Daniel Stewart - Make Big Money Screen Printing Custom Shirts

MAKE
BIG
MONEY
Screen Printing
Custom Shirts

Basic Set Up and Operation of
Your Own Screen Printing Business

Daniel Stewart

Copyright 2017 Daniel Stewart.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-9358-4 (sc)

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Balboa Press rev. date: 12/19/2017

Introduction

Im giving away the farm. It took me years to figure out how to build a successful screen printing business. I am letting you in on the secrets no one else will tell you. Learn how to build your business by applying the methods in this easy to follow book which comes with detailed pictures, instructional tutorials and a easy to follow dvd how to video.

Everyone utilizes printed shirts these days, from baseball teams, to churches, to family vacations and reunions, to you name it! Theres a shirt for every event! Its a beautiful thing. The best part is building up a residual income as many companies and event planners order the same design over and over again, Many times orders come for twenty, fifty, one hundred or even a thousand or more shirts! This is not to mention hats and jackets!

As for the competition, there is plenty of business to go around!

My name is Dan Stewart, I grew up in a little town in New Jersey called Ramtown. I served four years in the Air Force after high school. I always knew I wanted to be in business for myself. I sold car insurance for twenty years, I also was a lead customer service representative for a company called Show Case Provisions, a distributor of the Boars Head brand for ten years. For the last four years I have finally realized my dream of being my own boss, screen printing shirts.

My story is an interesting one. The last thing I ever thought about was going into the silk screening business. I didnt even know what screen printing was. What I did know was that I hated selling insurance. Boars Head was okay but I knew I wanted something of my own, so I was looking for a good business model with a low entry fee.

A friend of mine gave me a book called The Art of War by Sun Tzu. In His book, Tzu said you can be anything you want to be if you would forget about the money and do what you love. I wanted to be a MBL player but Im a little too old for that now. Then I thought maybe I could make money playing softball but, you guessed it, too old for that too.

I was reading a sports magazine and came across an ad that said own your own sports franchise Well that got my attention so I took a shot and invested $1,500 and I was on my way!

In the box I received various catalogs from various companies and I was instructed on how to buy wholesale products and sporting goods through the group I joined. I started buying bats and gloves at wholesale prices for myself and my friends. I wasnt making a lot of money though. I looked in the box again and saw that I could sell MLB hats, so I started hanging hats at convenience stores, dollar stores and gas stations on consignment. I would hang twenty hats, go back in a month and replenish what sold. I made some money but not big money yet.

The dollar store asked if I could get t-shirts and I discovered, from the box that I could. At this point Im selling hats and t-shirts at the dollar stores, gas stations and convenience stores and Im making a little more money, still not lighting the world on fire though.

I was selling white t-shirts, 3 for $5.00, I had asked a manager in a local restaurant if he was interested in purchasing some for the cooks on his staff. He asked if I could print something on them. Thru a friend I found a screen printer. I asked him how much he would charge to print them and I marked each item up by one dollar. I went back to the manager of the restaurant and he said he would take 100! It was a lightbulb moment for me! I put some magnetic signs on my car and people started calling! I was in business!

At this point, I was having my friend print the shirts and hats and just marking them up by a dollar but I started thinking, how could I do this for myself I went online and bought a book How to Print T Shirts for Fun and Profit. That book also came with a video so I read the book and watched the video. I bought a starter kit and started printing easy orders myself, anything too hard I was still giving to my friend. I now realized that I had to pay people to do the artwork. I went online again and got Corel DRAW and Photo Shop and taught myself how to do my own artwork.

I figured out how to make my own screens, artwork and all the prep work myself so I didnt have to keep paying other people to do it. Little by little, the more I learned the less I had to pay other people to do these things and now I do everything in house one hundred percent, working full time and the money started coming in!

This book is dedicated to God the Father and The Lord Jesus Christ and I give them all the glory for any good that I can do. I pray that they bless your efforts as you use this book to realize your dream.

I also want to recognize my life long friend who lost his battle with liver cancer, Gary Cividanes, and a women I met at Hospice who sparked the dream of sharing this information by writing a book and my dear sister Debbie. My son, Rudey Letang

Screen Printing Business Se t Up

Step 1. Getting a sales tax resale certificate is the first thing that needs to get done. The certificate is free in Florida, you need to check on this for your state. Once you have the certificate you will be able to make sales, collect sales tax and send the tax to the government.