Please excuse my tagging on your answer. We got a new computer and my direct e-mails to the list aren't going thru. I see everyone else's but not mine. Can someone help? Margaret -----Original Message----- From: amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amayausers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roland R. Irish III Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 8:55 AM To: amayausers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [amayausers] Re: Pricing One trick to have is TWO price lists for embroidery... #1...for embroidery on YOUR supplied goods-so you can get a mark up =20 on the goods (and ALWAYS figure in shipping/handling for special =20 orders-never 'eat' the shipping.) Then your normal embroidery rates, =20 PLUS digitizing costs, or 'setup' if adding lettering to 'stock' =20 designs. #2....for CUSTOMER supplied goods. You now have lost the profit on =20 marking up the goods, so GET A HIGHER PER STITCH charge! AND a setup/=20 digitizing charge. Why? Because when you figure up your profit margin, it boils down to =20 'per hour' profit rate. You quote a customer for sweatshirts- $18 =20 each plus $10 to embroider 15,000 stitches . (just an example). You =20 have figured you can do 3 shirts an hour, end up with about $45 =20 profit for the hour. ($5 each for shirt embroidery, $10 for profit on =20= the sweatshirt after shipping, etc.) But the customer runs down to =20 Wallyworld and comes back with a handful of sweatshirts he got 'off =20 the rack' for $10 each...and expects YOU to now sew them for $5 =20 each....you make $15 for one hour of work for every 3. Loss of profit-=20= costs you more than that to run your shop. So you have a 'supplied goods' price list... I have this: =95 minimum $10 per job, no matter what-hanky, hat, towel =95 digitizing rate-$15 and up-if it is real heavy duty digitizing job, =20= $3 per thousand. =95 embroidery charge- starts at $1.50 per thousand (or minimum $10) =20 and goes down for quantity jobs. I just did a robe yesterday...'hotel' style white heavy bathrobe. =20 Took hours to digitize it- 77,000 stitches, ONE item! Had to do complete sewout to test, so I had to do 154,000 stitches! We're billing it out at $150 for digitizing, and $115.00 for the =20 final sewout. They agreed up front-because they had gone to several other shops =20 that either refused to do it, said it couldn't be done, or wanted =20 $250 JUST for digitizing the design! Now I have their 'logo', and if other church members want more =20 done...its just a simple sewout from here on. Roland= =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list =========================================================== =========================================================== The AmayaUsers Mailing List Website: http://www.amayausers.com Discussion Board: http://www.amayausers.com/boards Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.amayausers.com/list ===========================================================