Working With Stock Designs Part 2 is our next Embroidery Webinar of the Month. This webinar will be  next Tuesday afternoon April 27th at 1 PM Eastern time.  I will be working with designs purchased from “Great Notions” stock designs and “Dakota Collectibles” stock designs.

• In this webinar I am going to show you how to create a large jacket back sized design from a small left chest design.
• I will also show you how to remove pieces and create new pieces to replace the ones that were not working out the way that  you want them to do.  This very often happens in stock designs.  You may like the total look and it may be just the design that you customer is looking for but some of the peices in it just do not look good.  After this webinar you will have the answer to that problem!
• I am also going to take a small one color outline design and fill in all of the areas and give it some color.  This design also is a small left chest sized that my customer decided he wanted  for a jacket back after he saw the result of what I had done with the design.
• Do you know how to make teeny tiny stars?  I am also going to be showing you how to do this in the webinar!
• Do you know how to make a new design from pieces of other designs?  I am going to show you how to do that!

You will get all of this information and much more from this series and you will be able to take any digitized design that you have had in the past and make a lot of changes to it.

I will be offering this very informative series as a  video product that can be purchased after we the webinar.  The purchase price is going to be sold for more than the price of the webinar, so you want to make sure that you attend the webinar if you are an Embroidery Tips and More member.  If you are not, you can go to Embroidery Webinar Of The Month to gain your access into this webinar.

If the timing is wrong for the webinar, you want to get access to it and register for it anyway.  All of those that are registered will get access to the videos after the webinar.  I know that the timing may be wrong for some people.  I just cannot have a time that is perfect for everyone, so make sure that you take advantage of this offer while it is still available. 11 am Tuesday will be the cut off time.  Do not wait another day!

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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Last week I hard the privilege of participating in the ASI Education webinar, ” The 5 Hot Apparel Markets.”  This webinar was full of information what you can do to approach and work with these  Markets.

The 5 Hot Apparel Markets that you should be focusing your efforts on are:

• Financial Institutions
• Government Agencies
• Health Care
• Education
• Service industry

Nicole Rollendar, Editor of Stitches and Director of Education for ASI Central, did an excellent job of creating this webinar and I had the privilege of working with her, Pat Baldes of Personalizationsolutions and Jennifer Cox from NNEP. Pat and Jennifer are both very sharp and knowledgeable in the embroidery and all areas of the apparel market.

To watch the replay of this webinar click on link and it will take you directly to the webinar “The 5 Hot Apparel Markets”.  I know that you will enjoy this webinar.  You will want to take notes at you are watching it.

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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New Features For Embroidery Tips And More Video Training Site

I am so happy to announce that we are adding some exciting new features for all of the members of our Embroidery Tips And More Embroidery video training site.

• Personal Call In Time Once Per Month
• Personal 15 Minute Consultation For All New Members
• Private Members Forum
• Webinar Will Be Held During The Day Time Hours Every Other Month

Call In Time-Personal One on One Time With The Embroidery Coach

This new feature will start on January 21st.  This call in time will be held the 3rd Thursday of every month.  This will be your personal one on one time that you can call in and ask me anything that you would like to know about running your embroidery business.   I am very excited about being able to spend time with you personally.

I would love to be able to work with each person  on a one on one basis,  and I thought that this will be the  best way for me to be able to connect with you and give you your own personal time with me. You will be allowed 10 minutes for this call. Save up your questions and be ready for this one on one time with me.  All members will receive an email with the actual call in times and phone number to use.

Personal FREE Embroidery Business Consultation For All New Members

Each new member will be called and welcomed.  You will receive a 15 minute consultation about your embroidery business.  This will give me a chance to find out a little more about you, your business and will help me to discover how I can help you more with your embroidery business.  Each new member will be sent an email to schedule their Free consultation.

Private Embroidery Tips And More Club Members Forum

We are working on a Private Members forum.  This will only be available to all of the Embroidery Tips and More.com Embroidery Club members.  This forum will be open to any questions about embroidery applications, design issues,  or any other embroidery business issues.  I will be announcing when the Forum is open.

New Day Time Embroidery Webinar Hours

I have heard from many of you that  you cannot attend the Embroidery webinars because they are held in the evening.  I have decided to rotate the times for the webinars so that you will be able to attend during day if the night times for the webinars have been impossible to work with your schedule.  Traditionally our webinars have been held at 8pm Eastern Time and this is not always the best time for everyone.

When I first started holding the Embroidery webinars, I asked for the best times and this time worked for the majority of the club members.  Times have changed and I have decided to rotate the times for the webinars to best suit everyone.   The webinar this month will be held at the same time, at 8pm on the last Tuesday of the month,  but next month I would like to start the rotation schedule.

The recorded version of the Embroidery webinars has been available for all of those that register, but the live interaction is always better for the attendees.  I will continue holding the webinar on the last Tuesday of the month, but I would like to have some opinions as to which times of the day works best for you.  At the end of this post, I would like for you to comment and let me know which times will work for you.

• 11:00 am Eastern Time
• 1:00 pm Eastern Time
• 2:00 pm Eastern Time
• 4:00 pm Eastern Time

I would like to accommodate everyone, but obviously that is impossible.  If you will please let me know which time is best for you, then I will schedule the day time webinar for the majority.

Thank you so much and I am really looking forward to working with each and everyone of my Embroidery Tips and More Embroidery Club Members in 2010!  This is going to be such a great year!!

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach
Author of the forth coming book,
“The Truth About Embroidery Business Success”

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Part 3,  the final session of our Design Creation webinars using your existing embroidery fonts and shapes, will be next Tuesday night May 26 at 8pm.  During this webinar I will be working on a college logo using a true type font and we will be doing some review from the previous 2 sessions of this same series of webinars.

I started this design during session 2 in April but the lettering is very small and takes a lot editing.  Learning how to edit is extremely important and is a learned skill that does take a little time to master.  Once you have a good concept of editing and have really developed good editing skills, it is easy to transition into actual digitizing.

We are also going to be going over some details about how to create  your settings for this small lettering to make it sew out beautifully on any type of fabric.  Working with small lettering is always tough when you are new to embroidery and creating it to sew out great takes a lot of practice and skill, but it  can be done very successfully when you know how to use the right tools.

There are many times when  you can do your own custom design setups and create those custom logos instead of having it done by your digitizer.  Should you charge what a digitizer would charge.  Yes, of course you should!  You are spending time creating a design and you should be paid for that time!  There are far too many embroiderers that think that their time is not worth what a digitizers time is worth.  You may not have the same skills that  your digitizer has, but you are still creating their design and you have every right to expect payment for this design creation.

All of the Embroidery Club members from Embroidery Tips and More will be receiving a link to sign up for the webinar on Friday May 22.  This webinar Free to all to Embroidery Tips and More Embroidery Club members.  Anyone that is not a member is still invited to join us for the webinar for a nominal fee.

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach
Embroidery Webinar of the Month

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It has been a while since I have posted. This past month has been an extremely busy one!  I have been out working for a large company on a consulting job, caught the flu, held a webinar, created some videos and now I am in sunny Florida for the next two weeks.

It was so great to wake up this morning to the sun shine and warm weather.  It has been a long winter in Binghamton, New York where I live, and the cold just wants to hang around instead of leaving and letting Spring take over!  I have been so ready for this sun and warmth!

I am here in Ocala, Florida visiting my neice for one week and then on down to Wellington, Florida to visit my daughter.  My neice lives in a community on a golf course and it is so beautiful.  She has several trees and a lot of flowers all over the yard and it is so peacefull and realaxing.  I plan on getting caught up with a few of my projects while I am here and am preparing for my next webinar.  I am not sure if I will be here in Ocala for the next webinar or in Wellington.  Either way, that will be held on Tuesday night, April 28th at 8 pm.

My next Embroidery of the Month webinar is a continuation of the webinar that I had on April 7th.  I started creating some designs using the Existing fonts and shapes in my embroidery software and we ran out of time.  There is so much to learn and so many tips that I want to share with you so that you too can learn how to create some of your customers logos using your existing embroidery fonts and shapes.

I created one design and started another one using True Type fonts but I was unable to finish it due to the time constraints.  I am going to show you how to finish up the college logo that I was creating using the True Type fonts and then show you how to create a logos that a customer brought in using a combination of shapes and True Type fonts.

I sent everyone that attended the webinar a jpg of a logo so that they could create a design using that logo and requested that they send them back to me finished.  I want to go over some of the designs and critque them during the webinar.  I am still waiting for some of them to come back into me.  I am looking forward to see how you approached this design.  Some of the attendees were beginners and some were more advanced.  This was a challenge that could be overwhelming to a beginner but it was one that was very doable with almost any embroidery software.

I will be using the Tajima by Pulse embroidery software during my presentation but the techniques that I use can be used in any embroidery software.  I refer to the Wilcom software and the Design shop software during the presentation.

I love working with my students and teaching them embroidery tricks and techniques.  Each new embroidery technique that you learn helps to speed up the process and increase your bottom line!  To me this is very exciting.  I am constantly in a race with myself trying to speed up little processes.  Sometimes the very basic techniques can be lacking and one simple process can make a huge difference!

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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January’s Embroidery Webinar Of The Month is going to be entitled “How To Market Your Embroidery Business Even In These Hard Times!”  This webinar will be held on January 27th, 2009 at 8PM EST.

When I first started my embroidery business I thought that all I had to do was put out my sign to let everyone know that I was now in business!  Along with that I placed a couple of adds in the newspaper. I thought that this would let everyone know that I was here and I would have all of the customers that I ever wanted or needed!  Guess What!   It didn’t quite work out that way!

I soon found out that getting customers was not as easy as I had envisioned!  It really took a lot of work to get them coming into the doors!  I really loved what I did and I had no plan or fore thought as to what I would do if the customers did not start to come to my place of business!  Without that steady flow of customers, you have no business!

This is not the right way to get your business started!  I learned very quickly that I needed to have a plan about every aspect of my business and Marketing was no exception.

As a result of having no plan, it took me a little longer to get started!  I have made a ton of mistakes over the past 30 years, but I learned from my mistakes and that makes it easier for me to teach you how to avoid most of the mistakes that I made.

My Webinar this month is on “How To Market Your Embroidery Business Even In These Hard Times!”    We are going through some slow economic times right now, but that does not mean it has to be slow for all of us!  It will take a little more effort on our parts to keep those customers, to get new referrals and create a larger customer base, but it can be done!

During out Webinar, I will show you how all of this is possible!  January 27, 2009 at 8PM EST.

Go to EmbroideryTipsAndMore to see how to attend the webinar for FREE!

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Tuesday Night August 26th at 8PM EDT is our next Embroidery Webinar of the Month.  This webinar is going to teach you how to use Underlay Stitching to give you the effect that you are looking for as you are creating your beautiful embroidery designs.

If you are new to embroidery or new to creating designs for embroidery learning the basics of what makes a good quality finished design is extremely important.  One of those basics is the fundamentals of Underlay.

Many embroiderers do not use Underlay because they have no idea as to how to use it or what type of Underlay to use for their particular design, stitch type or  fabric style.  Instead they use a heavy density and this can cause a multitude of problems.

During this presentation we are going to focus on:

• 5 Basic Functions Of Underlay
• 4 Basic Rules Of Underlay
• The Different Types Of Underlay
• What Underlay To Use For Different Types Of Stitches
• Why Lettering Sews Out Uneven
• How to Increase And Decrease The Density Of Your Underlay And Why You Would Do That
• Go Over Examples Of Lettering And Underlay In The Software.
• Show You How To Create Underlay Manually Even When You Do Not Have any Digitizing Tools!

This webinar if FREE to all Gold Embroidery Club members of Embroidery Tips and More, but is open to anyone else to attend for a minimum investment of $29.95.

Go to Embroidery Tips and More.com and click on the banner at the top of the page to sign up.  You do not want to miss this webinar.  What you learn will make a huge difference in your embroidery designs whether you are creating keyboard lettering or digitizing all of your own designs.

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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This past weekend, I had the the priviledge of participating in a conference on Learning How To Market Your Business.  This conference was called IM Success Workshop and was held in a beautiful Bed and Breakfast setting, The Wayside Inn in Ellicott City, Maryland.  I picked up many good tips, met some fantastic people and had the priviledge of meeting my business coach in person. 

My business coach, Bob Jenkins was the Host and presenter of the conference and a wonderful teacher.  I have been working with Bob, The Teacher, for the past several months and have learned a lot from him.  He is very young, but really knows how to teach and how to market a business.  

Each month I hold an Embroidery Webinar on a specific topic and in January I am going to be starting a series of Embroidery Webinars on How To Market Your Business and I am very excited that I have some new information to share with my students.  Marketing your Business really is not hard, but you must pay attention to detail and be consistant with your efforts.  I will be teaching the Basics of Marking your Business in January and in February we will be going into some specific methods.

Next Tuesday night, August 26th I will be holding a webinar teaching you all about using Underlay Stitching in your embroidery designs.  Anyone that is into embroidery whether it is an embroiderer with a home business, or a large commerical business should attend this webinar.

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach

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