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Recent content by cpot25

  1. Paint booth accessories - painting double sided sign

    Anyone have any tips/tricks on how to paint a double sided material at once? We do a lot of painting and our typical process to paint a D/S sign is to paint one side, wait a day and then paint the other side. We can't rely on hanging a sign because we don't always have holes to hang it from...
  2. Design Request Guide/Form

    We are looking for a better "mouse-trap" for getting designs and necessary information from our sales team to our design team. In our current state, our sales team provides photos, copy, sizing (sometimes) and other relevant information that they think design may need. We have 4 sales people...
  3. Workflow Software - Filemaker vs ShopVOX

    "So, does your Filemaker solution have a splash screen with a unique name?" No, our filemaker is quite basic. All FM duties have been completed by a consultant of ours. We tell him what we want and he builds it.
  4. Workflow Software - Filemaker vs ShopVOX

    We are currently using filemaker pro as our process software which manages everything from order entry, project management and production. We are continuously adding new features to it, for instance, we're in the process of adding a production scheduler which will allow our production manager...
  5. Project Managers

    I am looking for some help with our project management team from someone on here that has experience with managing PMs. We are a project oriented business with 4 project managers and recently let go of the head of our PM team. Anyone willing to discuss some ideas and/or help me with some...
  6. Commission Program for our sales reps

    We're a 10 y/o design/build architectural sign company that currently has 3 sales reps and around $5m in revenue/year. Our top sales rep will do about $2.5m and currently we pay a tiered structure based on a revenue number. She will make approximately $250k this year so the program is about...
  7. Process Questions

    Thank you for the detailed response. We are an architectural sign company and it's funny that you used apartments because a lot of our business is multi-family. We have a system for sign types, (SRP for Support Room Plaque, ISI for Inner Stairwell, etc) so that's working beautifully. We are...
  8. Process Questions

    I've got a question for anyone out there willing to answer. How are other companies processes working with regards to quoting/estimating/pricing? I feel like our system is broken and i'm not sure if it's just us or maybe someone has re-invented the wheel. Our current process is sales/business...
  9. Looking for a HDU or Foam sign wholesaler

    There is a vendor that we use in Georgia called Custom Foam Fabricators. You could always reach out to them and they may know of someone in your area that can help.
  10. Wood Branding

    I think this is the right way. Route it out using the CNC and then come back and torch the routed area.
  11. Wood Branding

    How would that be done? We threw around the idea of using our CNC router to route out the image on the wood and then painting it black, but it would probably look too fabricated and not "natural". Typically wood branding has a "smear" or shadowing around it and we wouldn't be able to get that...
  12. Wood Branding

    I was with a customer today that is interested in getting their logo branded on wood. The logo would be pretty large 7' wide x 5-6' tall. I've scoured the internet looking for a company that can do this but I don't think they're out there. Wouldn't be a problem if I needed a 2x2 piece of wood...
  13. "Natural" looking sign substrate - but NOT wood

    Why not just use a digital print?
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