Price for Profit with Marshall Atkinson

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News

The M&R Companies Names Danny Sweem as Next CEO – Sweem takes over the role from current CEO and founder Rich Hoffman beginning June 4, 2018.  Sweem comes to the position with extensive experience in the screen-printing industry, most recently with Nazdar SourceOne. During his time with the company, Sweem served as vice president of the company’s textile inks business unit. Prior to his time at Nazdar SourceOne, Sweem served in multiple positions at Rutland Plastics Technologies including vice president.

We recently interacted with Drew McCoy of @StinkhornPress on Twitter and he asked:

Whatever damn chemical Gildan has in their G5000s.

— Drew McCoy (@StinkhornPress) April 19, 2018

So we pinged Gildan and here is their response:

We are not aware of any problem with any chemicals in or on our shirts. Please tell your listeners that they can email communications@gildan.com to get more information!

— Gildan Online (@GildanOnline) April 30, 2018

Price for Profit Screen Printing

Aaron: Your latest book was released on March 22nd and we had the privilege of introducing it back on the 30th of March. How has it been received so far?

Terry: Let’s start right at the beginning of the book. You give a nice rundown of the different types of pricing and why. Can you give our listeners an overview of that section?

Aaron: We talked with you in Decorators in Cars with Cookie about costs and you 5 Bucket method. People need to buy the book because you walk them through it beginning to end, but my question is on the number of impressions testing you mention how can a complete newbie feel comfortable with their numbers?

Terry: In the end, someone else’s idea of pricing is meaningless without knowing your own costs. Let’s talk about gathering this data.

Aaron:  In your book, you talk about profit. Some new decorators only look at covering costs. Talk to our listeners about setting Profit Goals

Terry: Let’s talk about taking all this data and constructing a price sheet.

Aaron: You talk about building Brand Value- Let us know more about this kind of Value; for shops just starting to think beyond calculations, what’s the most important thing to know about value pricing?

Terry: OK, so just like your book, give us your closing thoughts.

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Marshall Atkinson – Gilbert, AZ-based Marshall Atkinson who is one of the leading production and efficiency experts for the decorated apparel industry. He is the owner of Atkinson Consulting, LLC. and he is a coach for shops in the industry. Marshall focuses on operational efficiency, continuous improvement and workflow strategy, business planning, employee motivation, management, and sustainability. He is a frequent trade show speaker, writes articles, is a blog author, and is the host of InkSoft’s The Big Idea podcast.