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While most companies focus on lowering the prices of their services and products, research shows you should put more effort into providing high quality products and services if you want to grow and keep your customer base. Many customers are willing to pay a little more for a product or a service, as long as they get high functionality and the product arrives quickly. Here are three reasons why you should focus on product improvement, instead of lowering the price.

1. Make sure your product is easy to purchase, by investing in good software solutions for business, including onsite software, and making your website as user-friendly as possible. People don’t like to have to search for purchasing and payment options, so if another site has a comparable product or service, and has a more user-friendly website, customers are likely to purchase from them.

2. Make sure you pay enough in shipping so that your product arrives as quickly as possible. People don’t like to see “ten to fifteen days” in the delivery box. Make sure it’s closer to “two to seven days,” and offer an option that is even shorter. This is a big part of customer service, and is one that you should make sure you spend time developing.

3. Put enough money into your product so that it has a unique, “must-have” feature. This not only pushes your product above your competitors’ products, but it makes your customers feel exclusive and wealthy. Even if the feature is one that you will only use a handful of times, spend time developing it, if it will really stand out.

OnSite Business Software Demo: We here at OnSite 7 offer many opportunities that allow potential clients to get to know our software solutions for businesses before committing to the system and purchasing it for their whole company. One of the best ways of doing this is by signing up for an online demo.

All online demonstrations allow you to see exactly what the technician is doing throughout the demo, which is personalized to fit your company’s needs and show you how the software can directly save you and your business money. This means that no matter for what you need to use OnSite 7, whether it be Apparel ERP, a print estimating software, or a sign business software, the technician will walk you through the applications that will be most useful to you. The OnSite business software demo can last for as much or as little time as you would like, and are usually between a half an hour and an hour long. If you would prefer it to be longer or shorter, though, all you have to do is ask.

Once your demo is completed, you will receive access to more than 40 hours of training videos on ShopWorks Central, where you will also be able to download a fully functioning demo and test it yourself.

To request a personalized OnSite demo, all you have to do is fill out a form with your personal and company information, the number of employees at your company, your preferred day and start time for your personalized demo, and additional notes that you would like to include.

You can contact a commercial screen printing business that produces custom shirts for easy gifts for family members this holiday season. This is a quick, cheap, and effective way to scratch most people off your list, without leaving your house or doing much work. Choosing great t-shirt gifts for family is simple and easy if you follow the steps below.

1. Consider the things that each member of the family is into. Are they film buffs, or do they have a favorite saying? You can use these ideas to create a custom shirt for them.

2. Scroll through the shirts on the website you plan to order shirts from. Many offer awesome sample designs that you can order as is or customize. Use these as a basis for your design if you’re out of ideas.

3. Make bulk orders of the same design to save cash. Is there a family saying or something that your family has in common? You can use this as a basis for your design. Bulk orders usually consist of 20 or more shirts, but it depends on the company.

4. If you’re planning on doing a vacation type gift versus a traditional Christmas holiday, consider spreading the news with custom shirts. If you’re going on a skiing trip, for example, you can have shirts created that say something along the lines of “Robinson Family Mountain Lodge Ski Resort.” This would make breaking the news quite fun, especially for the kids.

5. Having kids wear matching shirts for family trips is a great idea to keep everyone in a group, especially when you travel somewhere busy for your holiday.

For more information about custom T-shirts, screen printing, and software, contact us at ShopWorks.

Improve Business Efficiency with ShopWorks

Many companies tend to aim for progress and forward movement in their business overall, and while that is a good end goal, they often don’t go about achieving it in the best way. To move forward in the long run, companies must first make sure that everything is already running as it should.

For this to happen, their employees and processes must be working  efficiently. By going back and making your business more efficient, you free up time and effort that can then be used to work on future progress and moving forward.

One of the biggest ways to improve business efficiency is investing in a good, industry-specific apparel software, such as ShopWorks. ShopWorks allows all of your employees to communicate more efficiently, helps facilitate the smooth transfer of information down a logical chain of command, and stores information to ensure your business continues to run smoothly in the future.

Don’t try to move forward before securing the business processes you already have. Call for more information about ShopWorks and to find out how it can help your business today.

OnSite – Screen Printing Shop Management Software

OnSite software has been customized for Screen Printer businesses with applications and features that were specifically designed and tested for use with apparel screen printers. These tasks include tracking production for individuals or specific departments, calculating prices based on many different elements, such as margins and volume discounts, size matrix, and store design, and production variables, such as mesh count, ink color, thumbnail images, and more.

The specialized software is already being used by numerous screen-printing businesses and they have found that it simplifies their businesses and their lives, freeing their time to deal with bigger tasks, such as expansion or improving quality rather than sorting orders and tracking production by hand. With so many software applications available today, there is no reason why you should be wasting manual labor on tasks that can be done faster and more efficiently by a computer program. Call today for more information about our screen printing shop management software.

Shops with digital printing systems offer custom shirts for all occasions and reasons. If you need shirts for an event, you can choose graphics the business already has or make your own. You can create these custom shirts for many great reasons.

1. Family Reunions. Having matching shirts to commemorate a family reunion not only allows families to connect, but also leaves everyone with a custom souvenir of their visit. Choose a graphic for the whole family, and then have each shirt customized with each family member’s name on it. This also means that no one has to wear a nametag.

2. Business Retreats. Team building activities are a popular topic in the business world. Before setting out on your next company retreat, have t-shirts made. These shirts can list the company name and names of each employee, so that everyone can learn each person in the organization’s name.

3. Special Events. Companies usually make custom shirts for special events, such as 5Ks and marathons. Create your shirts with the logo of the event and names of sponsors on the outside.

4. Gifts. Custom shirts can make great gifts for family and friends. Customize each with a personal quote or favorite character or movie.

5. Birthday Party. If you’re going all out for a birthday party, why not make custom shirts? Each can list the name of the birthday boy/girl and his or her age. This is a great way to celebrate a child’s birthday.

6. Bachelorette Party. There’s no better way to go all out for a bachelorette party than to buy matching shirts. Have each girlfriend wear her function in the wedding party.

For more information about our suite of screen printing software for making custom shirts, contact us at ShopWorks.

Finding the ideal software solutions for businesses is no easy task. Operating a business involves so many aspects. Everything from marketing to shipping must be addressed, as well as every step in-between. That is why ShopWorks has worked so hard to develop a suite of software that is ideal for businesses. It is capable of handling the many different aspects of a business. The best part is that this software will practically run your business for you, leaving you free to focus on other things.

Our software suite is called OnSite. It is more than just a few programs boxed together to provide you with basic assistance. OnSite is a suite of programs that are designed to work together. From marketing and accounting to designing and shipping, OnSite can help you manage every step from the comfort of your computer. With just a few clicks, you can see where a project is at in the process — ordering, designing, shipping, and more.

Imagine having that sort of freedom — the freedom to meet with clients and drum up business, instead of sitting behind a computer and struggling with multiple programs as you try to operate your business. OnSite can give you that freedom. Our software is made to handle multiple operations at once, so you will no longer be bound to different programs that do not integrate with each other.

Contact us today at ShopWorks to learn more about OnSite and schedule a demonstration of this useful suite of software.

ShopWorks Apparel Software Solutions – Training Sessions

We have scheduled new in-person training sessions, for the month of November, at our high-tech training facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. The first session is scheduled to run from November 6th through November 8th, and will give new OnSite 7 users a chance to become better acquainted with the software solutions for business that are open to them through our system.

This seminar has been structured for those who haven’t used the apparel manufacturing software system before and is designed to give customers knowledge about everything they need to know to use their digital printing systems, print estimating software, and more, to their fullest capabilities.

The classes last for three days, and each class is limited to 16 people, in order to give each attendee the best, most personal experience and training possible. A price break is available for companies who send multiple employees, as each additional attendee from your company only needs to pay $350 to attend, instead of the regular price of $495. The cost includes the class, the necessary materials, and breakfast and lunch for the three days of class. Travel, accommodation, dinner and extras are not covered.

Past attendees have found the in-person seminar to be vital for becoming acquainted with the company, and have found they can use the software much more effectively after attending an in-person workshop. We recommend you attend, and that you bring any managers who have a significant role in your company. It is much easier for them to learn from the developers, than for you to try to translate all of what you learned, once you return.

OnSite ERP Software for Digital Printing

The problems that you face as a digital printing business are largely different from those faced by screen printing or software companies, meaning you need a specific digital printing system to run your business as efficiently as possible. The onsite system from ShopWorx was developed by software experts, alongside digital printing managers and business owners, in order to create a program that is specifically optimized for your industry.

Here are some of the best features for digital printing companies:

1. With ShopWorx, you can model different production processes. This feature is very useful in illustrating the methods of printing that are available to customers, and which are most useful for their needs.
2. You can also track production schedules by individual worker, machine or department. This helps you to pinpoint weak spots within your company and then put changes into effect to strengthen those areas, whether it’s retraining employees or letting them go, replacing equipment or another solution.
3. The system allows you to store pricing and inventory information based on square feet, square meters, linear feet and many other variables. As a printing company, this can be incredibly useful when you have different lengths of material, or price it differently based on measurements or quality.
4. You can store production and design variables, such as material types, imprint locations, file locations and many more within your system. This is useful when you need to go back and reprint an order, or you want to check details for reference in the future. Many clients will come back year after year and want the same order, which is difficult if you don’t have the details saved.