Hello! We've had a successful store for 8 years on Etsy and are looking for someone to print, heat press and ship our sublimated pillow line. We have all the equipment but the person would need to know sublimation or dtg well and be familiar with this type of work. From there I can train you. If you have some experience in this area read on:
You would share in the profits as I focus more on marketing and listing more products. This would be as little as 6 hrs a week up to 20+ hrs depending on the season, or from hits of certain keywords that are popular trends. This would be great for someone with a t-shirt biz they started from home but it didnt take off due to all the marketing etc involved or you just want a little side biz for extra money.
If you are creative we can add more sublimation products like mugs and ceramic ornaments. I can design them, or use design ideas you might have (and thus help grow the store). You can even print t-shirts if you have a dtg printer that we can list. The sky is the limit and your creativity can help grow this to something full time if you want it. We can supply the sublimation printer and heat press and all packing materials. If you have a DTG printer that would be a plus but not necessary. You would need room in a garage to store pillow inserts and the printer couldnt be in a garage that gets too hot in the summer (ink would dry up). So a studio or dedicated room would be needed to make the production work.
This would pay more that the typical hourly wage, it would start at a per piece deal of $10 per pillow. So if you print, press and pack 5 pillows that takes 2 hours, you would get $50. So thats $25 an hour. We are basically splitting net profit. If you are slower then maybe it's $20. hr. We are in our slow season so this is a good time to learn. Once april hits buyers start to buy more and Id say anywhere from $150 per week would be the very minimum you would make up to $250 or more per week. Etsy has been unpredictable so thats why we are launching a large marketing plan and handing off a chunk of the biz. Who knows how busy it could get so you would want to be able to handle extra hours as it grows.
I would have you come watch how I do it from our open garage 2x a week for 2-3 hrs each to see if we feel this would work. We are in the nice neighborhood of Mcdonald Highlands, Henderson. I usually print sunday afternoon and wednesday afternoon but can be flexible if eves are better for you. Once the person we decide on is confident we would move the printer and press to your space. I'll meet people over the next week or two and then chose 1. If that person doesnt work out then I'd move to the next choice.
Please tell me about your experience with sublimation or DTG type printing and why you feel this might fit well for you.
Thanks,
Steph
Check out the store at www.doveanddavid.etsy.com
