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"When
you
join
the
Sign
Biz
Network,
you
become
partners
with
the
most
experienced
team
of
instant
sign
professionals
in
the
country."
--
Business
Opportunities
Journal
Teresa
M Young, President and Chief Executive Officer
For 20 years, Teresa M. Young has supported new entrepreneurs entering the digital sign and graphics industry, originally as mentor and trainer while operating her own sign business (1986-1992). Teresa sold her sign business to become President and CEO of Sign Biz, Inc., a full-service business development company that supports a chain of 170 independently owned sign companies worldwide, the largest of its type.
By 1994, Sign Biz was hailed as the fastest growing sign
network in America, receiving media attention in such publications as
Entrepreneur Magazine, Signs of the Times and Sign Business magazines.
Income Opportunities featured an article citing the company’s
integrity as a major factor contributing to the organization’s
success.
Over the past twelve years,
the corporation has grown rapidly, and the Sign Biz Network has become
the largest chain of digital sign and graphics businesses worldwide in which the owners pay no
royalties, totaling more than 170 businesses throughout the US, Bahamas,
Canada, Mexico, Philippines, and Mongolia.
Teresa received recognition as a Semi-Finalist in
the Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, sponsored by Ernst & Young LLP, USA
Today, and NASDAQ, for her work at Sign Biz, Inc. She has also
produced articles for management education, prepared
demographic studies, conducted market research, and developed a complete
education program and training center for sign industry professionals.
Teresa has taken an active role in the
International Sign Association (ISA) since the early 90’s, and
represented the Digital Sign and Graphics division on ISA’s Board of
Directors for 5 years before being elected to their Executive Committee.
Her term marked the first time in ISA's 60-year-history that a woman sat
on the Executive Committee.
Teresa will be the Chairman of ISA’s Board of
Directors for the 2007 term year.
On behalf of new
entrepreneurs, she has also researched and produced articles for purpose
of management education, prepared demographic studies, conducted market
research, and established a national cooperative advertising program for
CAS businesses worldwide.
Teresa is one of less than a
handful of sign chain leaders with more than 20 years of industry
involvement that includes front line experience as a sign store owner
for six of those years. She is committed to the growth and development
of the Sign Biz Network and dedicated to each member's success.
"My
corporation has worked with more than 170 new entrepreneurs over the
past 15 years in establishing full-service retail sign stores. In this
process, we developed a business plan to secure SBA financing of minimum
$120,000 for each of these enterprises, and with our business plan and
consulting services, have achieved 99.95% success rate. This means we
have obtained more than $18,000,000 worth of SBA funding for new
business start-ups," explains Young.
An instructor for many years,
through the mid-1980’s Teresa presented a series of workshops to
groups of 20 to 50 business owners, and now assists other trainers
throughout the industry in developing relevant and effective curriculums. "In addition, I developed a Business Plan
Mini Tutorial that is offered free on our corporate website. I invite
you to browse it here."
She
is listed in US Registry’s Who’s Who Among Outstanding Americans and
has been featured in and contributed to such publications as:
Entrepreneurial Woman (Jan/Fed 1991), Business Start-Ups Magazine, Sign
Business Magazine, and Signs of the Times Magazine. Her company, Sign
Biz, Inc., is referenced extensively in Small Business Profiles,
(Suzanne M. Bourgoin, Editor) a book published by Gale Research
Publications (1994) and found in the reference section of most public
libraries. A reprint of a published interview with Teresa Young provides
an up close and personal look at her views on entrepreneurship, family,
work and ethics. Click here for Spotlight
Article.
Teresa
works closely with her staff to assess each new
store owner's business development progress. She also works closely with the Sign Biz
Advisory Board to create exceptional national conventions each year.
About Sign Biz® Inc.
Sign Biz, Inc. is founder of the world's largest international chain of non-franchised computer-aided sign companies, today known as imaging sign companies. The corporation was established in 1989 to guide entrepreneurs into the new field of digital visual communications, by educating, equipping, and supporting business owners in their chain of 170 independent sign businesses across the US and in 6 foreign markets.
The Mission of the Sign Biz organization is "to provide an innovative and productive digital sign & graphics business model, the best education and equipment, and lifetime member services, to support entrepreneurship in the most successful network of full-service imaging sign companies worldwide."
The Sign Biz chain supports triple the percentage of million-dollar and half-million dollar grossing shops of any other chain in North America, franchised or otherwise.
Sign Biz Inc. 24681 La Plaza, Suite 270, Dana Point, CA 92629
Phone: (800)-633-5580 ~ (949) 234-0408 ~ Fax: (949) 234-0426
www.signbiz.com www.signbiznet.com |
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