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I was owner and operator of a wholesale and installation fabrication business. We specialized in ADA, wayfinding, and custom hand crafted commercial signage before selling off that arm of the business and pivoting to consulting and graphic design, takeoff, and project management work. This is me...

Providing free art or mockups without a contract is not recommended. The work you provide without a contract potentially will end up in someone else's hands. They will be able to beat your quote as you have graciously done the majority of the concept art and scope definition for them. It's a...

Although I have not had any clients send in Canva files (yet), I have received professional branding / design firms' work that we have to completely re-do. Canva does allow people to create unique designs. It's really plug and play in that you don't need to understand how to design in a pro...

We had a sales guy working on a a retail price quote. The owner kept trying to get us to compete with another offer. We did lower the price a bit, but after the third time we passed on the job. Not even two weeks after the other company installed the sign it fell off the building. Sometimes they...

If you are in an industrial area, you can offer cut services (acrylic, cut metals, dimensional letters...) These types of businesses have needs for various widgets. If there are data centers nearby they need to label their server racks (just as an example). When we manufactured we made a ton of...

Full transparency, we have not manufactured for several years and materials and technologies might have improved. We were wholesale fabricators and installers before selling off that arm of the business and focusing on digital / software exclusively. My recommendation is to give Graphic...

I would recommend against Paychex. They frequently overcharged and had to go through repeated disputes to be refunded.

We made signs for multiple golf courses for years and we typically used aluminum and Matthews paint system. Everything else we used was so prone to damage, it wasn't worth the repeat trips to replace the signs or repair them. If you are not doing aluminum or thick wood, it may not be worth the...

This seems like they are shopping their current supplier. This probably has a 1/2" backer that is not acrylic and then a 1/4" white acrylic face (unusual material for a golf course). The TBD are the inserts. In this application the inserts might be magnetic with the insert area rousted through...

That just reminded me of the shooting at the company that does the braille beads, Accent Signage. That was incredibly tragic. I worked in a shop where a guy brought in a bag of bullets with some of the employees' names engraved on them, guns, and other weapons. Corp was too afraid to fire him...

I've used Grasshopper. They even offer real voice actors (cheap) for your messaging. It forwards and allows you to have multiple extensions. I haven't used it for a few years, but I liked it when I did use it. https://grasshopper.com/

Will the pvc be exposed to any sunlight? They tend to warp.

Upworks can sometimes have good resources too.

Contracts that are so one-sided are typically not enforceable if contested. That being said, anyone that can afford the fight would win, but they will most likely out-spend anyone that attempts to fight this.

The fact that they reached out means they are dissatisfied with their current vendors or do not have a vendor in this particular service area. This is mostly typical of large projects with multiple locations (gas stations, clinics, restaurants...). It is a good opportunity. You only need to...

It's a very nice site. I wish you the best of luck!

I have heard about pickleball, even did a sign project for a pickleball facility and I still have no idea what it is, lol. I'm glad the shots are helping and hope you are able to stay active. One thing that my friend's mother also did was made a massive change to how she ate. She has a high...

Watching my MIL wait too long to get her knees replaced and now is in too frail of health to do anything about it, has been difficult. She can barely walk. Her travels are limited to her recliner, room, and the kitchen (all with a walker and has to often pause even on these short trips). While...

I saw some guys installing siding on a new residential building that was three stories. I wished I had taken a picture. They had a ton of ladders tied together like scaffolding. It was one of the craziest things I had ever seen. I did see a guy installing a sign locally doing exactly the same...

Freepik is another good stock photo site and much cheaper than Shutterstock. https://www.pexels.com/ is another site - I don't always find what I'm looking for, but they have some good stock photos. Creative Fabrica is good for fonts, backgrounds, and textures and is more affordable than...