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March around this time, Corona hit the US. We've been dealing with this for approximately 4 months. We know facts at this point. The fact is, doing the right thing (social distancing, wearing a mask, washing your hands regularly, not gathering in low groups, testing regularly) slows/stops the...

1. Following sheet specs is always a funny thing. Sometimes they're there for good reason and sometimes, not so much. If it makes sense to make the sign out of HDU, and you know how to make a good HDU sign, everyone will likely be better off with you just making it out of HDU and moving on...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/07/14/postal-service-trump-dejoy-delay-mail/ (Non-opinion piece) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/15/how-trumps-war-postal-service-could-create-an-election-nightmare/ (opinion piece. Has bias) Reports are coming out today regarding...

We're in one of the areas that were hardest hit so take that into consideration. We're still not allowing people in the store to "shop" or get consultations. If you can't do it via email or phone, either wait or go somewhere else. We are allowing pickups and drop offs in a gated off area. We...

It's something like a Peachtree City Foamcraft Sign. Home Depot sells 3/4"x 4ft x 8ft PVC panels with a wood grain imprinted in it for $99. Probably one of the better choices for a job like this. I'd go with glue and screws to hold it down.

Everyone is overloaded. Huge volume and they're down man power. FedEx is especially vulnerable because their routes are privately owned. A sharp owner can compensate and keep their routes somewhat on schedule. Weak owners are going to get destroyed by bad drivers and a lack of vehicles.

It would help to know what part of that sign is going to be PVC and what part is going to be wood. For example, if I was looking to make that sign out of non-organic materials, I'd buy wood grain PVC (1/2 or 3/4") for the backer board and then cut the letters out of 1/4" or 3/8" matte black...

Use an 1/8" bit. Drill holes for studs in the backer board and letters. Use E6000 to mount studs and letters on backer board. You could also use Lexel, but I've grown to really like E6000. Lexel takes way too long to dry. The studs will take slightly longer on the CNC, but will save a huge...

Today I Learned, people don't understand how this virus spreads nearly 1 month after it hit the US and nearly 3 months after it hit China.

This is actually a big problem with the recent politics and economic agenda. In 07/08, we had to do crazy things because there was a massive global recession. Generally speaking, most of the economy bounced back by 2014-2016, depending on what metric you want to use. When the economy is doing...

Do a cost analysis on buying the panels from a wholesale printer vs doing it yourself.

I'd process the blanks and then print. Printing and then finishing is an absolutely terrible idea. As for the edge finish, that's a matter of opinion and customer's tolerance. Some will accept a router edge. Some will accept a sanded edge. Some only want a polished edge. If they want a...

Wages typically reflect three things: 1. Difficulty to fill position with a qualified candidate. 2. Job performance. 3. Value to the company. Now one thing to mention, businesses often look to take advantage of employees. As much as employees are people, when you look at them from just a...

People are going to get beat on orders. It's just the truth. It's way dangerous working on any projects right now other than stuff that needs to be installed immediately and has been ordered within the last 5-10 days. In your situation, I'd contact the vendor and find out if you can return...

The response to your customers should be something along the lines of "I'm sorry but we do not provide artwork until we've received a deposit. II'm happy to send you a few layouts we've done for other customers as a reference to the type of work we do but at this point we don't work on spec."...

My business is currently dead (all event related) so being closed or not closed doesn't matter. I think it's good that we're actually listening to professionals for once. What pisses me off is the legislators are NEVER going to actually listen to less/unbiased opinions on how to handle that...

I'd recommend anyone taking orders still that are longer term projects and aren't being filled immediately, get paid or check in with your customers. Cancellations and postponements are pretty much the only things on the menu at the moment around here. Orders I thought would go through are...

My honest opinion at the moment is, as small business people, we should not figure out what divides us in regards to politics but what brings us together. The reality is, businesses like ours are actively getting screwed. We aren't getting lobbied for or protected. At best, we'll get SBA...

Back on topic: Things were moving along most of last week and then Friday things just stopped. The only emails I'm getting are people telling me they are postponing scheduled events. No phone calls really. Probably a handful of walk-in customers over the same period of time. I have a bunch...

I 100% would not pay this guy because he couldn't figure out how to print a PDF. That's embarrassing. Quickbooks has an internal PDF writer driver they use. As versions get older and operating systems get newer, it can break. Corel is infamous for having problems because they wrote code that...