As for the digitising. Luckily I have a background that has some experience in Photoshop. And because of that experience, I found jumping into digitising was very very easy. I won't say I am good at it, but I certainly found digitising MUCH easier than learning how to use my machine.
Awesome video! I've just stumbled upon your guys' channel and I'm loving it. My father-in-law has started our embroidery business because he saw a need and I've been helping him out a lot. We're about 3 months into it and I'm very excited for the future! I'd love to someday have this as my full-time job. The points you discussed in the video were spot on and your advice was extremely helpful to us. We've had our challenges in all aspects of the business so far, but we're learning so much and I'm having a blast with it!
People raved about my work. I did my own digitizing which was easy for me as I did cnc machines for 28 years. I could not get $1.40 per 1000 stitches and eventually went bankrupt. Had a great Melco machine.
Hi there, thanks for watching! Here's any easy pricing formula to follow: czcams.com/video/PuF5hAdYlNo/video.html. You can also check out our profit calculator: info.ricoma.com/profit-calculator
Interesting that as the business expands the machines also need to get bigger. It's a catch 22 because the price point is generally too high to start out with. However, I think quality should be the main factor, not just for the product but also for production. I am not looking into setting up a business, but it's a potential for the future. Looming forward to starting my embroidery journey with a small machine.
Sorry but I have to respectfully disagree. You should always master the software first. I've seen many people go out and buy t-shirt equipment, and have no clue how to use the software to run the equipment. My father was a software engineer, and he brought up some good points, what good is the equipment if you do not know how to use the software that runs it. In my opinion, mastering the embroidery part is the easiest, the machine does all the work. I'd would focus on the software. I mean I know it's more beneficial for you and your company to sell some expensive equipment to a bunch of rookies, I remember Ricoma commercial machines used to run for around 5k, now it's $15k, and we're in a pandemic, not that it matters but I know a bunch of people are looking for other ways to make money, and have consider an embroidery business, and videos like this is convenient. Now if your approach was more focused on auto digitizing software thats great for beginners, then I might've agreed witcha. Carry on...
Thank you for your feedback! Most of even our most experienced embroiderers do get so consumed by the embroidery part that they find outsourcing the digitizing is a time saving strategy that helps them take on more orders. It's something that is completely up to the embroiderer, for example if they want to focus on learning the digitizing, bring it in-house and then up-charge for that service, that's certainly a great way to go. However some don't prefer to spend time in the beginning learning the software and not be able to take on orders until they've mastered it. By outsourcing at first, you can master embroidery while taking on orders then come back to practicing digitizing on your downtime. There are many affordable professional digitizers out there to make this possible.
@@ricomatv yes you are correct, however I would like to see ricoma make a professional 1 needle machine, like the brother Pe800. That way those that want to focus on the art of digitizing, and start with that instead of embroidery can have the opportunity to do so. And we can use the 1 needle machine to stitch out our files to make sure the digitizing is accurate. I have a bachelor's degree in fine arts, I use coreldraw for my graphics, I want to use Hatch by wilcom to focus on the art of digitizing so I can do small projects, but I'll mainly be offering digitizing services to embroiders as my main income source, not necessarily doing the embroidery myself.
Great videos and some very helpful information. As a new business I am finding it very hard to find customers even after attending public sales events. Folks love my work but are not willing to pay the price I am asking (and my prices are much lower than those based upon the pricing equation you suggest). Maybe it is the economy or maybe the items I have for sale. I would appreciate anyone giving me some suggestions about how to increase customer sales. Thanks!
Hi Thomas! Our CEO has lots of videos on this topic, and we have linked some videos below. Check them out! czcams.com/video/hX4o-rMchOY/video.html czcams.com/video/u3X8i9c6-Yo/video.html czcams.com/video/5xIc9S6D8e8/video.html
Hi Pete. We are so sorry to hear that you are having issues, can you please send us your ticket #? Or send us a message through our Instagram? > @ricomahq
Hello. What machine do you have? Depending on your machine watch one of the videos below. MT/TC czcams.com/video/RL0y458vd1c/video.html EM 1010 czcams.com/video/aVGh2Ekn1ZQ/video.html SWD/8s panel czcams.com/video/eeg8goLLU1g/video.html
Hello. If you bought the machine directly from Ricoma you have the option to receive training. Please contact support to set up your training. ricoma.com/US/tech-support
Definitely check out our Apparel Academy playlist for tips on the embroidery business and how to get started! czcams.com/play/PLDzOvY3HejtTN68cg-kxwqWVQn7cwaAAf.html
Where to buy RICOMA Embroidery Machine in Philippines? I have a small embroidery business, would like to add RICOMA Embroidery Machine on my business...Thanks
I cannot open this link: Free Embroidery Pricing Webinar: info.ricoma.us/the-number-one... I get the following error: "info.ricoma.us’s server IP address could not be found."I really want to watch the pricing video! Any help would be appreciated!
try again with this link. 3 PROVEN TECHNIQUES TO MAKE OVER $2,000/WEEK IN YOUR EMBROIDERY BUSINESS info.ricoma.com/3-proven-techniques-to-make-over-2000-a-week/
With our 0% financing options and low monthly payments, getting you machine is simple and easy! We require no down payments and you machine will pay for itself once you start making customer orders.
You miss out so much if you outsource digitizing. How can you expect people to come to you if you dont even know the basics. You have to know your expertise/craft. Knowing the programm is a must. Why would I give someone my hard earned money if they are ONLY able to embroider another man's file. They have to know what they are talking about.
I disagree. We've just started our embroidery business and I'm here to provide an embroidery service, not a digitizing service. I'd rather master my embroidery craft first before taking on the overwhelming task of learning to digitize. There are awesome digitizers that I've hooked up with that are extremely helpful and extremely affordable. I'm also very transparent with my customers and let them know that there will be a one-time digitizing fee for a logo and they are always understanding once they understand the process.
@@BranwiseGamgee I get your point but I started also recently not even 4months, and I learned by trial and error, and now I see the benefits of my hard work. I say hard work, but it was just designing stuff for myself first. Challenging myself every following day. I didnt even use premium materials, just felt in the beginning. Testing and testing. I'm nowhere near a pro level but I can handle myself. It may take me a few 10 minutes more to digitize the same design but still I'm doing it and can understand how the pro did it. Just being able to stick a usb thumb drive in the machine doesn't really make yourself someone who's expertise is embroidery in my opinion,the embroidering is the easy part in my opinion, the digitizing is the key. I do agree with outsourcing it if it's easier and cheaper for you but I don't really get selling something you didnt master fully.
@@MertCanAydin1997 That's a great point and I'm glad that you were able to spend the time to master that part of the process! At this point in the start of our business though, I just don't see the benefit of taking all of that time to master that part of it when I could be taking the time to master the embroidery work, how to market and grow my business, how the machine works, what other types of embroidered materials I could be working with and on and on and on! There's just so much creativity and nuance associated with embroidery that excites me and keeps me busy that I feel I should be taking on those challenges before taking on the challenge of digitizing. Now, it is definitely something I am interested in learning about in the future because the graphic design stuff interests me, but honestly I'm not saving any money by digitizing things myself and I'm not gaining anything by learning how to digitize. It just doesn't make good business sense. I have the Wilcom E4 Editing software and I've played around with it enough to have a feel for it, resize certain things and have gotten to a point where I can manipulate things to how I want it, but the actual digitization process is not something that is necessary for me to learn in order to master embroidery as this point in my business.
@@BranwiseGamgee Mastering your machine is definitely important you can't skip that. I also started with mastering the machine first. But something I forgot to add, I did vector designing before I even started embroidery, I was not a pro I just designed now and then using the free Vector Designing software "Inkscape" (which is one of my main methods of designing). I Don't spend much time on the embroidery software for simple designs with few amounts of colour and complexity. I use inkscape's function to autocreate a vector file which is in most cases decent enough to transfer to the software. Autocreating a vector file takes like 1 minute just one click and after that you can eiter use the photostitch function or vector function and boom you got yourself a logo in like 5 minutes. I do really recommend inkscape if budget is tight, its a free programm and helps a lot for not complex designs. But if the design is complex you do need to create it stitch by stitch. But autocreatz function of inkscape saves me tons of time, afterwards you can just change the stitch options from for example a satin stitch to a fillstitch depending on your needs. Mostly people want easy to do designs that inkscape's autocreate function can handle.
@@BranwiseGamgee And if I might add, I learned embroidery while working a 9to5 job. I will put a link that will show you how autocreating vector file work in inkscape, if you're interested you can watch and recreate his method which is going to be a life saver in my opinion, and might help you in the beginning with not complex designs. I wish you much success in your journey. czcams.com/video/s-kPg4vYKfk/video.html
As for the digitising. Luckily I have a background that has some experience in Photoshop. And because of that experience, I found jumping into digitising was very very easy. I won't say I am good at it, but I certainly found digitising MUCH easier than learning how to use my machine.
Awesome video! I've just stumbled upon your guys' channel and I'm loving it. My father-in-law has started our embroidery business because he saw a need and I've been helping him out a lot. We're about 3 months into it and I'm very excited for the future! I'd love to someday have this as my full-time job. The points you discussed in the video were spot on and your advice was extremely helpful to us. We've had our challenges in all aspects of the business so far, but we're learning so much and I'm having a blast with it!
Glad we could help!!!
People raved about my work. I did my own digitizing which was easy for me as I did cnc machines for 28 years. I could not get $1.40 per 1000 stitches and eventually went bankrupt. Had a great Melco machine.
Hi there, thanks for watching! Here's any easy pricing formula to follow: czcams.com/video/PuF5hAdYlNo/video.html. You can also check out our profit calculator: info.ricoma.com/profit-calculator
mmm a bit concerning was this for-punching or actual machining.. im wondering what the heck you did wrong .. ....???????
Really really useful thank you
Very informative and logical approach to pricing.
Thanks!
Great Podcast, thank you. You answered some questions for me.
Glad it was helpful!
Interesting that as the business expands the machines also need to get bigger. It's a catch 22 because the price point is generally too high to start out with. However, I think quality should be the main factor, not just for the product but also for production. I am not looking into setting up a business, but it's a potential for the future. Looming forward to starting my embroidery journey with a small machine.
Wish you the best!
Thanks so, for this awesome infos. I just bought a single needle embroidery machine. And I am happy to watch your show. Greg job.🤗
Wonderful! Thanks for watching
Yes please thank you
Thanks for watching!
Very Nice I always wanted to do this Business
Excellent
I FEEL SO UNDERSTOOD
So glad to hear that!
Great video! Loads of good info. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for the great video, good info!
Glad it was helpful!
Great job!
Your English is faultless, excellent
Thank you for watching!
Great channel and popcast
Thanks. We got more on the way.
Much love✌ thank you
Excellent information!
Thanks so much for watching!
Sorry but I have to respectfully disagree. You should always master the software first. I've seen many people go out and buy t-shirt equipment, and have no clue how to use the software to run the equipment. My father was a software engineer, and he brought up some good points, what good is the equipment if you do not know how to use the software that runs it. In my opinion, mastering the embroidery part is the easiest, the machine does all the work. I'd would focus on the software. I mean I know it's more beneficial for you and your company to sell some expensive equipment to a bunch of rookies, I remember Ricoma commercial machines used to run for around 5k, now it's $15k, and we're in a pandemic, not that it matters but I know a bunch of people are looking for other ways to make money, and have consider an embroidery business, and videos like this is convenient. Now if your approach was more focused on auto digitizing software thats great for beginners, then I might've agreed witcha. Carry on...
Thank you for your feedback! Most of even our most experienced embroiderers do get so consumed by the embroidery part that they find outsourcing the digitizing is a time saving strategy that helps them take on more orders. It's something that is completely up to the embroiderer, for example if they want to focus on learning the digitizing, bring it in-house and then up-charge for that service, that's certainly a great way to go. However some don't prefer to spend time in the beginning learning the software and not be able to take on orders until they've mastered it. By outsourcing at first, you can master embroidery while taking on orders then come back to practicing digitizing on your downtime. There are many affordable professional digitizers out there to make this possible.
@@ricomatv yes you are correct, however I would like to see ricoma make a professional 1 needle machine, like the brother Pe800. That way those that want to focus on the art of digitizing, and start with that instead of embroidery can have the opportunity to do so. And we can use the 1 needle machine to stitch out our files to make sure the digitizing is accurate. I have a bachelor's degree in fine arts, I use coreldraw for my graphics, I want to use Hatch by wilcom to focus on the art of digitizing so I can do small projects, but I'll mainly be offering digitizing services to embroiders as my main income source, not necessarily doing the embroidery myself.
I’d have to agree with you too! I use htv vinyl and I can’t tell you how much of a headache it was not knowing my way around the software
Thanks, very helpful
Thanks! Glad it helped
Great videos and some very helpful information. As a new business I am finding it very hard to find customers even after attending public sales events. Folks love my work but are not willing to pay the price I am asking (and my prices are much lower than those based upon the pricing equation you suggest). Maybe it is the economy or maybe the items I have for sale. I would appreciate anyone giving me some suggestions about how to increase customer sales. Thanks!
Hi Thomas! Our CEO has lots of videos on this topic, and we have linked some videos below. Check them out!
czcams.com/video/hX4o-rMchOY/video.html
czcams.com/video/u3X8i9c6-Yo/video.html
czcams.com/video/5xIc9S6D8e8/video.html
This was great! Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you so much for this information
Does Ricoma offer military discounts? Thank you
We have all sorts of discounts that’s even better! Get in touch!
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Is the Ricoma digitizing software compatible with other embroidery machines that are not Ricoma brand?
Yes, you can export the files in format of your choice.
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New subscriber ❤ Great channel
Thanks for subbing!
I would like to know more about the technical aspects, iam a technician,
Can you recommend a great digitizing software to use instead of outsourcing?
Check out our own digitizing software : www.ricoma.us/product/en/chroma
Hatch by Wilcom is the very best!!!! The price is ridiculous, but worth it to many people.
what do i have to do to get a response to my display issue?????
Hi Pete. We are so sorry to hear that you are having issues, can you please send us your ticket #? Or send us a message through our Instagram? > @ricomahq
Fantastic, sound advice.
Glad it was helpful!
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Hello 6 head video please
Where can I find this podcast?
You can find the playlist on CZcams on our channel!
hi I bought the Ricoma embroidery machine but I don't know to transfer files to the USB port is there anyone that can help me.
Hello. What machine do you have? Depending on your machine watch one of the videos below.
MT/TC
czcams.com/video/RL0y458vd1c/video.html
EM 1010
czcams.com/video/aVGh2Ekn1ZQ/video.html
SWD/8s panel
czcams.com/video/eeg8goLLU1g/video.html
How can u start selling
WE suggest watching all out videos and signing for an e-commerce site like Shopify or Etsy!
So why you not giving me the training yet. I am waiting since February 6.
Hello. If you bought the machine directly from Ricoma you have the option to receive training. Please contact support to set up your training.
ricoma.com/US/tech-support
which software do you recommend to start learning digitizing?
You can try out Chroma. ricoma.com/US/software/chroma
Thanks for the fast reply..
My bother and i are starting a business what do you suggest
Definitely check out our Apparel Academy playlist for tips on the embroidery business and how to get started! czcams.com/play/PLDzOvY3HejtTN68cg-kxwqWVQn7cwaAAf.html
I keep signing up for the webinar, but the link is broken and I'm not receiving an email link for the webinar. :/
Here is an updated link-> info.ricoma.com/the-number-one-factor-in-determining-profitability/
@@ricomatv THANK YOU!!
Where to buy RICOMA Embroidery Machine in Philippines? I have a small embroidery business, would like to add RICOMA Embroidery Machine on my business...Thanks
To be in contact with a local distributor in your area, fill out your information here: ricoma.com/us/contact-us
Great vid though
Thanks. We will keep them coming.
So if you're not creating your own designs, what are you embroidering? Do the machines come with designs?
No but you can outsource digitizing to someone else
I cannot open this link:
Free Embroidery Pricing Webinar:
info.ricoma.us/the-number-one...
I get the following error: "info.ricoma.us’s server IP address could not be found."I really want to watch the pricing video!
Any help would be appreciated!
try again with this link.
3 PROVEN TECHNIQUES TO MAKE OVER
$2,000/WEEK IN YOUR EMBROIDERY BUSINESS
info.ricoma.com/3-proven-techniques-to-make-over-2000-a-week/
I wish I had money to get a embroidery machine 😔
With our 0% financing options and low monthly payments, getting you machine is simple and easy! We require no down payments and you machine will pay for itself once you start making customer orders.
Ricoma Embroidery Machines 🙏 thank you I will consider it, I’m ready to start my business ❤️
Do you sell these machines in Canada?
Yes we do!
You miss out so much if you outsource digitizing. How can you expect people to come to you if you dont even know the basics. You have to know your expertise/craft. Knowing the programm is a must. Why would I give someone my hard earned money if they are ONLY able to embroider another man's file. They have to know what they are talking about.
I disagree. We've just started our embroidery business and I'm here to provide an embroidery service, not a digitizing service. I'd rather master my embroidery craft first before taking on the overwhelming task of learning to digitize. There are awesome digitizers that I've hooked up with that are extremely helpful and extremely affordable. I'm also very transparent with my customers and let them know that there will be a one-time digitizing fee for a logo and they are always understanding once they understand the process.
@@BranwiseGamgee I get your point but I started also recently not even 4months, and I learned by trial and error, and now I see the benefits of my hard work. I say hard work, but it was just designing stuff for myself first. Challenging myself every following day. I didnt even use premium materials, just felt in the beginning. Testing and testing. I'm nowhere near a pro level but I can handle myself. It may take me a few 10 minutes more to digitize the same design but still I'm doing it and can understand how the pro did it. Just being able to stick a usb thumb drive in the machine doesn't really make yourself someone who's expertise is embroidery in my opinion,the embroidering is the easy part in my opinion, the digitizing is the key. I do agree with outsourcing it if it's easier and cheaper for you but I don't really get selling something you didnt master fully.
@@MertCanAydin1997 That's a great point and I'm glad that you were able to spend the time to master that part of the process! At this point in the start of our business though, I just don't see the benefit of taking all of that time to master that part of it when I could be taking the time to master the embroidery work, how to market and grow my business, how the machine works, what other types of embroidered materials I could be working with and on and on and on! There's just so much creativity and nuance associated with embroidery that excites me and keeps me busy that I feel I should be taking on those challenges before taking on the challenge of digitizing. Now, it is definitely something I am interested in learning about in the future because the graphic design stuff interests me, but honestly I'm not saving any money by digitizing things myself and I'm not gaining anything by learning how to digitize. It just doesn't make good business sense. I have the Wilcom E4 Editing software and I've played around with it enough to have a feel for it, resize certain things and have gotten to a point where I can manipulate things to how I want it, but the actual digitization process is not something that is necessary for me to learn in order to master embroidery as this point in my business.
@@BranwiseGamgee Mastering your machine is definitely important you can't skip that. I also started with mastering the machine first. But something I forgot to add, I did vector designing before I even started embroidery, I was not a pro I just designed now and then using the free Vector Designing software "Inkscape" (which is one of my main methods of designing). I Don't spend much time on the embroidery software for simple designs with few amounts of colour and complexity. I use inkscape's function to autocreate a vector file which is in most cases decent enough to transfer to the software. Autocreating a vector file takes like 1 minute just one click and after that you can eiter use the photostitch function or vector function and boom you got yourself a logo in like 5 minutes. I do really recommend inkscape if budget is tight, its a free programm and helps a lot for not complex designs. But if the design is complex you do need to create it stitch by stitch. But autocreatz function of inkscape saves me tons of time, afterwards you can just change the stitch options from for example a satin stitch to a fillstitch depending on your needs. Mostly people want easy to do designs that inkscape's autocreate function can handle.
@@BranwiseGamgee And if I might add, I learned embroidery while working a 9to5 job. I will put a link that will show you how autocreating vector file work in inkscape, if you're interested you can watch and recreate his method which is going to be a life saver in my opinion, and might help you in the beginning with not complex designs. I wish you much success in your journey. czcams.com/video/s-kPg4vYKfk/video.html