The Screen Printer Business

Tips and pointers on the business life of a printer.  There are hundreds of blogs on the craft of printing but not many on the craft of the business.

Welcome to the business.

Efficiency isn't about going faster and doing more but about doing the right things and then doing more of those right things Nov 18, 2025

I took a couple of years of Spanish in high school.  There was a process.  We started out with a simple word and you can guess at what it was.  Hello.
We didn't talk structure; conjugation; male and fe...

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Efficiency is also called cheating Nov 12, 2025

When I was in school we were told to do work individually.  To coordinate with others was called cheating.  We were trained to do work solo and collaboration was punished as cheating.

Every once in a...

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When I am really thriving Oct 29, 2025

I don't really vibe with Paul when he says that he has learned to be content in a bunch of different circumstances.  

2 Corintians 1:8 says:  We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters...

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Thrive Again Oct 28, 2025

It can be hard to read a word like thrive and think it has to do with you.

It is like looking at the fall leaves and the winter garden but all of our lives have seasons.  It know it sounds like somet...

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Thriving and Striving Oct 27, 2025

It's a funny thing how from time to time I will hear a pastor talk down about effort or striving like it's a waste of time but is it?  Does the scripture really say that or is that only part of the st...

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Symptoms of being out of alignment Oct 21, 2025

There is a grinding and forcing yourself to do stuff.

There is a nagging sense of incompleteness.

Some of this is because you don't have a clear idea of who you are and what you really want to be.
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What are we pretending not to know Oct 21, 2025

This was a quote from a man I had on the podcast around the topic of alignment.

"What are we pretending not to know."  There are times when we look at our lives and we can see things that are out of ...

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is your career in alignment? Oct 21, 2025

I spoke with a young woman a dozen years ago who through tears told me that she didn't know what to do with her life.  She felt that she should have it all figured out at the age of 18.

I was talking...

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Roy Disney was right about values Oct 21, 2025

When we are living in alignment with what we believe it may be difficult and it may be a grind but it's not a burden of regret.  It's not that nagging sense that you hope nobody discovers that you hav...

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Your employees are very aware of your shortcomings Oct 21, 2025

The dumbest smart people I know behave as though talking about their shortcomings will keep their employees from seeing them. The employees are not just aware but talk about these things among themsel...

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From Distraction to Fulfillment Sep 27, 2025

When I (54 years old) was talking with Marty Miller (61 yrs old) we went over our youth and what is different now.  There was marketing and there were people trying to sell us stuff but we only had 3 ...

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