I've gotten a lot of questions on how I've does so much business with shirts (well I’ve done more than just shirts, like a ton of bags, polo’s, apron, and on and on…). My back ground is in commercial printing for 20+ years the last 10 in which I train hundreds and hundreds of customer in the mid-Atlantic area. I trained from the Mom and Pop shops all the way to RR Donnelly, World Color, Cadmus high end image setters and Plate setters. This is my first business which is only one and half years old. I’m in located on the lower Eastern Shore of VA in a town of 1200 full time people and in a county of 13,000 residents and to boot the poorest in Virginia. My main business is a full service sign shop for CNC routed signs, full color printed/cut vinyl (plane cut vinyl too), tons of labels for all different products, coraplast signs, Banners, so on. I wanted to expand my business to the next level so I bit the bullet and went DTG. One of the first things I did was to join all 3 Chamber of Commerce when I started my business. And being a member I was able to do email blast to all the members. That helped out my sign business in a big way. The main reason I went DTG is I was worried about keeping enough work in the shop during the winter months because this is not a huge area for business. Well I found out real quick I had very little competition in both sign and short run shirt business. Being a member of the Chamber around here is great because they only do business with members first before subbing out. So when there is a bike-a-thon or whatever is going on I get the call to quote on the job, and being the only company that can do signs and shirts I get the job. Also word of mouth has been key for my business and believe it or not Facebook has also been huge. By the way I'm a one man shop (but I do hire Temp help from time to time)
