Top Design of 2012 Announced And Three Lucky Customers win $50 Off Their Order
Jan/120
Thank you to everyone who voted on our new trendy Easy Prints®, customizable layouts by our own Great Dane Graphics. Many voted, but three rose to the top as the top three layouts. They are Easy Prints layout QLW-60, QBK-180 and QSW-47. All three of these had the fashion look like you find at Abercrombie or Hollister. They are easy to make your own by just changing the text, and choosing a clip art, colors and size. If you are a current dealer, you can preview a proof on your free Easy View™, or if you are new to Transfer Express, your order can be placed by phone.
Our three lucky voters were also chosen and they are Arthur from Initial Reaction, Karla from Personal Pizazz and Leyland from String it Up. Each won $50 towards their next order! Congratulations!
Easy Prints® layout QLW-60 voted the number one design for 2012
5 More Custom Transfer Layouts and a New Binder Catalog
Jan/120
Which do you like the best? Vote for your favorites on our blog! All 15 of our Great Dane Graphics sneak peeks are shown online and we are looking for your feedback.
New All Sports Layout QAP-46
New Cheerleading Layout QCH-132
New Football Layout QFB-153
New Fire Layout QLW-60
New Music Layout QMU-85
We will screen-print your design, and ship the same day if you order a one color transfer by 11 am EST, and in just 2 days for a multi-color transfer. Once your custom transfer is received it can be applied to your apparel in just seconds with a heat press. There is not an easier way to create custom apparel. You are creating your customer’s apparel without the need for art skills or programs, or expensive and messy screen printing equipment.
Like what you see? These and many others are available in the new personalized binder Idea Book™. The binder catalog gives you a great presentation when you meet with potential customers and is a great companion to the online Easy View™. It is the iron-on industry’s largest, filled with thousands of customizable layouts. The book is color coded in sections including fashion, occasions, school, business and sports. Each section is started with full color photos showing the potential for completed apparel on models. The binder cover is personalized with a one line personalization of your choice giving you a professional sales tool.
First Sneak Peek of Great Dane Designs To Create Your Custom Transfers
Jan/120
Here are the first five designs of the new Easy Prints® customizable layout collection from Great Dane Graphics. These are now orderable and can be customized for your needs using Easy View™, our free design tool for all Transfer Express dealers.
The first five designs include a layout from our recreation, mascot, religion, all star and basketball sections. But the section is just a starting point and the layout can be customized to fit your specific needs. If you love the look of the basketball layout but want it for your baseball team—just change the basketball player to a baseball player and the text to fit your needs.
Get creative with colors too! You can show your customer the same design in 1 color or 2 colors but more can be added – just put what other colors are needed and the color placement in notes and our design team will make it happen.
These five designs will be five of the choices for the ‘vote for your favorite design’ on January 18th. Three lucky voters will win $50 towards their own order.
New Recreation Layout QMS-113
New All Star Layout QAS-113
New Mascots Layout MAS-141
New Religion Layout QRE-70
New Basketball Layout QBK-180
Shooting for Basketball Printing Profits
Dec/110
The NBA Strike has been settled, college and high school basketball has begun and local recreational teams are getting started as well. Now is the time to help these teams with uniforms and apparel.
We can help you uniform the team to start. Reversible jerseys are especially easy with custom transfers. See our new video! Most basketball uniforms only use the digits 0-5 when numbering keeping your costs low—a pack of each digit will number an entire team! Don’t forget to offer printed bags, all basketball players carry their shoes to the court and our CAD-PRINTZ™ Opaque work great on the popular nylon cinch bags.
Reversible jerseys are easy with custom transfers.
Even greater profits are available from spirit wear. We have 120 layouts ready to customize for your team’s fans. Use Easy View™ to make the team up a flyer to pass out to family members.
Creating Custom Halloween Transfers
Oct/110
In a previous blog we introduced our new Extreme Halloween stock prints and showed you how to customize with name drops. There were five different design choices, all in full color, but sometimes your customer wants something that is all their own, and Easy View™ can help you create a print to meet their needs.
By using the Halloween clip art and your own text, you can customize any of the Easy Prints® layouts.
Don’t limit yourself to just the Holiday section-any of the thousands of professionally created layouts can be customized for Halloween with the use of clip art and your choice of text. In the examples, we used layouts from the Alternative Fashion, Anywear, Basketball and Holiday sections, just using holiday clip art and text to fit the event. Be creative with your text using fun phrases your customer might like.
Is your customer looking for a print for a children’s Halloween party? Order a one color print, press on a white shirt and provide fabric markers to use as the party craft. One customer told me they just provided washable markers and the kids were thrilled that when washed the coloring was removed and they could start all over again!
Are you ready for some football T-shirt profits?
Sep/110
The team is playing, but is your store ready for the sales? If you don’t have the time or talent to create art, don’t worry, our design team will have you on the field in no time.
Easy Prints® football layout QFB-146
One of our customers sent this photo a couple of weeks ago saying his sales were a touchdown! It is our football layout QFB-146 with his team’s motivational saying added. A lot of teams will use an inspirational quote during the season and this particular layout allows you to add it easily. It took him just seconds to create using the online Easy View, and it has been selling for weeks. We have 150 different football layouts ready for you to customize.
It’s Festival Time-A Great Opportunity for Shirt Sales
Jun/110
The weather is finally warm and the festivals have started. Maybe it is because we were stuck inside all winter, but these seem especially popular in the Midwest. Every weekend you can find a church festival locally as well as larger ones in the major cities. I love the food you find at these festivals, while others like to try their luck at the Monte Carlo events. But every festival needs shirts for those working the festival, or as many to sell as well. Just search festivals in your area online to find a listing of area festivals (and possible customer list) Our Easy Prints® can help you and you don’t even need to be an artist—just creative. Use any section and add clip art and text to fit your needs. Here locally this weekend we have common festivals like a Strawberry Festival and Brew Week Fest to the more unusual like the Duct Tape Festival (Miss America will even be there in an outfit she created with Duct tape!) Just to show you how creative you can be, I used layouts from the event, championship and fashion sections and tried my hand at customizing for each of these events! Ok – the Duct tape one was a challenge and I chose to use a duck, which is the mascot for the company headquarters of a duct tape company located in the festival’s location!
QEV-57- Customized layout from the Events section
QWN-16 - Customized layout from the Champtionship section
QAT-9 customized layout from the Fashion section
End of School Year T-Shirt Sales Ideas
Apr/110
Just because the school year is nearing the end, it doesn’t mean schools can’t be a great source for sales. Many year end events are in the planning stages and custom printed t-shirts are a big part of those events. Graduations are occurring at all levels-Kindergarten, Middle School and High School. Most elementary schools have a field day to close out the year. And the High School prom is a traditional year end event. We have an entire layout section dedicated to Proms or use the theme and pick a layout to customize for their shirts. In the Elementary School section we have several choices for field days t-shirts, and many class list and graduation designs to choose. Use your local school’s website to find out the date and coordinator of each of these events. Then use your Easy View online tool to create a custom apparel flyer for the school. Take this to your presentation and with the work already done for them, you are sure to win the sale!
Prom design using Easy Prints® layout QSL-156
Field Day design using Easy Prints® layout QYT-74
Use Your Custom Clip Art in Easy View
Mar/110
Custom Clip Art is your art specifically created for your use in our Easy Prints® layouts is now available for use in your online design tool, Easy View™. This is great to have if your local school has an unusual mascot or its own specific logo. Or if you do business with a company that uses their logo for many different types of apparel – the company bowling team shirts, softball team or company picnic apparel, you can access the logo and use it in the Easy Prints® layouts. Generate more business by showing the Easy View™ proofs with their own logo as the clip art! Plus you can use Easy View™ to create proofs of stickers, banners and wall graphics!
To use your Custom Clip Art, just login at TransferExpress.com and click the new My Clip Art section under the My Account area in the left tool bar. You will see a visual of any custom clip art you archived for you as well as its assigned clip art number for your use. Use this number in place of the clip art shown in any Easy Prints® layout, and customize with your text and colors and click the “Easy View” button for an instant proof. Copy and paste to a flyer you make for the school or company or email a couple of ideas to the decision makers.
To have custom clip art created, just place an order using the logo in any design and pay a small fee to have us archive the logo for you. It is then available for your Easy View™ use!
Layouts QBA-8 and QEV-32 using a Custom Clip Art logo in Easy View™
Irish Eyes Are Smiling on St Patrick’s Day Ideas
Mar/110
Everyone wears green on St. Patrick’s Day—let us help you capture these sales with shirt ideas for the festivities. Does your town have a St. Patrick’s Day parade? Organizers may be receptive to selling shirts for the event. Is there a local Irish restaurant or pub that would be interested in shirts for their celebration? Or you can stock your store with a popular saying. The ideas are endless…. Easy View™ lets you get creative! Just create with a favorite saying and personalize! These designs can also be used to create repositionable wall graphics, that can be taken down and saved for next year or a banner for your customer’s group to carry in the parade. Or hand out stickers with one of these designs!
Use Easy View™ to create St. Patrick's Day designs for shirts and banners.
