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MakerOS Webinar: Make the Most Profit from Your 3D Printing Business

Web-based collaboration platform for 3D printing and digital fabrication companies MakerOS assists users in developing their products faster, no matter the stage or size of the company. It was founded by CEO Mike Moceri, who has copious amounts of experience in design, manufacturing, software, and business: he co-founded the very first 3D printing retail service bureau, located in Chicago, back in 2013, and followed this move by founding 3D printing and product design agency Manulith the next year.

MakerOS is sponsoring a free webinar, which 3DPrint.com is organizing, called “How to Make the Most Profit from 3D Printing,” which will be held on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, from 2-3 pm EDT. Any digital fabrication business owner or 3D printing shop manager looking to run a more successful business should definitely sign up for this webinar.

“If you don’t understand your costs, you don’t understand your business,” Moceri told 3DPrint.com.

Let’s say that you have successfully completed a 3D printing job for a client, but instead of the substantial profit you were expecting, you only barely broke even. If you care about staying afloat, you’ll want to determine the underlying cause of something like this. That’s why this webinar is so important—you’ll learn how to keep this from happening and gain a deeper understanding of all the various expenses and costs that go into running your 3D printing business. This way, you will be able to set accurate, fair prices and maximize your profits.

“So what we’ll do in this webinar is we’ll figure out what are the core and most important points of cost analysis. We’ll go into detail on how to determine margins and profits for your operation, as well as the philosophy and rationale behind those calculations,” Moceri explained to us.

“We’ll provide a framework and how to think about your business starting with the costs and then we’ll talk about the philosophical aspects of determining margins and ultimately profits for your business.”

By attending this MakerOS webinar, you’ll come away with the knowledge of how to successfully run your digital fabrication or 3D printing shop. The insights attendees will gain can help steer thinking towards a cost-specific perspective, leading to higher profits, and you’ll learn how to recognize subtle things that could negatively affect your margins.

Every webinar attendee will receive access to a spreadsheet that they can use to make calculations and projections to, as Moceri explained, “see what the most optimal path to profitability is for their business.” In addition, the participants will have the chance to learn all of this from someone who has consulted with industry experts from all around the world and has successfully started multiple 3D printing services…Moceri himself.

Featured on MSN, NBC, Make Magazine, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and the D-Business Magazine, which once called him the “Face of 3D printing,” Moceri was once a mentor at TechTown Detroit, and currently serves as a mentor at WeWork Labs in NYC and the Stanley+Techstars Additive Manufacturing Accelerator. He is also an author, having recently published an e-book titled How to Survive the COVID-19 Pandemic as a 3D Printing or Fabrication Shop, along with 9 Lessons for Optimizing Your Product Development Service. You can find both of Moceri’s e-books on the recently launched MakerOS Zone of our website.

What else can you expect to see in the MakerOS Zone? Plenty! There are also free video tutorials, such as “How to Price for SLA 3D Printing” and “Why We Made a 3D Printing Pricing Calculator,” along with the aforementioned pricing calculator itself. The MakerOS Zone also includes articles about the company that have been published on our website, as well as MakerOS articles found elsewhere on the web. Finally, you can access the company’s webinars “How to Optimally Price For Your 3D Printing Service Bureau in 2020,” and “How to Make the Most Profit from 3D Printing,” as previously mentioned. You can register here for the latter, which will be held on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020, from 2-3 pm EDT.

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Janne Kyttanen: Live Entrepreneurship and 3D Printing Value Networks Introduction Video

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Last year I started questioning what was really holding back the 3D printing industry to exponentially scale and grow. It boiled down to one thing – value networks.

Let me break this down. Historically the industry has been based on a value chain model. The 3D printing companies have been structured to make money by selling machines or a bundle of machines with materials. The value chain ends at their customers rather than focusing on creating value to the customers of their direct customers.

If you want to find out why this is the crux of the problem when it comes to scalable End to End manufacturing applications; and why we should first focus on growing the pie rather than each other’s slice, follow my Value Network chats series during this year in collaboration with 3Dprint.com.

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3DPrint.com Offers So Much More Than Just the Latest 3D Printing News

Here at 3DPrint.com, we do our best to keep you up to date on all of the most important things happening in the industry today. Whether it’s current business news, a breakthrough research project or exciting new product, series on important topics, or the latest events, we’re here to tell you about it.

But, we’re not just news – we also offer giveaways, surveys, and so much more! For instance, 3DR Holdings, the owner of the website, recently acquired an interest in SmarTech Markets Publishing, which is the leading industry analysis firm in the additive manufacturing sector. It’s the only firm that provides granular market analysis for the 3D printing industry, and offers up yearly reviews, along with market reports on a wide range of topics, from materials and bioprinting to 3D printing software, metals, and the complete range of vertical markets for additive manufacturing. If you click on the Research tab at the top of our homepage, you’ll go straight to the SmarTech Analysis page, where you can browse reports and infographics to your heart’s content.

Speaking of SmarTech, the Events tab on our homepage includes a link to the Additive Manufacturing Strategies site, a yearly summit that 3DPrint.com co-hosts with the industry analysis firm. We are also both joining this summer’s Inside 3D Printing in Seoul, South Korea as co-producers.

We also have a place on our website where you access white papers from important industry players, like Stratasys and Formlabs, browse old webcasts, and sign up for our popular online training courses. Our next class, “Filaments, Materials and Software Considerations for 3D Printing,” starts tomorrow and will teach you about programs and tools you can use to build an exciting design project from scratch. Additionally, as a bonus, if you register for our latest course, you’ll get free access to our past lessons on related topics so you can keep building your skill set.

Another great feature 3DPrint.com offers is a Jobs board, which is linked to a career portal for 3D printing recruiting company Alexander Daniels Global. This board includes jobs from all 3D printing and advanced manufacturing disciplines in cities all around the US, including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, and Seattle, and other countries as well, such as Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Spain. Here’s just a small offering of the many available positions being advertised on our Jobs board right now:

Inside Sales Manager
Regional Sales Manager – Midwest
Field Service Engineer
Application Engineer
Process Engineer
Software Product Manager
Vice President of Operations
Business Development Manager – Material Applications
Engineering Quality Consultant
AM Lead – Aerospace
Product Manager – Sintering
Senior Software Engineer / Architect
Future Strategy Product Manager

One of the best, and fastest growing, features on 3DPrint.com is our online shop. We currently offer 3D printers from G3D and Dynamism, the latter of which will also provide installation and training on-site and through webinars. You can also purchase 1.75 mm and 2.85 mm spools of 3DPrint.com’s own brand of filament on the shop. Facilan C8, a novel material with higher impact strength than PLA and higher tensile strength than ABS, is available for $44.50 a spool, while high gloss Facilan HT can be purchased for $42.75.

If you’re interested in 3D scanners or books about 3D printing, our shop provides the latest search results from Amazon. If custom 3D printed fashion is what you’re looking for, we’ve got two vendors: Wiivv and its 3D printed shoes and insoles and the King Children app, which provides fashionable 3D printed prescription eyewear at a relatively affordable price.

3DPrint.com’s online shop also features two professional 3D printing service providers: Treatstock and 3DCompare.com. Both of these services are easy to use: simply upload your 3D model, customize it, finalize delivery, and checkout.

So remember – the next time you’re in need of something in the 3D printing industry other than news, be it filament, an online course, or a job, visit 3DPrint.com.

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Life Beyond 3DPrint.com

At the 2018 Midwest RepRap Festival [Image: Sarah Goehrke]

In 2015, I started writing as a freelancer for 3DPrint.com, which was at that time still a new publication. My first article ever was a profile of a startup called You3Dit, a service bureau that offers what it calls “Hardware as a Service.” You3Dit is still going strong today, but I’m sad to say that my career at 3DPrint.com is coming to an end. I’ve accepted a new position elsewhere, so today is officially my last day writing for the site.

It’s a bittersweet day. I’m excited to be starting a new career, and I will be staying in the industry, as I’ve taken a position as Content Marketing Manager with Dassault Systèmes. I’ll be working specifically with the company’s SIMULIA brand of simulation software, so I will get to experience a whole new facet of the 3D industry. Although I have written about simulation before, and we’ve covered SIMULIA at 3DPrint.com before, the world of simulation is a big and complex one, and I can’t wait to learn more about it – and help the rest of the world learn about it in turn.

Speaking of learning, the amount I’ve learned through working at 3DPrint.com is truly incredible. I’ve become well-acquainted with much more than just 3D printing – although saying “just” 3D printing is kind of like saying “just the world,” if you really think about it. Because 3D printing is all over the world, and has made its way into every aspect of life. I have learned about aerospace, science, medicine, industry, architecture, art, virtual reality, robotics, and more.

One of the things I will miss the most about working for 3DPrint.com is working with the incredible maker community. My most popular article ever was not about cancer treatment, or 3D printed rocket engines – it was about cat armor. That also happened to be one of my first acquaintances with what makers were doing with 3D printing, and I thought it was absolutely fantastic – as did thousands of readers. I have since written about and interviewed extremely talented makers, cosplayers, hackers and 3D printing enthusiasts whose creativity amazes me.

As a writer with 3DPrint.com, I have also been able to witness and write about history being made, from first-of-their-kind surgeries to first-ever 3D printed organs. I’ve been able to see the beginnings of 3D printing in space, and to follow its expansion. 3D printing in medicine and aerospace is among the most exciting things happening in the world today, in my opinion.

Next week I’ll move on to working with another exciting aspect of technology, but I’ll always appreciate 3DPrint.com for what it has taught me – and what it has enabled me to teach others. Soon another writer will step up to my old position, and will have the pleasure of meeting, interviewing, and writing about the brilliant community of people that makes up the 3D printing world. I keep coming back to the people as what I will miss the most, and I thank you for making my time here such a good one.

With former Editor-in-Chief Sarah Goehrke at RAPID 2016

An Editorial Farewell and a Welcome

Since its inception in early 2014, 3DPrint.com and its team have been dedicated to providing news and insights focused on 3D technologies, offering an ever-growing variety of resources to the industry. Over the last four and a half years, we have published close to 14,000 unique articles, built a strong educational resource through online training in additive manufacturing, partnered with a variety of industry events and begun to host our own, and curated a vibrant community through our sister forum and social channels, as well as regular industry contact.

In 2014, as I was ready to move on from six years working as an editor and research analyst with an industry research and forecasting company, I responded to, of all things, a Craigslist posting from Florida seeking an editor for a young tech news site. Responding to that ad changed my life as I embarked very soon thereafter on my journey with 3DPrint.com, having previously encountered 3D printing only through having edited a global forecast report on 3D printers and perhaps having caught a news segment or two on rapid prototyping. Editing about a dozen articles daily at that point and writing regularly as I got my feet under me, I learned very quickly about additive manufacturing during this period in the peak of hype. As the industry began to stabilize and become more professionally focused, so did I, as I took on a leadership position in content operations upon the site’s acquisition in 2015. As business operations changed and we continued to grow as a resource and community, I have been honored to progress in my role as the Editor-in-Chief of 3DPrint.com.

Over the last several years, we have increased our focus on the industry, enhanced direct communications with hardware and software companies as well as end users, and made it a point to be on the ground at every possible opportunity to bring news directly from the source. Interviews with industry participants, including spotlight series featuring diverse participants and educators shaping the next generations, have been highlights. This job has taken me around the world and has gotten personal, and I have deeply valued opportunities to get to know the technology of the industry as well as the people behind the advances. The people truly do make the industry, and this one is filled with unparalleled brilliance.

As this industry has grown and continues on a remarkable trajectory to take its place in Industry 4.0, change is the only constant. That’s as true for our team as it is for the industry at large as we now look forward to the next phases of growth. I recently tendered my resignation, and it seems oddly fitting — and hopefully auspicious — that my final day here falls on a Friday the 13th.

Lanyards from a few events I’ve attended since 2015

Working with the driven and dynamic team of full-time and freelance writers at 3DPrint.com has been my honor, and it will be my delight to watch them continue to offer unique content and daily news.

Beginning Monday, long-time 3DPrint.com contributor Joris Peels will be taking the reins as this site’s next Editor-in-Chief. Joris’ knowledge of and familiarity with the industry runs deep, and readers here will appreciate his insights, candor, and humor as he steps into this leadership role. He brings more than a decade of experience and expertise in additive manufacturing, having worked directly with desktop and industrial technologies as well as consulting and writing in a variety of roles within the industry. It has been an absolute pleasure to have worked with Joris, and the site will be in very capable hands.

“I’ve really enjoyed working with Sarah in the past and can’t thank her enough for making 3DPrint.com what it is today, bringing her precise editing and collegial style to raise standards and grow the reach and readership of the site,” Joris Peels, the incoming Editor-in-Chief at 3DPrint.com, says.

“I hope to continue her work to improve the quality of our content so that we are by far the highest quality provider of information in every area of Additive Manufacturing.”

Joris’ tenure promises to build upon a strong foundation in delivering news, information, and insights to the 3D printing industry.

I am profoundly grateful to 3DR Holdings, the 3DPrint.com founders, and the talented content and business teams — and of course to the industry surrounding 3D printing — for the career-shaping opportunities I have found here. It has been my privilege to head content operations here at the Voice of 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing. Leaving this site has been a difficult decision, and was one made for personal reasons; I wish Team 3DPrint.com all the best as I look forward to new adventures and new horizons.