Most shops start in a garage or an unconventional space. Once they grow out of that location you might find the thriving small business hopscotching to the next location until it is outgrown. In your business, it might be very tough to build that...
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5 Tips To Collect On Your Receivables Quicker
At some point, Accounts Receivable can start to pile up high and weigh down your business. You might have gotten behind and have let it slip on collecting payments. It may have started to cause some scarring to your cash flow. While it is important to...
5 Questions To Create A Business Plan For Your Print Shop
The shop is slowing down around this time of the year. As you peruse through financials, nail down those last accounts receivable and pay the remaining bills, you might be thinking about the next year. Here is a 30-minute challenge for you. Fill this out,...
5 Tips For Marketing Your Print Shop Around the Holidays
You might be cramming to finish up those last screen printing jobs before closing up shop for some quality time with the family. Or you may be spending time cleaning up the shop, closing out the books for the year, and setting your sales goals for the new year....
5 Tips To Empower Your Customers To Save You Time
Can you identify your favorite customers? Think about it for just a minute. What makes them your favorite? It probably stems from the fact that you enjoy working with them. But why do you enjoy working with them? Do they make your life easier? Do they make...
Year End Checklist – 10 Things You Must Do Before Wrapping up the Year
You've hit December and your shop is starting to wind down for the year. Most shop owners might find a little downtime as customers might not be ordering as many decorated products around this time of the year. Don't panic. A break from the hectic nature of...
What Kind of Business Do You Run?
Are you a business that screen prints or are you running screen printing business? You took the plunge into this industry on a whim of hobby-searching, curiosity, craziness, and a little bit of creativity. Sounds familiar? Can you remember purchasing your first single...
How to Handle Accounting For Your Print Shop
When you first started in your garage, the last thing you wanted to worry about was the dreaded word...Accounting. You had no rent, minimal costs, no employees, and business was easy. Accounting was simple then, too! You could pencil together and figure out how...
10 Tips For Better Screen Printing Workflow Management
When taking a holistic look at the printing industry, one might think that this business is fairly simple. Yet, since products are custom made to exactly the customer's specifications, complications do arise. Bottlenecks occur. Misprints happen. To your family members...
How To Handle Production Scheduling In Your Print Shop
Whether you like it or not, the day you decided to become a garment decorating entrepreneur, you also became an event accommodator. Let's take a closer to look: Customer 1: My event is on Saturday, can I pick up my shirts Friday? You: Sure thing, shirts will be...
A Simple Thank You Goes The Distance…
How many orders per week does your shop print? Are you still at a point where you can remember most of your customers? You might be involved in the production of the job, or you may have nothing to do with it. As a business owner, you have the...
The Best Accounts Receivable Process For Print Shops
Ever been told cash is king? Do you know how much you have in your bank accounts this single moment? Do you know how much is owed to you? Don't get bogged down or scared of accounts receivable. Print shops continually struggle with accounts receivable because...
