Home Embroidery Machine

Lowest Price For Embroidery Service – Smart Or Dumb?

admin — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:17:36 +0000

Should you price your home embroidery service lower than your nearest competitor?

If you do so, your business will go bust very soon!

In the competitive market such as embroidery service, many embroiders may think that what customers want is the lowest price possible.

If this were true, there will be very limited types and quality of embroidery service. Neither will there be any high end embroidery product or service in the market place.

What most people are looking for in embroidery service are choices, convenient, quality and image…not just cheap and low prices.

Many home embroiders will start off their business by low balling their prices and thinking of raising it later when they have a bigger client base.

Not to say this is a wrong approach, but it is a very difficult way to build your business, especially if you are starting from scratch.

If you do this, you will always be struggling with your competitor. There are always embroiders desperate for jobs and thus willing to lower their price even further.

How low can you go? How long can you sustain your business working for pennies?

If you want to be successful in your home embroidery business, you must be willing to offer more than just low prices.

What you need is a special business hook to identify yourself. It must be unique, interesting and provides great value to your potential customers. It must be something they cannot get from your competition.

How To Keep A Home Embroidery Business Afloat

admin — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 02:13:33 +0000

This web site was setup to assist embroiders in the following category:

1) Single head and multi head business.

2) Small embroidery shops in retail location.

3) Retail sporting goods or gift offering embroidery as an added on service.

4) Multi head shops offering only contract embroidery.

5) Manufacturing firms that include embroidery in their product line.

6) Online business offering gift items with embroidery.

Whatever category your business falls into, this web site will help you to select the right embroidery machine. The best scenario of course is a home based business using a single head personal embroidery machine that offers both embroidery and garments.

Being able to create a profitable embroidery business is the end goal. It is tough to survive on embroidery services alone. Many home based embroiders offer other services apart from embroidery.

The other services offered are making banners, tool letters sewn with zig zagging machine, heat press transfer and even screen printing. If you offer more services, you have a better chance of generating a steady revenue for your business.

One thing is for sure, you need tools and equipment to run your business. Equipment such as an embroidery machine are capital investment for you business. It will take some time to slowly depreciate the device from your accounting books.

Hence, it is essential you understand your actual business needs so you can purchase the right tool to sustain your work.

For a complete range of home embroidery machine available on Amazon.com, click here.

Pricing Structure That Will Bankrupt Your Home Embroidery Business

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:39:44 +0000

When you are first starting your embroidery business, you really don’t know where to begin when it comes to the price factor of your business.

How do you set the price of your work?

How much profit should you take? What is the minimum you should charge in order not to lose money for your projects?

The normal way of setting the price of a home embroidery work is by acquiring the price list of a competitor. Most people will try to stay one step ahead of them by lowering their charging price. Some may also charge exactly the same price as their nearest competitor.

Is this the right way to go on pricing your embroidery work?

The clear answer is No!

Many home embroiders follow this pricing structure and soon find themselves losing money for every embroidery job they take.

Some embroiders will also let their customers dictate how much they are willing to pay for their embroidery services.

Is this the right way to go?

Customers will always want to pay the least amount of money for embroidery services. If you let them dictate how much your work is worth, your home embroidery business will very soon be in the red.

It is fair to say the pricing structures mentioned above are not the right way you should follow. Embroiders are a very talented people and they should be paid fairly for their services similar to other professional services in the market.

Brother SE350 Home Embroidery Machine Review

admin — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:10:30 +0000

If you take a closer look at the Brother SE350, you’ll notice it is actually 2 machines in one. It is a computerized embroidery machine and doubles as a sewing machine also.

If you plan to move the machine around, maybe from your home to your shop, you’ll glad to know the SE350 is light weighing only 26 pounds. It is also compact measuring 20.1 x 15 x 15.2 inches which will fit in your car nicely.

For embroidery purposes, it comes with a standard 67 stitches and 98 stitch functions. The amount of stitch designs combination you can get out of the machine is quite large. Your embroidery work is only limited by your own creativity.

As a sewing machine, is has 10 styles of 1 step button holes function. Great for sewing lose shirt buttons.

If you have trouble treading the needle, you’ll love the Brother SE350. It comes with an automatic needle threader. In literally 10 seconds, you can get the thread through the needle to begin your embroidery or sewing project.

Another key feature of the SE350 is its speed. It has a maximum speed of 710 stitches per minute capable of completing your biggest and most complex embroidery design in minutes. To find a higher speed machine, you next option would have to be the industrial types.

For more information on the complete range of home embroidery machines from Amazon.com, click here.