April 19, 2005
Embroidery
I had wanted to do up some polo shirts for the upcoming art shows. I started out wanting a simple white polo with my logo. So I started Googling.
I found thousands of results for embroidery. All of them wanted 12 piece lots or more. I need a few shirts, but certainly not 12. I finally found two companies that offered small lots. The first was Embroid Me. They quoted me $233.00 for four white polo shirts with my logo. $99.95 of that was the setup fee for the artwork. That was a little steep for my budget so I kept hunting.
I found a place called Little Creek Embroidery in Graham, NC. They offered a good selection of products with a VERY reasonable artwork charge of $25.00. The cost per piece was the price on their website plus $5.00 for the stitching. Not a bad deal since they had polo shirts for $11.84. At that price I may even just buy my polo shirts from them sans stitching. So I placed a request for a quote for 2 white and 2 gray short sleeved polos. This was on April 5th. I got the delivered price back of $80.25. Well at that price I might as well buy more.
I ended up ordering the original four shirts, plus 4 more in long sleeve, 4 caps and 4 tote bags. That got me over their 12 discount line and qualified me for a 20% discount. I could not have been happier. It ended up costing me $233ish for all 16 pieces. I received the order on April 18th which was two days before I was expecting it to show up. They will definately see more of my business and I am certainly going to pass them around. Maybe the camera club might want some shirts.
What is even better about this is that I feel good about supporting a local state business with this order.
Little Creek Embroidery in Graham, NC is a great outfit for someone needing custom embroidery. I highly recommend their product. See picture below.
I also got new business cards this week. These were from Overnight Prints and they were better than expectations as well. $39.00 (50 with shipping) for $1000 color business cards.