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FireSprint Thank you for your input. I resonate with your, "Small incremental improvements are everything." Many years ago I read a book that used the phrase, "1% at a time." It has stuck with me ever since. On the "Extreme Ownership," book, is that the one by Jocko Willink? I especially...

Carlos, I am interested in what you are looking to do. I would imagine that you want to stay local, right?

Stacey K, let me pick up on how "the Covid stuff" is beginning to impact your near future. How do you see it unfolding?

Just out of curiosity, have you read any books on business management? Have you been able to implement what you learned? Sorry about the typo in the title.

My offer is easy and simple. All of my clients enjoy having a productive conversation with me. Why? Because I am a neutral party. Plus my four decades of experience in the sign making industry makes a difference. I will hear you out, listen with empathy, ask clarifying questions, and help you...

Sounds like you have an urgent need. There is a book that really speaks to how to find the best. "It's Not the How or the What but the Who: Succeed by Surrounding Yourself with the Best." by Claudio Fernandez-Araoz, Published by Harvard Business Review Press.

I am curious. Have any of you ever had a Manufacturer's Day at your sign shop? I saw several sign shops did it last October on Facebook. Seems like it might be a productive way to introduce students to how you work. Wonder what they will do this coming October.

Thank you. I appreciate you taking your time to help me with this.

It allowed me to enter the change, but it has not kicked in yet.

Thank you everyone who has responded.

I am just going to go by my own name, Robert Armerding

What name to use? Here is my situation. My interests are all on the management side of your sign making business. The technical side, there are plenty of other resources for that. Management topics such as improving interpersonal people skills, like listening, asking clarifying questions. I am...

I am in the process of getting my Signs101 name changed to Sign Shop Helper. We will see if I can get that accomplished.

Even today, 35 years later, when I drive passed a sign I made in Pleasanton CA, I have a strong sense of pride. It is on a bandstand in a public park, right on the main street through town. Before the pandemic, they had bands play there on summer weekends. Tens of thousands of people have seen...

Great input. I appreciate it.

In my lifetime, I have personally met several hundred sign makers. Most of them while I was working at Product Sign Supplies in San Jose, CA (Now owned by Glantz) Quite often they would sit down at my desk, I was the purchasing manager, and just talk about what was going on in their shop, the...

Here I am, brand new to Signs101 and this is the way I am treated. Wow. I do not get into doing their reviews. Any work I do is as a team mate. They post their own words. Thank you for pointing out the typos. I think I might have corrected them. There is a limit to how many characters can be in...

Interesting. I am brand new to Signs101. I want to reach out and do what I can to team up with sign makers to move into a new era. I do not understand how come you have a problem with that.

If one of your very loyal clients posted a glowing review about you, then what? Are you just going to say "Thank you" and drop it?

I wonder if I could maybe ask you another question. Let me say something and then tell me what you think. I think there is a large audience that needs to be addressed when writing your response and that is the daily audience of people searching for a sign maker. I believe that your response can...