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How do you figure you made $49 profit on a $50 job, if you said it took you 30 minutes to do? I hope you don't consider your time to be free just because you are home based, there are so many issues with doing that. Also, profit is defined as the money your business makes after all expenses...

You post a thread about one of the most controversial topics in the news right now, saying you want to have a civil discussion and not make it political, which is impossible because the reason they are kneeling is 100% political. Then when someone posts an opinion that goes against yours, you...

Gino apparently takes himself far too seriously. Online forums are serious business!

Easiest way is to print off a bunch of swatch books off your printer, pantone, CMYK, RGB,LAB and use them to match the item, these are hard copies that you know your printer can produce.

I bought this and returned it after a week, I don't see how it can work in a digital printing environment as there is no baseline, let me explain. Say I go to a site and scan a colour I need to match, i get the CMYK values of the item, but I have absolutly no way of knowing that the colour...

I watched the video 3 times to see if I missed something obvious, but what is the point of this thing? they still need 2 people to operate it, so why can't those 2 people tape the graphic on the wall without the roll holder?

any sign supplier that sells sheet goods should have it, i'm not from the states so I don't know specifics, it's sometimes called sign foam

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We don't have an e-commerce site, but we get a ton of quote requests for certain products we sell from our website, it's a bit of a niche product so we rank extremely well in Google for it, it's become a very good seller for us in the past year. I have considered an ecommerce site, but due to...

I've tried the usual sources, I know I've seen it before!

When we were home based many moons ago, one of the biggest issues was having people call at all hours to either place an order or check the status, we had to get a seperate number that we could forward to an answering machine after 5:00. As far as a business line, I don't see any value in the...

I'm sure there are some extremely rare circumstances that would allow you to get that, but lets face it for the most part direct printed coroplast is for cheap throw away signs that clients want for as little as possible. Now if you have other needs for a flatbed such as printing on aluminum or...

after seeing what places like 4over and signs365 charge for coroplast printed, i would think really hard about if it was worth bringing in house.

look into a coin operated machine, that way you don't need to interact with them at all.

We use a rule of thumb of a stand off every 3 feet, if it's in the budget I prefer 3/8 or 1/2 acrylic as it's more rigid and it looks so much better for something like a lobby sign.

we use 468MP on acrylic letters we cut on our laser, it works great for drywall applications, I've never had an issue in 12 years

have you considered alumigraphics? I've never used it on a job, but I got a sample roll in and it comforms very well to the cinder block in my shop, including the mortar lines. it's basically alminum foil and it removes in 1 piece very easily. it's expensive though, but might make up for it...

Thanks for clearing that up. I would say that if you do not enjoy the sales aspect of the business, then it makes sense to hire someone for that, I don't have any personal experience with having a sales rep, but I wish you all the best. One thing in your post that struck me as odd, you say...

What is your current role in the business? do you handle any production, or are you mostly handling the front of house things such as bookkeeping, customer service, sales? What role do you want to have in the business? do you enjoy getting your hands dirty in the back or would you like to be...

We are known for our top notch high end work, which is why we really don't get too many real estate agents through our doors, but the ones we do get have always lived up to the penny pinching stereotype that many on this forum have reinforced. Congrats to you for finding a few diamonds in the...