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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Just One More Reason To Keep Quilting, Sewing & Crafting!
Happy Monday I hope that your team won the Super Bowl. If not, better luck next year. Assuming that all my readers are hung over from all the football, greasy food, chips & dips, betting pools, amazing commercials and perhaps alcohol (but I would guess that my readers aren’t drinkers, or are they?), I am going to delve in to a short and sweet blog that won’t mess too much with your hangover. This past week I was reading the very reputable (note sarcasm) New York Post on the train ride in to New York City to work. I came across a short article called Warding Off Dementia based on…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Quilt Market Credentials
Dear Quilt Shop Owners & International Fabric Customers, Happy Monday! As you may or may not know, ALL quilt market business credentials expired last year. As such, it is time to resubmit your credentials which will be in effect until December 2019. I am sure that it is a little bit of a pain to have to submit this, but fortunately this is only necessary to submit every 3 years. Also, it probably won’t take you more than 5 minutes to collect all the paperwork and submit to the people of Quilts Inc. If you didn’t receive the email about having to update your market credentials, you can contact the…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Sandra Magsamen Books On Steroids Are A Hit!
Happy Monday Friends, For as long as I can remember, soft fabric books have been a hot selling item for children. They continue to still be a very hot item today. Very often when we have a book panel in a line, it is usually the best seller. In any case, building on the success and popularity of book panels, we at Studioe, in conjunction with Sandra Magsamen, brought you what I look to call “books on steroids.” These are just like the old books, but they have the added bonus (the steroids) of a 3 dimensional appendage on the top i.e. a hat, antlers, ears, etc. Studioe has had…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: More Baby Steps For Quilts, Inc.
Dear Readers, I hope you had a nice weekend. Also, I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Martin Luther King Jr. day. Our offices are open today if you need anything. I will only be in the office until noon as I have the pleasure of attending the Knicks basketball game with my sons, my brother and my nephews as the kids don’t have school today. In any case, for lack of something better to write about this week, I am back on to the Quilt Market. This time around, I wanted to acknowledge the baby steps made by the people at Quilts Inc. to try to make the market…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Anyone Going To Join Us At The VDTA Show In Las Vegas?
In an effort to try new things in 2017, we have decided to attend the Vacuum & Sewing Dealer Trade Show (VDTA) at the Las Vegas Convention & Show exhibit space Hall S3. The show will be from February 12-14. Cliff Garfinkel, sales manager extraordinaire, & I will be there at booth 855 and we can’t wait to see you. Please contact me at scott@jaftex.com or 800-294-9495 x218 to set up an appointment. Looking forward to seeing you then. BELOW IS THE JAFTEX BUYER’S GUIDE BLURB FOR THE VDTA SHOW Jaftex Corporation is an 87 year old, 4th generation, family owned business, based out of New York City. Jaftex has…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Happy New Year! & Blogoblog Revisited
Dear Friends, On behalf of myself, my family and everyone at the Jaftex Companies, we wanted to wish you a very Happy New Year! We hope that all your goals are achieved and that all your dreams come true. To 2017! Cheers! As mentioned in some of my more recent blogs, I wanted to repost some of my favorite blogs. Here is my blog about blogs a.k.a. blogoblog from June 25, 2014. Please enjoy. In anticipation of my school house speaking engagements at the Shipshewana Show this week, I have been scouring my past blogs (blogsweep) for inspiration (blogspiration) and ideas (blogcepts). In doing so, I have learned a couple…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Baby Steps For Quilts, Inc.
Before I say anything of such immense importance (you know how I roll), I wanted to wish you a very Merry Christmas. I hope all your wishes come true and Santa brings you all the gifts that you asked for. I hope a couple people actually have a moment to step away from the eggnog to read this blog. Speaking of which, I don’t think I have ever even tried eggnog. Maybe that will go on my bucket list for 2017. Anyway, back to the topic at hand. I have been in withdrawal lately. From what you might be wondering? Come on and get your mind out of the gutter!…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Yes! Blog Recycled
As I recently promised, I am going to recycle some of my older favorite blogs. This is great because, as the year winds down, I am running out of subject matter to discuss. But really, I am just getting too tired and absolutely cannot wait for Christmas vacation. I too get tired. All that being said, this is a great blog to get you thinking about changes for 2017. Maybe it is time to turn in to a Yes (man or woman). No! No! No! That dirty little word has be driving me crazy lately because I have been hearing way too much of it from people that should be saying YES! …
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Tales Of Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Thanks To All You Road Warriors
Karen Montgomery is my favorite writer for Fab Shop News. Her articles are so practical and are very relevant to the pulse of the industry. In fact, I find her article subjects to be similar to the topics that I like to write about in my blogs….stuff that relates to shop owners rather than consumers. Recently Karen wrote an article called “Become A Savvy Buyer, How Green Is that Grass?” What I absolutely loved about this article is how Karen steps up to defend the extremely challenging job of being a sales rep. Unlike some other shop owners out there, Karen is promoting the respectful treatment of the road warriors.…
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Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: 2017 Motivation
Dear Quilt Shop Owner, I am well aware that the fabric business has not been easy lately and is definitely getting more challenging and competitive each and every year. So for the first time, I wanted to give you a pep talk to try motivate you to put the past behind you and put your best foot forward in 2017. What do you have to lose? You might be asking, what the heck does this guy know about running a quilt shop while he is sitting at his desk in New York City? This is definitely a valid question and the answer is that I am an observer looking…