A Sign Business with No Royalties and No Rules!

Ask any Signworld owner and they will tell you they are not a “signmaker”.
A Signworld owner hires signmakers.

They joined Signworld because it is a professional, B2B business with reasonable hours, low investment and minimal staffing requirements. Signworld is one of the fastest growing organizations in a multi-billion dollar industry. Companies of every type and every size use signs, and the vast majority of those are disposable. 99% of all signs are indoors, not outdoors. The average life of a sign is less than 30 days. Retailers change their signs every month.

Signworld serves 100% of the sign industry requirements – anything from paper signs to vehicle wraps to large outdoor signs. It is a business that thrives on repeat customers and the ability to grow accounts within large corporations or retail chains. Signworlds are commercial sign companies which service customers such as Subway, Great Clips, Ford Motor, Hewlett-Packard and Coca-Cola, all of whom need large quantities of signs every month.

Many Signworld owners begin their operation in 1200-1500 square feet of either an industrial or strip center, and migrate to an expanded office park or light industrial location after just a few years. Ultimately, 90% of revenue is generated by a small number of large corporate and commercial clients – usually around 10 to 30 customers.

Signworld is not a franchise so there are no royalty fees.

While Signworld owners run their business the way they want to, they benefit from one of the most comprehensive programs of training and ongoing support in the industry. Beyond initial training, each owner has a Signworld business coach who provides weekly guidance and assistance over a two-year period. Signworld owners also enjoy ongoing peer-to-peer support through communication with their fellow Signworld owners and share ideas on sales, marketing, production and other aspects of the business.

The backgrounds of some Signworld owners who succeeded with only one location open five days per week:

• Truck driver- freight company
• Banker
• Teacher - elementary school
• Wine salesman
• Advertising agent
• Security alarm company owner
• Manufacturing production manager
• Handyman at $25 per hour rate
• Convenience store owner
• Nurse
• Food broker
• Corporate IT manager
• Hotel manager
• Metal fabricator - pipes
• CPA

These are some examples of Signworld owners' performance:

• Tom Murphy, Chattanooga, TN, moved to 6,000 square feet and is excited and confident about expanding in the face of a worldwide recession.
• Jay Simmonds, Fountain Valley, CA, completed a $24,000 job for a local retailer which included 5 retractable banners 10 feet wide by 21 feet long.
• Larry Foster, Rochester Hills, MI, a suburb of economically depressed Detroit, would tell you that 2007 was better than ’06, ’08 better than ’07, and ’09 will be better than ’08. Larry is currently moving his 4,000 square foot operation to an 8,000 square foot building that he is purchasing. He will now be his own landlord.
• Greg Kyler, Modesto, CA, grosses $1.3 million+ with less than a 200,000 population in the entire city, and purchased his own 7,500 square foot building.
• Sam McNamee, Gaithersburg, MD, completed a $30,000 project updating all the wayfinding signs for a city hall and a high school.
• Rich Raschke, Portage, MI, just purchased his own 8,800 square foot building.

If you want to write your own success story with Signworld, we would like to hear from you!