what is up everybody Matt with Mikey Designs here welcome to an edition of
running your screen printing business at home stick around as we show you what we
have going on today and we answer the question will we be getting the shop
stay tuned before I get into answering whether or not I'll be getting in the
shop I'll tell you about that here soon but first immediately I've got to finish
up an order that is do it is I think it's about 4 a.m. right now
I literally have there's some bits and personal things that have come up today
that has taken up a lot of my time kind of running behind on a couple orders but
one of them needs to be delivered at 5:45 a.m. and the other order we just
finished up about 300 shirts white underbase with four color process on top
I'm gonna try and keep those screens up - the white underbase so I can possibly
show you guys how I go about doing that but take a look at this so here's the
300 shirts that we just finished up it is a four color process on top of a
white base I'll see if I can't possibly get a better shot of what they they look
like I know it's still dark out but it will be light pretty soon and it has
about a million colors in it and when you have a six color press and a design
has a lot of colors in it that's how I kind of treated I use a white underbase
and CMYK process on top generally I try to stick to spot process even for light
shirts just because you're going to get truer colors out of it for example this
shirt has Maroons blues purples and it takes a lot of
tweaking to get the colors just right I would've liked to tweaked it some more
but run out of time now I think it's pretty acceptable here are the screen
setup here here is my white bass always doing a flattening pass on them but with
300 shirts that tends to take a while we are really pressed for time on this one
mic and process yellow magenta cyan and black about to take the bass down I got
a job I got a setup and print real quick so hang out for a second while I print
that and I'm gonna get on the road to drop these off and we'll talk about the
shop
okay so I'm all finished and loaded up making my runs to draw up some shirts
off and as soon as it gets a little lighter outside I'll talk about the shop
h-town maybe
that's where the Easton ISS show will be at
your brand Convention Center
just pulled up to the gas station where am I supposed to meet I believe his name
is Julian let's see if he's here all right got our shirts and beanies all
dropped off now it's time for a trip number two to the basically going to the
west side of town he seems big so it's not uncommon for me
to be on the road for a couple hours but let's go get these people taken care of
what is up gang I am back I'm just going to make my second drop-off but because I
had been up all night didn't get a whole lot of sleep I decided I should probably
take care of myself before I took care of my client went and got a little bit
of rest avoided rush-hour traffic as well so now I'm heading to drop these
shirts off and so the shop right what I ended up deciding was to go ahead
and move forward with it let's just say we went in put the application in love
to space put a year's worth of
essentially freighted the full year's worth of running the space
had everything ready to go and he said it I mean how can you really deny a
year's worth of rent upfront we're essentially just waiting on him to call
back and say you're good to go so they're just doing the the whole
process of criminal checks and all that stuff I'm good to go I'm not a criminal
or anything like that so it's a very exciting very exciting
that was stressful putting down that amount of money so as soon as as soon as
I hear something back we'll let you guys know and this will all kind of document
us just moving things into the shop we're gonna try and
move things as quick as we possibly can there are some licenses that you're
going to apply for because with with the home business you only needed a couple
things at DBA and Texas resale certificate so I got to look further
into what are their licenses here in Houston that are needed but technically
the shops going to be a novel but it's Houston Houston's the
he sends ginormous I'm excited about it guys and we'll
bring you all along for the ride I have really enjoyed working out a home and
the convenience but also there's things that we have plans for for this shop
space that I just can't do at home so I'm trying to expand our services and as
a lot of you guys may know if you are running a home business and you're doing
it full-time you've probably gotten those phone calls where somebody wants
to drop by a lot of people would even a lot of our clients have been completely
understanding of it of it and are just completely okay with it being a home
business but we also have gotten those phone calls where it's a home business
and we can't stop buying not that they can't stop by we did by appointment I'm
really looking forward to that as well kind of setting up the office a showroom
of samples and printed samples for people to take a look at I think a lot
of people just want to be able to walk into space for those that do want to
come in I mean we have two clients right now that want
to stop by which don't get me wrong they they can stop by but it's always a
little uncomfortable when it's your home and they want to stop by and people tend
to take advantage of that sometimes knowing that it is a home business and
I'm going to swing by it seven o'clock eight o'clock and so we're gonna stick
to some strict business hours also some of the other things that I probably
didn't mention we're waiting to do classes as one of the things as kind of
a supplement income trying to figure that out whether it's going to be an
individual one-on-one lesson or if we do a group of about six plus people and
perhaps it would be on a a weekend type basis where one day we cover the dart
and screen prep and then the second day's training the other
thing that I've been wanting to do tours tours for schools because I think it
would be kind of neat to have enough space for if elementary school middle
school high schools they you know we've put together some sort of package where
we could create a handful of designs and they get all choose from it and then
come in and actually do a hands-on printing session because I know when I
went to school I went to the Art Institute of Houston we took many field
trips to different businesses that essentially handled the printing end of
things t-shirt printing I think is screenwriting I think is a great way to
for students to get into entrepreneurship having their own
business putting their their graphic design education to work
I just those are a couple things I really have been wanting to do so that
that's it guys I've put the paperwork in and payment one year's payment down so
stay tuned as we I'm the home really waiting on is for I just talked to the
the the realtor or the manager of the space he said that it man it's a really
great foot forward because we have everything ready to go and it's looking
pretty good y'all stay tuned I'm guessing this is going to go from
running your screen printing business at home to transitioning into a shop so
I'll have to figure out a different name for this maybe just that it's just gonna
be video logs I don't know there is Tanner road and TSC is right there
thanks for tuning in guys I appreciate it that's about it for this video log
trying to record a video log and neighbors are going on and guys going up
and down the street with this four-wheeler so you know getting this
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