Aug. 18, 2026
Episode 11: Embroidery Mythbusting
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Are common embroidery myths costing you time, money, and quality? In this episode of the Embroidery Profit Podcast, Hope Yoder busts eight of the biggest machine embroidery myths shared in Facebook groups—and replaces them with practical advice for creating better embroidery and a more profitable business.
From choosing the right embroidery stabilizer to mastering hat embroidery, selecting a multi-needle machine, testing designs, getting clients, and deciding whether to invest in digitizing software, this episode gives new and experienced embroiderers the clarity they need to stop guessing.
If you want fewer puckers, better registration, cleaner embroidery, faster workflow, and more confidence in your embroidery business, press play.
In this episode, Hope busts these embroidery myths:
- “Just add more stabilizer or topping—it will fix everything.”
- “If you can wear it, don’t tear it.”
- “Just load the design and sew it out—it’s easy.”
- “I don’t need more than 10 needles because I never use that many thread colors.”
- “You need a huge social-media following and a killer website to get embroidery clients.”
- “I can embroider anything.”
- “I need the best—and most expensive—embroidery digitizing software.”
- “You have to steam or heat hats before embroidering them.”
You’ll learn:
- How to select the right stabilizer for woven fabric, stretch fabric, polos, hats, tote bags, and more.
- When to use tearaway stabilizer versus cutaway stabilizer.
- Why using extra stabilizer can make puckering, cupping, and registration problems worse.
- The one habit that protects expensive client garments: testing every new design, fabric, and product first.
- Why more needles improve workflow, efficiency, and profitability in a commercial embroidery shop.
- How in-person networking and relationship-building can generate embroidery clients without a massive following.
- Why the right audience matters more than the number of social-media followers you have.
- What you really need on an embroidery business website, including custom inquiry forms that help turn leads into sales.
- Why outsourcing embroidery digitizing can save money and buy back your time.
- How to avoid poor-quality auto-digitized designs.
- Why hats require proper hooping, cap-specific digitizing, and a different strategy than flat embroidery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Hope Yoder, you're listening to the embroidery profit podcast, and today we're going to just bust some moves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, not really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to bust myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in the embroidery world, especially in Facebook groups, there are so many people that are often more helpful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they are right and you'll hear crazy things and maybe you didn't know they were crazy when you first started out Or maybe you're listening to me right now and you're a newbie in the embroidery world and I want to help you So you don't believe everything that you hear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna bust the top eight myths that I hear people saying or read in Facebook groups and to do this episode I had
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[SPEAKER_00]: help from some of my good friends in my Facebook group called the embroidery lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I made a post a while ago saying, tell me, what are things that people told you when you first started embroidery that you now know simply weren't true?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so here's myth number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is from Doug in my community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And his myth was just add more stabilizer, our topping, and that'll fix everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, let's take a quick break.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever thought about stabilizers and thought, man, it's a mystery I'm never going to get this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I want to tell you about my online course called Stabilizer Made Simple.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the course, I'm going to break down what each one is, when to use it and how to pair it perfectly with your design and your fabric to eliminate puckers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can find this in the show notes below or go to HopeYoder.com and look under the
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get right back into the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not using the right stabilizer to start with, you haven't matched or paired the fabric with the stabilizer, using more of it is just gonna cause more of a hot mess.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So using more isn't better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if we were talking about drinking water, more is better, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should all of us need to drink more water, my self included.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But using more of the wrong stabilizer is just gonna compound the problem, which means more puckering, more cupping, more off registration stitches.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanna remind you that a stabilizer's job is to do one thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to stabilize your fabric
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[SPEAKER_00]: while you're embroidering it and then it needs to give that natural drape back to the fabric when you remove it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So adding more is not the answer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I do want to mention, if you tend to struggle with stabilizers and you don't know which one to pair with which fabric, I have a resource you might be interested in called stabilizer made simple.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an online course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or you guys can grab in the link below the free SOS download form that's going to help you with things like Polos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that was myth number one adding more of the stabilizer will fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that leads us into myth number two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this one was kind of for me, I've heard this forever and even some of my own staff have said this when they came on board.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, guys, this is probably one of my biggest pet peeves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I feel like, I may be biased, but I feel like this is the biggest myth out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready for it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wear it, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna repeat that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wear it, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that myth means, if you're wearing a garment, like the shirt I'm wearing today, you should not use tear away, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wear it, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that wrong?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first of all, Taraway's stabilizer is perfect for woven fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now the shirt that I'm wearing, if you guys are watching on video on YouTube, this has absolutely no stretch, okay?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is non-stretchy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not like a polo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if I was going to embroider on the shirt that I'm wearing, this would be called woven fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: no stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like the shirt I'm wearing in Oxford shirt, the old original Levi's or Wrangler jeans with no stretch, denim with no stretch, a canvas tote bag like those big, beautiful ones from L and L being.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Tara way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is made for non-stretchy fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you can wear it, don't tear it implies that nobody in the universe everywhere's anything that has stretch in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we know that's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why that's myth number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to bust that myth, the answer is to learn what stabilizers you should use with fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, we cover all that in my course, but I'm just gonna give you a rundown, okay,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like fine wine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're not into wine, but you've heard of wine pairing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For instance, red wine is more, um, not more, but red wine is usually what they say to eat with beef and maybe white wine is for fish and chicken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So how do we reply that or apply that to stabilizer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Terroway, I just told you, is for anything that doesn't stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't matter if you're going to, it's going to be a tote bag or a Richardson hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter if you wear it or not, Terroway is your best option.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if it does have stretch, like what I do almost all day long every day, which are those left chest logos on Polos that are made out of dry fit,
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[SPEAKER_00]: that is very stretchy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so instead of using taroay, I would use a cutaway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a cutaway is going to remove the stretch from that knit polo while I embroider it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That means that the registration stays intact.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't pucker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't cup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't look yucky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when I'm done embroidering it, I'm going to unhoop it and trim away the cut away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's going to give the stretch back to the fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I can get over my head and it's going to drape nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you can tear it, I'm sorry, if you can wear it, don't tear it myth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The answer is, learn what fabric pairs with which stabilizer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so we've had two myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go into the third myth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this came from Shana in my embroidery lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's myth number three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just put the design in the machine and so it out, it's easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, myth number three from Shana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a good one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just put that design in the machine and sew it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it was easy, I wouldn't feel the need to do a podcast or to teach courses to help people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't need my 30 years in the embroidery industry if it was that easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would have started out with everything being perfection.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But...
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[SPEAKER_00]: you guys, you know that it's not even possible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to make a lot of mistakes and border a lot of ugly until you figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the myth of just put the design in the machine and so it out is easy implies that anybody could do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Shana, I love that, because every experienced embrother felt this way in their soul when they started out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when they started out and everything went wrong and they couldn't figure out what went wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that meant they couldn't fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a vicious cycle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, embrudery, honestly, embrudery in my studio, we do laser engraving UV printing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a DTF transfer printer, and we have embroidery machines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also have a hot foil Bible stamping machine, a hat press, yada yada yada.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything that we do requires learning, an embroidery has a lot more moving parts and pieces, and I don't want to discourage you at all, because it is the most profitable thing we do in our business, but it's also the hardest to learn because of a myth like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: just put in the machine and it'll do it for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Learning from an expert whether it's a YouTube video, a course, a blog, and then repeating what you learned doing it yourself until you figure out what works for you is the truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's going to take some effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just put it in the machine and have it at perfect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: hogwash, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Sean, I thank you so much for submitting that myth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love to say this and I know Sean has heard this if she's in my embroidery Facebook lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's two types of embroiderers, one, two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, those who test on scrap fabric first and number two, those who wish they did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So before I go and I actually embroider on the garment, the left chest polo, let's just say or the left chest logo on a polo, I'm going to stitch that design out on fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with the right stabilizer, with the right color threads, and I'm gonna look at it and make sure that digitizing is done well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure my machine doesn't have any hit ups going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And anything that happens bad during that test, I can fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That way I'm ready to rock and roll and have a good result on the garment that my client paid me for and trusted me with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys test everything, the new design, the new fabric, the new product.
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[SPEAKER_00]: always test that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's faster to skip it and just to go right in it until you ruin that $150 Peter Malar polo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just test it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that brings us to mid number four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is one for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I submitted my own myth and there's a whole podcast and don't remember what episode it's maybe three or four where I talk about, um, don't buy an embroidery machine until you listen to this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number four, I get asked this all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I could probably show you 20 DMs right now in my Facebook or Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number four, I don't need more than 10 needles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never use that many colors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, needles are not about how many colors are in your design.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Needles are about efficiency and workflow, especially if you're embroidery for profit, you're doing commercial embroidery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll just talk to you about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, you can listen to that full episode,
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[SPEAKER_00]: later, if you've missed one of our earlier ones, but let's take a 20 needle machine, which is what I have in my shop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have 20 needles, and if your left chest polo, most of them don't even have more than five colors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it could be a purple, a pink, a lavender, sage, teal, white, black, red, navy, you get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of colors and logos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, when you embroider on a polo, you need a type of needle called a ballpoint needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, if you had 20 needles, I could have 10 needles with ballpoint or, sorry, 10 thread spools.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you follow the path down, then I have 10 ballpoint needles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You could be red white blue, pink, green, all those 10 standard colors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what if I needed to embroider a hat?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't need a ballpoint needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need a sharp needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if I have 10 more needles to choose from, then I can have sharp needles on 10 here, and ballpoint needles on 10 there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now all I've got to do is snap my fingers, click my heels three times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I can pull that thread through all the thread guides and quickly and efficiently be embroidering with the right needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you only have ten needles then you only have five needles that you're going to set up for stretch and five four ballpoint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in my mind,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would encourage you today to buy that machine that has the many, many needles or the most needles that your budget allows because more needles means you're going to get the job done faster and the faster you can get the job done the more money you're going to make.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully that makes sense for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're looking at a 10 needle,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What you'd look and see what else you can afford because if you're working for profit, efficiency is everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want you to buy something that you're going to out row in six months like I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So go back and check episode three if you want to find out more in-depth about needles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've done four myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's move on to myth number five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't remember who submitted this in the Facebook group, but somebody did and I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Myth number five is about social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes I hear my students or my friends or my group members comment about how their age influences social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they feel like they're too old to get into social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're never too old to learn, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So myth number five is you need a huge social media following and a killer website to get clients.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I think that myth that you need a huge social media following and a killer website to get clients, I think that's a myth, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it stops people from ever getting started because they have this bad mindset that I could never be like her who has 100,000 followers and is posting on social media and doing 500 sweatshirts a day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to tell you, most of those posts that you see probably are old posts where they did that one time in their life, right, and it may not be true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if it is, I'm so happy for that person, but a lot of what you see on social media is all the stuff that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: not be completely true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So don't ever judge yourself with somebody else because you're right where you need to be today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're listening to this podcast, I'm here to applaud you and tell you you're growing already by listening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So does having a huge website or a huge social media following help?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that it could, but if your social media following is something you got from when you did dog tricks from your dog, and now that you're using that same social media to sell embroidered products, the people that signed up for the funny dog tricks could care less about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: what you're embroidering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not your clients.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not going to buy from you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So even if you did have a huge number of following, then may not convert to sales at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know a lot of people who don't even have a website, they just sell on Facebook groups.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that's not me, but I know people that do a lot of business.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also know people who do strictly craft shows and artists and shows, and they make a ton of money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they make more and a week than I make in a week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's not true that you need a huge social media following or a killer website to get clients.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do know that it could help, especially if you fill social media with the right people who are interested in buying what you are selling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It also could mean that there's more people getting eyes on to your products.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I found helps grow your business more than anything is not a killer website and it is not social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I'm going to tell you that answer is to bust that myth and it's to invest in high yield activities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: things that are going to move the needle from zero to hero.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you go back and listen to episode seven, and I talk in detail about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what is a high-yield activity?
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, it's networking in person.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting my left chest polo out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting my black pants on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting my business cards in my pocket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to show up and start
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to refer them if I trust them, if I like them, if I know them, the no-like trust, I'm going to refer my clients to their businesses and they're going to refer their clients to me and we might even do business with each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love B&I networking and that's what's helped me tremendously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So listen to episode seven, but to be clear,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think your message needs to be clear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are going to be on social media and you're going to start posting reels, make sure that you're consistently posting about your business and you're not throwing in a dog or cat video in between there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The people who show up for you on social media, whether you have two followers or a hundred thousand followers, you want to make sure they're the right people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the people who have a problem, they can't find good quality embroidery and you could be the solution to your problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what makes a difference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, if you fill your social media with the right people, it doesn't matter how many people you have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and just saying that if you are building a web page, if I could give you a tip, go look at my
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're on my web page, I have a custom form, a custom inquiry form, and I got to be honest, that's like a dumb moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You look at it, you're like, yeah, everybody should have that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why have been in business for 30 years?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in the last, up until the last three years, I didn't have these forms on my web page, and I was leaving money on the table that is my least favorite activity in the universe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Missing opportunities, missing income.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So those custom forms if you're looking at my web page, they bring in business.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So obviously I have the things that are stock things that we sell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what if a client needs something special?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They want an easy way to reach out to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so my forms are very specific.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have to enter their name, their cell phone number, their shipping address, an image of what they're looking for and their logo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that way, I can turn that lead into a sale by having those forms super easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So clients on our website use them daily, but before, think about all the money that I missed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are building a website, I would recommend bare minimum, bare minimum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have a home page, and then go right into about me, all your privacy policies, and then get some custom forms up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not gonna cost you an arm and a leg to start that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, while social media is not a requirement, relationships are, if you're doing business, B to B.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this one came from a Facebook group member.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, myth number six before they bought their machine and right after they bought the machine, was this, I can embroider anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you've been embroidery in a while, I bet you like me thought that, like, oh, my gosh, I'm an embroidered inside of a pocket on jeans, very Bradley bag.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an embroiderer on a backpack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a headband.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a baby onesie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a shoe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, every new embroiderer thinks this and every experience embroider knows what's coming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what you can't embroider.
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[SPEAKER_00]: until you're doing it live and for instance there are certain things maybe you don't have the right whoops yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, like I use hoop text and I use mighty hoops and sometimes I can't get my mighty hoop in that area and maybe it's because I don't have the right size mighty hoop or maybe it's because the pocket is so has such a little entrance there's no way to get inside of there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So myth number six is while you can embroider in a lot of places.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You may not be able to embroider everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're working on a flatbed hobby home machine, all right, and then you switch to a multi-need home machine that has a very thin throat plate or free arm system, you're going to be able to embroider in a lot of places, but it still doesn't mean you can embroider everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, you guys were down to the last two myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Myth number seven, this one is gonna save you thousands of dollars you can think me later for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, you ready?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to buy the best embroidery digitizing software and I see in all the Facebook groups, oh, which embroidery software is the best?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And people will drop some of the top three names there and I gotta be honest,
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[SPEAKER_00]: most commercial embrothers never learned a digitized, they outsource digitizing to someone they've vetted that they know can do a good job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My favorite phrase is smart people pay for speed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe you know how to digitize and kudos for that I can digitize, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it and so for that reason I spend my time making money not sitting there digitizing
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[SPEAKER_00]: knowing I'm going to have to go back and edit it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for someone like me buying that thousand multiple thousand dollar digitizing software isn't necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and a lot of my friends who run really good successful shops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: None of them digitize either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're new listening to this, just by a software program, it doesn't need to cost you thousands of dollars, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You do need something that has basic editing capabilities like adding text, maybe deleting a portion of the design, maybe printing a template.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you really want to learn digitizing good, then maybe this myth isn't true for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But for most of us and most of my friends, when I see in those Facebook groups by this brand or that brand and I know they're about $5,000 a piece, you probably don't need that and you could save that money and reinvest it into some hoops or different things that you may need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: later that will make you money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for me personally I've been in the industry 30 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I send my logos out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do the editing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do full digitizing or rather I do edit them when they come back sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't do the full digitizing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that there's people way better than me at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So paying someone else to digitize could be saving you thousands of dollars, it could be freeing up and buying back some of your time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just think about that before you drop all that money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While we're talking about digitizing, I want to throw in a little nugget.
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[SPEAKER_00]: auto digitizing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've heard that term before, I'm going to tell you right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, that is a four letter word for professionals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Auto digitizing usually is just awful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, it's not good quality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you are going to be buying an embroidery program, please don't buy one based on if it has an auto digitizing program, you're never going to get great results with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's never good idea, it always looks terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pros like me can spot auto digitizing all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you do outsource, make sure they're not auto digitizing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whew, all right, last myth, number eight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is from my good friend Corey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's also, I agreed with him and I had to laugh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Cory is an expert at embroidery and hats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope to have him on the podcast on a future one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this is what he posted in the embroidery lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready for it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Steam your hats before you embroider them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: hogwash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have to steam your hat or heat it up or put it on a hat press before you embroider it, you're probably doing something wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're probably not hooping it correctly, or maybe you just haven't learned the skills to get good embroidery on a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe it's time to think about upgrading your embroidery machine to get one that does hats better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: some don't do hats very well while they do it, they may not do it well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have to steam something and hack a hat before you embroider it, that's never a good way to start off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Think about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're in your shop and you have about 100 to 1000 hats to embroider, do you don't have much time that's going to take you to steam each hat first?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not a work
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[SPEAKER_00]: Something that you can sustain and it just makes me thank you guys Chris.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be cream Now if you're multitasking on your phone, you probably stop for a minute and said what don't That's crispy cream donuts all right hot donuts now you don't need hot hats now You just need to master embroidery hats So the real solution is to hoop properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was one of the things that I learned early on
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I tried to master hats right away before I mastered flats, and that wasn't a wise decision.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would always start with learning the easy stuff and then working your way up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I finally mastered hats, I made a YouTube video more as an SOP, a standard operating procedure for my staff, but I put it on my YouTube channel at the Hope Yoder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I go from putting the cap frame on the machine to how to hoop properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So be sure you go check that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're never going to be able to take every hat and steam it or heat it up and then stitch it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's just crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do want to mention when we're talking about hats is you cannot take any embroidery design that will fit on a cap and expect it to embroider well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Caps have to be digitized specifically for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like, you know, when you're burning a hat, it's like you're burning on our chicken rotisserie, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so you've got different push and pull compensations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the registration is going to be all wonky if you just throw a design that was made for a flat polo onto a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're sending your designs out to a digitizer or your purchasing designs, you want to make sure that you ask specifically for it to be digitized for a hat or if you're buying a design, make sure it's specific for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the way that a hat works is it starts at the bottom in the center and it stitches out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then it's going to go this way and from the bottom, center out, left, center, right, and works its way up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and you can see that when you finally get a design that's digitized for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So don't just think you can use any design that's a huge mistake and also for hats, another tip is that is in the fat of the letters, the better that it's going to stitch on a hat, especially if you're working in that center scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you're just starting out with hats, make sure, number one, the design is digitized for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, make sure you're hooping it properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And number three, you might want to start with a hat that doesn't have a center seam, so that would be a five panel hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like one of the classic auto-OTTO hats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, today we have busted eight of the top miss in the embroidery world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And with that, we're going to close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We busted eight of the top embroidery miss.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you've chuckled a little bit and you've learned something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to learn to be a pro in the least amount of time, here's a resource I have for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Entire framework and my system and workflow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't have to spend years figuring out what you're doing wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can get right back up into making money and quit staying stuck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to see you in one of my next courses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the link will be in the show notes or you can go to hopeyotor.com and look under the tab courses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's jump right back in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If this podcast is made you laugh, cringe, or think of someone else, share it with them, tag them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a myth that I didn't cover DM me, maybe we'll do a part two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Hope Yoder, and you've been listening to the embroidery profit podcast, and I'll see you here next time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hi, everyone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My name is Hope Yoder, you're listening to the embroidery profit podcast, and today we're going to just bust some moves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, not really.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to bust myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in the embroidery world, especially in Facebook groups, there are so many people that are often more helpful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Then they are right and you'll hear crazy things and maybe you didn't know they were crazy when you first started out Or maybe you're listening to me right now and you're a newbie in the embroidery world and I want to help you So you don't believe everything that you hear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So we're gonna bust the top eight myths that I hear people saying or read in Facebook groups and to do this episode I had
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[SPEAKER_00]: help from some of my good friends in my Facebook group called the embroidery lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I made a post a while ago saying, tell me, what are things that people told you when you first started embroidery that you now know simply weren't true?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so here's myth number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this is from Doug in my community.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And his myth was just add more stabilizer, our topping, and that'll fix everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey guys, let's take a quick break.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever thought about stabilizers and thought, man, it's a mystery I'm never going to get this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I want to tell you about my online course called Stabilizer Made Simple.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In the course, I'm going to break down what each one is, when to use it and how to pair it perfectly with your design and your fabric to eliminate puckers.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can find this in the show notes below or go to HopeYoder.com and look under the
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get right back into the show.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're not using the right stabilizer to start with, you haven't matched or paired the fabric with the stabilizer, using more of it is just gonna cause more of a hot mess.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So using more isn't better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if we were talking about drinking water, more is better, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You should all of us need to drink more water, my self included.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But using more of the wrong stabilizer is just gonna compound the problem, which means more puckering, more cupping, more off registration stitches.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I wanna remind you that a stabilizer's job is to do one thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to stabilize your fabric
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[SPEAKER_00]: while you're embroidering it and then it needs to give that natural drape back to the fabric when you remove it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So adding more is not the answer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I do want to mention, if you tend to struggle with stabilizers and you don't know which one to pair with which fabric, I have a resource you might be interested in called stabilizer made simple.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's an online course.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or you guys can grab in the link below the free SOS download form that's going to help you with things like Polos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that was myth number one adding more of the stabilizer will fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that leads us into myth number two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this one was kind of for me, I've heard this forever and even some of my own staff have said this when they came on board.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You know what, guys, this is probably one of my biggest pet peeves.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I feel like, I may be biased, but I feel like this is the biggest myth out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready for it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wear it, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna repeat that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wear it, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that myth means, if you're wearing a garment, like the shirt I'm wearing today, you should not use tear away, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you can wear it, don't tear it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why is that wrong?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, first of all, Taraway's stabilizer is perfect for woven fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now the shirt that I'm wearing, if you guys are watching on video on YouTube, this has absolutely no stretch, okay?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It is non-stretchy, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not like a polo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if I was going to embroider on the shirt that I'm wearing, this would be called woven fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: no stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So like the shirt I'm wearing in Oxford shirt, the old original Levi's or Wrangler jeans with no stretch, denim with no stretch, a canvas tote bag like those big, beautiful ones from L and L being.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Tara way.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is made for non-stretchy fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you can wear it, don't tear it implies that nobody in the universe everywhere's anything that has stretch in it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we know that's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why that's myth number one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So to bust that myth, the answer is to learn what stabilizers you should use with fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And again, we cover all that in my course, but I'm just gonna give you a rundown, okay,
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's like fine wine.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're not into wine, but you've heard of wine pairing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For instance, red wine is more, um, not more, but red wine is usually what they say to eat with beef and maybe white wine is for fish and chicken.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So how do we reply that or apply that to stabilizer?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Terroway, I just told you, is for anything that doesn't stretch.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it doesn't matter if you're going to, it's going to be a tote bag or a Richardson hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter if you wear it or not, Terroway is your best option.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if it does have stretch, like what I do almost all day long every day, which are those left chest logos on Polos that are made out of dry fit,
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[SPEAKER_00]: that is very stretchy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so instead of using taroay, I would use a cutaway.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And a cutaway is going to remove the stretch from that knit polo while I embroider it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That means that the registration stays intact.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't pucker.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't cup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't look yucky.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when I'm done embroidering it, I'm going to unhoop it and trim away the cut away.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that's going to give the stretch back to the fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I can get over my head and it's going to drape nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you can tear it, I'm sorry, if you can wear it, don't tear it myth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The answer is, learn what fabric pairs with which stabilizer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, so we've had two myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go into the third myth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this came from Shana in my embroidery lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And here's myth number three.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love this one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just put the design in the machine and so it out, it's easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, myth number three from Shana.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's such a good one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just put that design in the machine and sew it out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's not easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If it was easy, I wouldn't feel the need to do a podcast or to teach courses to help people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't need my 30 years in the embroidery industry if it was that easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would have started out with everything being perfection.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But...
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[SPEAKER_00]: you guys, you know that it's not even possible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You got to make a lot of mistakes and border a lot of ugly until you figure out what went wrong and how to fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the myth of just put the design in the machine and so it out is easy implies that anybody could do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Shana, I love that, because every experienced embrother felt this way in their soul when they started out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then when they started out and everything went wrong and they couldn't figure out what went wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that meant they couldn't fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It was a vicious cycle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, embrudery, honestly, embrudery in my studio, we do laser engraving UV printing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a DTF transfer printer, and we have embroidery machines.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also have a hot foil Bible stamping machine, a hat press, yada yada yada.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Everything that we do requires learning, an embroidery has a lot more moving parts and pieces, and I don't want to discourage you at all, because it is the most profitable thing we do in our business, but it's also the hardest to learn because of a myth like this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: just put in the machine and it'll do it for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Learning from an expert whether it's a YouTube video, a course, a blog, and then repeating what you learned doing it yourself until you figure out what works for you is the truth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so that's going to take some effort.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just put it in the machine and have it at perfect.
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[SPEAKER_00]: hogwash, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, Sean, I thank you so much for submitting that myth.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love to say this and I know Sean has heard this if she's in my embroidery Facebook lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's two types of embroiderers, one, two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number one, those who test on scrap fabric first and number two, those who wish they did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So before I go and I actually embroider on the garment, the left chest polo, let's just say or the left chest logo on a polo, I'm going to stitch that design out on fabric.
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[SPEAKER_00]: with the right stabilizer, with the right color threads, and I'm gonna look at it and make sure that digitizing is done well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Make sure my machine doesn't have any hit ups going on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And anything that happens bad during that test, I can fix it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That way I'm ready to rock and roll and have a good result on the garment that my client paid me for and trusted me with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you guys test everything, the new design, the new fabric, the new product.
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[SPEAKER_00]: always test that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's faster to skip it and just to go right in it until you ruin that $150 Peter Malar polo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Don't do it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just test it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, that brings us to mid number four.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this is one for me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I submitted my own myth and there's a whole podcast and don't remember what episode it's maybe three or four where I talk about, um, don't buy an embroidery machine until you listen to this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number four, I get asked this all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I could probably show you 20 DMs right now in my Facebook or Instagram.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number four, I don't need more than 10 needles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I never use that many colors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, needles are not about how many colors are in your design.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Needles are about efficiency and workflow, especially if you're embroidery for profit, you're doing commercial embroidery.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll just talk to you about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, you can listen to that full episode,
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[SPEAKER_00]: later, if you've missed one of our earlier ones, but let's take a 20 needle machine, which is what I have in my shop.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have 20 needles, and if your left chest polo, most of them don't even have more than five colors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But it could be a purple, a pink, a lavender, sage, teal, white, black, red, navy, you get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of colors and logos.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, when you embroider on a polo, you need a type of needle called a ballpoint needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so, if you had 20 needles, I could have 10 needles with ballpoint or, sorry, 10 thread spools.
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[SPEAKER_00]: When you follow the path down, then I have 10 ballpoint needles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You could be red white blue, pink, green, all those 10 standard colors.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what if I needed to embroider a hat?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't need a ballpoint needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I need a sharp needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if I have 10 more needles to choose from, then I can have sharp needles on 10 here, and ballpoint needles on 10 there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And now all I've got to do is snap my fingers, click my heels three times.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and I can pull that thread through all the thread guides and quickly and efficiently be embroidering with the right needle.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you only have ten needles then you only have five needles that you're going to set up for stretch and five four ballpoint.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So in my mind,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would encourage you today to buy that machine that has the many, many needles or the most needles that your budget allows because more needles means you're going to get the job done faster and the faster you can get the job done the more money you're going to make.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully that makes sense for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're looking at a 10 needle,
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[SPEAKER_00]: What you'd look and see what else you can afford because if you're working for profit, efficiency is everything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want you to buy something that you're going to out row in six months like I did.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So go back and check episode three if you want to find out more in-depth about needles.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've done four myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's move on to myth number five.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't remember who submitted this in the Facebook group, but somebody did and I love it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Myth number five is about social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes I hear my students or my friends or my group members comment about how their age influences social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they feel like they're too old to get into social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're never too old to learn, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So myth number five is you need a huge social media following and a killer website to get clients.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I think that myth that you need a huge social media following and a killer website to get clients, I think that's a myth, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it stops people from ever getting started because they have this bad mindset that I could never be like her who has 100,000 followers and is posting on social media and doing 500 sweatshirts a day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to tell you, most of those posts that you see probably are old posts where they did that one time in their life, right, and it may not be true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It could be true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if it is, I'm so happy for that person, but a lot of what you see on social media is all the stuff that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: not be completely true.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So don't ever judge yourself with somebody else because you're right where you need to be today.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're listening to this podcast, I'm here to applaud you and tell you you're growing already by listening.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
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[SPEAKER_00]: So does having a huge website or a huge social media following help?
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that it could, but if your social media following is something you got from when you did dog tricks from your dog, and now that you're using that same social media to sell embroidered products, the people that signed up for the funny dog tricks could care less about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: what you're embroidering.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're not your clients.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Not going to buy from you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So even if you did have a huge number of following, then may not convert to sales at all.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I know a lot of people who don't even have a website, they just sell on Facebook groups.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, that's not me, but I know people that do a lot of business.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I also know people who do strictly craft shows and artists and shows, and they make a ton of money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they make more and a week than I make in a week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's not true that you need a huge social media following or a killer website to get clients.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do know that it could help, especially if you fill social media with the right people who are interested in buying what you are selling.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: It also could mean that there's more people getting eyes on to your products.
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[SPEAKER_00]: What I found helps grow your business more than anything is not a killer website and it is not social media.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here's what I'm going to tell you that answer is to bust that myth and it's to invest in high yield activities.
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[SPEAKER_00]: things that are going to move the needle from zero to hero.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you go back and listen to episode seven, and I talk in detail about that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what is a high-yield activity?
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, it's networking in person.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting my left chest polo out there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting my black pants on.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's getting my business cards in my pocket.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to show up and start
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to refer them if I trust them, if I like them, if I know them, the no-like trust, I'm going to refer my clients to their businesses and they're going to refer their clients to me and we might even do business with each other.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I love B&I networking and that's what's helped me tremendously.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So listen to episode seven, but to be clear,
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think your message needs to be clear.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you are going to be on social media and you're going to start posting reels, make sure that you're consistently posting about your business and you're not throwing in a dog or cat video in between there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The people who show up for you on social media, whether you have two followers or a hundred thousand followers, you want to make sure they're the right people.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the people who have a problem, they can't find good quality embroidery and you could be the solution to your problem.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's what makes a difference.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And honestly, if you fill your social media with the right people, it doesn't matter how many people you have.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and just saying that if you are building a web page, if I could give you a tip, go look at my
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're on my web page, I have a custom form, a custom inquiry form, and I got to be honest, that's like a dumb moment.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You look at it, you're like, yeah, everybody should have that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Why have been in business for 30 years?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And in the last, up until the last three years, I didn't have these forms on my web page, and I was leaving money on the table that is my least favorite activity in the universe.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Missing opportunities, missing income.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So those custom forms if you're looking at my web page, they bring in business.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So obviously I have the things that are stock things that we sell.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But what if a client needs something special?
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[SPEAKER_00]: They want an easy way to reach out to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so my forms are very specific.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They have to enter their name, their cell phone number, their shipping address, an image of what they're looking for and their logo.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that way, I can turn that lead into a sale by having those forms super easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So clients on our website use them daily, but before, think about all the money that I missed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you are building a website, I would recommend bare minimum, bare minimum.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You have a home page, and then go right into about me, all your privacy policies, and then get some custom forms up there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's not gonna cost you an arm and a leg to start that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, while social media is not a requirement, relationships are, if you're doing business, B to B.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that was a lot.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And this one came from a Facebook group member.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they said, myth number six before they bought their machine and right after they bought the machine, was this, I can embroider anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you've been embroidery in a while, I bet you like me thought that, like, oh, my gosh, I'm an embroidered inside of a pocket on jeans, very Bradley bag.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm an embroiderer on a backpack.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a headband.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a baby onesie.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to do a shoe, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, every new embroiderer thinks this and every experience embroider knows what's coming.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You don't know what you can't embroider.
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[SPEAKER_00]: until you're doing it live and for instance there are certain things maybe you don't have the right whoops yet.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, like I use hoop text and I use mighty hoops and sometimes I can't get my mighty hoop in that area and maybe it's because I don't have the right size mighty hoop or maybe it's because the pocket is so has such a little entrance there's no way to get inside of there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So myth number six is while you can embroider in a lot of places.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You may not be able to embroider everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're working on a flatbed hobby home machine, all right, and then you switch to a multi-need home machine that has a very thin throat plate or free arm system, you're going to be able to embroider in a lot of places, but it still doesn't mean you can embroider everywhere.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, you guys were down to the last two myths.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Myth number seven, this one is gonna save you thousands of dollars you can think me later for it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, you ready?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You need to buy the best embroidery digitizing software and I see in all the Facebook groups, oh, which embroidery software is the best?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And people will drop some of the top three names there and I gotta be honest,
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[SPEAKER_00]: most commercial embrothers never learned a digitized, they outsource digitizing to someone they've vetted that they know can do a good job.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My favorite phrase is smart people pay for speed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So maybe you know how to digitize and kudos for that I can digitize, but I wouldn't say I'm good at it and so for that reason I spend my time making money not sitting there digitizing
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[SPEAKER_00]: knowing I'm going to have to go back and edit it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for someone like me buying that thousand multiple thousand dollar digitizing software isn't necessary.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and a lot of my friends who run really good successful shops.
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[SPEAKER_00]: None of them digitize either.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're new listening to this, just by a software program, it doesn't need to cost you thousands of dollars, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: You do need something that has basic editing capabilities like adding text, maybe deleting a portion of the design, maybe printing a template.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you really want to learn digitizing good, then maybe this myth isn't true for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But for most of us and most of my friends, when I see in those Facebook groups by this brand or that brand and I know they're about $5,000 a piece, you probably don't need that and you could save that money and reinvest it into some hoops or different things that you may need.
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[SPEAKER_00]: later that will make you money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So for me personally I've been in the industry 30 years.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I send my logos out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do the editing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't do full digitizing or rather I do edit them when they come back sometimes.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't do the full digitizing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know that there's people way better than me at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So paying someone else to digitize could be saving you thousands of dollars, it could be freeing up and buying back some of your time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So just think about that before you drop all that money.
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[SPEAKER_00]: While we're talking about digitizing, I want to throw in a little nugget.
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[SPEAKER_00]: auto digitizing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you've heard that term before, I'm going to tell you right now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: For me, that is a four letter word for professionals.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Auto digitizing usually is just awful.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, it's not good quality.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you are going to be buying an embroidery program, please don't buy one based on if it has an auto digitizing program, you're never going to get great results with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So it's never good idea, it always looks terrible.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Pros like me can spot auto digitizing all the time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So when you do outsource, make sure they're not auto digitizing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Whew, all right, last myth, number eight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is from my good friend Corey.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And it's also, I agreed with him and I had to laugh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, Cory is an expert at embroidery and hats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope to have him on the podcast on a future one.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But this is what he posted in the embroidery lounge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Are you ready for it?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Steam your hats before you embroider them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: hogwash.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have to steam your hat or heat it up or put it on a hat press before you embroider it, you're probably doing something wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're probably not hooping it correctly, or maybe you just haven't learned the skills to get good embroidery on a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Or maybe it's time to think about upgrading your embroidery machine to get one that does hats better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: some don't do hats very well while they do it, they may not do it well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you have to steam something and hack a hat before you embroider it, that's never a good way to start off.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Think about this.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you're in your shop and you have about 100 to 1000 hats to embroider, do you don't have much time that's going to take you to steam each hat first?
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is not a work
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[SPEAKER_00]: Something that you can sustain and it just makes me thank you guys Chris.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Be cream Now if you're multitasking on your phone, you probably stop for a minute and said what don't That's crispy cream donuts all right hot donuts now you don't need hot hats now You just need to master embroidery hats So the real solution is to hoop properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So that was one of the things that I learned early on
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[SPEAKER_00]: that I tried to master hats right away before I mastered flats, and that wasn't a wise decision.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I would always start with learning the easy stuff and then working your way up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And when I finally mastered hats, I made a YouTube video more as an SOP, a standard operating procedure for my staff, but I put it on my YouTube channel at the Hope Yoder.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I go from putting the cap frame on the machine to how to hoop properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So be sure you go check that out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you're never going to be able to take every hat and steam it or heat it up and then stitch it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's just crazy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I do want to mention when we're talking about hats is you cannot take any embroidery design that will fit on a cap and expect it to embroider well.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Caps have to be digitized specifically for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's like, you know, when you're burning a hat, it's like you're burning on our chicken rotisserie, all right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so you've got different push and pull compensations.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the registration is going to be all wonky if you just throw a design that was made for a flat polo onto a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're sending your designs out to a digitizer or your purchasing designs, you want to make sure that you ask specifically for it to be digitized for a hat or if you're buying a design, make sure it's specific for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And the way that a hat works is it starts at the bottom in the center and it stitches out.
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[SPEAKER_00]: and then it's going to go this way and from the bottom, center out, left, center, right, and works its way up.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, and you can see that when you finally get a design that's digitized for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So don't just think you can use any design that's a huge mistake and also for hats, another tip is that is in the fat of the letters, the better that it's going to stitch on a hat, especially if you're working in that center scene.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And so if you're just starting out with hats, make sure, number one, the design is digitized for a hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Number two, make sure you're hooping it properly.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And number three, you might want to start with a hat that doesn't have a center seam, so that would be a five panel hat.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like one of the classic auto-OTTO hats.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, today we have busted eight of the top miss in the embroidery world.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And with that, we're going to close.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We busted eight of the top embroidery miss.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I hope you've chuckled a little bit and you've learned something.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if you want to learn to be a pro in the least amount of time, here's a resource I have for you.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Entire framework and my system and workflow.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So you don't have to spend years figuring out what you're doing wrong.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You can get right back up into making money and quit staying stuck.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to see you in one of my next courses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So the link will be in the show notes or you can go to hopeyotor.com and look under the tab courses.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's jump right back in.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If this podcast is made you laugh, cringe, or think of someone else, share it with them, tag them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: If you have a myth that I didn't cover DM me, maybe we'll do a part two.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm Hope Yoder, and you've been listening to the embroidery profit podcast, and I'll see you here next time.
