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Project-based hiring is how to hire great employees for your screen printing business. Hiring is hard. It's a real gray area – every person is different! You are gambling on whether they'll be a good fit for your business. You'll never feel 100% certain that a...
The way to grow your screen printing business is to work on the business – not in the business. This idea gets talked about a lot among small business owners, with the question boiling down to: "How do I actually work on my business?" If you want to...
What's the biggest downfall for most screen print shop owners? It's a lack of focus. This happens several ways: Owners are spread too thin. They're answering too many questions, causing extreme distraction Owners are doing tasks they're not good at. Worse,...
Why are you doing this all of this? Financial freedom? Happiness? Why did you pick up this book and read it? These are the pressing questions you must ask yourself before starting. You have decided to start your own business and therefore you have to define your own...
New to the printing industry? Contract printing might be a foreign concept. But it can be something you rely on to launch your business. Contract printing is a business-to-business practice where the customer shop supplies the raw products and print-ready artwork to...
TSC Apparel has been one of our most-requested apparel catalogs. Including Tultex, Ei-Lo, Bella + Canvas, Next Level Apparel, and dozens of other brands, it's easy to understand why. Now you can do it super easily on Printavo's simple shop management...
Printavo is thrilled to welcome Ben Liu onboard as our newest software engineer! In 2012, Printavo was my side-project. Heading into 2020, Printavo is the premiere simple shop management software for screen printers, DTG printers, embroiderers, sign shops, and dozens...
Make your customer’s final impression your best impression. After you complete the printing and decoration process, you have to finish strong. You’ve worked hard to successfully produce your product, so you need to create a system for follow-through during...
Now that we are through the basics of order intake, we can begin looking at your company’s pre-production workflow. Ask yourself these two questions: What am I offering to my customers? How can I create a system for seamless, cost-effective and...
Attention screen printers: raise your prices! No more looking at your competitor’s price matrix to undercut their print cost by ten cents. Inflation, wages, garments, equipment, tariffs, debt. There is a perfect storm conspiring against you. The...
One of the best parts of running a business is working with so many different types of people. Ironically, this is a very challenging part as well. In our shop, it always seemed like the art proof and approval process brought out the most frustration. The...
So your shop is open for business and ready to accept orders. Implementing a simple, repeatable process for building orders is how you fulfill jobs quickly — and make money! This short chapter will demonstrate how to best build and execute new orders, talk about...
