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  1. How do you advertise or what do u put in front of your shop to attract?

    Apparently uncut grass, an old 4x16 sign that's covered with a banner, flaking paint and a cluttered interior are the keys to success.
  2. Copyrighted Artwork?

    Yeah....except make the train a whole lot larger.
  3. Copyrighted Artwork?

    FROM THE U.S. COPYRIGHT OFFICE: How do I copyright a name, title, slogan, or logo? Copyright does not protect names, titles, slogans, or short phrases. In some cases, these things may be protected as trademarks. Contact the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, 800-786-9199, for further information...
  4. What the heck is wrong with people?

    Made it all better. After work I went to paint lettering on a wall as the sun was going down. Stood on the ladders for three hours transferring patterns, painting and touching up. Finished it about an hour after dark thanks to some perfectly placed street lights. There aren't a whole lot of...
  5. What the heck is wrong with people?

    I'm trying damn hard not to do that anymore. Sometimes it has to happen but more often than not I'm doing it a better way. When I was working in the franchised picture framing shop we'd do any dang thing somebody wanted us to do. Didn't matter what it was. It just all came with a...
  6. Copyrighted Artwork?

    Shouldn't be a problem. Google Image Search until you find a similar locomotive. Autotrace it (how that one looks like it was done), the rest is a couple of simple shapes and text placement. Sounds like a damn fine opportunity to get them to improve on what they've got though and make it the...
  7. Copyrighted Artwork?

    Where'd you come up with that idea? Using that logic I can recreate and sell any logo as long as I digitize it myself.
  8. reflective sign

    Print it all and install it. Your print cost is virtually the same whether you print the whole thing or print it with the black left off. When it's installed if wash out is a problem you can go back and install black vinyl over the printed black lettering. I don't think it's going to be a...
  9. What the heck is wrong with people?

    On second thought forget them....here's the post I deleted above. I've about had it this week with demanding walk-in customers. I've got a guy who called Friday and got a ballpark price on lettering a van. He was sitting in the parking lot Tuesday morning pissed off. Apparently he drove an...
  10. What the heck is wrong with people?

    Sorry, edited out my original post.
  11. What the heck is wrong with people?

    Sorry, people are crazy.
  12. What would you do?

    If he approved it and you've got that documented and you printed it then collect on it. Period. He screwed up, why should you be the one penalized for that? If you didn't print it then just let it go.
  13. Dealing with hostile competition

    I don't know...I'm thinking its that "Best of Maine" guy again.
  14. Dealing with hostile competition

    You're in a town with only three sign shops in a 50 mile radius and you made one shop $325,000 in profits?! Where is this magical land?
  15. Lynyrd Skynyrd

    Wrong.....Flea market guy isn't making any money. Lynard Skynard may be pimping nostalgia.....but they're pimping for a mass profit.
  16. ..................

    That Gino goes .................................... as much as OP goes )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
  17. Craft Show Booth Sign

    Start over. Not saying that to be a smartass or anything but try going at it from a completely different direction. It looks like you tried too hard to force the bow tie graphic into it and it's just not working. Also, if you're going to use that script for "More" kern it so the overlaps...
  18. Sandblasting?

    No. Unless you're cranking out a ton of sandblasted signs you'll never make enough money to justify the equipment cost, mess, supplies, and labor. Build your own blanks, mask them yourself, find somebody to blast them for you. If I can wait a couple of days my guy will blast them for beer...
  19. I want to pay my employee by the Job

    If your employee has a brain in his head he's going to agree to it then triple what he expects you to be paying him since you'll be treating him like a sub-contractor.
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