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This always worked for me in all the years I was a builder:
50% down on all orders, no exceptions, even government!
50% cod on completion (not one day, not 10 days, you just have to call ahead your client and warned them that an installation or delivery is scheduled and that they need to have payment ready)
remember if a client is not willing to pay a deposit, may not be willing to pay at all.
if you absolutely need to give someone an account, ask for the first 3 purchases pre-paid
5% discount on pre-paid orders worked great as well
Steve
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Tell your boss that there are many ways to contact new business
brochures at every new shopping center
contact new businees opening (if they just got an assumed dba name, is public info and is published)
word of mouth
repeat business
contact desicion makers:
Shopping center landlords and management companies
Developers
As for calling around for prices, tell him that that is a big mistake, you can not base your pricing on market value for the following reasons:
Their prices can be wrong, too high or too low
Would not be based in your actual overhead
Prices are custom pieces and should be priced based on all involved factors.
anyway we all had a couple of crappy bosses, you just have to train them or leave them.
Steve
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I think is going to be hard to find the software, but there are many companies that will retrofit using as much as possible of the old sign and just adjusting the software (or worst case replace the main comm board) to be compatible, hopefuly a lot cheaper that buying a new sign, do a search for led sign retrofit or score board retrofit or display sign retrofit, I retrofitted a couple of signs some time ago but I don't do that anymore.
Steve
another cool gadget to find sign circuits wireless detector
in General Message Board
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this tools saved us and our installers hours of circuit finding, breaker flipping and frustrating wire chasing, you connect the transmitter to the sign outside then go to the breaker room and the detector beeps once it finds it
very cool
they sell it at smart sign tools online
sign tools and gadgets
They also have other things like pole diameter measuring tapes, foam carving machines and some weird stuff
Steve