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Hungry for Customers?

One of my favorite questions to ponder is: What makes one company more successful than another? The short answer is hunger—and an appetite for customers. Companies that are hungry for customers and doing everything in their power to find and keep customers, compared to companies that are always focusing on the internal workings of the company, are the ones that thrive.Want a real life example?

I know a soccer league in California that orders over £100,000 of custom printed uniforms annually. Their usual supplier/decorator was only a 40-minute drive away from league headquarters but never took the time to pay the league purchaser a visit—they just expected the business every year. This year, the league’s business went to a company in Oregon. Why? Because the Oregon company was hungry. A rep flew down to California for a face to face visit, showed the decision makers their new line, bought them pizza and signed the deal. Now I’m not recommending free pizza for all your customers, but if you’re looking for ways to spice up your custom garment sales, try putting some of these proven marketing recipes to work for your business.         

Calendar Planning
While there are some cooks who can throw in a pinch of this and a pinch of that, most of us have better luck with a written recipe. A lot of business owners get overwhelmed at the thought of writing a marketing plan, but it’s easier than you think. You don’t need a computer program or a book on marketing. With an inexpensive 12-month calendar and a piece of paper in front of you, answer the following questions:

Who are your customers? Who currently buys from you?  Schools, teams, coaches, businesses?

Are these sales seasonal? If yes, make a note in your calendar. For example, if you normally sell to schools in the fall, indicate that you should do a marketing activity in mid to late summer to remind your customers that you do business. If you would like to go after the family reunion market or the summer camp market, make a note to do some kind of marketing activity in the spring. If you already have one season where you are busy for several months, you might want to concentrate on building sales in your not-so-busy season.  

On the calendar you can also make notes about new markets or specific customers you would like to go after and pick a date to do it. For example, if you decide to target construction businesses or landscaping businesses, pick a month that is appropriate to target this niche with a marketing activity. (We’ll go over a variety of activities later in the article—it might be as simple as placing an ad in a church bulletin or sending out a postcard.)

Think of businesses that wear printed t-shirts—salons, restaurants, delivery services, grocery stores, petrol stations, car washes. If you are having trouble coming up with ideas for customers, look in the phone book and make a list of people you could be doing business with.

In your calendar, make note of local events that take place in your community. Are any of these events places where you could sell shirts?  When does school start? When does football or the cricket season start? When are you going to make time to call your best customers? When are you going to take your last order before the holidays? This date is important, because when you commit to a date, you have given yourself a reason to call customers and let them know that this is the last possible date they can place an order. Are you starting to see the value in the calendar?

The Next Step            
Once you have a better idea of who you are selling to and when you are going to approach these customers, it’s time to decide what type of marketing activities  you want to try. There is no magic bullet. You might get extremely lucky with one type of activity and another  might show no return on investment at first. But it’s a proven fact that consistency and repetition are the key factors in the success of any marketing plan. It’s not so important what you do, but that you dosomething on a consistent basis. You have to keep your name out there. I know a lot of people in this industry rely solely on word-of-mouth advertising, which is fantastic. But when you are ready to take your business to the next level, oftentimes you’ll find that resting on your laurels is just not going to bring you the growth you really desire. So, if the calendar is the recipe, here is the list of ingredients—the marketing activities. 

Marketing Activities
Marketing activities are anything you can think of to do that will attract customers to make a purchase. It can be as simple as handing out a Business Card at a PTA meeting or as sophisticated as sending out an email blast. Here are some of my favorites:

Inexpensive postcards: Direct mail is one of my favorite ways to reach people. There are many printing companies that will design, print and mail cards with your marketing message to your desired audience. You can start by mailing to existing customers. Companies that have a personal relationship with their members do well even on a smaller list, because they have face to face contact. If you want to build your list, you need more names. How do you get names? You can purchase names from companies, but that can get expensive. Start building your own list by keeping a guest book, collecting business cards in a goldfish bowl with an offer to win something, or gathering names from free sources such as YellowPages.com.  

Flyers: Otherwise known as a leave-behind. Your flyer should be simple and to the point. It should say something about the services you offer and what you can do for the customer you are trying to attract. Many suppliers in the industry provide flyer templates that you can customize to promote your services. You can distribute flyers on vehicles in car parks, to businesses in shopping malls or just have someone hand them out in front of your store to passers by. If you don’t have a store front, you can still hand out flyers to people you meet. Keep a stack in your car. Where else can you hang up or pass out flyers? At the football ground? At a community parade or event?     

Outbound phone calls: When was the last time a service business gave you a call to see how you were doing and to inform you of a special? In this day of email blasts, personal communication with customers is a valuable marketing tool. Don’t forget to call your larger accounts at the appropriate time and remind them that it is time to reorder or that you have a great new idea for them to try.  Before picking up the phone, take a few moments to write down some speaking points. Try to ask open questions that can’t be answered with a simple yes or no. For example, you could ask: How did your employees like the printed caps you ordered from us last May? This will prompt them into a discussion. If you just say: Do you need more caps? If they say no, the conversation will probably be over.

Hold an Open House at your store: You can plan to do this on an annual basis. It can be as simple as inviting your customers in for some light refreshments and an offer to show them your latest, award-winning artwork. Or you can hold an annual contest for the most creative logo, display all the jobs you did that year and have the customers vote for the best shirt. This way, you get to show off the variety of work you do, as well as bring your customers in to your store. Make sure you have a few specials planned that will entice people to place an order while they are there, or for up to two weeks after the event.

Offer a seasonal sale or special: You might want to offer the early birds a reason to get their team or school orders in before the rush. This is where your calendar comes in. If you are normally swamped in March, give customers who order in February a slight discount. If you don’t tell your customers that you are going to be busy, they have no reason to do business with you at a different time of year.

Announce a new product or service: This is always a great reason to call customers, send a postcard or create a new flyer. Think about the new materials that are available for garment decoration, such as glitter, metallics and reflectives. Let your customers know that their logo would look amazing on a dark shirt in a silver glitter decorating material. Especially if you sell to teens, dance groups, mum’s groups and other fashion-conscious customers. They won’t know about the possibilities if you don’t tell them.

Answer your phone with a smile: This is an opportunity to make a great first impression. Every time someone calls you, it means you were successful with one of your marketing efforts. Don’t blow it! Answer with energy and don’t waste a chance to tell people who you are and what you do and promote your brand. How about answering with “Thank you for calling Best Shirts, the number one custom shirt supplier in town, how can we help you today?” Your internal production issues should not take precedence over answering incoming phone calls. If you are that busy, hire someone to answer the phone or use a service. If you are a home based business, this really applies to you. It is very typical for home based businesses to not answer the phone during business hours. It is frustrating for customers. If you can’t answer your phone, make sure your answering machine picks up on the first or second ring and has a professional outgoing message that says who you are, what you do and promotes your brand. If you are reachable by Cell Phone, let people know.

Create a website: Your website doesn’t need to be fancy or have on-line ordering capabilities. It should cover the basics, such as the services you offer, hours of operation, and contact information. If at all possible, make sure you have an opt-in area on your site, where website visitors can enter their email address so that you can send them future information on specials or an e-newsletter if you can do that.

Network with other businesses in the area: Think about partnering with businesses that come in contact with people who could be potential customers. You could place your business information in their store and you can promote their business in your own way. You can never over do it!

Out-of-the-box classified ads: Newspaper advertising can get expensive and may not achieve any measurable results. What about an ad in a church bulletin, school directory, sports program or other small community publication?  

How Can You Get More Word-of-Mouth? 
When friends refer friends to your business, that’s considered word of mouth advertising. There are things you can and should do to encourage or promote this type of “free” marketing. First of all, determine what you can give back when someone gives you a referral. A slight discount on a future order, a free t-shirt?  In many cases, simply acknowledging the referral with a written or verbal thank you is enough. You just have to do it.

Feed Your Database—Always Gather Information
Whenever possible, gather as much information as you can about your customers. Create a customer survey that they can fill out and offer them something of value for doing so. If they fill out a card, they will receive a gift or a card on their birthday. Offer exclusive specials to people who complete a survey.  It’s up to you. Create something of value that they wouldn’t receive if they aren’t on your mailing list.

Start Cooking Today
Satisfy your hunger for more sales by getting started today. Choose at least two of the ideas mentioned in this article and put them into action as soon as possible. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to cook up more sales—and build better relationships with your customers at the same time. 
                                                                        
Sidebar:
In 1993, Ted published a 36-page booklet filled with marketing tips for custom garment printers. The book is no longer in print, but here is an excerpt from the archives:

Ted’s Guerilla Marketing Tips For the Custom Garment Specialist
1. Tell People What You Do.
It might seem an obvious thing to do, but you’d be surprised at how many people don’t know what services you offer if you don’t tell them. It all starts with a simple sign in your door or window. Have it say, For Custom Shirts - Stop Here, We Do Custom Lettering, Custom Lettering While You Wait, or We Print Anything: Your Kid’s Name, Your Business Name, Your Dog’s Name, on Shirts and Caps, or better yet, put your message on a shirt using Cooper letters (because they are easy to read) and hang it in the window.

2. Have Your Staff Wear Decorated Shirts
Your employees are living mannequins for your garments. As an alternative to plain uniform type shirts with a name on the pocket, allow them to get creative and create their own shirts to wear. Let them customize popular stock transfers with lettering, cut custom designs from Flock and Film. Encourage them to take current events themes and trends into consideration. Another way to inspire your customers is to use idea filled catalogues or collections that contain hundreds of sayings and suggestions for every occasion. Feature many different lettering styles for fleece wear, T-shirts and uniforms. Customers enjoy being able to point to a garment and say, I’ll take that, but in a different color. This way they feel creative, even if they needed a little help. Take a picture of some of the better shirts created in your store and post them where other customers can see.
3. Ask for the Sale
Make it a policy to see that everyone who buys a shirt or cap is reminded that your store offers custom imprinting services. Just like the order takers at some fast food chains are trained to ask—would you like fries with that—you can get your employees in the habit of saying:  Would you like to personalize this gift? Or, I could add your grandson’s name to that shirt while you wait. Usually, getting the sale is as simple as asking for it!
4. Add Dates to Custom Shirts
When creating custom shirts for an annual event, such as a fair or company function, always incorporate the date of the event into the design. This not only makes the garment a true memento of the occasion, it also means they’ll have to come back for a new one each year! Keep the details on file to remind the customer ahead of time
next year that you can organize the whole thing for them.
5. Add Your Business Logo to Shirts
Do you want to increase repeat business and improve your chances of receiving positive word of mouth advertising? Then make sure that people who wear your garments know where to find you. The wearer is not always the purchaser. The shirt may have been a gift or purchased by the coach. Always put your company logo on the shirts or uniforms you make, along with a hang tag that describes washing instructions, your guarantee,
your address and phone numbers so people can call you. An easy way to do this is to use your business card as a hang tag. Every item that leaves your premises is an ad for your products and services, and yes, you guessed it, it’s free.
6. How to Increase Two Color Sales
Here’s another thing your employees should automatically suggest on all sales. Have them say, .How about trying that in a two color look? Remind the customer that all the pros wear two color numbers and letters in sports. Displaying garments with two colors lettering is also very important. Let customers see what a difference it makes. Selling two color instead of one is an easy way to double your profit on the sale.
7. Create a Player Sign Up Sheet
Make team sales easier for everyone involved. Take the hassle out of collecting each player’s uniform size, number and the proper spelling for their name by providing a sign up sheet for the uniform buyer. Leave a space for a signature okaying the entire order.
8. Be Your Own Walking Billboard
Wear lettered and Cad-Cut® garments everywhere you go and carry a supply of business cards. Everyone you meet is a potential customer! Wear it on the school run, to the deli, at your club at game on Saturday, on vacation. You will be surprised how many people you don’t know walk up to you and ask about your printed shirt and how they can get one.
9.  Take the Show on the Road
Put your merchandise on rolling racks or tables and bring your heat seal machine out where everyone can see it. Get a stall at the local fair, have different products areas for the different services you offer, such as: Team Lettering, Custom Transfers, Custom Gifts and Custom Caps.  Try to create a market type atmosphere using tables with a wide variety of low prices items on it. Attend the local school festival, the average school has hundreds of children, whose parents work for a living! Donate a percentage of your takings to the school funds, you may not make a fortune on the day but you would have just marketed your company to hundreds of future prospects.
10. Print Your Own Money
Print up your own vouchers and give your customers a £1 voucher for every £20 (or other suitable arrangement) they spend in your shop. Shoppers can redeem the voucher for prizes or use them towards future purchases. Consider putting a limit on the number of vouchers someone can use for one purchase and make sure you have a counterfeit-proof system. Number each voucher ahead of time and ask for the customer’s postcode for reference.

About the Author

Ted Stahl is the CEO of GroupeSTAHL, an International network of 17 companies specializing in heat printing and digital-graphic technologies. To contact Ted, visit www.groupestahl.com. The range of STAHLS’ products is available in the UK from Target Transfers Ltd, a GroupeSTAHL company. (www.targettransfers.com) Tel: +44 (0) 1376 326351.

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The Air Hose Reel And The Safe Auto Shop

It is almost impossible today to find an auto shop or mechanical shop today that does not have an air compressor that runs various air tools and accessories. If a shop has an air compressor, it will have air hoses running all over the place to run air tools, grease guns, inflate tires and perform various other tasks. In order to keep your shop floor safe and clutter free, an air hose reel is the easiest and most widely used method for storing and using air hoses. Hose reels are also used for air, water, gardens, potable water, cold water, hot water, oxy-acetylene as well as grease and oil pumping systems. With this many different applications, a shop can quickly become a tangle of different colored hoses. Besides hurting productivity and looking sloppy, loose hoses on the shop floor are a safety hazard. Today, most professional auto shops have several air hose reels mounted on the walls that will automatically retract and store air hoses. There are basically three different versions of the air hose reel.

The most common type of air hose reel is the open faced self retracting type. This type of air hose reel is generally constructed with heavy gauge steel and corrosion resistant components to withstand the demanding environment of the modern auto shop. Auto rewind is also a standard feature and is highly recommended by Red Hill Supply. A good air hose reel also will have the ability to be mounted on the wall, ceiling or even on a service truck. Some other features to look for is: dual axle support (This is important to withstand vehicle vibration if the air hose reel will be mounted on a service truck. ),Weep holes in the drum. (Weep holes allow moisture to drain from the drum and reduce rusting.) and heavy gauge steel.

The closed face air hose reel is becoming much more popular and popping up in more and more high end auto shops. A closed face air hose reel has several advantages over its open faced cousin. First, the air hose is completely protected when it is fully retracted in the case. This protects the hose from harsh weather conditions and other hazards that can damage and ruin a hose. Another common feature is the ability to wind the hose back and forth and insure the hose is wound back up levelly. This insures the air hose is always retracted equally across the drum. Also, the outer casing is usually made of industrial grade polypropylene that is resistant to ultraviolet light. This makes the air hose reel dent resistant and impervious to corrosion.

Mainly the manual air hose reel is relegated to the garage and home mechanic. This type of air hose reel has to cranked with a lever in order to retract the hose back onto the reel. They typically are of cheaper construction and not as durable as the other types of reels. However, if you are looking for a low cost air hose reel for your garage, a manual air hose reel will be just fine and provide you with years of service.

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Jason has been in the construction equipment and industrial sales business for over 10 years. He owns and operates Red Hill Supply to better serve the automotive and industrial industries. -
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Talk to the guys at the shop. They may just cut you a deal on the parts if you use them for the labor.

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How do i transfer an operating system form a hard drive?

I have got a new hard drive becuase my old one is breaking and has a lot of crap on it. Is there anyway to transfer my OS from my old hard drive to my new one. I do not have my OS CD anymore so i cant reinstall it.

well you can ghost it use the maxtor software or bench pull the partitions, but that is going to pull all the files including the crap. You can't selectively pull just the OS

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Selecting the Right Retail Software Solution That Does Everything you Need

Maybe you've heard some retailers say that at one time--way back when--they used a pencil and paper as a method of tracking inventory? Times have changed, yes, but just how far have retailers gone to make the advancements they need to keep up?

Systems administrator Ken Sweeney has been around retail for over ten years and witnessed the antiquated methods of tracking inventory. He is responsible for the technology of one of the leading sports and entertainment presenters in the world, AEG Merchandising. Before the installation of a modern day retail point of Sale System in 1997, the only methods for tracking inventory and keeping income and products organized were kept with pencil and paper.

It took considerable research to find a technology solution suitable for the needs of AEG. After using retail service provider One Step Data, Sweeney was able to make the right choice for his company.

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It is important to use as many relevant tags that are considered useful for retrieving a particular page or blog entry. Child tags should be a subset or a subtype of the parent. Separate characteristics should be separate tags instead of being sub-tags of another.

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Guided search indexes blog contents by using the tags and categories for which posts have been assigned by the blogger. This adds real value to the efforts already made by the blogger. A blog can be synced with RawSugar so that new posts are automatically tagged by going to the blog import screen and pasting the RSS or ATOM feed URL into the text box and clicking Add Blog. Existing archives can also be imported if a WordPress blog is used.

Adding RawSugar to a blog greatly improves the reader's experience. It also attracts more readers who search for blogs through RawSugar. There are also possibilities to earn cash through the RawSugar Rewards.

All elements of appearance are controlled through CSS styles. However, bloggers can customize RawSugar guided search to match the blog's look and feel by overriding the default styles to match color, font and layout. Even the tag hierarchy can be tailored to fit the site. Bloggers and taggers can manually create the tag hierarchy for their account. It can also be done by the system which automatically bases it on relationships created by users. The parent/child relationship can be specified by the bloggers directly into the blog by using Technorati-style tags while taggers can include them in the RawSugar's tag field. The hierarchy can be changed later on by both bloggers and taggers.

A RawSugar Tag element can be added to a website by going to My Directory>RawSugar for blog or website and going through the options to set the number of columns of tags, to have a free text search box, to show sub-tags and the specific tags to be included. The update button should be clicked to make sure that the JavaScript has all the choices which shall be copied and pasted into the web page or blog. For WordPress and other blogs, this can be contained in the sidebar. If more control over the appearance of the widget is desired, the link at the bottom of the page labeled "want to change the stylesheet we use?" should be clicked. Instructions on using CCS to override the default display should be provided.

RawSugar makes use of the linkblog to benefit readers. A linkblog is a blog that focuses on sharing useful, interesting or important web resources that contains a minimal amount of added comment or explanation, sometimes none from the blogger. This is to bring these resources to an audience's attention, to trace them for personal research or to create a focused, edited knowledge based on a particular topic. RawSugar's free and ad supported service aims to help web publishers and bloggers to improve their respective site with guided navigation through hierarchies. Its service is still being actively developed and improved to provide more useful features and modify the way pages appear and make existing features work better.

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