Print Shop Panel: How To Grow Your Apparel Printing Business

Starting or growing you own t-shirt business? In this interactive one on one with four print shop owners, we chat about how heat printing has fueled growth and accelerated profit for their businesses!
From custom printed headwear to how heat printing fits in with screen printing and embroidery, or how to decorate athletic uniforms with ease, our panel of shop owners share their real world insights, strategies and business tips to help you business grow just like theirs.
At Stahls, we're dedicated to your apparel decorating business and your success. With hours of heat printing tips and tricks, heat transfer applications and small business tips we're here to help your brand thrive.
Learn more about the heat presses and heat transfers these decorators mentioned at: www.stahls.com/home
Shelbi Gage - Awsom Apparel | Learn More: awsomapparel.com/
Ty Kain - Crafted MFG | Learn More: craftedmfg.com/
Justin Coats - Rox City Apparel | Learn More: roxcityapparel.com/
Brandi Franken - Innovative Threads, LLC
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[@phil4_8]

What an insightful video! I begin school tomorrow for an entrepreneurial course and this is the market I’m aiming for.
God bless everyone and may your endeavours be prosperous. 🙏

[@stewartwhittier3455]

Thank you for this! What I loved? I currently own and operate a contract laser engraving business and want to incorporate apparel decorating to my line up. These amazing entrepreneurs, (and yourself 😎), helped me immensely by answering some of the very questions I’ve been seeking answers to.

[@StahlsTV]

Love to hear that this was helpful! Thanks for watching!

[@edgarbarrios8516]

Thank you for hearing all your pros and cons about t-shirts prenting I am planning to have this kind of business. I am interested to hear more.. God 🙏🏻 Blessed us all... From Philippines

[@StahlsTV]

Glad it was helpful!

[@nowlinstudios]

New decorators in Colorado Springs focused on sports teams. Interesting that there are so many of us in Colorado. Loved hearing about the pricing and how they were able to go full time. Hoping my son can grow in that way. My question is what do the full time folks do for insurance and medical after they go full time. By the way, was considering a 12k embroidery machine then somehow found a video of you Kelly showing how to heat press and quickly diverted to purchasing a dream shop setup instead. Will be finishing our first big order for 40 garments for a wrestling league today. Thanks for putting out great content and with a heart of a teacher!

[@StahlsTV]

Thanks for the feedback! Congratulations and Thank you for your business! The people on this panel are in our Facebook group - facebook.com/groups/heatpressforprofit we'd love for you to join and ask all the questions you'd like.

[@tallkevin01]

I like that. Charge retail for the garment + the transfer price + $5 every time the heat press drops. She didn’t mention the cost of shipping and receiving though.

[@StahlsTV]

I know right?! A pretty solid way to ensure you're making a profit! We've got a few more of these videos coming in this series, we'll follow up on shipping and receiving! With most decorators, any shipping costs are passed onto the customer and receiving costs are built into the overhead & markup on the garment.