We value education, re-investing in the signage industry, and being at the cutting edge of technology. We came together with our distributor partner, Harbor Sales, to provide a donation of Alumet Supply aluminum sheet metal that allowed students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design to implement techniques and strategies for the design of prototype structures. The work was centered on advanced digital 3-D modeling techniques, visualization, transfer of digital data and fabrication methods.
Category: In the News
The Right Representation
“We do not come into sign shops offering just one or two products but an entire solution. Our main focus is on the customer’s needs and ‘it’s a relationship you can’t go without in our industry.” says Bob Esser at Cima Network – Signage & Environmental Branding. Read this amazing article in the May edition of Sign Builder Illustrated written by Ashley Bray featuring lots of key people in the industry!
Enlisting Reps to Help Build Impressions
“Adam Yorston gives a rep’s perspective on sales presentations in the March issue of Agency Sales Magazine. “It can be done in person or in today’s world even over a screen share or webinar program. Our most recent success came from a presentation to a sales manager in California and a general manager in Texas, while I was in Delaware and my team member in Iowa. In that moment we were incredibly efficient.”
Excerpted from March 2017’s Signs and Digital Graphics
Bill Yorston talks the benefits of a MANA membership
The Mystery of Manufacturer’s Reps
Brian Vlasich entered the sign industry the way many do—unexpectedly. He answered an ad for a job at aluminum extrusion provider SignComp and spent five years working there in customer service and marketing.
After a few years, he felt the need for a change.
When a position in the Midwest opened up three years ago at Yorston & Associates, a company of independent manufacturer’s representatives, Vlasich jumped at the opportunity.
Excerpt from November 2016’s Sign Builder Illustrated
Top Considerations When Hiring Manufacturers’ Reps
Outsourcing your sales force? Why not? You already outsource your legal and accounting work, and you may also outsource bookkeeping, human resources and other vital elements of your business.
Excerpted from September/October 2016’s SGIA Journal
City Custom Cut
For many shops, bottlenecks in workflow can come in the fabrication stage and slow down an entire project. To alleviate the crunch, shops often outsource portions of a job they don’t have the capabilities to complete or that another company can do faster.
Excerpt from September 2016’s Sign Builder Illustrated
Employing Independent Manufacturers’ Representatives
“On a project like this, if you don’t have a professional like Yorston, you’ll spend way too much of your time and energy researching something that they already have within their line of resources.”
Patrick Dooley, North Shore Neon
From Building Impressions by Scott Franko, July 2016’s Sign and Digital Graphics
Educated Wayfinding
City Neon went back to school on a recent project for West Virginia University (WVU) in Morgantown, West Virginia. City Neon has a long relationship with the university as the shop has done work for them in the past; even the owner, as well as some employees, are alumni…
Talk Show Signage
When Stephen Colbert took over the helm of The Late Show from David Letterman this past Fall, he needed signage as star-studded as his line-up of guests. Enter Going Sign & Servicing Company, Inc. of Plainview, New York…