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Attend FREE Product Demonstrations and Product Training sessions at Embroidery Mart. No additional registration is necessary for the individual sessions. 16 sessions available! Seating is available on a first come, first serve basis.
Sessions (dates, times, presenters and content) are subject to change without notice. Keep in mind any children under the age of 14 will not be permitted in any sessions or any area of the Exhibit Hall.
Session Schedule
*Friday July 24, 2009 - 9:00am and 12:30pm
*Saturday July 25, 2009 - 9:00am and 12:30pm
Session Spotlights
The Ins/Outs of the Team/League Business
Presenter - Doug Wilcoxson
Company- Bomark Sportswear
Date/Time - Friday, 9-10:30 AM
This seminar offers helpful hints for finding and securing the business. It also includes helpful ideas for delivering effectively and overcoming the challenges that come with the team/league business.
Hooping Made Easy
Presenter - Charlie Mack
Company - HoopMaster
Date/Time - Friday & Saturday, 9-10:30AM
Hooping is one of the most important steps in creating quality embroidery. This seminar will show you how hooping can be easy if you use tools and techniques. We will demonstrate how to hoop above pockets, on sleeves, jackets, and on backs of caps (just to name a few). We will also share many tips to make your hooping more consistent. There will be a hands-on session at the end of the seminar.
Promotional Products Demystified:
Questions Answered, The Industry’s secrets revealed
Presenter - Gwen Gann
Company - PPAI
Date/Time - Friday, 9-10:30AM
- How does the promotional products wholesale chain of supply work?
- What product categories sell the most?
- Who’s buying promotional products?
- How do promotional products fit into marketing, advertising and selling?
- How powerful are promotional products as a medium?
- What do my associations (regional and national) have to offer me?
CAS - 1.5 pts
My Secrets to Selling More when Others are Selling Less
Presenter - Walter Floriani
Company - Floriani Products
Date/Time - Friday & Saturday, 9-10:30AM
Why do some succeed when others fail? No one is destined to succeed or fail, its more effect than cause. Success seems to find those looking for it. Successful Embroiderers set themselves up to succeed. I can show you how!
Increasing Revenues with Dye Sublimation
Presenter - John Barker
Company - Johnson Plastics
Date/Time - Friday, 12:30-2PM
Dye sublimation is one of the most versatile technologies employed by the well supplied embroiderer. With the ability to produce hundreds of full color, photo quality products from a single system, sublimation allows for you to expand profits by adding new products to your line-up and attracting new customers. John Barker of Johnson Plastics will present the latest equipment, dynamic products and discuss the ease of adding sublimation to your business.
Show me the Money!
Presenter - Melanie Coakley
Company - RNK Distributing/Floriani Products
Date/Time - Friday & Saturday, 12:30-2PM
From buying supplies for production to creating an invoice for items sold, it is all about the money! Whether you are a full time embroiderer or using your machine to create additional income, it is all about the money! Join Melanie Coakley as she takes you through the process of creating beautiful embroideries that you can command top dollar for! Knowledge is power, and you will learn everything from which stabilizer to choose for the job to the latest 3-D embroidery techniques. Fresh ideas keep customers coming back for more. If you are tired of the frustration or frozen in the fear of everyone telling you the economy is bad, then break free with a shot of embroidery adrenaline from Melanie. Sign up for this class for a sure fire ways to produce embroideries, meet your deadlines, avoid the disasters and claim the glory for a job well done. Melanie has helped embroiderers around the country turn their shops around, eliminate rejects, and train employees how to produce embroideries that increase profits. Isn’t it time for customers to show you the money?
Can we Talk? Marketing, Pricing, Embroidery and other stuff!
Presenter - Jim Serritella
Company- E-Z Stitches
Date/Time - Friday, 12:30-2PM
E-Z Stitches is a commercial embroidery company, which has capitalized on Jim Serritella’s 45+ years experience as a computer systems analyst/programmer. In 2000, the EZ Estimator 1.5 was announced at this show and has improved with age – come see the latest release. MSRP $250.00……Show Special $220…..and class special (some see!) We have STIMULOUS Pricing for this product!!!! This is truly amazing software for embroidery, screen printing and heat press applications. Price it, time it, print quotes, invoices, and keep track of your customer’s orders. The demo will surly amaze you! Come visit us in booth #209. Bring business cards and wear embroidered apparel.
Introducing DRAWings 4 Combo – The Innovative, Interactive and Intelligent Embroidery Software
Presenter - Marcus Lou & Dave Demoret
Company-Wings Digitizing
Date/Time - Friday, 12:30-2PM
The World’s first Embroidery Software that works seamlessly with CorelDRAW to increase digitizing productivity tremendously!
DRAWings 4 Combo Software is a revolutionary new generation of intelligent and interactive embroidery software. It has new built-in graphic design tools as well as being integrated seamlessly into CorelDRAW 12, X# and X4. DRAWings 4 is also capable of both converting vector artwork into embroidery, with premium stitch quality in a matter of seconds and performing traditional custom manual digitizing.
ASI Education Session
Presenter - TBD
Company - ASI
Date/Time - Saturday, 9-10:30 AM
IYou have the opportunity to tap into a $19 billion industry through the partnership NNEP negotiated with ASI, the leading membership organization in the promotional products industry. Please join the ASI at this education session to learn how you can increase sales by taking advantage of the easy, turn-key program NNEP & ASI have designed for you. During this session you will get an overview of the promotional products industry, ASI’s special offer for NNEP members, a look at how to easily add this profit center to your business, and why your customers buy promotional products.
Harnessing the Phenomenal Power of CorelDRAW
Presenter - David Ihm
Company - Garment Graphics Network
Date/Time - Saturday, 9-10:30 AM
Learning CorelDRAW is the main focus of the class and the majority of this class will be spent training you on the most popular design tools of CorelDRAW such as scanning and artwork reproduction, text effects, distortions, printing color separations and more. This class will also explore all the capabilities of CorelDraw and how it can be used in specific types of businesses: Embroidery, Screen Printing, Heat Applied Graphics, Sublimation, Sign Making and much more. We will compare CorelDraw to other design programs and learn the advantages of CorelDraw and why it should be a key component of your business. Finally we will discuss how you can learn CorelDraw quickly and easily and gain control of your design process.
Expanding Your Business With A Laser Engraver
Presenter - Darrell Stephens
Company - Universal Laser Systems
Date/Time - Saturday, 12:30-2 PM
Learn the advantages of using laser technology in your shop. Learn the tips and tricks in cutting all kinds of fabric quickly and efficiently, even in multiple layers. A laser system processes multiple materials and offers a diverse set of applications with leather, twill, vinyl, awards, signage, apparel, on-demand personalization, packaging, promotional products, and wood working. A laser system gives you the flexibility to expand your business and save outsourcing costs. Learn how you can be a one-stop shop for the customer who wants custom gifts, corporate identity items, sports apparel, even signs.
Adding Profit Centers to your Business
Presenter - Tom Paquette
Company - EnMart
Date/Time - Saturday, 12:30-2 PM
Join EnMart’s Tom Paquette as he introduces some EnMart products that can help you open up new profit centers for your business and may allow you to keep some of the dollars you currently outsource. Tom will also share with you the tips and tricks that will help you get the most out of your embroidery supplies and equipment. EnMart’s parent company has been embroidering for the industrial laundry community for over 30 years, and in that time has learned a lot of techniques that will be shared in the seminar as well.
Garment Printing-What you need to know to operate a profitable business in today’s environment
Presenters - Brad Belk & Brian Belk
Company - Axiom America
Date/Time - Saturday, 12:30-2 PM
Topics include: Digital revolution, Status of direct to garment printing, systems and sourcing, business planning, requirements of success, changing the game, Brother garment printers – the obvious choice.
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