What to look for in a embroidery digitizing company.

The most common question we receive is what to look for in a digitizing company. There are many company to choose from with various prices and abilities. The first thing I would ask is what are you looking for? Are you a large scale embroidery business? Are you a small business? How many designs do you need digitized each month?

For the sake of this article we will assume you run a medium size business who needs about 50 designs digitized each month. So what do we look for in a digitizing company?

First would be the background of the company. We are looking for a company who has been in business for a while. Now this does not mean a new company cannot satisfy you, but it is easier to go with an establish company.

Next we will look at turn around time. Prices are important, but if you can get the cheapest prices in the world and can't deliver on time you will go nowhere in this business. So we need a company that turn things around in a reasonable time frame. The average time frame for digitizing is 1-2 days. There are many companies out there that offer much faster turn around. So this will be a toss up between price, quality and turn around time.

Price is once again important, but I feel the next most important item is quality. The quality of the designs is what sells the customer. Yes a low price fast turn around is nice, but if you can't please the client your not going to last long in this business. This is where an established company is important. You want a company that has major experience with the actual sew out of the design. Only when they understand the machine in which it will be embroidered can they provide top quality.

I hope this will help people understand that price is not everything. The most important thing in most business is return customers. If the quality of your digitizing is good you will get people coming back even if your prices are a bit higher then your competition. Furthermore I would ask any company for a few "sample" designs. As long as these are a low stitch count you shouldn't run into many problems with being provided a few samples to determine quality.

Earning A Living With Embroidery Digitizing

bought an embroidery machine to embroider your own items and to make gifts. Then you buy an embroidery digitizing program as you couldn't find your already digitized. With the cost of the program, the only way you could justify purchase is to start an embroidery digitizing business.

You make sure you get plenty of practice. wanting to leave anything to you learn to hand punch your own design so you can make sure the program is doing the embroidery digitizing the best way possible. After you are sure you know the embroidery inside and out, you start embroidering the digitized patterns. You want to have plenty of samples prove you know how to digitize embroidery patterns.

Once satisfied with your digitizing skills and once you you have plenty of samples to show, you start thinking beginning your business.

However there is more to consider. To start a crafting business, you need the same information you need for other business. You write a business plan. That's where you out what your plans are for the business. need to consider advertising, you what you are going to charge, and you need to have a plan in place for bookkeeping. Like any business, you need to look at how much competition you will have.

When consider advertising, you may come up with many You can find a web designer with skills at search engine optimization. As your embroidery digitizing business is driven by digital files, it will matter if your customer is local to you. can put a business card up at a local coffee shop or other local gathering place. decide you want to embroider some items and a booth at a craft fair. Not only you be able to sell your embroidered items, you can put out business card for your digitizing business. You may decide to start small. You join an embroidery forum there, offering embroidery digitizing services in your signature line with each post.

There are any numbers of advertising ideas you may decide to follow. Once you have the plan and advertising ideas place, you may be surprised to find that your business can grow leaps and bounds. There are many out there who do digital embroidery. A good portion these people are not to want to learn to digitize own embroidery That's where your business comes in.

One final thought, statistics show that when starting business, the first five are the toughest to get through financially. Some it may too difficult to stick with it, but if you your business will be a money maker.