Custom Printed Tshirts.
Put your Advertising Message on Company Clothing.
Do you remember years ago seeing old pictures of the man walking up and down the street wearing a human billboard, it is called a sandwich board in the advertising world.
I doubt that you could get one of your own employees to wear a sandwich board and walk around all day - especially if it's hot or raining.
But there is another way.A really good way of promoting your company is by providing all your staff with a shirt, jacket or cap with your company name and logo on it.Your staff benefits by having the clothing free of charge, and you can probably supply it to them tax free (check with your accountant).
Your staff will then be easily identified by your customers and the public and this will project a much more professional image.
You never know where your new business is coming from.
A few years ago you would pay a fortune in set up fees and no one would talk to you if you were not about to order hundreds of garments. Due to advances in technology and printing processes it is now possible to have a logo and/or company name or slogan on a garment at very reasonable prices.
Even single garments are now possible and easily affordable.
There are two ways that you can put your logo onto a garment. One is to use a screen printing process to put your image onto the garment.
The other is to have your logo stitched or embroidered onto the garment .Both processes have their own advantages.The Printing / Screen PrintThe advantages of this process are that this can normally be done in house with a shorter learning curve. All you do is burn a screen, set up your machine, load the tshirts on, print them, run it through a dryer, then pack and ship.
The disadvantage of the printing process is that the colors can fade after a couple of years. Often the printed image can make the garment feel a little stiff.
Embroidery. The advantages of using embroidery is that you get a much better finish on most items, especially heavier items such as fleeces, as the logo is actually sewn into the garment. As both the embroidery and the garment are of similar material they will both last about the same length of time.
With embroidery you do not have any problems with the embroidery fading - in fact it should be almost as good as new even after the garment itself is well past its best.Most of the time we put company name, city, state and phone number as there is no set up charge, unless you put a picture and then it would need to be digitized.If you need any screen printing or embroidered work done we can do it for you
Charles
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T-shirt history
T-shirt history
An example of a tie-dye T-shirt The idea of the T-shirt came to the
USA during WWI when US soldiers noticed the light cotton
undershirts European soldiers were using while the US soldiers
sweated in their wool uniforms. Since they were so much more
comfortable they quickly became popular among the Americans, and
because of their design they got the name T-shirt. During WWII the
T-shirt had become standard issue underwear in both the U.S. Army
and Navy. Although the T-shirt was formally underwear, soldiers
often used it without a shirt covering it while doing heavy labor or
while stationed in locations with a hot climate. As a result, the public
was frequently exposed to pictures of members of the armed forces
wearing pants and a T-shirt. As an example, the cover of the July
13, 1942 issue of Life magazine, features a picture of a soldier
wearing a T-shirt with the text "Air Corps Gunnery School" [1].
After WWII the T-shirt started appearing without a shirt covering it
in civilian life. According to the New York Times, the 1948
presidential campaign of Thomas E. Dewey produced a "Dew It for
Dewey" T-shirt, which was followed in 1952 by "I Like Ike" T-shirts in
support of Dwight D. Eisenhower. John Wayne, Marlon Brando and
James Dean all wore them on national TV. At first the public was
shocked, but by 1955 it had become acceptable. The T-shirt became
cool when James Dean wore it in the film Rebel Without a Cause.
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T-shirts can do a lot for your company
Ft Worth Tx Home of 1stoptshirt has been going through a heat wave and its only August. But that doesn't
bother me said Charles Wheeler, owner of 1 Stop Tshirt Printing Company. "The heat has puts t-shirts
on the minds of my twenty-five hundred customers," says Charles. "Seventy percent of my business
comes during the warm months." His company used the 'off-season' to move to purchase a larger facility
and upgrade to more improved printing equipment and software.
Summer is when we get all the orders for baseball and softball leagues. There's also quite a call for reunion,
church groups, summer camps, and other summer activity groups," he says. Statistics seem to back me up.
A recent survey showed that the average American owns 7.2 printed t-shirts, and an episode of the
Simpsons included an alien that referred to Earth as 'that t-shirt producing planet. We also get alot of hat
and cap orders in the summer.
If all my business happens during the summer, what happens in the winter? "I print a lot of camo caps and
sweatshirts and Jackets. Most of my fraternity and sorority demand is during that time football is a big part
of it. I print shirts for all markets, like Florida, North and South Carolina that don't have a Winter, per se."
Some companies don't care about smaller orders, but I built my business on the fact that I've never lost a
customer, and those smaller runs may turn into huge orders in a few years. I like keeping my costs up front
and simple to understand. No setup fee We Print front and back no charge
Internet business is also picking up. At our site, http://www.1stoptshirt.com , we are getting a lot more
business than last year, a lot of logos from clients via e-mail or you can design your logo online our full time
art dept can turn a clients idea into a t-shirt with minimal time, keeping costs low and customers happy.
A good t-shirt can do a lot for your company. The person you give the shirt to will be greatly impacted by
your message. They'll feel a true connection to your company. They will become a valuable spokesperson
willing to endorse your company to anyone that asks.
Their immediate friends and family will be inundated with ad impressions every day the t-shirt is worn.
Inquiries and curiosities will be answered by the t-shirt wearer - a true believer, an unpaid salesperson for
your company. In addition, hundreds, and even thousands of people, will be exposed to your ad during the
normal course of the day when your company sponsor is proudly wearing your t-shirt.
And, talk about added value! The way you give away your t-shirts can be very creative and make your new
sponsor feel great about getting the t-shirts. Using contests, drawings or as gifts of appreciation, these are
just a few ways to use the t-shirts to your advantage by making your new sponsor feel good about being
chosen to receive a free t-shirt.
Good T-Shirts can last years, even a decade or two in some cases. Your investment in this type of advertising
does not expire when your visitor clicks away from your site to surf others. It lasts for years and affects many
people intimately. It's a great advertising medium.
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Why You Need An Autoresponder
Why You Need An Autoresponder
Charles Wheeler here
If you've reached the point of exhaustion trying to keep up
with answering the mountain of emails that threatens to
bury you alive every single day, you're ready to learn
about autoresponders.
The bad news is that people expect prompt replies to their
email inquiries. However, unless you can figure out how to
work continual twenty-four hour shifts, I can't or hire enough
people to constantly monitor incoming emails (while they're
eating up your revenue), you have a problem. The good news
is an autoresponder is an inexpensive - or even free -
method of quickly responding to emails. What these programs
do is automatically respond to incoming emails as soon as
they are received.
Emails are essential to your business for many different
reasons. Most importantly, these invisible email voices
give you their feedback about your website - for free!
However, if you spend all your working hours answering
these emails, how are you supposed to run your business?
The answer is simple: use autoresponders. Autoresponders
are programs that automatically respond to your emails
without you so much as having to click on your mouse.
There are a number of good reasons why you need an
autoresponder besides just answering your email. For
example, autoresponders can be used if you need a way to
send information about your services or products, price
lists, or if there are repeated questions asked across
large numbers of emails. Maybe you want to offer your site
visitors a special bonus of some kind, such as advice or
relevant articles. All of this can be handled by an
autoresponder. Additionally, you can advertise your
business and then build stable relationships with your
customers by using autoresponders.
Autoresponder programs vary from software that runs with
your email program to a specialized script that runs on
your web hosting company's server. This kind of script may
use a web page form or simply operate with your email
account. This kind of script is programmed to send out a
standardized message whenever an email is received. The
message is sent to a particular script or email address.
Some autoresponders can do more than simply send out
standardized messages. They can send out an unlimited
number of follow-up messages sent at predetermined interval
of time. For example, you can set your autoresponder to
send out a new message every day for as long a period as
you desire.
There are numerous companies who offer autoresponders free
of charge. Your website hosting company often provides
autoresponders as a free service. If this is not the case
with your web hosting company, there are numerous companies
who offer this service for a small fee, or free of charge,
providing you attach an advertisement for their company to
your emails.
To personalize your autoresponder messages, you can attach
a signature. Signatures in this case are much like business
cards. You can include your name, company, all your contact
numbers and addresses, and a brief message.
It's a good idea to attach a signature to every email that
is sent out.
Charles Wheeler
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This works as a repeated reminder of your
business identity every time a customer sees it. The more
they look at your signature, the more likely your company
will spring to mind when your particular service or product
is needed.
You can create a standardized signature that every employee
in your business uses, or you can go wild, and let every
staff member create their own personal signature. Of
course, like everything in life, there are some rules and
guidelines to creating a personal signature.
Keep the length of your signature between four to six lines
of text, with no more than 70 characters in a single line.
Make sure that your email program does not cut off your
text! The content should include your name, your company
name, your email address, fax number, and any other contact
details, such as 800 numbers. Lastly, always include a
P.S. a short personal message about your company. It should be a
subtle sell of your services or your products, and possibly
your company's reliability and longevity.
Another specialized use of autoresponders is to create
courses that you can then offer your site visitors for
free. You must choose a topic in which you are an expert
and that precisely targets your potential customers.
Once you have carefully chosen your subject, divide it into
a number of different sub-topics. Then offer your site
visitor a free 10 or 15 day course, each day offering a
different sub-topic. The first topic should always be a
welcome message to your site visitor and an explanation
about what is to follow. Your explanation should be
enticing, getting the point across that you are offering
free, quality information that your target audience will
find of great value.
With every lesson, include the number of the lesson, the
topic title, information about your company and its
services or products. At the end, include a few blurbs
about the next lesson to entice the subscriber to continue
on.
Make sure each topic is packed with essential and valuable
information, and leaves the visitor lusting to know more.
Otherwise, you may lose them in the very beginning.
Of course, you have to write up your course before you can
offer it. Once you have done this, and gone over the
material carefully, employing a professional writer or
editor if necessary, you must transfer your text to your
autoresponder.
There are a number of free autoresponders you can use. Try
http:/www.getresponse.com, or http://www.fastfacts.net.
I use http://www.aweber.com/?214398 Or you can
go onto Google and you will find a long list of free
autoresponder companies. Then sign-up for your chosen
autoresponder. Once you do, you will receive instructions
as to how to set it up and transfer your text.
Email is an excellent marketing tool; it is inexpensive and
it is fast. Use it to advertise your business by choosing
your email address carefully. Your website should contain
different email addresses for different contact requests.
For example, use info@yourdomain.com for information
requests, or sales@yourdomain.com for questions about
sales. It's a good idea to set up one for the owner, such
as president@yourdomain.com. This presents your company in
a personal, approachable light and insures that direct
contact is provided.
Autoresponders are an effective and powerful marketing
tool, allowing you to make contact with thousands of
potential customers. This is an invaluable asset
considering how many potential customers you usually have
contact with before you make an actual sale. Essentially,
an autoresponser allows you to automate part of your
marketing campaign.
Charles Wheeler
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