Walking Into a 3D Etsy Store | Athena’s Creations Makes EVERYTHING
If Etsy Had a Retail Store… This would be it. Athena’s Creations Makes EVERYTHING Owner: Chris Kallas Address: 110 E. Tarpon Springs Avenue, Tarpon Springs, FL. Phone: 727-935-1158 Decorating Technique: UV Printing with Compress iUV1200s Type of business:...
The State House | Success In Education
Plymouth State University MAPS School: Plymouth State University - MAPS Program Year Established: 2017 Decorating Technique: DTG and Embroidery Type of business: Marketing Program - 2 credit course on T-shirts business The State House | Success In Education This is a...
Thinking Like An Inventor
The Story of BelQuette and Thinking like an Inventor ColDesi has joined forces with BelQuette. Today’s blog post is with the two founders, Brett Wiebel and Mark Momborquette. These guys are a small business success story. They’ve been in the direct to garment printing...
Don’t Make This Equipment Purchase Mistake
Tips and Tricks for Avoiding Problems with Your New Purchase Imagine this: You go to Ikea or Walmart and buy a piece of furniture. You take it out of the box, look at all the pieces, and say, “I go this.” You start putting it together, and 19 pieces in you realize...
Learn to Pay Yourself First
There’s a great book called “Profits First” by Mike Michalowicz. Another book we recommend is “You Need a Budget” by Jesse Mecham. The methods these two people talk about are ones that anybody can do. And it’ll make a difference. We’re experts in a lot of things –...
Garment Printing With White Ink, Then and Now
Garment Printing With White Ink Can Be A Challenge, But Well Worth It The Early Days When the DTG (direct to garment) printing industry was born, manufacturers and distributors of DTG equipment were not able to print white ink. It was non-existent on the open market....
T-Shirt Heat Press Equipment in Use
Using a t-shirt heat press machine in your business is an affordable and easily accessible way to create custom apparel for customers. Whether you’re thinking of adding a heat press to your existing business or starting your own custom apparel business, here’s an...
Compress UV | Custom Printing on Kitchen Backsplash Tiles & More
TAMPA, FLORIDA, 3/13/18 – The Compress brand of LED UV Printers (with ultraviolet curing) today announced the ability to create custom printed tiles in nearly all sizes, shapes, and styles. The UV printing machine can print on kitchen backsplash tiles, bathroom tiles,...
How a Pet Lover Was Inspired to Grow Her Business
Tuula’s Closet Owner: Terry Smalley Company: Tuula’s Closet Decorating Technique: Embroidery, Rhinestones, Heat Transfers Email: tuulacloset@gmail.com Phone: 863-253-1098 Tell us a little about who you are and what you do: Five years ago I started Sea Mist...
Mastering DTG T-Shirt Printing Machine Techniques
Direct to Garment Printing (DTG) has become a red-hot manufacturing technique for creating brilliant custom t-shirts, custom printed kids clothing, canvas prints, and more. No matter which t-shirt printing machine you own getting skilled in the process takes...
DTG vs DigitalHeat FX
Direct to Garment Printing and Transfer Paper Printers are two top competitors for creating professional looking custom t-shirts. Potential buyers want to know how each system works, and what is the cost of DTG vs white toner technologies. And this has certainly been...
Star Spangled Bling Success
STAR SPANGLED BLING Owner: Tori Williamson Company: Star Spangled Bling Decorating Technique: Spangles Website: www.starspangledbling.com Phone: 336-501-1125 Her love for creative design and the desire to expand her business is what drives Tori Williamson. She’s...
Finding a Graphic Artist for Custom T-Shirt Designs
How to Find a Graphic Designer That Works For YOUR Business. The Problem… Oops, You're Not an Artist You want to find a graphic designer that works for you. You want to know How to find an artist you can trust. The graphics that you use, the images that you print,...
Niche Marketing to Make Extra Money in Custom Tee’s
Choosing the Right Niche Niche is a word that marketing professionals throw around all the time. However, what does it mean Really? Doing a simple online search of “what is a niche market” you’ll get definitions like: A market niche is a subset market to which a...
The Trick to Selling More: Great Ad Design
Simple Ways to Turn Ad Dollars Into Profits For the most part we’re surrounded by good ads, whether it be a movie ad online, a restaurant ad on television, etc. The thing to keep in mind is that these big brands have teams of people working to create that ad. Though...
Sell Something Today
We talk a lot about marketing, but we see all the time on the Facebook group and we get calls about it: “My business isn’t doing well RIGHT NOW. How can I sell more stuff?” So what’s missing is “today.” Let’s do something today. This is a morning drive activity. You...
Your Future is Digital Printing
Whether your business is traditional screen printing, pad printing, engraving or even web or offset printing there comes a point when you must consider the benefits of adding a digital printing system. A large percentage of the imprinting business is currently...
Brand vs. Branding Your Apparel with ClothingLabels4U
This blog post we’re talking about Brand versus Branding Your Apparel with Lisa Rosenberg from ClothingLabels4U. This topic is something we’ve talked a little bit about, but haven’t dived in deeply yet. It’s something that we feel isn’t done enough in our industry....
Customer Reviews are Mandatory
This week we chatted with Mike Herz from Shopper Approved to talk about why you must have ratings and reviews. It’s no longer an option. There’s a book we’re currently reading called Hug your Haters by Jay Baer. In it he talks about how the average customer will...
Is UV Printing Right for Your Custom Apparel Business?
To discuss whether UV printing is right for your custom apparel business, we chatted with Don Copeland. Don was previously the Direct to Garments Product manager here at ColDesi, and since then has gone to launch a new (to the USA) product called the Compress UV...
Free Government Resources to Help You Start a Business
For this post we chatted with Bill Burnham from the Florida Small Business Development Center. We get the same basic questions in the Custom Apparel Startups Facebook Group that all small businesses, startups, or entrepreneurs ask. Things like: where do I get...