Paragon 290 Neck Gaiter

Paragon 290 – Neck Gaiter


  • 100% microfiber performance polyester
  • UPF 50+ sun protection
  • 18″ Length
  • Moisture management
  • Anti-microbial finish
  • Sublimation friendly
  • OSFM

How We Go from Art to Film in order to Burn a Screen in the Screen Printing Process

Most of the art that we get is not suited to burn a screen from. Resolution and size are the most important factors in submitting your art to make a t-shirt.
This is a quick simple explanation on how we go from art to film in order to burn a screen.

T-Shirt Ink Curing Problem

“Why would this happen, WHY… would this happen????” she asked as she came busting through our front door.

This is, what we call in the business, an ink curing problem. Watch closely so that it doesn’t happen to you!

Anvil 980 T-Shirt

Anvil – Lightweight Fashion Short Sleeve T-Shirt – 980

  • 4.3 oz., pre-shrunk 100% combed ringspun cotton, 32 singles
  • Heather Grey is 90/10 combed ringspun cotton/polyester
  • Heather colors and Neons are 35/65 combed ringspun cotton/polyester
  • Heather Graphite is 50/50 cotton/polyester
  • Shoulder-to-shoulder taping
  • Double-needle stitched sleeves and bottom hem
  • Tubular construction
  • TearAway™ label for easy relabeling

Click here to download spec sheet

Finished Measurements

XS S M L XL 2XL 3XL 4XL
Body Length 27 28 29 30 31 32 34
Body Length Tolerance 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
Body Width 18 20 22 24 26 28 30
Body Width Tolerance 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 3/4 1/2

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My Goal Boards

Most people that know me from the t-shirt world don’t realize that my background is in the health club industry as a club owner and business consultant for the National Fitness Business Alliance/Thomas Plummer Company for over 25 years and I currently run a 45,000 square foot gym.

So, I didn’t have anything to post today so I thought I would share with you my Goal Board System in the club.

I hope you enjoy!

Does the Facebook Pixel Track all Website Traffic?

Does the Facebook Pixel Track all Website Traffic?

When you embed the facebook retargeting pixel on your website, does it track traffic from all sources or just the traffic that comes from people that click a button from Facebook itself?

This video answers the question.

So, here is the answer to Does the Facebook Pixel Track all Website Traffic?

The Three Distinct Functions of Working in a Fitness Business

A typical gym employee has a variety of duties that he or she must complete every day as part of the job. The core of every job in our business, however, can be condensed into three distinct functions that everyone on the staff needs to understand and be competent in doing on a daily basis.

These three functions are:

1. Selling memberships/training, or supporting those who do by understanding the sales process and system.

2. Providing member service that leads to higher member retention.

3. Learning to sell other services and products to people who are already members.

You may have noticed that servicing current members/personal training clients is not on this top three. That doesn’t mean that it is not important. In order to maintain the current client base, excellent training and service must be provided(see #2).

However, if prospects are not acquired and then sold, there will be no one to service. If current members/clients are not up-sold, income becomes stagnant. Every job somehow leads back to some form of sales. Thoughts?

6 Tips and Tricks on Customizing Your Facebook Page

It’s been about two years since Facebook introduced their timelines, and a short while after that, pages were forced to conform. To this day, people still mention that they wish they had their old Facebook page back. Here are a few different tips on how to get the most out of the Facebook Timeline system for business pages.

The UI on the timeline pages makes it impossible to navigate and it’s too cluttered. Even though Facebook is one of the most used social media outlets for marketing, many people don’t have the time to look at the little things to see what they can try to customize. It’s not just about the OCD of making it look clean but it also allows the page to be more streamlined for potential clients. And although there is no ability to completely customize your timeline, there are some tweaks that you can do to help you manage and organize it.

1: ‘It’s cluttered’

You will now see a down arrow tip on your post when you post something on your page. If you can’t see it, hover over the top right part of your post and it should appear. When you click it, it brings you to a drop down menu. Click the star that says highlight.

2: ‘The pictures are cropped awkward and I would prefer to choose the composition.’

When you highlight an image it will cater more towards horizontal photographs. Depending on the shot, your subject may not be in the part that is shown automatically. This is something you can change as well. If click the arrow again it will pop up with an option to ‘reposition photo.’ You can slide the photo up and down to best show the composition of it.

3: ‘It consolidates all my pictures into one post’

If you post more than one photo at a time Facebook will consolidate your images into one post. If you are only posting a couple photos, most likely you will want Facebook to show them both off on your page. If you don’t mind it you can leave it. But if you prefer that they be shown individually you can ungroup the photos.

4: ‘I don’t want it to show when other people post on my page.’

There is a difference between not allowing fans to post on your page and not allowing others to see what is posted on your page from fans. Be it either rude customers, or other photographers ‘stopping by to say hi!’ from their page, some people don’t want them to show. Go to edit page > edit settings > post visibility. You can set it to hide or allow, you can also choose to highlight a box on your main page.

5: ‘I don’t want to have to deal with another inbox.’

People have been annoyed with yet another messaging feature. The nice thing is you don’t have to deal with it. You can also turn this feature off underneath the same edit settings panel as the previous fix. Uncheck “Allow people to contact my Page privately by showing the Message button.”

6: ‘I want to show a promotion in my cover photo.’

Well this is against facebook policy but there is another feature, you can pin something to the top of your page so its the same post for 7 days. Just click the arrow and then pick “pin to top.” It won’t allow you to highlight the photo but it will be the first thing they see when they arrive on your page. We currently have our September travel schedule posted so that if someone new comes to our page, they can see if we are going to be in their area any time soon.

The Dirty Little Secret of Search Engines

The Dirty Little Secret of Search Engines
Printed with permission from the NY Times

PRETEND for a moment that you are Google’s search engine.

Someone types the word “dresses” and hits enter. What will be the very first result?

There are, of course, a lot of possibilities. Macy’s comes to mind. Maybe a specialty chain, like J. Crew or the Gap. Perhaps a Wikipedia entry on the history of hemlines.

O.K., how about the word “bedding”? Bed Bath & Beyond seems a candidate. Or Wal-Mart, or perhaps the bedding section of Amazon.com.

“Area rugs”? Crate & Barrel is a possibility. Home Depot, too, and Sears, Pier 1 or any of those Web sites with “area rug” in the name, like area rugs.com.

You could imagine a dozen contenders for each of these searches. But in the last several months, one name turned up, with uncanny regularity, in the No. 1 spot for each and every term:

J. C. Penney.

The company bested millions of sites — and not just in searches for dresses, bedding and area rugs. For months, it was consistently at or near the top in searches for “skinny jeans,” “home decor,” “comforter sets,” “furniture” and dozens of other words and phrases, from the blandly generic (“tablecloths”) to the strangely specific (“grommet top curtains”).

This striking performance lasted for months, most crucially through the holiday season, when there is a huge spike in online shopping. J. C. Penney even beat out the sites of manufacturers in searches for the products of those manufacturers. Type in “Samsonite carry on luggage,” for instance, and Penney for months was first on the list, ahead of Samsonite.com.

To Find out why, click here.