P44: 🎊 Group Call XX 🎊 Running a Sustainable & Eco-Friendlier T-Shirt Business
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Background:
Here is another exclusive Group Call episode for our Patreon members featuring our very special guest Ryan Moor of Ryonet and Allmade Apparel. Ryan is one of our former guests who turned his small T-Shirt business into a $50M per year company. Today, he is here to impart some useful knowledge and lend a helping hand towards our fellow Patreon members concerning their problems and business issues. You can check out Ryan’s interview at Episode 131. Plus, listen until the end of the Group Call to find out about Austin’s new side project.
Ryan Moor is a punk rocker turned CEO and founder of Allmade Apparel and Ryonet, the biggest screen-printing equipment manufacturer and supply company. An entrepreneur from a young age, Ryan used to put on kazoo performances for his neighbors. After starting a punk band, and beginning to print band shirts for money to fund tours, he found a niche market in the T-Shirt printing business.
Since founding Ryonet, Ryan has led the company successfully through a recession to the top spot in an increasingly competitive market to nearly $40 million in annual revenues, executing a number of significant acquisitions along the way. He reads at least one book per month and is a member of the CEO development association, Vistage. Outside of work, Ryan enjoys spending time with his active family; his wife Amanda, their twin boys, Koen and Brody, and Maddox.
Time-Stamped Show Notes:
- [2:15] Ryan: found out that his true skill is starting and growing a company and not running a big company.
- [5:02] Amy: the mask business was a lifeline and an added revenue stream for her since covid affected Ryan’s t-shirt business.
- [6:36] Ryan: in order to stay in business and not shut down, he decided to transition into producing masks.
- [11:07] Austin: the coming podcast episodes would feature more sustainable and eco-friendly businesses.
- [11:44] Ryan: talks about how he started Allmade and what it’s all about in terms of being an eco-friendly business.
- [18:51] Amy: when she was in Haiti, the thing that struck her most was poverty and unemployment.
- [20:20] Ryan: being in Haiti showed him what poverty can do to the environment.
- [23:33] Asanti: curious to know if Ryan works with small startup fashion companies.
- [25:36] Ryan: Allmade is manufacturing t-shirts in four different countries namely, Haiti, US, India, and Honduras.
- [28:39] Amy: raises the question about dealing with criticisms when you want to become a sustainable company.
- [34:54] Alex: wants to know the reason why Ryan started this type of sustainable eco-friendlier business.
- [36:35] Ryan: once or twice they almost went completely out of business.
- [45:03] Austin: offers a well-meaning message to entrepreneurs who are in a difficult stage of their business or personal life.
- [48:54] Ryan: shares his story about partnering and venturing with other companies that worked out great for them.
- [53:39] Dillon: hearing Ryan’s story has motivated him to keep going. He also wants to hear Ryan’s opinion about engraved jewelries and if there would be a market for this type of product.
- [1:04:40] Ryan: recommends that every business should have an integrator. He talks more about visionaries and integrators in the business.
- [1:09:28] Austin: has a side project that he has been working on for the past few weeks which involves… become a member to find out.
Key Point from Our Group Call:
- Ryan: “My one mistake is I wasn’t very transparent with the people that were on the bus with me. So I might have sold them like a luxury cruiser but at the end of the day they might have hopped in an old school bus that decided to go up to the side of the mountain. And so I think that is a lesson learned, being transparent with your team, your wife, or your partner and saying hey by the way were gonna go down this road and I don’t know where this ends up.”
Resources Mentioned:
- LinkedIn: RyanMoor
- Instagram: @ryanmoor
- Twitter: @ryanmoor
- Allmade.com
- ScreenPrinting.com
- RyanMoor.com
- Ryan Moor Podcast
- SanMar Begins Partnership With Allmade Apparel
- Allmade’s Socially Conscious & Eco-Friendly Apparel Line Making a Huge Difference in Haiti
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