We might have to continue our predictions into February, since the month of January is pretty much over…how did that happen? January went by quickly, with a lot happening around GroupeSTAHL, the PPAI show in Las Vegas, the Imprinted Sportswear Show in Long Beach, the launching of CAD-CUT Direct.com, …I didn’t even have a chance [...]

Thanks for all the positive feedback I’ve been getting on this series of predictions for 2010 from GroupeSTAHL people around the world. So far we’ve heard from Brian Baker, Product Research and Development, Josh Ellsworth,  Stahls’ CADCUT Direct and Ulrike Andre, Stahls’ International. Now I have a submission from David Wheatley, who has been with [...]

Hope everyone is getting off on the right foot in 2010. It’s going to be an exciting year and I have more predictions, marketing ideas and trends to share with you from GroupeSTAHL folks. Thanks for all your positive feedback on my recent posting on predictions for the heat printing industry for 2010. I have [...]

I’ve been getting a lot of requests from business owners to share marketing ideas, and, as I promised in the last blog entry, I will start with this blog entry, the 1st of three parts. I know I don’t like to read super long blogs, so I will try to keep mine short and readable, [...]

As the owner of an international business, I keep my eyes and ears open for signs of economic recovery and what I’ve been noticing lately is a shift within the garment decorating industry.  Many industry contacts are experiencing all time new lows as large orders of custom garments done with the traditional methods of  screen [...]

Neon colors are always in fashion somewhere, aren’t they? Personally, I think they look better on the beach or on the slopes, but it seems the NFL’s Seattle team, the Seattle Seahawks, is giving it a go on the gridiron.  In defense of Seattle’s marketing team, or whoever came up with the idea, I’m always [...]

I just received a comment from a customer who is combining Fashion-FILM™ Electric with rhinestones. Here’s what the comment said: We are having great success combining Prism and rhinestones. We sure would like to see other colors in prism!!!
We would love to see a photo of that, wouldn’t we? Hopefully Jan Stackhouse, owner of [...]

How do you help people get the most bang for their garment decorating buck these days? One way is to always offer them more than one choice. For example, you can show people what their design will look like in one color, at a particular price or in two-color, for just slightly more. This way [...]