Learn all about Embroidery from a Pro!

If you have ever thought about starting your own embroidery business - or if you just love embroidery - then you won't want to miss this exciting event.  Melanie Coakley will show you all the tips and tricks of the embroidery business. 

Don't want to start a business? Great - she will give you hints on making your hobby even better.  This seminar is still for you!

Melanie has been a professional embroiderer with her husband, Steve, for over 22 years.  She can help you with everything you ever wanted to know about starting your own embroidery business and take the fear out of starting one!!

Here are a few of the benefits of starting your own business.

• You can choose your hours
• Work part-time, full-time, mornings, evenings, weekends, after the kids have gone to bed or before they come home from school.
• You can choose your location: In your home, at a commercial location or within a retail outlet. Or, how about a mobile embroidery business that allows you to travel to exhibitions, fairs, festivals and special events.
• You can choose your income and profitability
• Your income is directly related to the time and energy that you devote to your business. Since you're the boss, you have control over your expenses and prices.
• You can even choose your customers!
• School sports, favorite pastimes, interior design, items for pets, corporate identity apparel, weddings, graduations, new babies, family reunions - the possibilities for selling your products are endless.

Melanie Coakley is the President & Owner of EmbroideryFX located in Chattanooga, TN. She has traveled extensively throughout the country sharing her passion of sewing, textiles, embroidery and digitizing. Before computerized machines were introduced, she trained in Switzerland in the art of free motion embroidery and sewing machine techniques. She recalls the "WOW" factor when she saw her first computerized embroidery machine, and decided in 1989 to open a home based business for digitizing and embroidery. She had to have her first multi-needle machine, then another and another! She was quickly recognized in the industry for her talents and began speaking at educational events throughout the United States. She is a frequent speaker and writer for industry magazines. Her enthusiasm will keep you in stitches as she shares her journey in Starting a Home Based Embroidery Business. She is enthusiastic about sharing her 20 plus years of knowledge in how to create beautiful embroideries from start to finish. Her energetic presentation proves why this year she was named by Stitches Magazine as one of the Top Twenty Innovative Embroiderers in the country.

 Join her as she shares in depth information that will keep you in stitches!