Can this business be grown using IM?

Sure you can. Since you are in article marketing, use it...

Hi,

Yup you can surely do it.

Since you are in Article marketing, make use of it. Put up a simple website/blog. If you are more into it, do up some videos of your finished product or some video about the product, which ever way it suit your business.

Custom services is NOT the way to go. That can certainly be offered, but you have a manufacturing capability, so you should be identifying specific, direct retail markets. Build a specific promotional campaign around a dedicated market for a niche product and skip the wholesale buyer. By going direct from manufacturing to retail, you should be able to compete on price very well, because your margins are so much higher than a wholesaler.

I used to own million dollar screenprinting operation that I sold to a larger company. Very similar mindset in production and marketing.

I adopted the very philosophy that I told you to build my business. I didn't screw around with custom, local business that was highly competitive... where every printer in town would undercut their own grandmother to get a deal at a loss. I wasn't interested in chintzy customers that would try to shop your bids and nickel and dime you to death.

Create a product line for a specific niche market, and go direct to retail.

Any business can be improved via Internet Marketing. Make a website or blog or linkwheel.