new business getting closer to launch

[David Rowland]

I am going to presume that the router has better access to the outside world and materials from behind the camera man? That door looks a bit small for 8×4 sheets to go thru.

Looks good and nice and tidy

[Phil Acko]

yeah dave this is main workshop space but when a vans in it get tight and we went even bigger 3m x 2m

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[Lynn Normington]

how do you get big heavy stuff up those stairs 🙄 or is it an optical illusion 😀

[Marcella Ross]

oh nice pad Phil! But most importantly, that’s the first post you’ve made that I’ve been able to read!!!!!!! You wrote it in English! Well done! 😉

[Phil Acko]

Lynn its not an optical illusion i don’t get you "heavy stuff", upstairs is going to be a showroom and art gallery/canvas / photographer downstairs is workshop and print room and Marcella ill keep posting English for your replies scouse git here, just found the speel cheecker ha lol
oh a few more i found along the way

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[Marcella Ross]

that’s good to hear Phil – this Glaswegian skank cannae unerston scouse – no wit a mean pal? 😉

[Shane Drew]

must be a big place mate. You building or renovating?

Looks like you have put some thought into it. Well done

[Nicola McIntosh]

nice tidy pad phil….hope it all goes well 😀

nik

[Robert Lambie]

hi phil
i think you will have a great looking place once your done mate, well done!
one thing though, are you keeping things like the printer etc situated were you have them now or you planning on shifting things about while you get organised? reason i say is you have bags of room and it seems a shame to cramp your working rooms to allow for large gallery areas?

[Hugh Potter]

looks good dude ! best of luck.

[Phil Acko]

thanks all
rob we are trying to target big players here m8 cant be bothered with the local chippy men if you know what i mean no offense but i feel the new products mean more to us than work space the printer might need more space really but i don’t fancy shifting it upstairs to top office
Shane we r renovating a ind unit
Marcella I’m on it 😛 😀

[Robert Lambie]

quote PHIL ACKO:

rob we are trying to target big players here m8 cant be bothered with the local chippy men if you know what i mean no offense but i feel the new products mean more to us than work space the printer might need more space really but i don’t fancy shifting it upstairs to top office

not sure what you mean by "new products" Phil?

Display areas are great to have but im not sure about them dominating the main floor space is all. we are a reatively small sign firm but we have some very big companes on our books. in all the years we have done work for them i have never once seen any of them in our work place. our reception display area is to target the guy walking in with the high street shop… he wants a simple fascas sign but when he sees LED’s in stainless built-ups hes willing to pay more… he then wants a digital printed banner to say hes now open, and he chucks in A-board while hes in the mood to spend on his new investent and so on… it works as it sells itself and pays the bills… as i said, i dont know what your new product is so i could be way off track mate… ignore me if i am :lol1:

the main reason i commented on working space was because at the time i read your post i was sat next to the same printer you have in your picture. next to it we have the vinyls on wall racks next to 10ft x 5 ft table sitting in about 400sq ft of floor space, next door we have about 600sq ft of floor space for laminating and vinyl cutting and prepping. still "we cant move at times" paper everywhere, prints drying over tables and more… staff claiming tables here and there for trimming and prepping. space vanishes quickly when busy. it may just be me mate, i guess i just see more value in the space as a work place as oppossed to gallery space.

[Peter Normington]

quote PHIL ACKO:

thanks all
rob we are trying to target big players here m8 cant be bothered with the local chippy men if you know what i mean no offense but i feel the new products mean more to us than work space the printer might need more space really but i don’t fancy shifting it upstairs to top office
Shane we r renovating a ind unit
Marcella I’m on it 😛 😀

good luck Phil,

hope the big players appreciate your enthusiasm , you will need more than one small printer though!

never knock the small business, they quite often grow, ask Stelios, or Richard B 😉

Peter

[Shane Drew]

quote Peter Normington:

never knock the small business, they quite often grow, ask Stelios, or Richard B 😉

Peter

Wise words there Peter.

My smallest customer in ’96 was my biggest customer in 2001. They grew from a small family business to a huge corporation, and I was in at the ground floor all the way. We parted company when they sold out for millions to a multinational in 2003.

I find the little jobs keeps the cash coming in waiting for the big boys to pay though 😕

[Robert Lambie]

quote Shane Drew:

I find the little jobs keeps the cash coming in waiting for the big boys to pay though 😕

exactly! 😀

[Phil Acko]

you guys are all spot on thanks rob and all for wise words once again

I find the little jobs keeps the cash coming in waiting for the big boys to pay

i like your words never thought of it like that really
IL take it all on board

is this go-in wrong already
lol
nar thanks all