Digitizer Advice

nametags · August 17th, 2011, 09:43 AM

You must have some customers with deep pockets in this economy.

Good luck.

widners · August 17th, 2011, 10:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Fattyonamoped

Actually he's the best I've seen and well worth the price. I know this for a fact because I ran a digitizer challenge on this forum a few months back and as simple as the design was, people couldn't touch him on quality. Everyone talks a great game how well they can digitize but until you actually get their work and sewout their file you see how horrible they really are.

It doesn't matter how great the quality is if it is to expensive for me to sell. The quality can be the absolute best but I can't sell $140 digitizing fee on an order of 12 caps. Maybe if I get into the big times with only orders of hundreds.... For right now I try to make sales on small and large orders and if I charge that I will no longer sell small orders.

megrisoft · August 22nd, 2011, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by widners

It doesn't matter how great the quality is if it is to expensive for me to sell. The quality can be the absolute best but I can't sell $140 digitizing fee on an order of 12 caps. Maybe if I get into the big times with only orders of hundreds.... For right now I try to make sales on small and large orders and if I charge that I will no longer sell small orders.

I agree with you.......its tough to get client even $1.50 or $2 per 1000 stitches as we know because we digitizing from 10 years. So expecting someone to pay $14 will be great to see, Let us assume for jacket back design where it cross 50000 stitches, my clients only pay me $50 hardly for such design, so expecting them to pay me 50,000 x 14 = $$$$ is too much

pninat · August 23rd, 2011, 05:11 AM

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davidoakeas · August 24th, 2011, 02:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AllEmbroidery

Hi,

I am in need of urgent advice. We were using inhouse digitizer till now.

But due to decreasing orders, now we want to outsource digitizing and reduce costs.

We will have 10 or 10+ orders per week to outsource.

I have tried Steve (gnizitigid@gmail.com) and taken 4 trial orders, work seems ok but prices are $10 per design which seems high for us. Is any one using Steve, how he is for doing business.

Can you advice me any digitizer which charges less because we really want to decrease digitizing costs.

If you can advice me any good digitizer with less costs, that will be great.

Would like to know if you found any one....

powerstitch · August 24th, 2011, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by AllEmbroidery

Hi,

I am in need of urgent advice. We were using inhouse digitizer till now.

But due to decreasing orders, now we want to outsource digitizing and reduce costs.

We will have 10 or 10+ orders per week to outsource.

I have tried Steve (gnizitigid@gmail.com) and taken 4 trial orders, work seems ok but prices are $10 per design which seems high for us. Is any one using Steve, how he is for doing business.

Can you advice me any digitizer which charges less because we really want to decrease digitizing costs.

If you can advice me any good digitizer with less costs, that will be great.

Hi.... if you are still looking for a cheaper digitizer, we can offer you $8.00 flat rate for left breast logos as long as your volumes are 10+ per week.

A&mCustomEmbroidery · August 25th, 2011, 03:23 AM

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Originally Posted by AllEmbroidery

Hi,

I am in need of urgent advice. We were using inhouse digitizer till now.

But due to decreasing orders, now we want to outsource digitizing and reduce costs.

We will have 10 or 10+ orders per week to outsource.

I have tried Steve (gnizitigid@gmail.com) and taken 4 trial orders, work seems ok but prices are $10 per design which seems high for us. Is any one using Steve, how he is for doing business.

Can you advice me any digitizer which charges less because we really want to decrease digitizing costs.

If you can advice me any good digitizer with less costs, that will be great.

Try http://www.embroiderydigitizing.net or http://www.megri.net, i am paying them less than $8 and quality is top. We send 4+ design per week to them

LISA
A&m Custom Embroidery
SWIFTWATER

megrisoft · August 30th, 2011, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by AllEmbroidery

Hi,
Can you advice me any digitizer which charges less because we really want to decrease digitizing costs.

If you can advice me any good digitizer with less costs, that will be great.

I think i can do in $10 per design in that volume of around 10+ designs a week...

nametags · August 30th, 2011, 03:14 PM

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Originally Posted by megrisoft

I think i can do in $10 per design in that volume of around 10+ designs a week...

Not to pick on this poster, but using the comment to make a point.

That's fine for the bigger shops and houses, concerning volume pricing, but, there needs to be some consideration for the smaller shops and "mom & pop" operations when it comes to pricing.

Big emb houses grow from small ones. And, some small ones want to stay that way. And that's fine.

Soon, these high volume places will send you an email, "Hey, I know we've done business for 3 years, but, Joe-Schmow Digitiziing is offering me $7 flat rate, and since you're a loyal customer, I'll give you the first chance to meet or beat that price. If not, "See YA!!"

SO whats wrong with giving the little guy a price break. There's no difference in the work, you still digitize the same design, same time frame, same turnaround, same everything. Just a different customer. If you digitize 100 designs a week, at $10 each, that's still $1000 no matter who it's for,,,,you just send them to different email addresses.

Steve doesn't discriminate in that respect. He does flat rate $10, does a good job, good turn around, edits as you wish, and then done. If it's for 1 customer with 10 jobs, or 10 customers with 1 job, it's all the same. If those 10 customers tell 1 other person, however now, Steve has the opportunity to work for 20 people,,,,and so on and so on, and the big emb house's only 1. Hope you don't mind me using you as an example Steve.

Sure everyone needs backup digitiziers, you need to keep your resourses for that type of service spread out, everyone understands that. Each digitizer has strong points in their work, so you'll know who does what the best.

Robert Young · August 30th, 2011, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by nametags

SO whats wrong with giving the little guy a price break. There's no difference in the work, you still digitize the same design, same time frame, same turnaround, same everything. Just a different customer. .

Hi, i think there IS a difference. If I have a client that does high volume then I quickly learn what that client likes... are their machines older with more "slop" so I have to digitize the lettering thinner than the art.. or do they have new machines that can sew thinner on one axis than the other so I need to digitize for that, etc. Do they sew everything at 550 spm or do they crank it up to max on their machines? Are they OK with me going WOW for them even though it could greatly increase their stitchcounts or do they want as few stitches as possible and "good enough" embroidery for their clients?? There are variables a digitizer needs to learn to avoid unnecessary edits.

A client that only orders a few designs a year never really gives the opportunity to learn what they like.. so right out of the gate it could be a crap shoot. This can be proven by sending a design you sew perfectly every time.. it looks GREAT... now send that design to 3 other embroiderers for samples... you will get 3 different quality levels back I bet.... what was digitized for you and your machine and skill level and thread, etc... will come out different as each of those variables are changed.