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Greetings Letterheads!

As we have reported in SIGNS OF THE TIMES magazine, when it comes to espousing the value of signs, one of the best tools you as signmakers have at your disposal is the Small Business Administration (SBA) website -- www.sba.gov.

Thanks to efforts from Dr. James Claus of the Signage Foundation for Communication Excellence -- who is now the contracted legislation consultant for the International Sign Assn. (ISA) -- the sign industry is represented on a federal-government site.

Go to www.sba.gov, click on "Starting a Business," then click on "Signage." (Or, skip the clicking and go directly to http://www.sba.gov/starting/signage/index.html.)

There, you'll find hundreds and hundreds of website pages that you can use to educate your customers about purchasing signage and how signs can improve their business.

SBA agreed to allow sign-industry representation on their website because they've found that start-up businesses with good signage are more likely to succeed -- and less likely to default on their SBA loans.

Should you have additional questions about this website, please feel free to contact me directly.

Happy signing and best wishes for continued business success!

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"The most beautiful
thing we can experience
is the mysterious. It is
the source of all true
art and all science. He
to whom this emotion is
a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead: his
eyes are closed."

Albert Einstein

Failure to advertise is a lot like blinking in the dark. Nobody, but you, knows what you're doing.

Just printed it all!...

Thanx!

I'll just have to do some pledgerizin!...

Drmwvr

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Robert Beverly
Dreamweaver Graphics House
Arlington, Texas