Top 7 Blog Posts and Podcasts For Making More Money
The Most Important Blog Post Top 7 Blog Posts or Podcasts for Making More Money If you were ever only going to read 6 blog posts, which ones would they be? Just like sitcoms have mashup shows, we wanted to take this post to look back and highlight 6 blog posts that...
What to do with $1,000 Now
Marketing Brainstorm What to do with $1,000 Now You've got $1,000 set aside, but deciding what to do with it is a big deal. You don't want to waste it (and we've got a podcast on stop wasting money on marketing). In the marketing world, however, in some ways $1,000 is...
One Stop T Shirts and More
ONE STOP T-SHIRTS AND MORE (4 Years Later) Owner: John and Lori Consoli Year Established: 2008 Decorating Technique: Direct to Garment T-Shirts, Embroidery, Custom Rhinestone Transfers and Signage Website: https://www.facebook.com/pg/OneStopTShirts/ How Real Success...
50 Cups of Coffee
and Other Things You Should Do What are we talking about when we say "50 cups of coffee"? Before we get into it, we want to share a story. Scott Colman, who is the owner and president of ColDesi, is a member of the CEO council which is a local Tampa Bay area group of...
Making More Money
By Learning These Things The reason we’re talking about learning, is because it’s very likely that you’re already in business and that you’re working pretty hard. You make X dollars last month, you worked all the hours that you could possibly work, and you worked just...
Making Money in Custom T Shirts and Embroidery | Finding a Customer’s Why
Making Money in Custom T Shirts and Embroidery | Finding a Customer’s Why Starting a Business Making Custom T Shirts or Embroidery is about more than the Order “To be a successful marketer, you must be a conceptual thinker. Like method acting, you have to get inside...
Winning Against Bigger Businesses
We’ve previously done a post on You vs. the Competition and what we covered in there is how to be unique, how to use your personal touch to get an edge, and how to not be afraid of that competition. What we want to talk about specifically today is battling the big...
You’re Communicating Wrong and How to Fix It
Today we want to talk about why you're communicating wrong and how to fix it. This came out of some thoughts we had about communication styles. Your communication style, your preferences in communicating with your customers, with the people around you, your vendors,...
Equipment Leasing Tips with John Sullivant
We spoke with John Sullivant about leasing equipment. Why you should or shouldn't and what the benefit are as opposed to buying the equipment outright. It's such a common question from our customers. I work with Adia Capital, a financial partner of Coldesi. I actually...
Adding a Direct to Garment Printer to Your Shop
Direct to Garment Printer and Your Screen Printing Business - 7 Things You Need to Know about the Direct to Garment Printer Business Direct to Garment Printer s are being added to more and more businesses as decorated apparel production shops are moving into digital...
Success Tips – Home Based Businesses
Build a Successful Custom Apparel Business from your own Home People run their businesses from home all the time. So today we want to talk about success tips in custom t shirts, embroidery and bling in that home-based business. How are you going to set yourself up for...
Drama Free Family Embroidery Business Rules
The Embroidery Business, screen printing business, direct to garment printing, promotional products or running a custom apparel shop of any kind can be greatly helped or HINDERED when it’s run as a family business. One of the most well kept secrets about the decorated...
Hat Embroidery Machine Options | Learn Before You Buy
Look for these Features in a Hat Embroider Machine Hat Embroidery Machine (s) are commercial or professional embroidery machines that are designed to do well embroidering on caps and hats as well as traditional flat garments. So basically, a good professional...
Business Success Stories – Tom Rumbaugh
T-Shirt Printer, Embroidery Business Owner - Real Life in Apparel Decorating Tom Rumbaugh, who now provides insights and content for the ColDesi group is a former business owner and has been in the industry since 1992. We wanted to learn about Tom's experience...
Social Media Planning for Apparel Decorators
Social Media for someone into printing custom t shirts, running an embroidery business or especially making and selling rhinestone t-shirts or transfers can be an incredibly effective marketing tool One of the biggest struggles that custom t shirt printers, and others...
What’s New in Social Media for Custom Apparel |Social Fresh Recap
Social Media - Social Fresh Conference Today we're talking about Social Media. Mark and Marc went to a big conference in Orlando - Social Fresh. A lot of social media managers are there - Jet Blues, The Weather Channel, and many more. The idea or goal of this...
Botkin Designs
BOTKIN DESIGNS Owner: Vince and Lori Botkin Year Established: 2014 Type of Business: Bling, Embroidery, Direct to Garment, Sublimation Website: lvbotkindesigns.com Who Needs Retirement? Embroidery, DTG and Bling Success. Vince and Lori Botkin have become an apparel...
We Can’t Tell You
WE CAN'T TELL YOU! Owner: Laura None of your Beeswax Year Established: About 10 years ago Type of Business: Bling, Embroidery, Sublimation Website and Phone Number: It doesn't matter - we're too busy to do anything else! Undercover Bling Business. If you are just...
Benson Designs
BENSON DESIGNS Owner: Shawn Benson Year Established: 2010 Type of Business: Custom T-Shirts, Wholesale, Retail Website: thebensondesigns.com The Benson Designs Story. Shawn Benson from Ridgeley, WV went from zero to almost $100,000 in revenues in just a few years and...
Fallen Arrow
FALLEN ARROW Owner: Tito Sands Year Established: 2013 Decorating Technique: Direct to Garment Printing Type of business: Local Retail, Online Store Website: http://www.fallenarrows.com Atlanta's Movie & TV Market Provides a niche for Artist Designed T-shirts Tell...
JMH Graphics
JMH Graphics Owner: Jason & Melissa Spiers Year Established: 2005 Type of business: General apparel decoration – screen printing and embroidery. Website: http://www.jmhgraphics.com Small Town Apparel Decorator's Grows Business To Over A Million. Hattiesburg,...