Breaking (Down) Bags – Embroidering on Difficult Bags
In October’s Printwear Magazine, I wrote a piece about how one can manage machine embroidery on difficult bags. With bags, the more useful and feature rich the piece, the more difficult it can be to...
View ArticleNontraditional Uniforms – A step-by-step guide
It’s no secret that uniforms are a great way to legitimize your customers’ employees and bring them into line with your company’s branding, but wouldn’t you love to help them design uniforms that...
View ArticleAsk an Expert – How do I Judge my Business Performance for the Year?
Sometimes it’s easy to lose sight of our progress; we need to quantify where we’ve been and how successful our plans for the previous year have been in order to make the plans that will get us where...
View ArticleErich and the Printwear Shop Tune-Up!
Click here to Enter to win a 5-day consultation with me from Printwear- Entries due May 1st, 2016! The fantastic crew of people at Printwear Magazine are sending me out to one embroidery shop in the...
View ArticleErich talks Embroidery, Digitizing, and the Printwear Tune-Up!
It’s time for an interview round-up! I’ve had a great time chatting with my industry friends about embroidery digitizing, production, and learning, while also sharing details about the upcoming Tune-Up...
View ArticleDesigning For (not Against) Headwear
Headwear success can have as much to do with the design of your source art as it does with digitizing and embroidery execution. This week, I hosted a live webinar on embroidering caps (linked here and...
View ArticleErich on Digitizing, eCommerce, Social Media & More w/the Promokitchen Podcast
I recently had an interesting conversation with promotional products master and skilled interviewer Mark Graham in concert with industry consultant and expert blogger extroidinaire Marshall Atkinson on...
View ArticleGetting Down to (Improve your) Business: Success in the Seasonal Lull
Crunch time doesn’t last forever. What could you do with your ‘down time’ to make your business more successful? At the end of the year, embroiderers and apparel decorators of all sorts are busily...
View ArticleDigitizing Basics and Setting up your Station
It really must be my birthday month, because the good people at Printwear saw fit to publish not one but two articles I prepared for all you wonderful embroiderers who want to know more about...
View ArticleArticle: Happy Hooping – A Primer on Machine Embroidery Hooping
My good friends from Images Magazine UK asked me to write a short piece on the ins and outs of machine embroidery hooping. If you are new to machine embroidery or just have some basic questions on...
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