magicfingers
23-02-2011, 10:07 AM
Hello there,
my name's Justin and I thought I'd put a little introduction after joining last night. I spent most of the day yesterday ploughing through the forum and learning a huge amount. My girlfriend and I run a little business part time selling embroidered badges to a niche market. We've been coming up with designs we'd like to use on other things and mugs were the first extra product we've decided to add.
I'd been looking at cheap setups to get us started and was close to buying one until I found this forum and started reading all the bad experiences people had had with those setups and the problems with buying from ebay and other sellers. I'm now looking at buying a setup from BMS after a very helpful phone conversation with them yesterday. More expensive to start with but I think better in the long term.
Another thing we'd like to add are T-shirts as my girlfriend has come up with some lovely designs but I'm thinking dyesub may not be the best way to do those as we want to offer cotton ones rather than polyester, so now I have a day ahead of me investigating transfer printing as we already have a colour laser printer in our little home office.
Then I found a link to a company that makes button badge machines and we have ideas for plenty of those. I'm the technical/practical part of our company and my girlfriend is the artistic one, so she's now getting excited about all these new ways to get her designs and ideas out there and, being the practical one, I'm trying to ensure that she doesn't get carried away and spend our meagre profits on too much new equipment.
I'm looking forward to learning from people here and taking part in the community.
J.
my name's Justin and I thought I'd put a little introduction after joining last night. I spent most of the day yesterday ploughing through the forum and learning a huge amount. My girlfriend and I run a little business part time selling embroidered badges to a niche market. We've been coming up with designs we'd like to use on other things and mugs were the first extra product we've decided to add.
I'd been looking at cheap setups to get us started and was close to buying one until I found this forum and started reading all the bad experiences people had had with those setups and the problems with buying from ebay and other sellers. I'm now looking at buying a setup from BMS after a very helpful phone conversation with them yesterday. More expensive to start with but I think better in the long term.
Another thing we'd like to add are T-shirts as my girlfriend has come up with some lovely designs but I'm thinking dyesub may not be the best way to do those as we want to offer cotton ones rather than polyester, so now I have a day ahead of me investigating transfer printing as we already have a colour laser printer in our little home office.
Then I found a link to a company that makes button badge machines and we have ideas for plenty of those. I'm the technical/practical part of our company and my girlfriend is the artistic one, so she's now getting excited about all these new ways to get her designs and ideas out there and, being the practical one, I'm trying to ensure that she doesn't get carried away and spend our meagre profits on too much new equipment.
I'm looking forward to learning from people here and taking part in the community.
J.