Product Description: This book, along with the companion Web site will provide you with most everything you'll need to know to become a successful personalized products business owner.
Why work for someone else when you can run your own personalized products business?
Inside, you'll find information on:
* Equipment setup options for your new business * What supplies to buy so you can create commercial quality products * Detailed instructions to get you started off on the right foot * Trouble-shooting tips to help you move past any roadblocks you may encounter * Links to great Internet resources for supplies and support... so your profit margin will actually include profit! * Step-by-step tutorials with clear photos that will show you exactly how it's done
Lots of good information for beginners I got this book so I could learn about T-shirt printing and sublimation.
Lots of great info on regular transfer printing on fabric, but not as much info on sublimation as I was hoping for.
A lot of good advice on running a T-shirt business and tips for attracting customers and keeping them by producing a quality product.
Great book, very informative. She is very good about specifics and how to's. The best part is sending the forums address for issues. Wonderful resource in an everchanging market area.
Best book for newcomers to heat transfer printing Haven't finished yet, but this is an inspiring book with great info.
Great information resource After years of experimenting for great results I finally figured out most of the things in this book. However, I STILL learned a few tricks from Cindy. If this book had been available I could have saved hundreds of dollars in failed experiments. Well worth the small investment cost for this book for those serious in perusing this craft/art.
Real life how-to help and tutorials I bought this book shortly after it came out and felt an immediate connection to the author. Cindy writes from the heart. She gives a small section of information about what brought her from failed business to failed business (and yes, failed marriage too) to finally realize, by trial and error what she was missing from the formula.
She provides solid overviews of how to plan out the start up of a new business and shares the reasons that many businesses she tried failed and gives suggestions on what to do to avoid buying before thinking things through.
An entire section of her book gives step by step tutorials with many photos that clearly and simply make the production of personalized items like t-shirts, mousepads, puzzles, and all sorts of heat transfer personalized or custom made products. She even had a section on refillling cartridges even though she said it's really tough and didn't really recommend refilling.
I found every thing she wrote to be truthful and apparently from the heart of someone who's been down the road that many of us are now going down.
She stresses planning and asking questions and also gives her email address and invites all who have the book to write her for additional support when there are questions that come up later. I've written with her about what printer models are the ones to buy since they keep changing and she has been very helpful and nice in her emails.
I read what the person said in a review just now about how there was no information that would help them start and run a business. I don't know if that person read the right book or what. I found this book very helpful, motivational, and extremely informative.
If you're looking for a book about how to start a business and run it on a day to day basis with things like accounting or taxes, this isn't it. What this is, is a book that will teach you how to make personalized items and troubleshoot when things go wrong. It has a glossary that gives most of the terminology used with transfers and puts everything in plain, easy to understand English. I've read it several times because it always seems to bring me new information each time.
I recommend this book to anyone who asks me how I got into doing this business.
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