What Maintenance Looks Like
Sorry for the delayed response here guys. For whatever reason 101 didn't send me any emails saying "hey you have awaiting messages." About 90% of the signs we put out are vinyl prints or lettering on painted wood. What does maintenance look like? Letters falling off/corners peeling up, paint touch up, rusty hardware, leaning posts, missing post caps, etc. Vast majority of our signs are in the 15+ year age bracket - old enough to be showing wear, but not in bad enough shape that they need a total replacement. I do regular maintenance for certain larger companies that have hundreds or thousands of these older signs. They call and ask for paint touch-up or replacement of missing letters, or re-setting a post in the ground, etc. So I know there's a legitimate market for this with my client-base, not for brand new signs I put out, but for those older ones my company put out 15/20/30 years ago. I'm just not sure what this would look like logistically. Rather than a client needing to spend hours touring their property (for instance, a large resort) and making a list of which signs need work, I would do that for them on an annual or 6 month rotation? Then how I do differentiate pricing for the customer that regularly has 30 signs that need touchup, versus the customer that may have 2 signs that need touchup? Would it be a per sign rate? Or a square footage rate TBD by how many signs are in need of repair? I know this sort of thing exists because in my research I saw several other sign companies offering it on their websites. Just looking for specifics on how those sign companies are making it happen.
