What you do:

The relationship between us, after we agree to assign a territory to you, is that of an outside independent contractor to you to design the ads, draw the maps, print them and ship them to you. Neither party is part of the other's. You and us are completely independent business entities. You sell the ads in YOUR business name and we just work for YOU as an independent contractor.

  1. You sell the ads locally to the businesses, collect the money in your name in advance & get the necessary information to enable us design the ad (ad layout, logo, photo, if they want one in the ad or on the map, etc.). You send us copies of the agreements you signed with the above material once a week. The agreement will come in 3 copies: original for you, 1st copy for us, bottom (2nd) copy for client). With the ads you sold, you send us a check issued by your business for 50% of the total cost of the ads sent as shown on the agreements mailed. For example, if the total sales proceeds for say that week's ads are $1000, you attach a check for 50% or $500. You keep the other 50%.


  2. In the meantime, while you are selling the ads, you collect for us as many different street maps that you can find or buy of the city, town or area you are covering which you need to be drawn on the final cartoon map. Note the 24x36 map has two sides. The front main side is usually the larger area you are showing. Let's us say you are publishing a map of a certain county. The front side will show the whole county. The back side will show from 1-3 smaller maps of individual cities, areas (ex. beach, downtown, etc). These will be different with each map and you will need to decide up front on what you need drawn. We shall, of course, talk to you extensively about it and give you our advise.


  3. Once the ad sales are finished, you need to buy a 24x36 draft paper (the one architects use) and use a pencil to draw the main streets that you want the artists to show, the highways, etc. You then mark (by #s) the approx location of the advertisers (from #1-100 or whatever the final number of advertisers is). You also mark alphabetically the local non-advertiser locations (ex. City Hall, attractions, landmarks, Chamber of Commerce, Museums, etc.). We shall guide you through this process step-by-step.


  4. Once you finished the above draft map, you make a copy for yourself and mail us the original with the actual street maps you got or bought. You attach with them two lists: One of the advertisers (1-100) and second of the non-advertisers (A-?). We shall email you samples of how these lists should look like. Understand, neither we nor our artist are on site and we both depend on you to tell us what to draw, where each advertiser is, location of non advertisers and how you want the map to look like.


  5. Once the cartoon maps are drawn, we email them to you (in low resolution) to study and to let us know of any errors, places mis-located, etc. We fix any such errors and send it back to you. Once you approve the final one, we send the map to the printer and it is shipped directly to you.