03/20/2023
Hi Everyone!
I want to start off by welcoming our new members and give a description to all the new changes the group has had! Welcome, I am so glad you are here to help support my small business! If you are new here or anyone wanting to know why I am making so many changes this is your post.
Our new Business, Southern Paddle LLC, will be offering at home DTG (direct to garment) printed t-shirts as well as ready to ship brand screen printed shirts! For those who do not already know me, Hi, Im Meagan Cook, owner of Southern Paddle LLC. I grew up working alongside my grandmothers embroidery and vinyl business and having my own quickly become a dream of mine! While in the past I have offered Children’s Pre Order clothing, we will no longer offer this and I will explain why below! With this change I will be putting more time, money and effort into the t-shirts by having more in-stock sizes to have a better turn around time to get these out to you quicker!
First of many changes is our name change! I decided to form an LLC and Plains Place was taken for the state of Alabama so I decided to change the name completely to best represent our new T-shirt only offering. Growing up I always loved being on the water and in the canoe, kayak or bass boat fishing with my grandaddy, hints the name portion Paddle! With the help of a childhood friend I decided on Southern Paddle LLC. I hope you grow to love the rebranding as much as I do!
Second of changes: I am dropping the children’s pre-order side of my business due to the stress it brings and the unreliability of my china manufactures. Unfortunately starting a business using Babeeni was financially not an option for me so I started with smaller Chinese owned businesses. Most have been fabulous and recently some have been unpredictable and for this reason of not being able to to accurately offer items in a timely matter to all customers, and the added stress this brings along I have decided to drop down to my at home printed t-shirts and offer some ready to ship t-shirts that I will continue to order, but as ready to ship. I want only the best relationships with my customers and hope you all can understand that having both was just too much for one person to stay on top of and communicate properly. With me stepping back I will offer faster turn around times on my printed at home shirts to you, I know I fell behind at times and want to step up and make the ordering experience better than before! I will be bulk ordering shirts to have a bigger on hand stash to have shirts out in a timely matter to you all!
Lastly I would like to thank all of my customers, previous brand reps and every group member for their great support! I know we have had some bumps but I hope that we can all move past them and continue to grow this t-shirt business!
In the near future I will be looking to add 1-5 brand reps to help me market and 1 person to help me run the operational side so communication can be better than ever! If you feel like this may be something you would be interested in please message or email me! This part of the business is a sweet bonus for meeting new people and building sweet friendships with! I couldn’t have done it without my past reps helping keep me straight and look forward to the new ones to come!
Again, Thank you all from the bottom of my heart for everything you have done and for your continued support in my small business! I hope we only go up from here and look forward to any feedback anyone may have! Hope you all have the best week!