Truck Lettering Project for a Quality Waynesboro, VA Builder

February 1, 2016 By Mark Hackley

Truck Lettering Project for a Quality Waynesboro, VA Builder

I completed my first vehicle graphics project in my new shop today. It was a truck lettering project for a quality Waynesboro, VA builder, Westhills Company. Owner, Carl Kerby, chose Augusta Sign Company to brand his new Chevy Silverado and I was I able to letter the doors and tailgate of the pick up truck in an hour.

The project began several weeks ago when I submitted full color, scaled design concepts to Carl for feedback. After several rounds of tweaking things we came up with a final design: one that incorporated the Westhills logo and included the company phone number and website. The doors had trim pieces that minimized the area for signage and we had to work around that. Previous sign companies in Waynesboro used stock vinyl for the graphics, and the colors were not necessarily exact matches to Westhill’s logo colors, specified by their designer. Augusta Sign Company chose to digitally print and then cut the graphics from 3M high-performance vinyl for two reasons:

3M material offers a 10-year expected performance life;
Exact Pantone Color match possible upholding logo color specifications.

Pick Up Truck Signs (2 doors and tailgate) typically range in cost from $175- $775, depending on materials, complexity of designs, and size of fleet. Simple designs, minimal type, and standard vinyl colors would cause a project to fall in the lower ranges, and more complex designs, gold leaf, shading, outlines, clear-coating, etc., would cause the project to fall in the higher price zones. Usually Augusta Sign Company’s design fees are included in the overall price.

I’ll be looking for the Westhills truck out on the street. Fresh, bright, colorful vehicle graphics are an effective and economical way to promote your brand in the community you serve…every day!

Mark Hackley is the President of Augusta Sign Company of Waynesboro, VA 22980

Contact: mark@augustasigncompany.com 540-943-9818

Here’s a link you may find interesting. It’s a 3M site that shows many examples of vehicle wraps and other vehicle graphics projects:

http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_EU/BrandingSolutions/Home/CaseStudies/Application/VehicleGraphics/

We Build Church Signs in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County, VA!

January 27, 2016 By Mark Hackley

We Build Church Signs in Waynesboro, Staunton, and Augusta County, Virginia

I had the opportunity to help Westminster Presbyterian Church with updating their identity as they welcomed a new pastor. Wanting the buildings and grounds to look their best, the church committee chose to upgrade the signage as part of other buildings and grounds updates.

Here are a few pictures of how I was able to transform the old signs in a cost-effective way into new, higher impact signage…

All done right here in Waynesboro, VA! Please join the list of area churches who trust me with their signage…

mark@augustasigncompany.com

Thanks for a Great Year of Signs

December 20, 2015 By Mark Hackley

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

Go Little Giants!

December 18, 2015 By Mark Hackley

Augusta Sign Company Makes Spirited Banner for Waynesboro High School Cross Country State Finals Meet in NOVA

The Waynesboro Little Giants men’s track team advanced to the Virginia State Finals earlier last month and Augusta Sign Company provided a rally call with a banner touting the school’s colors and official logo.

Even though WHS did not win the finals, they gave it their best shot and their families and fellow townspeople were proud.

I received a very nice letter from a grandparent, complete with cool pictures from the event; one of which featured my 2′ X 10′ hand-painted banner. I learned the art of hand painting signs back in 1980 when I was an apprentice signpainter at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

After my initial training and practice there I was transferred to Andrews Air Force base where I served as a journeyman sign painter for 3 years, painting signs, insignias, billboards, water towers, helipads, vehicles, airplanes, streets, parking garages, charts and displays, (basically just about anything!!) all over the large base. It was fun to apply my God-given and self-developed talent to help out a new emerging talented generation for Waynesboro and Augusta County!

Go Little Giants!!!

Mark Hackley is the owner of Augusta Sign Company

Who Makes Signs in Waynesboro, Staunton and Augusta County?

July 11, 2015 By Mark Hackley

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!