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Also, if you have a custom software solution that manages your business, you've just increased the value of your business by a huge amount if you are ever look to sell your business.

what aspects have you outgrown? I have found that since this industry is so diverse none of the "stock" solutions work for us, we hired a developer to create us something in filemaker, and it's working well so far, I like that it can be upgraded as we need to.

Pat, if you want to be 100% sure they never come off, use this: https://www.homedepot.ca/product/quikrete-fastset-anchoring-epoxy-296ml/1000684856 it's expensive, and you need to work quick, but it's what they use to install rebar into concrete. Otherwise I've had good luck with this...

I had a guy ask about powering his sign freestanding sign cabinet off solar panels because the sign was 300' away from his building and didn't have power, told him while it is possible, the panels and batteries would cost many times more then running power to the sign.

Wasn't there a post a few weeks ago about a guy not getting paid by Edward Jones, and FastSigns said they have the national contract for EJ? Now this South Water place is sending sign shops all over the country to survey for Edward Jones. I don't think Mrs. Jones would be happy to find out how...

find the scuzziest collection agency who works for a "dont pay unless we collect" model, and send it to them, they will call and bug the crap out of them multiple times a day, you still won't get paid but it will put a smile on your face when you think about it.

Yeah this SaaS stuff has gotten out of hand, our laser engravers have come out with a new web browser based software for running the machines, rather then open your design in Corel, and print to the laser directly, you need to upload the design to their cloud based storage, and it will sync...

Yeah a few of our products are quite niche, there are times we get 5-10 quotes for the exact same job from a bunch of different quick copy type places, I just change out the name on the quote and send it off lol. The print brokers are the worst, they call you up and the first words out of their...

Are you laminating them? Some laminates give a green tint to prints

Look at the prices of those door hanger signs, is this something you actually want to compete with? The people who buy these things don't want to spend any more money on these things to get a longer lasting higher quality sign, they just want something they can hang on their door so they can...

Yea I've been trying to think of a good name, but everything I've thought of so far sounds pretty dumb when I say it outloud lol

I've been using the filemaker solution for about 3 weeks now, so far its just me and 1 other person in the shop using it while we iron out the bugs. I'm hoping to be able to roll it out fully in the coming weeks. The system currently handles order entry and project workflow/management. We...

Up here Grimco doesn't do that. However we have ND Graphics and dealing with them is a nightmare! You don't have anyway of knowing pricing unless you call your sales rep and get a quote, once you have a quote the price is then locked in until your sales rep leaves, then you get to start all...

Yeah if they are polite about it, I will apologize, say I wasn't aware and will make sure to let their emoyees know I need a po, if they are not polite, I tell them "this sounds like a you problem" We have 1 construction company who demands 100% of all communications go through their purchaser...

I'm always amazed by the people who don't know their own company purchasing process. I'm constantly getting "orders" from one of our largest clients who has thousands of employees, I always end up replying back that if I do t get a PO, I dont get paid, and I send them the contact of the person...

Is anyone else noticing extremely long lead times from Gemini? We ordered some flat cut acrylic letters, it took about 4 business days to get my proof back, and when I went to track the order, its.not shipping until the 7th of March. In the past acrylic letters have been in my hands in less...

We love ours! We don't run white or metallic, we just have a cleaning cartridge in that spot, my understanding is you can put a white or silver cartridge in anytime then take it back out, you just need to purge the line, which the printer does automatically, but it wastes a bunch of ink and...

Arlon SLX Plus is very similar to 3M180, the original SLX was extremly low tack, but the SLX plus is as close as I've found.

What I use our "server" for is literally a shared drive that all the employees can pull production files from, nothing fancy at all lol. The NAS we had was store bought, I can't even remember the brand, I know it was a major brand at the time and cost me around $600 8 or so years ago.

We run a windows desktop as our file server, I have 3 HDD in it mirroring each other, a USB HDD doing daily backups, as well as carbonite for cloud backup. Carbonite has saved us a few times, however the software will randomly stop backing up when it needs to be updated and not tell you, and on...