Been wondering if a virtual online promotional apparel store makes sense for you? Virtual online company stores can be a great way to offer embroidered and screen printed logo wear and promotional apparel to company staff or organizations’ memberships.
If your company faces any of these issues, a virtual company store could be a great solution:
- A company that orders its staff logo wear and finds itself frustrated chasing down a “straggler” staff member who did not submit an order sheet on time.
- A company that finds it is having to guess at people’s sizes and then has leftover inventory.
- A company that finds it has to add “managing the logo wear inventory” as an orphan job duty to someone’s job description.
If you are a sports club or school sports booster club, an online spirit wear store for fan apparel could be a great solution:
- A club that wants to sell spirit wear as a fundraiser, but can barely cover costs because there is always leftover inventory.
- A club that is tired of dealing with cash, checks, bounced checks, and trying to figure out how to best accept card payments.
- A club that is tired of having coaches and team parents circulate order forms (which never seem to get to the parents in time).
A virtual store is an online company or club apparel store customized to suit your organization. Virtual stores solve a number of different problems for different types of clients.
Imagine a new employee of a company whose staff members wear embroidered shirts, jackets, caps, etc. How does the employee get properly outfitted? “Back in the day,” someone would take the employee to an inventory closet and hand him a logo shirt or other promotional apparel. But it does not have to work like that. What can be done instead is the new employee can be directed to log into an online store and select certain types of logo wear that meet the organization’s standards and appeal to the employee.
For a school or youth select sports club, a virtual store can eliminate the logistics of having coaches or “team parents” collecting and organizing spirit wear orders. The club just creates a link to the virtual store from the club’s website, fans order their apparel online and direct sizing questions to us, we deliver, and we send the club a royalty payment! Coaches and team parents are no longer stuck in the middle between the buyer and the vendor, or chasing down a parent down who promised to pay but is difficult to find.
I’m In Stitches has established dozens of virtual stores for clients in Seattle, Bellevue, Tacoma, and beyond. Contact Us and we will be happy to talk with you about whether a virtual store makes sense for your organization.