Spring means sports for so many people and for so many businesses that is a great thing. The need for sports-related custom clothing is what Stahls’ is built on, but every once in a while I get a strong reminder that there are many custom printing opportunties beyond sports. This past weekend my youngest daugther participated in an [...]

It seems I mistakenly attributed comments to the wrong person in one of my last postings, so my apologies to Sue Burgess and Cyndi Mills for the mix up.  I have corrected the blog posting and given credit where credit is due! Here are a few more comments on the state of the industry from [...]

How Josh got the folks at Hotronix (he must have connections) to custom decorate a heat press for him, is his secret. What’s no secret is that your heat press can be your best friend this busy season, especially if you are planning on printing a lot of garments. More lettering and number application tips [...]

If you read some of our predictions for 2010 from various GroupeSTAHL people, you might be wondering how accurate they really were. Well, we’re only into February, but we have received some valuable feedback from customer service reps at Stahls’ ID Direct as to what is going on out there. On average our reps have [...]

It seems I’m not the only one who thinks that the idea of promoting the service of adding lettering to existing or pre-printed garments is a good idea. Josh Ellsworth mentioned that he laughed when he read my blog post this morning about the MI Elite Volleyball club because his already submitted article for the [...]

Well it seems Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, which according to tradition means that we are in for another 6 weeks of winter. But that’s no reason to crawl back under the covers. Spring on the way means getting ready for one of your busiest seasons of the year. It’s time to check [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

With Halloween over, and I hope you all have recovered from your sugar hangovers, it’s time to forge ahead towards the holiday season. Don’t miss out on sales this year because you get an order for something you normally don’t print or normally can’t embroider. That’s where heat printing comes in.  If you own a [...]

Just finished an article in the online New York Times that not only made me laugh, but it reminded me about why my father started offering lettering with a thermal adhesive that people could apply themselves–he was tired of people complaining about the spelling mistakes they said he made!  ( Stahls’ Felt Stamping, the original [...]