Thanks and where to next…

A big shout out and thank you to all my repeat sign customers, even the one and done customers. I have enjoyed making your hard working signs for almost 40 years. These days I still service a handful of sign and graphic customers needs. In season you’ll find me most days driving a golf cart with a bucket of tools and TeeRific signs around the area’s golf courses. Thanks to the golf courses for trusting me with their needs and even for my big key chain of universal golf cart keys.

After all these years, I’m still enjoying doing this TeeRific thing, but as you can understand, I’m doing it a little less on purpose.

I’m doing more writing, songwriting, guitar, drawing, gardening, walking, biking, hiking, traveling and living.

Life is imitating work, it’s TeeRific. - Tomm

About

tomm inc. is the home of TEERIFIC SIGNS, ONCE UPON A BENCH, SIGNS BY TOMM, TOMM STUDIO, TOMM TOONS, TOMM TUNES, & tomm moll.

My Dad's father was a steeplejack and my Mom's was a house painter; and not wanting to work on the railroad (B&M) like my Dad or work like either Granddad, I followed my knack for drawing (which to me isn't too much like work) and took drafting in high school and went to college for advertising. I graduated to tend bar, much to my father's dismay and shortly thereafter became a Tiffany lamp designer and salesman. I soon found myself selling and drawing at a local newspaper where I met lots of customers who wanted me to "splash" their windows at night after working days at the paper. When I realized my evenings were really a full time job I resigned from the paper.

Well, over thirty six years later and I'm still giving my customers a "hand" and I'm living my dream of owning and running a successful sign and graphic studio. I've had the opportunity to meet interesting business people and learn as much as possible while refining my sign, graphic and computer skills. I had the good luck to work as sign designer/coordinator for "WOODSTOCK '99". One month; 5,300 signs, 4 days and one small fire, but it was well worth the MBA in "Signs" I got. I find myself not wanting to do the BIG SHOW, but wanting to do life instead. I've found a nice niche and I make sure I earn my dollars each job by giving the customer the best design possible. (I even sneak in color psychology, legible distance readership maximums, and long term branding goals into each job, but customers hear blah, blah, blah when I bring that stuff up.) 

Over the years I have created and developed the TeeRific Network of Golf Courses where advertisers can get their messages “On Course” for a reasonable rate. It started with my Once Upon A Bench division then grew with Tee Signs, Course Welcome signs and Scorecards. It has grown to the point that it has become the main part of my business.

So if you only Remember Two Things from all of this… Thanks for visiting my site and remember what's on my shop truck… "Better by Design".