steve was able to: Buy into a business Grow a personal brand Increase marketing/sales 150% in his first year Train...
How to Determine if Your Shop Needs a Retail Location
One of the most common secondary business ideas that apparel decorator shop owners have is to open a retail store to sell their decorated product. It’s a natural. After all, most have been sending out quality work to others who in turn mark it up and...
How to Become a Contract Printer
The idea of a customer that frequently hands you orders to produce on a steady basis has a lot of shops constantly considering becoming a contract printer. After all, there are employees and bills to pay, and the attractiveness of “easy” money makes...