In this engaging podcast Series, Peter shares his 10 Sign Shop Commandments—a comprehensive set of principles designed to drive your sign shop's financial success.

These commandments aren’t just generic advice; they are presented in a unique percentage-based format, offering clear and actionable insights to help you stabilize, optimize, and elevate your business operations.

Bryant and Peter delve deep into each commandment, unpacking the strategies and steps necessary for implementation. They discuss how these rules can fix sign shop owners' challenges and difficulties.

Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your business to the next level, these ten commandments serve as your roadmap to success.

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In this episode...

00:00 Intro.
00:50 Sign Shop Yoda.
04:40 Recap of first five commandments.
06:44 Advertising Budget Query
11:17 6th Commandment: Total Payroll
21:36 7th Commandment: Average Payroll
26:08 8th Commandment: Lead Conversion
33:37 9th Commandment: Hourly Rate
44:39 10th Commandment: Quote to Sales Order
53:58 Outro

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Are you a sign or print shop owner?
Join the Better Sign Shop Community - our exclusive Facebook group for shop owners and managers. Connect and learn from peers at https://www.facebook.com/groups/bettersignshopmastermind.

In this engaging podcast Series, Peter shares his 10 Sign Shop Commandments—a comprehensive set of principles designed to drive your sign shop's financial success.

These commandments aren’t just generic advice; they are presented in a unique percentage-based format, offering clear and actionable insights to help you stabilize, optimize, and elevate your business operations.

Bryant and Peter dive deep into each commandment, unpacking the strategies and steps necessary for implementation. They discuss how these rules can fix sign shop owners' challenges and difficulties.

Whether you're just starting out or looking to take your business to the next level, these ten commandments serve as your roadmap to success.

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In this episode...

00:00 Intro
00:32 Catching Up
06:20 Year-end and sign-shop
09:05 10 Sign Shop commandments
11:40 1st Commandment: Gross Profit Margins
15:09 2nd Commandment: Direct labor percentage
18:13 3rd Commandment: Material cost
26:10 4th Commandment: Operating expenses
32:35 5th Commandment: Advertising budget
42:20 Jason’s Question on Marketing Vendor
46:23 Ride the wave (ridethewave.info)
48:18 For Introverts
53:33 Social Sponge (socialsponge.biz)
57:03 Recap
58:32 Outro

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Are you a sign or print shop owner?
Join the Better Sign Shop Community - our exclusive Facebook group for shop owners and managers. Connect and learn from peers at https://www.facebook.com/groups/bettersignshopmastermind.

Sign Up For Shop Software Spotlight
https://lu.ma/shop-software-spotlight

In this quick announcement episode, Bryant catches up with listeners after a brief hiatus and shares three exciting updates from the Better Sign Shop team.

Key Announcements:

• - Podcast Update: The team is back after taking time to focus on work and family, with new episodes and guests lined up
• - Shop Software Spotlight Series: A comprehensive demo program featuring seven major sign shop management software vendors including Ordant, SignTracker, Onyx Align, SquareCoil, InkSoft, InkWorks, and CoreBridge
• - New Website Product: Preview of an upcoming website and marketing platform specifically built for sign shops

The Shop Software Spotlight series runs from November 14th through December 10th, featuring guided demonstrations and Q&A sessions with each vendor. Free registration available at lu.ma/shop-software-spotlight.

In this episode...
00:00 Intro & Welcome Back
01:15 Team Update
03:15 Shop Software Spotlight Announcement
13:30 Demo Series Schedule
18:15 New Website Product Preview
20:45 Closing

Are you a sign shop owner interested in being featured on the podcast or joining the website platform beta? Email hey@bettersignshop.com.

For software vendors interested in participating in the spotlight series, reach out to hey@bettersignshop.com.

Join the Better Sign Shop Community - our exclusive Facebook group for shop owners and managers at https://www.facebook.com/groups/bettersignshopmastermind.