Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas Edison
I thought I would share my little story of today it was interesting. I hooked up with a local football league (kids), the idea was to apply names and numbers on their already purchased tee shirts (from another printer) with the thought of securing the contract for next years apparel. We brought our cutter and heat press to their locations and set up shop so here is what I learned.Names and numbers while you wait, BAD BUSINESS IDEA hard to pull off with two people.Smith is four letters long and for 4 dollars I should some how make it be 2 inches tall and 14 inches wide( thats what the lady wanted) I gave her her money back so she would shut up and leave, a real B When the customer complains before work has started or money was exchanged WALK AWAY, no, RUN AWAY.The more options you give people, the less likely they will know what they want. The longer your day will be.Doing work because someone said they will give you the "big" contract is BS, this lesson will be repeated till learned I guess, this is twice for me. We printed up 6 new designs for them and brought samples and took orders for the new shirts, I found out that unless the samples are somehow locked to something it appears they will just go away. I thought it would go smooth but it was the toughest day I have ever had in this business. I now know why no one does things like this, its rough. In case you are wondering we pulled in about $500.00 for the day so we cleared about $200.00 which is the last lesson there is no need to print up a ton of flyers people dont take them so save the money and just xerox some papers your bottom line will look better. Thanks for listening one good thing is there are now 100 people that are aware of my little business. Baby steps
I debated Stahls with my buddy the other day... I just rather do cut vinyl... seems easier/cheaper. You just have to stock some vinyl... but I can do it quickly and don't have to wait for mess ups.