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Hey Laura, The t-shirt thing sounds interesting! I am glad it doesn't involve water though!! The food sounds good too, Should I be glad that it's only 4 days so that my waist line does not expand too much? See you in August Barb x
-------------------- Barbara Murrell 4 Elements (Global)Ltd Ware Herts England barbara@4elementsglobal.com Posts: 87 | From: England | Registered: May 2003
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Did you get your hotel room yet? Which one are you staying at? I know the hotels would like to have people registered by July 1st so they can take a counting to see if they need to add rooms or take away a block of rooms.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Laura -- We have our hotel room and ... thankyou, Kevin -- $89.00 is a GREAT rate for a first class Marriott.
-------------------- Kent Smith Smith Sign Studio P.O.Box 2385, Estes Park, CO 80517-2385 kent@smithsignstudio.com Posts: 1025 | From: Estes Park, CO | Registered: Nov 1998
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The pricing that I "teach" at Letterhead meets involves how to calculate your OWN numbers -- with worksheets and formulas that will work anywhere for anyone.
As far as using standardized (national average) numbers from another country -- we reccommend experimenting with a factor, beginning with the exchange rate as a base, and then costing to refine that.
-------------------- Judi Smith Smith Sign Studio (& Quikprice) PO Box 66, Greeley, CO 80632 judi@quikprice.com Posts: 3 | From: Greeley, CO | Registered: May 2004
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Thank you Judi for your explanation, That really sounds good. I have great difficulty in working out my prices and trying not to diddle anyone, myself or my clients! This meet seems to get better and better. Barb
-------------------- Barbara Murrell 4 Elements (Global)Ltd Ware Herts England barbara@4elementsglobal.com Posts: 87 | From: England | Registered: May 2003
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Sarah, I am so glad that your business, Stain Glass Limited, wants to be a vendor at the meet. I can't wait to see the Angel Gilding. I hope the copper mirroring solution comes in time to bring it.
-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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The more I work on helping get this meet going, the more excited that I am getting. As more older sign people sign up, I am starting to get the fever and get a glimps of the vision that Kevin has for this meet. I am seeing how important it is to pass the torch...so to say, onto the next generation ( and newbies, like me). There is so much info, expertise, and knowledge that will be lost if it isn't passed on.
So often in situation I am amazed when I search and search for an answer for a situation and can't find it on the web, talking to some greatly informed so and so, or blah, blah blah. Then I talked to an old time person and they say, "Oh years and years ago we used to do it this way..." or "we use to use this....". And when I take their advice/info and it works.
Am I the only one that enjoys talking with the older generation? There was an older gentleman up the road that never married and had no siblings. There were two stores and mile away and he owned one of them...being a little hardware, auto, etc. He had been born and raised right there. When he went into a nursing home, we went to see him. I didn't want to leave. His mind was shape as a tack. He talked for hours about our area, giving dates, times, birthdays and whatever it was like 50...75 years ago. I wish that I had taken a tape recorder as everything that he told us probably went with him to his grave.
This same thing happens each time an old sign painter dies and goes to the happy palette in the sky.
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-------------------- Laura Butler Vision Graphics & Sign 4479 Welch Rd Attica, Mi 48412 Posts: 2855 | From: Attica, Mi, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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