Oh wow. We normally quote 30 or more jobs a week, but only a small fraction of those actually place an order. Most of them are for all over printing, and most people don't realize the costs involved with this type of printing, so only those that are committed to starting/having a clothing line or whatever the case is, end up placing an order. We have always tried to work with smaller companies by requiring lower minimums than most, but we have recently dropped them even more to see what kind of response we get. That being said, the customers that do place an initial order, are usually repeat customers from thereon out.
For my retail orders (not contract work) we did 702 work orders. We bid 279 orders that did not turn into work orders. We printed 60,000 shirts ( down from 90,000 last year ). My main business is contract printing in which we printed 3 times as much. As as far as the ratio of bids to orders we are probably getting 60% of what we bid.
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Mike
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Ratio- Jobs quoted vs Jobs gotten? 
