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Operating Partners to the Sign Industry<\/div><\/div>\n

We do not place people.
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We partner with senior leadership at sign companies to diagnose operational constraints, pilot the fix against real numbers, and embed sales operations, project management, and design talent at as much as 70% lower cost than local hires.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our Thesis<\/div><\/div>\n

Sign companies do not rise to the level of their ambition. They fall to the level of their systems.<\/h2><\/div>\n

Most operational problems in the sign industry are not headcount problems. They are bandwidth problems disguised as headcount problems. A salesperson buried in estimate follow-up does not need another salesperson. A designer drowning in production proofs does not need another senior designer. They need a system, and the right person sitting inside that system. That is what we build.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Our Full Approach<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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The Four-Step Operating Model<\/h2><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Diagnose<\/h3><\/div>\n

We systematically map execution friction alongside senior leadership to separate real structural bottlenecks from temporary background noise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Pilot<\/h3><\/div>\n

We isolate risk inside a strict 90-day execution sprint, evaluating direct operational impacts against live performance numbers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Embed<\/h3><\/div>\n

We introduce pre-trained, platform-ready professionals directly into your production flow, eliminating prolonged training lag.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Scale<\/h3><\/div>\n

Validated framework templates scale systematically across target branches to build an ironclad operational structure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Three Functions. One Operating Spine.<\/h2><\/div>\n

The three positions that move the needle in a sign company, recruited and trained for the work that actually happens.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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Sales Operations Specialist<\/h3><\/div>\n

Absorbs the operational and follow-through workload that drowns most sign-company salespeople, so the closers can close.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Project Manager<\/h3><\/div>\n

Owns visibility across all active projects, eliminates manufacturing bottlenecks, and drives momentum from estimate approval to collection.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic Designer<\/h3><\/div>\n

Production-ready artwork mastery. Handles scaled drawings for quoting, permits, and client proofs while managing high-volume queues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From the FASTSIGNS Network<\/h2><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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“We hired a project manager and removed all administrative work from our sales team. The sales team now solely concentrates on sales. Our outbound sales activity went up 50% and our sales doubled in the first year.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Wes Kauffman \u2014 FASTSIGNS Lancaster, PA<\/h5><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
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“Finding, hiring, and retaining talent is potentially our biggest challenge today. STS helped us with a top notch dedicated remote designer… The person was functional in 3 weeks. Game changer.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pieter Uittenbogaard \u2014 FASTSIGNS Deerfield Beach, FL<\/h5><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Start with a 30-minute diagnostic call.<\/h2><\/div>\n

No pitch, no candidate roster, no pricing deck. A working conversation about the operational constraint inside your business, and whether a pilot is the right way to test the fix.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Schedule the Call \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"100-width.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2347","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2366,"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2347\/revisions\/2366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sts-dev.damonjdunn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}