Thanks for a Great Year of Signs

2015 was great! I started the year off as blogger/marketer for a really great custom electric signage manufacturer, Holiday Signs of Richmond, then in mid-June I switched to a full-time businessman once again after a 15-year sabbatical from owning a sign company. My only goal was to be happy, unstressed, and passionate about helping other businesses meet their unique marketing goals with signage, while generating a sufficient cash flow to pay the bills at home with my wife Jennifer, who was also starting her new career as principal for a small Christian school at about the exact same time!

I give all the credit of the success of this new venture to God, who led me to my talent years ago and then has led me back to my passion, which is owning and operating a small custom sign business in a great area: Waynesboro, Virginia which is centrally located to easily serve a 90-mile radius footprint of communities including:

• Waynesboro
• Harrisonburg
• Winchester
• Charlottesville
• Richmond
• Staunton
• Roanoke

God has allowed me the health, the resources, the customers, the vendors and the mental and physical strength to once again operate my own business after 15 years, and I’m so thankful to Him for putting this opportunity back in my life.

I’d like to throw out a very special thanks to my step-son, Alex Springer for helping me develop this great website! Remember that I was born in the early 1960’s so computer stuff has always been a struggle for me. Learning to paint signs the old-fashioned way and then having to evolve into computer design and computerized bookkeeping was tough, but I’m glad I survived it. I’m also glad I recently learned how to blog, learned how to sell digital signage, and I’m also glad I was able to master other forms of digital marketing…but web site design was not on my list of great accomplishments! So, again, many thanks to Alex for all his help in jump-starting me back into business.

Thanks also to all my many customers and friends who have been so supportive in getting me back into business. I’m looking forward to a great 2016! If I can help you with any of the following services in the years ahead, please reach out anytime:

Entrance Signs, Directional Signs, 3-D Signs and Letters, Hand-Painted Graphics and Repaints, Routed, Carved or Sandblasted Wood Signs, Gold Leaf, Vehicle Graphics, Window Lettering, Banners, Displays, Bronze Plaques, Parking Lot and Safety Signs

 

Here are some interesting articles from 2015:

How Long Do Cedar Signs Last?

Can Sandcarved Signage be Implemented into Wayfinding Systems?

Sign Companies in Verona, VA? Augusta Sign Company Serves That Market!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Mark Hackley, Owner of Augusta Sign Company

501 W. Magnolia Avenue

Waynesboro, VA  22980

Who makes signs in Waynesboro, Staunton, and Augusta County? I do: Augusta Sign Company that is.

I, Mark Hackley, founded Tree Street Signs in 1990, two years after settling in Waynesboro, Virginia. Beginning in my home on Pine Avenue and then gradually growing into shops on Charlotte Avenue, followed by a larger one in Crimora, I steadily increased the business from one customer to over a thousand in ten years.

The small business grew so fast that I could hardly keep up with the orders! It was a true blessing, but I had a hard time managing it all. Giving into all the stress of starting up a new business, and then taking it to new levels, I sold the company to the Wilcoxen family in 2000. The new owners soon moved the business from Crimora to Stuarts Draft; then tragedy struck twice and both owners passed away, leaving the business an empty shell and ghostly reminder of days gone by when customers were helped and new sign identities were fabricated and installed all around Augusta County. Tree Street Signs had been in business for 19 years and I was sad that it died out.

After I sold the sign company, I went into sales and marketing within the sign industry and with a non-profit organization that helped hungry people. I always dreamed of getting back into the sign business on my own again, but to tell the truth, I was a little scared to start over. But then, little stepping-stone miracles happened, and now I’m back in business again full-time, fifteen years later.

Read about my story in the Waynesboro News Virginian Here!

Many things are the same and some things are different than before:

WHAT’S THE SAME?

• Licensed Class B Virginia Contractor
• Dedicated to Product Quality and Customer Service
• Strong Sign Design Capabilities
• Specializing in Hand-Crafted Quality, Custom Wood Signs
• Good/ Better/ Best Options
• Range of Customers will be from Small Entrepreneurs to Fortune 500 Companies
• Many Returning Customers

WHAT’S DIFFERENT?

• Many New Customers
• No Sales Office; I come to you when you need help with a signage project
• Smaller, More Selective Workload: Our products and services are valuable to your image and worth the wait in scheduling your project!