In setting up business, you’ve read that I’ve had to locate ‘manufacturers’ of the items we chose to sell for MTD … and in doing this, we have to pay a ‘middle man’ to do the work for us. This is a huge chunk of money out of our bottom line. Having someone do the printing on our clothing for the past year has cost us approximately $3000 already! And that is just samples, store stock, inventory on a handful of items and filling the orders we’ve had. Needless to say, profit is coming very slowly at that rate! And that is just the clothing printer! If I add in the jewelry and household gift printer then the photo lab for the artwork and the other printer for the note cards. Well, you get the picture! That is where some sleepless nights and hard decisions came into play! Many phone calls and web searches to find the right machines. Talking to a lot of different people that use the machines to compare what their thoughts were on them, trying to decide used or new… a LOT of sleepless nights! ...
Seeing that we were hiring a handicapped friend, we also wanted to make sure that the equipment we purchased was user friendly.
This is A BIG STEP for us....
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