mabscotthandyman

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    On 9/3/2017 at 5:12 AM, Dakes2 said:

    Well that's interesting, most young people are brought up and taught I.T.  these days as a first subject so its natural to them, me, I'm 65 years old, but have still managed to learn so much in a very short space of time.

     

    On 9/4/2017 at 10:30 AM, slice&dice said:

    This is the v7.0.0 (hybrid) download --- 

    http://www.uscuttersupport.com/downloads/Software/SignBlazer/signblazer_setup.exe

    As for the 'greyed out' items, there was a version called HotShot which contains those features. Unfortunately, HotShot required a hasp (hardware key) to function.

    http://forum.uscutter.com/index.php?/topic/30290-signblazer-hotshot-do-you-want-it/&page=2

     

     

     

    I am older then you and had no problem with SB easy as pie

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    On 5/3/2017 at 8:18 AM, JLS Design said:

    So I did a quick search here, to see what everyone charges for their work.  I read through a couple of post, but never really got what I was looking for.  Obviously, there is material cost ( I got that part down thanks to a calculator someone posted on here), labor cost, overhead (which I suppose you could tie into labor cost) and if applicable, installation cost.  All I'm looking for here is what is one charging for their work?  Obviously pricing will vary based on your area, but I'm curious as I'm beginning to get busier and busier I want to ensure my pricing is about what a "norm" would be.

    I'm considering charging about $5 to $10 per hour for my time (including overhead) from start to finish.  I recently did 54 total pieces of a two layer decal.  Between the weeding, and assembly, this took me close to 5 hours total.  Being this is a friend of mine, I charged him a little over material cost.  This got me thinking, as I'm spending this time, I'm not doing any of my other jobs I have lined up.  Really got me thinking (and reading the forum here) about getting ALL my costs in order.

    I will be putting together an Excel spread sheet sometime soon to help with costing jobs, so I can quote that much quicker, but wanted some feedback from those who have done this a lot longer than I.  This will be my 2nd summer with the cutter, and intend to get out there a bit more.  I'm still a ways off from much larger jobs where I need to worry about installation so I'm not so concerned with that yet.  

    Thanks in advance for your help everyone.

     

    A job at McDonald's would pay you more.  $50.00  and up for your time.

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    I have several softwares including  scalp, flexi starter, vinyl master pro, and signblazer 

    I can still do it quicker in signblazer then any of the others just not as many features as the others but my old stand by.

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    On Saturday, September 03, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Wildgoose said:

    It's a good idea to know your competitors pricing. If for no other reason than to see if you have made an error somewhere in your logic. I have never felt the need to beat my competition out just on prices alone. Sometimes I am considerably cheaper than them sometimes we are pretty close and they might even have an edge here and there but overall my clients are loyal because they like the service they get. 

    I never compete i give a price that i make money on.... most times i get the job sometimes i dont

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    I am in far western Va., (the other tip.)  When you get to Roanoke, keep driving west 4 hours.

    Do you live near the tri point area in Lee county ?

     

    We only got about half a foot or so.  The middle school wrestling couch, some of the wrestler's and a man or two from local churches were going door to door with an ATV and some shovels, shoveling sidewalks.  They refused all monetary offers.  Pretty nice to get your walk shoveled.

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    what cutter are you using in signblazer for the ce 6000 I  would like to use signblazer but in the cutter drop down there are not a listing for it of course so I wondered if there was a way use another cutter

  21. Posted

    Scott we now have 21 great grand babies, 23 grand babies and 8 kids our latest born on Thanksgiving but each one is a blessing .  if all of them ever showed up for a holiday at one time we would need to rent a convention center.  after almost a half a century with my wife and all the kids, grand kids and great grand kids I wouldn't change one thing.

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