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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. You’ve probably figured out by now that I like football. I see a ton of points of commonality between between winning football teams and winning organizations. […]

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. As much as I believe you LOVE screen printing, I also believe that you do it, at least in part, to create a better life for […]

Having a social media presence for your screen printing business is really important in today’s society. Social media accounts allow potential clients to easily find and view your work. Around 81% of the U.S. population has some type of social media account. Leveraging these platforms allows you to easily build your brand image and reach […]

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. Establishing Your Screen Printing Business Once you’ve given some thought to your niche, it’s time to take a look at whether you have the right […]

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A Company is a Tribe 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. Earlier, I mentioned Tony Hsieh and Zappos. I first learned about Hsieh’s book, “Delivering Happiness,” in my pursuit of Ryonet’s […]

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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 because you know where you’re going, doesn’t mean you won’t get lost along the way. Your values serve as the compass for your organization—keeping you, […]

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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 generating the highest ROI for marketers (VentureBeat). According to a study by the Direct Marketing Association, email marketing yields an average 4,300% Return On Investment […]

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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. Where do you see your business going? Why do you do what you do? What do you believe in? What makes you different? The screen printing […]

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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 protected from mayhem like me.” The ads focus on how small, unplanned events, can have disastrous results if you’re not prepared for the unexpected. It’s […]

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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” and you finally put down the squeegee. As a fellow screen printer, I understand what it’s like to put everything you earn back into your […]

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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 for anybody. This is such a powerful fact that I think a lot of shops get lost when trying to determine who they should be […]

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How can you answer emails, pay bills, order supplies and get screens ready for the rest of the week AND keep up with production on the press? You can’t! Well, at least not effectively if your aim is to scale up your business. Getting off the press and trusting others to do the printing is […]