Rarely was "hiring employees" a class you might have taken in high school or college. You may have sat through those formal interviews in your early years before pioneering into entrepreneurship. Now you are on the other side of the table. You're making your first big...
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So You Want to Buy A DTG Machine? Read This First
Learn whether you should buy a DTG printer here with this updated article. Otherwise, read on... You have been to the trade show. Watched the videos. Seen the machines run. They gather crowds. The possibilities are endless! You could print anything. Then you see the...
Getting Your Team on the Same Page
As an entrepreneur how often do you find yourself running sales, accounting, billing, production, marketing, and every other loose end in your business? Does the list ever end?! Obviously, a basic human resources strategy is necessary, but nowadays you can...
Why Employee Mistakes Are (Usually) Your Fault
As a business owner, you have several responsibilities that sporadically pop up throughout your already busy schedule. The last thing you want to be doing is have to micromanage your shop. This sense of control you want to maintain is most prone to the fact that you...
10 Tips On Managing Workflow Across Multiple Offices
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...
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 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...
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...