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a 2nd business ?
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gwestitown
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Print brokering
I have a print brokering business, and I also typeset and freelance graphic design. I have worked 15 years out of the house. I added signs and vinyl lettering about 3 years ago. I kept getting requests for signs and then taking them to a person to get done and resell. It was a hassle so I bought a cutter and started doing it myself. Wish I would have been doing it for the whole 15 years. I also sell a lot of stuff on Ebay (that's my mad money, travel money). Recently bought a vertical panel saw from craigslist...it's so sweeett!!
I have a print brokering business, and I also typeset and freelance graphic design. I have worked 15 years out of the house. I added signs and vinyl lettering about 3 years ago. I kept getting requests for signs and then taking them to a person to get done and resell. It was a hassle so I bought a cutter and started doing it myself. Wish I would have been doing it for the whole 15 years. I also sell a lot of stuff on Ebay (that's my mad money, travel money). Recently bought a vertical panel saw from craigslist...it's so sweeett!!
threads1
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Custom embroidery for 23 years (to be truthful, my wife runs the business), pro photog for about 15 years but got tired of travelling, retired professional alchoholic. I also have a cabinet shop I call my "Man-Cave" but lately all I have done in there is honey-do's. I have only been making signs for less than a year now but I really enjoy it. My only wish is that I should of done this a long time ago.
speedneeds
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B Snyder
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You got that right! Since my wife returned to work in September I have been staying home with my 3 kids (currently 6 mos, 6 mos, and 3.2 yrs old) during the day. My shop phone calls are forwarded to my cell now and I go into the shop from 6pm til midnight.
Signco Inc
General Manager
Snow Plowing. I would not make my guys work outside when its 20 degrees. But I will make them sit in a warm truck and plow snow.
ONLINE SIGN GUY
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k.a.s.
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Make signs.
We farm, our main thing is the pumpkin farm in the fall where we have, hayrides, corn maze, animals, and other fall atractions. www.kingswaypumpkinfarm.com We raise about 30 acres of pumpkins and have about another 250 acres of corn, soybeans & wheat. Also have about 15 beef cattle.
We have a building that we use to store cars and boats in the winter.
And we have about 5 rental properties.
I'm always busy.
Kevin
We farm, our main thing is the pumpkin farm in the fall where we have, hayrides, corn maze, animals, and other fall atractions. www.kingswaypumpkinfarm.com We raise about 30 acres of pumpkins and have about another 250 acres of corn, soybeans & wheat. Also have about 15 beef cattle.
We have a building that we use to store cars and boats in the winter.
And we have about 5 rental properties.
I'm always busy.
Kevin
Kentucky Wraps
Kentucky Wraps
I'm beginning to think I should start charging as a Business Consultant & Marketing Department. I bet you all feel the same.
Zambookajoe
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intense_design
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I do Bookwork for a Semi truck Repair shop.
J Hill Designs
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My second job is drinking 
(doesn't really pay all that well, but when you do what you love, you don't care that much)
(doesn't really pay all that well, but when you do what you love, you don't care that much)
Gino
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My second job is drinking
Yep, what she said.............
ddubia
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I don't own the shop I work in, but when you enter our reception area it's actually a Hot Sauce Shoppe and a Sandwich Shop. Bottles of hot sauce, rubs, garlics, etc, on shelves on every wall. The owner, (being a chef quality cook), did a promotion one Saturday for some smokers he bought to sell by offering pulled pork sandwiches for $6. A large kaiser roll, 1 full cup of smoked, pulled pork, several tablespoons of his homemade BBQ sauce then covered with a 1/2 cup of homemade cole slaw. He sold 87 sandwiches on that day with no advertisement. He was done with that it was only a one-day thing.
On Monday morning people were calling in wanting to order carry-out for lunch. He had meat left over so sold another 39 sandwiches that day. Seeing some possibilities in it he opened a small restaurant along with the hot sauce shop and had been slammed for three weeks Wed-Sat 11am-5:30. He's selling sandwiches of smoked pulled pork, smoked beef brisket and smoked chicken (with a peachy BBQ sauce). Everything is homemade right in our small hallway of a kitchen at the shop which has been upgraded to meet our city's health codes.
So now our reception area is for the sign shop, a hot sauce shop and a sandwich shop/ restaurant that seats 12. One day soon I'm going to post a thread with plenty of pics. It's a pretty unusual yet interesting place now.
I am involved, by choice, only in the sign shop. There's plenty of sign work to do and since I'm the major sign maker here I don't want to spread myself too thin, get them dependent on my help with the food and then get slammed with sign work being the only one to to do it. We do have an employee originally hired as sign shop help who is more and more asked to help with the other stuff. We also have a secretary who used to own a pizza shop so she's been real handy with the food biz.
I'm still "just" a sign guy. But the owner of our shop is plenty busy in other things with this new combination of businesses.
On Monday morning people were calling in wanting to order carry-out for lunch. He had meat left over so sold another 39 sandwiches that day. Seeing some possibilities in it he opened a small restaurant along with the hot sauce shop and had been slammed for three weeks Wed-Sat 11am-5:30. He's selling sandwiches of smoked pulled pork, smoked beef brisket and smoked chicken (with a peachy BBQ sauce). Everything is homemade right in our small hallway of a kitchen at the shop which has been upgraded to meet our city's health codes.
So now our reception area is for the sign shop, a hot sauce shop and a sandwich shop/ restaurant that seats 12. One day soon I'm going to post a thread with plenty of pics. It's a pretty unusual yet interesting place now.
I am involved, by choice, only in the sign shop. There's plenty of sign work to do and since I'm the major sign maker here I don't want to spread myself too thin, get them dependent on my help with the food and then get slammed with sign work being the only one to to do it. We do have an employee originally hired as sign shop help who is more and more asked to help with the other stuff. We also have a secretary who used to own a pizza shop so she's been real handy with the food biz.
I'm still "just" a sign guy. But the owner of our shop is plenty busy in other things with this new combination of businesses.