Easy Money...

[Barry]

Nothing fancy, just one color on colorplast. I printed this just because its easier and faster than cut vinyl. There are 4 of these at 36x24 and tool less than an hour to print and apply while taking my time.

[GraphiXtreme]

Nice job, but...looks to me like the last line should have ended with an exclamation mark or period.

[Barry]

Artwork was provided by the customer and I asked them about that and they wanted it that way for some strange reason.

[John Miller]

Isn't it great that the day of the laborious weeding of lots of tiny copy is gone!!

Nice Barry

[bpatrick3]

Nice Barry,
Do you find yourself pricing a job like this(meaning the equivelent of a 1 color cut vinyl job) lower than if your customer would have taken advantage of the full color process that you used.

[Barry]

Jobs like this I will price at Cut vinyl prices since the job could have been done with cut vinyl. The only reason I printed this job is because it was quicker and easier. Ink and vinyl for this job was probably only about $0.25 a sq foot or $1.50 per sign.

[ebowen]

Nice and fast money!! Looks good!

[John Miller]

Here's something I kinda fell into. A local computer store called me to make two 36"x48" signs for his A-frame sign. He had gotten in a bunch of I-Pods for Christmas & wanted to advertise them. He was expecting vinyl letters. I asked him to bring down a couple of the I-Pods & I'd make him signs. I took a pic of two of them, put a corel draw texture behind them & lettering on the screens, with IN STOCK at the top. Not really a portfoilo piece, but he needed it that day. We mounted the prints on panels & put them in his A-frame about 3 hrs later. His cost, $450.00. He was syked when he saw them.
He called me the next morning and told me he was thinking of doing two panels/different products each month. He had sold six I-Pods in 2.5 hrs & was looking to keep the sales happening. I told him we had a 6 month & a 12 month package ( I hope Santa wasn't listening, because I was making it up as I was I was going along) but he signed up for the 12 month package. Thats $375 per month I told him. I put together a "digital marketing program" proposal form on my computer, printed it out, we both signed it & he gave me a deposit of $1050. That's 1/3 of the yearly total less his first pair of signs.
A health spa called about an A-frame & I told them about the success of the computer guy. They bought a sign, I'm working on them for a contract also, they've only had the sign for two days & as yet haven't signed up. I charged them $520. for the total A-frame including photo, production, etc. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The point is if we can place signs with business people & sell them panels to slide in, we build continued business.
The trick would be to keep production costs low. I can see spending several hours getting just the right shot, but if the client isn't willing to pay, then keep it a simple pic, & drop in some copy.

[Barry]

Nice looking stuff John... Hope you can sell many more...

[Neil]

Very clever John!
Classic case of striking while the iron's hot.
The customer thinks he'll change it every month, but in reality these things usually drag out for 6-12 months.
By pre-selling you get him to commit now to monthly changes that would probably not have happened.
You can give yourself a pat on the back for that one!