Advertising works......a lasting impression.

Several decades ago in College Station, Texas, I had business signage on my car. I traded it in on a new car. A couple of weeks later, I had the whole Brazos County Sheriff's Department and all of the College Station Police officers surround my house (slight exageration, but you get the visual) at 6:00 in the morning. Turns out that my old car had been sold, apparently with the signage on it, and the car had been used in a robbery. They tracked the business down to me. Duh! I've always had signage on my cars, but I learned to remove the signs myself before trading in the car.

Although I have a personal car, I never drive it, and it's going to be up for sale shortly because it's a high-performance gas hog, albeit a real nice one. Letting it go will save a few thousand each year on insurance as well. I always go out in the company car, and I always wear a company shirt. After all, I never know who's going to be looking at me or my car at just the exact moment when they need my services, or know a family or friend who does.

By the way, if you put graphics on your car, make sure you drive responsibly. Well, you should drive responsibly with or without graphics, but if you have your phone number on the car and you cut someone off, or run a stop sign, or whatever, and someone sees that great big phone number on your car, expect a real nice phone call. A few years ago an employee took the company car and, since he was running late, apparently went speeding through a neighborhood. One mom got the phone number, called the number, and gave me an earful of four-letter words that I didn't know existed, none of which were LOVE or FREE, my favorite four-letter words.

Make sure you put graphics on the back of your shirts. The reason for that is because people walking towards you have very little time to read the front of your shirt before they are past. And they also don't want to stare too long because that can be considered rude. If your graphics are on the back of your shirt, people walking behind you will either read your shirt or check out your butt. LOL