Fanaticus
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Hello!
My name is Mike, I'm 31 years old, have a beautiful younger wife and an almost 3 year old son.
I run an independant distribution business with my Father, selling Window Films for the Automotive, Commercial, and Residential industries.... selling to resellers, installers, and do-it-yourselfers.
We started as an auto window tint service, but quickly moved into distribution and online sales.
Current economic states and personal events have lead us to start working more with vinyl and the service industry again in order to give ourselves a raise in pay and spread out our income from different sources.
This business started as a hobby and became a full time job, then 2 full time jobs, and now 2 full time jobs with a couple part timers.
I'm pretty much new to the sign industry. We've had a couple paying jobs and several "practice" jobs, but really haven't been advertising anything yet as far as sign or vinyl work goes.
My marketing experience is more geared towards online marketing using "Guerilla" methods (low cost or no-cost white hat methods) and SEO (Search engine optimization). I'm well versed in hand-coding HTML and XHTML with CSS and have achieved several #1 spots for targeted keywords on the Google SERPS for several websites and pages. As well as gaining high rankings on Yahoo and lesser known engines.
I've also dabbled in Direct Marketing and seem to have an interest sales pitch and lettering writting, though I doubt most of the work I do even when it works.
I think I'm fortunate to be where I am with what I do, considering I had no money to really start with... an idea, a 25 cent ebay listing, and some cardboard templates, lots of elbo grease. Just kept reinvesting and growing the business into what it is today, 10 years or so after the first item was sold.
I dabble in JS, PHP, and MySQL.... but not enough to build my own programs so I rely on open source and free distributed scripts that I can alter to my own needs.
I do my graphic work mostly in Photoshop 7 and InkScape. Have 2 plotters, a graphtec fc5100-100 and a VE Q100. Do my cutting through VE LXI apprentice and another custom program.....
I need a solvent printer (eco solvent?)
Hmmm. I enjoy nature, water, my family, my church, and being self employed.
Anything else you want to know, just ask.... otherwise I hope to be a constructive member of the forum both learning from you guys (and ladies) and sharing what I can that may be of value to you.
My name is Mike, I'm 31 years old, have a beautiful younger wife and an almost 3 year old son.
I run an independant distribution business with my Father, selling Window Films for the Automotive, Commercial, and Residential industries.... selling to resellers, installers, and do-it-yourselfers.
We started as an auto window tint service, but quickly moved into distribution and online sales.
Current economic states and personal events have lead us to start working more with vinyl and the service industry again in order to give ourselves a raise in pay and spread out our income from different sources.
This business started as a hobby and became a full time job, then 2 full time jobs, and now 2 full time jobs with a couple part timers.
I'm pretty much new to the sign industry. We've had a couple paying jobs and several "practice" jobs, but really haven't been advertising anything yet as far as sign or vinyl work goes.
My marketing experience is more geared towards online marketing using "Guerilla" methods (low cost or no-cost white hat methods) and SEO (Search engine optimization). I'm well versed in hand-coding HTML and XHTML with CSS and have achieved several #1 spots for targeted keywords on the Google SERPS for several websites and pages. As well as gaining high rankings on Yahoo and lesser known engines.
I've also dabbled in Direct Marketing and seem to have an interest sales pitch and lettering writting, though I doubt most of the work I do even when it works.
I think I'm fortunate to be where I am with what I do, considering I had no money to really start with... an idea, a 25 cent ebay listing, and some cardboard templates, lots of elbo grease. Just kept reinvesting and growing the business into what it is today, 10 years or so after the first item was sold.
I dabble in JS, PHP, and MySQL.... but not enough to build my own programs so I rely on open source and free distributed scripts that I can alter to my own needs.
I do my graphic work mostly in Photoshop 7 and InkScape. Have 2 plotters, a graphtec fc5100-100 and a VE Q100. Do my cutting through VE LXI apprentice and another custom program.....
I need a solvent printer (eco solvent?)
Hmmm. I enjoy nature, water, my family, my church, and being self employed.
Anything else you want to know, just ask.... otherwise I hope to be a constructive member of the forum both learning from you guys (and ladies) and sharing what I can that may be of value to you.
