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BASIC QUESTIONS
Please help us identify you.

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* 1. Let us know who you are and where you work. (Answers required for each field.)

AND WE'RE OFF ...
A few quick questions to get you started

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* 2. How do your June 2022 sales compare with June 2021?

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* 3. How do you expect your August 2022 sales to compare with August 2021?

EDITORIAL REACH-OUT
Your answers to these questions support Buzz Session and other departments in Signs of the Times.

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* 4. SIDE GIGS
As both business and personal expenses rise, more sign professionals may be expanding their shop’s offerings beyond traditional signage, or juggling second jobs outside of the industry in their off time. Have you created a new revenue stream for your company or taken on a side hustle to supplement your income? Please explain what and why, or why not.

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* 5. ONE QUICK QUESTION
This year-to-date, in which expense category are you cutting back most to cope with inflation?

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* 6. DO YOU OR DON'T YOU?
Do you expect a recession involving signs and your business region in 2023?

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* 7. MANAGER'S TO-DO LIST
Please let us know of any week-long tasks, marketing efforts or must-do’s for August to share with other sign companies.

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* 8. SIGN CONFIDENTIAL / BRAIN SQUAD
We are looking for Brain Squad members who would like to contribute to our last-page-of-the-magazine feature, Sign Confidential, where “sign pros share their work-life balance secrets.” If you’re interested and have not already been featured, right now we simply need a photo of you in which your silhouette can easily be separated from the background. (Feel free to take photos specifically for this purpose and strike a pose!)

If your image is selected, we will superimpose your portrait onto a blank background for you to illustrate and add captions to, and we’ll also ask you to write a short paragraph about your work-life balance that relates to your illustrations and captions (see a recent example here).

ALSO! We are collecting pictures of our Brain Squad members wearing their Brain Squad T-shirts for a photo gallery both for our website and our social media. Please send us yours either here or separately!

Feel free to send pictures for BOTH or to make your submission a “two-fer” — a picture in your Brain Squad t-shirt that we can also use for Sign Confidential (like this example here).

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* 9. How much do you plan to INVEST in your business (e.g., new equipment, additional staff, shop renovations, improved website) over the next six months?

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* 10. How much do you plan to CUT from your budget over the next six months?

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* 11. TIP SHEET
Got a specific, actionable tip or hack to improve sales, design, fabrication, installation or any other aspect of the sign business? Maybe a change you’ve recently made that had an outsized impact on your company? Please share it here!

... AND WRAPPING UP
Finally, your chance to sound off

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* 12. ASK SIGNS OF THE TIMES
Ask us a sign business-related question and we will try to answer it. Or ask a question for any of our expert columnists, and we’ll see if they can help.

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* 13. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Please comment on any of the articles or topics from recent issues. June featured how humor can help your business, wayfinding, restored signs and more. July will feature sign pros’ favorite equipment and tools, new printers, race car graphics and more.

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