I was trying to give you good advice.
I was kidding about the bizcard theft (I don't advertise with flyers)
Notice I added a
In our area, people are extremely cheap.
I have yet to crack $50K a year.
I did $49K one year when I had a huge park sign job (for which I outsourced the prints)
Usually I average $36K before expenses.
Let's divide that by 12.
That's $3K per month in sales.
(actually March-June are the busy months, in December I'm lucky to crack $1K/month)
To quote FatCat:
Do yourself a favor and sub out your prints to one of the Merchant Members here. Once you're consistently selling $5k-$10k worth of printed stuff a month then it's time to look at getting the hardware yourself.
I know an established sign guy locally, saw him at the Pioneer show the year he bought a $60K printer and the stuff to go with it.
He had a nice shop.
Fast forward 4 years.
His shop is up for sale, making him look as if he's gone out of business even though he works out of his house now.
I reiterate that people in our area are cheap.
They are leery of spending their hard earned money on something they perceive to be expensive (like wraps)
The company in this picture (they still have a ton of YP ads) went belly up after 1 year.
Not that they looked to have much design talent or ad smarts using the name discount.
All their gear went up for auction about 6 weeks ago, and could be bought for a song.
That means there will be yet another "sign company" in our neck of the woods in 3...2...1.
My advice was well-intentioned.
Sub out the prints. Save your money.
And by the way, almost all of us make fun of the word "graphix" because it's just so dated and stoopid looking.
