Printavo PrintHustlers Podcast

It is easy to burnout as a screen printer. From hiring employees, reaching hard deadlines, and everything in between, this is a challenging industry – and balancing family, friends, and hobbies on top of it seems practically impossible. To prevent burnout, Clinical psychologist, Dr. Sherry Walling tells us there are some important things we should devote our focus to. Having spent her entire caree...

Wear Your Spirit Warehouse’s Ali Banholzer turned her screen printing hobby into her livelihood despite traumatic family hardships. She will speak PrintHustlers Conf 2020 to share with us how she pivoted her business into the viable and successful print shop it is today. Get your tickets to see Ali here: https://www.printavo.com/blog/printhu ... Her husband was blessed with success in his career a...

SHIRT KONG’s Andy Rudman runs one of screen printing’s most interesting shops. We invited him to PrintHustlers Conf 2020, and now he’s giving us a virtual shop tour on July 23rd. “I have this idea of a live shop tour,” he told us. “I was really excited about being in person at PrintHustlers Conference. I know from being there last year it was so cool, and the energy that’s there, so we'll bring so...

Reinvention! We rarely have time to pause and create the business we want. This time is an opportunity to create the leadership, processes, and financial plan that you've really wanted. Are you changing your print shop during this slowdown? Do you have a plan for the regular winter slowdown? Here's some effective ideas for how to improve your screen printing business: Implement Profit First. Alloc...

Homestretch Sportswear in Ohio saw a webinar about Printavo Merch and decided to give it a shot. "The outcome was unbelievable. We had such amazing community support," Kelly from Homestretch told us. Can a small town still raise money with online stores? How can you grow outside of your small town as a screen print shop? With 2 locations in two small towns in Ohio, Homestretch has recently adopted...

In this surprisingly candid interview, Ryan Moor from Ryonet and Allmade tells his wild story about creating, selling, and pivoting his business to sell face masks. Should screen printers sell face masks right now? Ryan answers this question (and many more). Ryonet and Allmade pivoted quickly to designing, selling, and distributing Allmade’s unique Allmask during the early days of the coronavirus...

Get It Got It LLC is a small mom-and-pop shop in Pennsylvania. After having a baby on March 13th, Courtnee Wampole returned from the hospital to a totally changed world. Courtnee tried Printavo Merch online stores after sales dried up during the pandemic. Using her connections in her local Chamber of Commerce and from previous sales to her local school district, she successfully pitched Merch stor...

We join Cedar City House of Print for a candid interview about their upstart screen printing business in Tennessee. They've sold Allmade's Allmask face masks, custom t-shirts, and other merchandise to fundraise for their community – both after tornadoes struck their area and during the pandemic crisis. They've found clever ways to keep generating revenue, including using Merch stores to let custom...

We sit down with Danny Sweem from The M&R Companies for an honest conversation about screen printing, DTG printing, and where the entire textile printing industry is heading for 2020. Learn more and see amazing pictures of M&R HQ here: https://www.printavo.com/blog/screen-printing-will-survive Located just miles from Printavo's Chicago offices, M&R is a trusted partner for thousands of...

We talk to Dave Quigley from Noreast Apparel in Lowell, MA about screen printing in 2020. The bulk of this interview was filmed in January 2020 at Impressions Expo Long Beach – but it features an intro from April 2020 looking back after the crisis. We ask Dave about his business, his strategy for getting customers, and much more – and his candid answers will surprise you and make you think. What w...

Leadership during a crisis is the difference between a permanent catastrophe and a temporary speed bump. But what do leaders do if their mental health is suffering? Hope For The Day’s Johnny Boucher has elevated the conversation around mental health to a new level through outreach, education, and action. In this wide-ranging conversation, Printavo’s Bruce Ackerman hosts Rowboat Creative (Lucas Gua...

Lucky Prints in Chicago, IL has raised thousands of dollars for breweries, coffee roasters, gyms, hospitality, cafes and more. When this crisis hit, they immediately saw an 80% drop in custom orders. The industries Lucky Prints serves have been hit very hard by prolonged closures. Lucky Prints already relied on deep partnerships with their customers. They're not interested in making a sale so much...

The only real sales outlet for screen printers right now? Online stores. Bulk custom orders – the traditional backbone of the industry – have dropped by more than 50% for thousands of print shops. That's why we wanted to share 7 tips we've learned from helping print shops across the US run thousands of online stores and collection millions of dollars in sales. See example stores and get great mark...

Jodi Redding from Redding Company in New Braunfels, TX has turned screen printing and embroidery into his life’s second act. A husband-and-wife shop in the heart of Texas, Jodi says point-blank: “There’s a world before March 1st, 2020 – and a world after that.” Yes, this is a scary and difficult time. But it’s also an opportunity. Jodi’s relentless positivity and constructive mindset is a model fo...

We interviewed more than 15 different screen print shops from across the US at Impressions Expo 2020 in January. Now, the world is totally different. But there's still a lot of value in hearing what successful print shops were thinking about before this crisis. Listen in as we talk through the biggest victories shops had throughout 2019: - Printing for the Oklahoma Thunder, turning around 20,000 s...

Your mindset is everything right now. Justin Lawrence from Oklahoma Shirt Company and Steven Farag from Campus Ink join Bruce from Printavo to talk about how screen print shops are adjusting to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. This is heartfelt, practical, and occasionally hilarious – and a reminder that everyone in this industry is having a tough time right now. They discuss: - How online stores are...

Need a laugh? We ask the screen printing pros at Impressions Expo 2020 a simple question. What do you wish you'd known before you started screen printing? The answers are hilarious, honest, and true to the industry. "I would have done a lot of work up front," Joe Zangrilli from Rowboat reflects. Alexa Cary from In-House Prints told us: "Make sure you're ready to dedicate your life to it!" "Be able...

WEBINAR: If you thought print shops are just "non-essential businesses," think again. Print shops across the US are using online stores as a lifeline for their community. The t-shirt is an ideal e-commerce product: it's light, easy to ship, can't be broken, doesn't go bad, and it doesn't cost a lot. But it's also become a way to serve local businesses and organizations in a time of need. Read our...

More than 500 print shops from around the world joined us for our emergency webinar about the COVID-19 crisis. We asked Max Hellmann from Family Industries, Justin Lawrence from Oklahoma Shirt Company, and Steven Farag from Campus Ink to join us to discuss what's going on. This is no easy discussion, but we have some laughs and tackle how everyone is moving forward. Join us for the next webinar at...

HR expert Wendy Davids from BHRS Partners joins Bruce from Printavo for a conversation about how to handle this crisis for screen printing shops – from an HR perspective. Bruce and Wendy dive deep on the many questions and issues of the day: What is a furlough? What's up with the new laws coming out of the federal government? How should you take care of your team? How should you communicate with y...

COVID-19 is devastating screen print shops. There are no easy choices. But here's what you can do RIGHT NOW to save your business and prepare for the struggles to come. Read the full article, full of helpful links and resources: https://www.printavo.com/blog/covid19-for-screen-print-shops 1. 100% downpayment policy Get pre-payment for all orders going forward. Now is the time to implement this pol...

How will coronavirus hurt or help screen print shops? Bruce from Printavo talks to Steven Farag from Campus Ink. He prints for college campuses...and every college in the US just went remote. “It’s a gut punch,” he said, “everything was going so well and it was a very weird day in my print shop.” Steven runs through what he’s doing to prepare for disruption in his business, his tips for how you ca...

Ryan Moor from Ryonet, ROQ, and Allmade has made a huge impact in the screen printing industry. But the question remains: what's up with Ryonet in 2020? Between Ryonet, Allmade, and the newly formed ROQ.US, and giving away an entire screen printing press as Impressions Expo 2020, Ryan has his hands full. So what's up with Ryonet? It's changing: better before bigger. Visit ROQ.US on the web: https:...

Jarrod Hennis from Rockford Art Deli (RAD) explains why community-based experiences like a Free Print Day matter for screen printing businesses in this exclusive interview at THREADX 2020. “How many businesses have a line out the door for 8 hours?”, Jarrod said. From printing a Christmastime Baby Yoda print for 8,000+ people that waited in line for 2 hours to donating 1% of Rockford Art Deli’s gro...

Brett Bowden from Printed Threads saved his screen printing business. How? By focusing on putting the right people in the right seats. "I started Printed Threads when I was 28 years old and didn’t really know the basics of running a business," Brett told us. In the latest PrintHustlers Podcast, Brett recounts how hiring a VP of Operations revitalized Printed Threads. Read the full story: https://w...