I was sitiing in my office earlier waiting for my cutter to cut some shirt vinyl and started thinking about how my business has changed since its original conception a couple of years ago.
I started buying a vinyl cutter and computer to make some stickers for friends , family and thoughts were with selling them at car shows ...... along with everyone else!! I was working from home out of my spare
room and just playing about really . Slowly I got started to get asked for specific stickers by friends and friends of friends, then it was vehicle signwriting and site boards etc .
Two years on and Ive got an office in Bexhill , still do vehicle signwriting , stickers and site boards ( still no car shows!! ) but my main business is clothing , mainly cut vinyl and sublimation , but also have to get printed
vinyl transfers locally , as well as all the usual mugs , phone cases , general signage , shops etc. On top of this I have to get banners , flags , flyers , business cards , large vinyl stickers , car stickers all printed for me
then sold on to my customers. I still have the same Mimaki cutter , but also ricoh sublimation printer, Oki laser , Epson inkjet , 2 heat presses , mug press , cap press and looking into purchasing a versacamm or similiar
in the not to distant future.
I dont think I ever thought I would be working for myself , let alone doing all these different things , but I'm glad I made the decision to do it and love working for myself .
So how has your business changed since the early days?