Defining Your Values
Below is an excerpt from my book, “Made to Make It: A Guide To Screen Printing Success.” Learn helpful tips and tricks on how to run a screen printing business. Just...
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The 3 Types of Marketing Emails You Should Be Sending
Over the past 18 months, I’ve managed close to a million email sends specific to the screen printing industry. Despite some popular new age belief, email is still the channel...
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Are You Ready for Mayhem?: Insurance Musts for Any Small Business
Unless you’ve been living under a rock since 2010, you should be well acquainted with “Mr. Mayhem” from the Allstate commercials, who warns you to get Allstate to be “better...
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Planning for D-Day—AKA “Done” Day
If you’re like me, you love your job… but you don’t want to do it forever, right? There’s going to come a day, we’ll call “D-Day,” when you are “Done”...
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3 Benefits of Going Local for Your Screen Printing Needs
In 2015, BigPlanetApparel authored an excellent blog post on why you should go local for your screen printing needs. The advice they shared then is still relevant now, so we...
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Power The Press! Growing A Smart Screen Printing Business
What it takes to grow Running and growing a business is an ever developing and a learning process. After thirteen years of learning how to start and grow a business...
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The Problem With Taking Anything
One of the most incredible aspects of the screen-printing industry is the incredible diverse spectrum of customers that we can appeal to for our services. We literally can do anything...
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Buy Nice or Buy Twice: Why Automated Is the Way to Go
OK, I’m aware that I might ruffle some feathers here, but I gotta put it out there. While operating a manual press is a true art form, the benefits of...
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Designing for Sports Wear: Don't be Original
For a long time I attempted to create all of my designs from scratch, and for a long time I struggled trying to generate good designs. The story I tell...
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Quality vs. Quantity: Why it Pays to Spend More
As a guy who got his start printing shirts in his mom’s kitchen, I understand exactly what it’s like to bootstrap a business. When you’re still running in the red,...
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The Evils of Procrastination
I’ve been meaning to write an article that focuses on procrastination for some time now. Seriously! Don’t laugh. Somehow, I just keep putting it off. Other topics come up that...
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Impress Your Clients With A Showroom
Dress to Impress A showroom provides an attractive, professional space in which to display both the look and feel of printable items, as well as your full range of graphic...
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The Shop Riddle
Here’s a riddle for your shop: What has hands, but no arms? There isn’t a head, but there is a face without eyes. It can run, but never walks. What...