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Bob Chapa hails from a “sign-intensive” background. Growing up in a family-oriented sign business in Michigan, he found himself painting signs and weeding vinyl as early as seven-years-old. Twelve years ago, he moved out and went to college to pursue an architectural degree. When the first Sign-A-Rama store opened up in his area, he had to think hard about applying because he didn’t have plans to stick with the sign industr.
One night after class, Chapa walked into the store and found the original franchise owner frustrated as frustrated-can-be with his plotter. “In about five minutes, I’d fixed [it] and had him caught up by two in the morning. He hired me on-the-spot to be the first production guy at that location,” Chapa says, noting that, once he completed his degree and had to decide whether to stick with the sign industry, he was promoted to operations manager and soon approached by corporate to open up another store. (A few years later, he bought out the owner of the original store.)
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