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Your Mindset When Growing a Shop

Your Mindset When Growing a Shop

After chatting with more successful shop owners, we’ve learned they all have something in common. Extreme optimism.

Everyone started their screen printing shop in one way or the other. A band, clothing line, bought into a business. It didn’t make much sense at the time, but you kept persevering past all odds to create a sustainable business.

Between improving your workflow, managing a team, and growing sales, extreme positivity has been proven to help keep pushing you forward. Past the highs and lows.

Lastly, your high amount of optimism funnels down into your staff. When things go wrong, the right attitude will help make decisions.

4 Tips When Automating Your Print Shop – PrintHustlers Conf 2018 Highlights

4 Tips When Automating Your Print Shop – PrintHustlers Conf 2018 Highlights

PrintHustlers Conf was a huge success! We had over 100 people from shops all over North America join us.

In this highlight reel, Steven Farag, Co-Owner of Campus Ink, talks about five tips when automated his shop.

1. Add all users to Printavo – Give full access to your account

2. Automate people & technology – Allow pushing a button to print, transform data, and add data where needed. Hire a virtual assistant from Upwork to help with data input.

3. Utilize Zapier to connect your website to Printavo to a CRM to your email newsletters, etc. Zapier is powerful and enables you to exchange data between 1,000+ apps on the web.

4. Automate receiving positive reviews for your shop. Create a status called “Review Us” which triggers an email to the customer asking for a review. You can use ReviewPro to have positive reviews be posted to Yelp/Google Plus and negative reviews are emailed to you directly to handle.

Welcome Laura Ezell to Printavo

Welcome Laura Ezell to Printavo

We couldn’t be more excited to have Laura Ezell join the team as a Customer Care Specialist! Laura grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and studied Neuropsychology at the University of Colorado Boulder. She has been involved in research and customer experience fields for my entire professional career. Laura is also …

Moving Your Shop – To Rent or Buy

You’ve checked off all your boxes, and now you know you need to move. The next question you need to ask yourself is whether or not you should rent or buy space for your business. There are several points you should consider in this process, to make sure you are …

Setting Up Team Commissions

Setting Up Team Commissions

Over time we found that sales is a team sport.

It’s a basketball team where the ball gets passed around with the end goal of a slam-dunk. This process requires the company to work together on the same goal together.

If one sales rep creates a lead from a tradeshow, and someone back at the office closes them, you’re working together to win.

A company brand is the full customer experience someone encounters. This may warrant using a team-based commission structure for your sales reps.

At Printavo, we switched over to a team-based commission and aren’t looking back. As a customer can have multiple touch points with sales reps, we didn’t want to worry about how to attribute commission.

I first felt weary of this change as it doesn’t highlight who is doing great work and who isn’t. We ended up creating a team agreement to help clarify potential problems.

For example, for the first two months of building a sales funnel, all commissions you generate are paid out directly to you. Only then will you partake in the team pool. If your performance dips under 50% of the median sales generated for a month, for more than two months, your commission is only based on the sales you created.

We found it important to create these agreements before-hand to avoid issues down the road.

Thus far, it’s been easier to treat customers as a team rather than individually and we’re pushing forward!

Let me know if you’re doing team commission and how it works!

Switching from Manual to Automatic Screen Printing Press

Switching from Manual to Automatic Screen Printing Press

Justin Moore started Barrel Maker Printing in 2009. They printed on a manual screen printing press for several years before they purchased an automatic press.

Justin and his wife, Erin Moore, felt they could get a lot out of their manual press, but it was exhausting.

Listen to Justin talk about how when he switched to an automatic screen printing press and how it helped their shop.

Use Virtual Assistants In Your Shop – Here’s How

Use Virtual Assistants In Your Shop – Here’s How

Another time-saving tip. We used to think virtual assistants would delivery low-quality work. They’re not at your office, probably overseas, and have an oddly low hourly cost.

Yet, if someone in your shop is manually inputting or converting data every week, this and other tasks can be great to outsource to a virtual assistant.

You can find VAs by posting a job on Upwork.com. In your job posting, be sure to include an example project that you’d give them to test their attention to detail.

Printavo For Your Production Team

Printavo For Your Production Team

Keeping communication consistent across departments is important when your shop is growing. Everyone needs to know what needs to know what has been done and what’s next for each job.

Historically, this task can fall upon 1-2 people but to increase efficiency, you want everyone on the same page.

Printavo helps shops around the world to increase communication in a few ways.

1. Statuses – Each order will belong to a color-coded status. This status defines where the job is in your workflow. Statuses help keep a job moving through a repeatable process. You’re able to customize the statuses to match your exact workflow too.

2. Tasks – Assign tasks to individual users along with a due date. Tasks help keep track of items that may come out of order. If you

3. Unlimited users – Printavo’s Standard and Premium plans allow you to have unlimited users. Because Printavo is also in the cloud, you can allow these users to be anywhere as long as they have an internet connection. Shops using Printavo will have tablets attached to a press, big screen TVs on the production floor, and outside sales reps closing deals.

Give Printavo a try today to help keep your shop organized!

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