Our first Holiday Wishes post was published in 2010, Your Ultimate Holiday Wish. We continued with Holiday Wishes 2011, Holiday Wishes 2012, Holiday Wishes IV, Holiday Wishes V, Holiday Wishes VI, Holiday Wishes VII, and Holiday Wishes VIII. Our newest compilation, Holiday Wishes IX, is our ninth edition. Over the years we’ve collected and posted hundreds of wishes. Many are sincere, some are [...]
Last week I was chatting with a new customer, Jeff Moody, from Paris Illinois. His family farms more than 5,000 acres, and among other things, they own and operate a trucking company with more than a half-dozen trucks, trailers, and dedicated drivers. My point is they stay busy. So, I asked Jeff, why they’d driven [...]
I was a successful salesperson for many years. Eventually, I moved into a leadership role. It was a different world when I sold. It was the days of landlines and faxes. We set appointments strictly through cold calling; there was no lead funnel. And our sales techniques were too often based on psychology and not [...]
You’re not going to believe this, but I must tell someone. Okay, I’m telling everyone. I met Santa! Not one of the fill-in Santa’s. The honest to goodness, Santa. Yes, he’s real. I met him because we wrapped Santa's Jeep! Santa in Our Breakroom Early in September, I was walking through TKO Graphix breakroom when [...]
Is retaining truck drivers all that important? It’s no secret there’s a shortage of drivers in the trucking industry, but how bad is it? “The truck-driver shortfall swelled to a record 296,311 in the second quarter of this year, according to FTR Transportation Intelligence. The change was swift: In the fourth quarter of 2015, less [...]
If you Google TKO Graphix, you’ll find 61 reviews at a 4.9 (out of five) rating. 60 of the reviews are 5-star. One, which has nothing to do with our work doesn’t. It’s under review by Goggle. The other day I looked at our reviews and wondered, what if I was a potential customer and [...]
I’m not a dog owner but I like this Curbside Clips trailer wrap. We have two indoor cats, but that’s not counting the four outdoor cats we feed every day, have named, and take to the vet. Those outside cats aren’t ours. Although we do pamper them as much as you can an outdoor cat. [...]
Window graphics can add an entire new dimension to your fleet graphics. Here are 10 examples of how to use window graphics. Ciroc Limo How to Use Window Graphics “Although this Ciroc limo wrap presented a large canvas, it also presented some design challenges. The difficulty was the windows. When the windows are [...]
On the Sunday mornings when my 88-year-old father feels up to it, we like to go for a drive. He grew up on a farm and enjoys being driven out to bean and corn fields. After most excursions, we stop for breakfast. Denny’s is one of our go-to destinations. Dad always gets biscuits and gravy [...]
The other day I was chatting with Tom Taulman II, president of TKO Graphix, about emergency vehicle graphics. As far as Tom could recollect, over the years we’ve worked with agencies in all 92 counties in Indiana. It’s something Tom is proud of and so is TKO. After our conversation I began looking at [...]
