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Posted by BruceWestfall (Member # 43) on :

This is a simple question that I'd like to keep simple. Not getting OT about how doing a such-and-such sign isn't what we really prefer to do.
What type of sign job gets YOU the most profit?

or- What type of sign can make the most profit in the shortest time?

Remember - no Off-Topic rants....this one is only dealing with getting paid the most for the smallest investment.
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Bruce Westfall
Gene's Sign Co. Bremen, Ohio
GeneSignCo.com
bruce@frognet.net
740-569-4364
740-767-3636 home

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Posted by Michael Boone (Member # 308) on :

Gold leaf names on antique wooden boats.

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Michael Boone
Sign Painter
5828 Buerman Rd.Sodus,NY 14551
Ontime @localnet.com

Posted by david drane (Member # 507) on :

1. The work that I contract out.
2. Sandblasted wood.
3. Backsprayed illuminated faces.
in that order.

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Drane Signs
Sunshine Coast
Nambour, Qld.
dranesig@dingoblue.net.au
Downunder
"Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life" - Confucius

Posted by cheryl nordby (Member # 1100) on :

silkscreened sub out jobs

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surf or MoJo
on mirc
Cheryl J Nordby
Signs by Cheryl
Seattle WA.....!
signsbycheryl@hotmail.com

http://www.signsbycheryl.freeservers.com
It's only fun if you can get into trouble!!!

Posted by Suelynn Sedor (Member # 442) on :

Aluminum lease and battery signs.

Sometimes just vinyl on white aluminum blanks, sometimes I sub them out to a screen printer depending on volume.

Boring, but great money!

Suelynn

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"It is never too late to be what you might have been." -George Eliot

Suelynn Sedor
Sedor Signs
Carnduff, Sk Canada

Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :

vinyl on aluminum and screen printed coroplast signs.

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Jimmy Chatham
Chatham Signs
164 Poplar Rd.
Commerce, Ga 30529
706-335-2348
Fax 706-335-3378
icq#11718273

Posted by Terry Bull Sign & Custom (Member # 1876) on :

Lettering chalkboards

Terry

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Terry Bull
Sign & Custom
12 Cresthill Avenue
Grays Essex RM17 5UJ
England
http://www.wagonsforwalls.co.uk
http://www.signandcustom.co.uk

Posted by Felix Marcano (Member # 1833) on :

screenprinting d board

(coroplast, polypropylene, corrugated plastic, sheesh, any more names fer' the schtuff?)

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Marcano-Welch Signs
Luquillo, PR
www.marcanowelch.com

Posted by Santo (Member # 411) on :

Letter Re-Sale
Vinyl on Aluminum
Inkjet printed backlit overlays.

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Santo Brocato
Promotion Graphics & Letters
Youngsville LA.

Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

hey bruce,
long time no see my friend!

i have to say my most profitable work is logo design and truck lettering.

mark

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Mark Fair Signs
Montgomery, Alabama
http://www.markfair.com/flash.html

Posted by Mike Pipes (Member # 1573) on :

Not any kinda sign but web design is my most profitable service. No materials, just labor, and very little of it at that thanks to templates and dynamic data/databases.

Sign-wise.. I guess it's gotta be my pre-designed graphic designs for vehicles..

Just open the file, resize it, cut it, airbrush it and collect.

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Mike Pipes
Digital Illusion Custom Graphics
Lake Havasu City, AZ
http://www.stickerpimp.com

Posted by Tim Whitcher (Member # 685) on :

Hate to say it, but vinyl letters. Pick a font, pick a color, pick a size. Don't do many, but when I make as much as $100.00 an hour on an order, I have to admit that that's a great profit margin!

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Tim Whitcher
Quality Signs & Design
107 E Adrian St
Blissfield, MI 49228
qualitysigns@cass.net

Posted by George Perkins (Member # 156) on :

Back in the old days B.C. my answer would have been banners.

These days it's pinstriping. Two colors on an 18 wheeler fairly simple, an hour to an hour and a half. Price $300. Materials, a few papertowels, a spritz or two of Rapid Prep, 1/8 oz. total of One Shot, a few drops of 6000, a little wear and tear on a Cosmos 700. $5 will cover all that and a Coke

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George Perkins
Millington,TN.
goatwell@ionictech.com

"I started out with nothing and still have most of it left"

http://goatwell.tripod.com

Posted by Pierre St.Marie (Member # 1462) on :

Carvings. Probably because I'm very fast at doing them.

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St.Marie Graphics
& Makin' Tracks Sound Studio
Kalispell, Montana
stmariegraphics@centurytel.net http://www.stmariegraphics.com
800 735-8026
We're chiseling every day of the week! :^)

Posted by Bob Rochon (Member # 30) on :

Gold leaf on Glass as of recently

10 hour job will yeild nearly $1200.00

Other than that Edge jobs.

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Bob Rochon
Creative Signworks
Millbury, MA
bob@creativesignworks.com

"Some people's kids"

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :

My best profit Signs (Graphics/Airbrushing)

Comes from the customer that trusts my judgement and talents!

Money is alway the concern to the customer but the feedback from others makes more turn over on my end.

Tractors/Trailers/Motorcycles/Helmets/Summer and Winter fun toys.

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Raven/2001
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower Sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca

Posted by Stephen Deveau (Member # 1305) on :

Sorry double post.

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Raven/2001
Airbrushed by Raven
Lower Sackville N.S.
deveausdiscovery@sprint.ca

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Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

as george and several others here have pointed out, you must find your niche in the market.
i am familiar with brother george's pinstripe work and i can say it is worth every penny regardless of time spent.

mark

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Mark Fair Signs
Montgomery, Alabama
http://www.markfair.com/flash.html

Posted by Dan Sawatzky (Member # 88) on :

Design work is the most profitable. Ideas are easy and fast.

Building the finished product is the most fun part though (if the design is the STARTING POINT and we get creative from there)

-dan

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Dan Sawatzky
Sawatzky's Imagination Corporation
Cultus Lake , British Columbia
dan@imaginationcorporation.ca

www.imaginationcorporation.ca www.giggleridge.com

"Isn't it great to do what you love and love what you do!"

Posted by Mark Fair Signs (Member # 289) on :

dan, you hit the nail on the head my friend.

design is everything.

your beautiful work speaks for itself.
(my favorite is the mural work you have produced.)

pardon me while i "slobber" over your website.

thanks dan for sharing your wisdom.

"imagination corporation" fits your work to the tee.

mark

ps.
dan's company was featured on the Discovery Channel's, "On the Inside"
work done at the edmonton mall in canada.

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Mark Fair Signs
Montgomery, Alabama

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Posted by Tyler (Member # 2093) on :

My most profitable would be doing trucks for moving companies. Especially the 24 foot and 26 foot trucks. 53' trailers take too long and they will only pay so much. 10 hours to make the graphics in vinyl and apply them to a 26' truck with rivets and a couple of doors on the side, make about $1200.00, minus $150 or so for vinyl..

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Tyler Malinky

A Step Above Signs
Cleveland, Ohio
440.479.8129
440.842.1894 fax

www.astepabovesigns.com
tmalinky@astepabovesigns.com or exmayors@aol.com

Posted by Donna in BC (Member # 130) on :

Logo design (most profit)

Truck lettering (most frequent)

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Graphic Impact
Abbotsford, BC, Canada
gisigns@sprint.ca

Posted by old paint (Member # 549) on :

doin mobile graphics at car shows and such...mostly cut, weed tape and hand to buyer...can use 3-4 feet of vinyl and make $100...

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joe pribish-A SIGN MINT
2811 longleaf Dr.
pensacola, fl 32526
850-944-5060
BEWARE THE TRUTH.....YOU MAY NOT LIKE WHAT YOU FIND

Posted by Graham Hodge (Member # 168) on :

Vehicles of all types for me, in vinyl, especially bulldozers and excavators. I can do one in under three hours and make $300-350 Aus.

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Gray M. Hodge
Cam River Signs
Somerset, Tasmania.

Posted by PKing (Member # 337) on :

Donated work has brought me more customers(made me more money)And it keeps being profitable!

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PKing is
Pat King of
King Sign Design in
McCalla,Alabama
The Professor of
SIGNOLOGY

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