WHIT72

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    I work from home, I'm exclusively word of mouth. I do mostly t shirts but want to get into lettering and decals,.just can't find the time.

    It keeps me busy, I have a fulltime career already. I just enjoy doing it.

    I think if I put some effort into advertising I could easily be making some decent money, I'm just not at the point I want to get that involved, I have young kids so I want to spend the majority of my off time with them and my wife.

    Maybe when there in school full time, that changes, and when the overtime bell rings I need to answer it.because it's a considerable amount of money. So a few things take priority over this for me right now but in the future I can see that changing.

    For a college student, you could make some decent money if your work is tight and you don't have to compete with overhead.

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    That's the thing Dakota, I'm my worst enemy. When I'm asked to design something it has to be perfect, I can't simply throw something together. My roots are in graphic design so I have to make it perfect and that often costs me the most time.

    The thing is, I think customers just assume it took us five minutes to throw something together.

    Oh well, at Times I think I'll just buy a disk with a million clip art, Joe Smo dosent seem to care if it's original or not and they certainly don't want to pay for it.

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    I havent been charging either.

     

    It seems people that come to me have know idea what they want, so I put something together and they want to change or they like it but they want to add something.

     

    I dont use clipart, not that I wouldnt I just thinks its cool to wear something no one else will ever own, My customers are usually thrilled with the finished product, at times its a pain in the butt to actually get to the final product.

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    So I had a clever idea, I need your help wiith fruition.

    Has anyone ever scene any material for temporary tattoos?

    I do some tattoo art and thought it would be cool if I could cut a temporary they could put on to see now they like it.

    I've seen then for the cameo, any experience with them , quality?

    Thanks.

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    So this guy comes to me wants 24 t-shirts, two sided left front logo, six inch by ten inch on the back. I do the logo for him, takes about 60 minutes to design.

    Ten bucks a piece, I tell him. The guy thinks he's getting robbed.

    Four bucks a shirt, 1.70 in vinyl each shirt and I didn't charge for the artwork.

    Seems fair to me.

    I don't use clip art, everything is custom designed.

    Your thoughts?

    I told him to have a nice day. I don't work for peanuts, I don't pay my bills either by cutting vinyl, so I guess I can pick and choose.

    Was I being stubborn?