August 31, 2009
Continuing our interviews of successful small business owners, let me introduce to you Brian and Maggie Harlow. Together they own and operate Sign-A-Rama Downtown in Louisville, KY. Maggie and Brian, can you give our readers a brief current bio? [Maggie Harlow]: Brian and I have been married 15 years and before we opened our SAR [...]
August 28, 2009
It is a shame that the Evansville Whirlpool plant is closing. Whirlpool has been in Evansville for 53 years. That’s just one year more than us here at AmeriStamp Sign-A-Rama. That’s pretty sobering. “This was a difficult but necessary decision,” said Al Holaday, vice president, North American Manufacturing Operations, Whirlpool Corporation. “To reduce excess capacity [...]
August 24, 2009
Walter and Debbie Valiant are the owners of AmeriStamp Sign-A-Rama in Evansville, Indiana. What kind of background did each of you have before you got into the sign business? Debbie: Walter was a Systems Analyst at McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis, and Debbie was attending nursing school when Walter’s folks decided it was time for [...]
August 21, 2009
We’ve got the perfect solution to brighten up your life (or showroom, trade show display, waiting area, or presentation gallery)! Brilliant lightbox displays add new dimension to your products, promotions and sales! No other sales tool can match the dynamic impact of a lightbox or compete with our Light-Up Display® systems. Our exclusive interlocking and [...]
August 19, 2009
Hilarious Illustrations (I like hippos)Amazing roundup of cool design sitesLovely PhotoShop Light Beam EffectCool TexturesUseful PhotoShop Tutorials for making some pretty neat effectsEvansville Otters Professional BaseballA really good local IT firmFree Textures every Tuesday (and so much more)
August 17, 2009
When: 12pm, September 6, 2009 Where: Historic Bosse Field How Much: FREE! We want you to join with us in celebrating the end of a wonderful summer, the beginning of a school semester, higher sales, and really good hotdogs by coming out to the ol’ ballpark! ‘How does one get their hands on free tickets?’ [...]
August 14, 2009
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August 10, 2009
This will hopefully get you and your business started on taking advantage of all the things that Google offers for free. They have some amazing tools to help your website be more useful to the people who visit which, in turn, will make your website more attractive to search engines. Let’s get started: Gmail – [...]
August 10, 2009
We currently have a vehicle in our installation bay undergoing a wrap. It’s a 2010 Ford Transit Express and it is going to be pretty! You can see our vehicle install expert, Billy, lining up the first graphics to be installed on the back. The back of this is interesting because the two swing doors [...]
August 5, 2009
From time to time we get asked how we create the graphics that we use for vehicle wraps, banners and other signs. Without giving away too much information, there are many sites out there where we pull inspiration. One of my favorites is BittBox. They’ve got tons of free high-res textures for you to download, [...]