Your Success is on You // Brad Rapone of Trade Wraps and TORQ

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Better Sign Shop Podcast

Peter Kourounis, Michael Riley, and Bryant Gillespie

35 episodes

4 months ago

Learn how to build a better sign and print shop from a few crusty sign guys who've made more mistakes than they care to admit. Conversations and advice on sales, marketing, pricing, growth, and more. Co-hosted by Peter Kourounis, Michael Riley, and Bryant Gillespie.

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Your Success is on You // Brad Rapone of Trade Wraps and TORQ

Better Sign Shop Podcast

1 hour 10 minutes

2 years ago

Your Success is on You // Brad Rapone of Trade Wraps and TORQ

This episode is sponsored by:
GCI Digital Imaging
Your large/grand format trade printing partner

Owner T.J. Bedacht and his team focus on providing old-school customer service. You can check out Episode #9 to see for yourself. So if you're looking for a wholesale print provider for banners, coroplast signs, vehicle wraps, and other digitally printed graphics

Learn more and place your first order at https://gci-digital.com.
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In this episode...
00:00 Intro
02:00 Mike’s nickname
03:00 Guest intro
04:40 Corel draw Mac and PC
08:20 Brad’s Backstory
09:00 Experience in the sign business and the failures
15:30 Getting back after the failure.
20:10 Hitting a million dollars
22:20 Steps to make a big change
27:10 More about the business and change
32:20 Cash flow quadrant
36:15 Why trade wraps
38:00 Why Brad over Dan
43:45 Developing TORQ
48:00 Getting into different Industry
54:50 Pricing for TORQ
58:00 Business through text messaging and E-mail
59:55 Building your own system or buying
01:03:20 Enjoying the business side now or miss the old days
01:08:05 What does Brad wants to be remembered for
01:10:20 Outro
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Brad’s Wrap Business

TradeWraps
https://tradewraps.com/

Brad’s CRM
TorqCRM
https://www.torqcrm.com/

Ready to systemise and scale your shop?
Start by creating your free account on the Better Sign Shop platform at https://my.bettersignshop.com/

Are you a sign or print shop owner?
Join the Better Sign Shop Community - our free Facebook group exclusively for shop owners and managers (https://www.facebook.com/groups/bette...)

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Want to follow the crusty sign guys?

Bryant from Better Sign Shop
- Better Sign Shop Website: https://www.bettersignshop.com
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Michael from Letterbox Sign Design
- Letterbox Sign Design Website: https://www.letterboxsigndesign.com/
- Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/letterboxsig...

Peter from Sign Shop Consulting
- Sign Shop Consulting Website: https://www.signshopconsulting.com/

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