{"id":4436,"date":"2013-07-31T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com\/blog\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2020-07-16T03:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T07:42:41","slug":"meet-smartsign-team-marco-silva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/meet-smartsign-team-marco-silva\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the SmartSign team: Marco Silva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4461 aligncenter\" alt=\"Marco Silva SmartSign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-e1375116088529-764x1024.jpg\" width=\"321\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-e1375116088529-764x1024.jpg 764w, https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-e1375116088529-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-e1375116088529.jpg 968w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 321px) 100vw, 321px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Marco Silva is a salesperson at SmartSign. Raised in Queens, New York, he&#8217;s worked at SmartSign for a year this August. For the last eight years, Marco has been a dedicated MMA (Mixed Martial Arts) fighter. He also recently got engaged.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0Tell me about what you do at SmartSign.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 My job mainly consists of picking up the phone calls and getting a customer&#8217;s order. I&#8217;m there to help them get exactly what they have in mind. I keep in touch with them throughout the process, sending them proofs and letting them know that their product is ready.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0Let&#8217;s pretend that\u00a0I want a no dog poop sign with a customized message that says \u201cDo Not Mess with Me\u201d on it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4511\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4511\" class=\" wp-image-4511   \" alt=\"waterhog mat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-31-2013-9-55-08-AM-1024x922.png\" width=\"294\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-31-2013-9-55-08-AM-1024x922.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-31-2013-9-55-08-AM-300x270.png 300w, https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/7-31-2013-9-55-08-AM.png 1156w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4511\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marco&#8217;s Waterhog mat made it through Hurricane Sandy on his front porch, no worse for wear. View the mat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xpressmats.com\/waterhog-fashion-entrance-mats\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0 All right. Now my questions to you will be: &#8220;What size? Reflective or non-reflective? Do you want it with a post or without the post?&#8221;\u00a0I can add the customized words in seconds while we&#8217;re on the phone. I&#8217;ll edit the format depending on how many words you want each line to have.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:\u00a0<\/b>What if I have a special anti-dog poop logo I have created? Can you put that on my sign?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0That&#8217;s when the art department gets involved. \u00a0You&#8217;ll just email me the logo, and I&#8217;ll have them add it. After the\u00a0order&#8217;s processed, I send the customer art a proof so that they have a preview of how their sign will look. After approval, you&#8217;re set.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0So approval means a happy customer.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0Yes, customers love that they can see a proof and finalize the sign&#8217;s look.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0Next, I get my sign in the mail. Looks awesome. So how do I attach it?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0If anything is bigger than a nine by twelve you need to get the post separately. But if it&#8217;s a nine by twelve, they usually come with a three foot post, included with the price.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0What kinds of questions do you frequently get from customers?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0People want to know about the lifespan of a sign, its durability. For a standard aluminum sign, that&#8217;s about ten years. They also want to know a sign&#8217;s gauge&#8211;how thick it is&#8211;which is 40-80 mil depending on the size. And of course, customers want to know about shipping. They&#8217;re always happy to find out that anything over $25 is free.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4509\" style=\"width: 227px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4509\" class=\" wp-image-4509\" title=\"violators-will-be-shot\" alt=\"trespassing sign funny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Violators-Will-be-Shot-K-76691.gif\" width=\"217\" height=\"320\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4509\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marco&#8217;s favorite custom sign. View it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com\/fos\/no-trespass-sign\/violators-will-be-shot\/sku-k-7669.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0Good to know. So, what do you think makes the customer service so great at SmartSign?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0We&#8217;re very efficient and transparent. It&#8217;s a great perk that customers don&#8217;t pay until they see that proof and total cost. That way, someone definitely knows they&#8217;re getting what they want.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0That&#8217;s vital information. So tell me, do you own any SmartSign products?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0Yes, I have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xpressmats.com\/waterhog-fashion-entrance-mats\">Waterhog mat<\/a>. It&#8217;s one of the most durable things I own.\u00a0It&#8217;s on the front porch. Actually, it went through a flood when we had Hurricane Sandy come through. It actually survived that&#8211;it&#8217;s not moldy or damaged.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0I want one!\u00a0Do you have a favorite custom sign you&#8217;ve seen?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0Someone has ordered a sign from me that said, &#8220;Trespassers will be shot, Survivors will be shot again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0 So, what&#8217;s it like to work at SmartSign?<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0It&#8217;s a great place to work. Everybody is just like a family. I&#8217;ve made good friends here. I actually hang out with them outside of work. It&#8217;s a great environment and we joke around a lot. We get pretty competitive, too, and we get on each other\u2019s case in a friendly way. One time Gerson, another salesperson, went to lunch while I was beating him. He came back and I asked,\u00a0&#8220;Hey, Gerson what did you get for lunch?&#8221; He told me a burger and I asked him; &#8220;Oh did that come with a side of sales?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0That\u2019s awesome. And finally&#8230;I hear you recently got engaged, congratulations!\u00a0Could you tell all of our readers how you proposed? We love that stuff.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4462\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4462\" class=\" wp-image-4462 \" alt=\"for Marco\" src=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/for-Marco-1024x735.jpg\" width=\"574\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/for-Marco-1024x735.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.smartsign.com/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/for-Marco-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4462\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aided by the SmartSign art department, Marco created a custom menu to propose to his girlfriend.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0Okay. Now my girlfriend; she&#8217;s from the Dominican Republic.\u00a0I was planning the proposal for about two months. I spoke to one of her best friends out there. I told her pick out a restaurant, and told her how I planned to do it.<\/p>\n<p>This is exactly how it went. I sat down waiting for her and I went to the bathroom. The waiter came in with the menus. Her menu was given last; it had a little message, a letter, that the SmartSign art department designed for me.<\/p>\n<p>Then the second page of the menu was a collage of pictures of us throughout the four years that we&#8217;ve been together. She was surprised when she saw her picture there. Then the song &#8220;I&#8217;m Yours&#8221; by Jason Mraz came up, and that was my cue. I had a plate full of roses and the ring.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0Well done, you!<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0And then of course I went down on one knee and proposed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Charity:<\/b>\u00a0Congratulations! Thanks for sharing, Marco.<\/p>\n<p><b>Marco:<\/b>\u00a0My pleasure!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Silva is a salesperson at SmartSign. 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