Custom Manufacturing Industry podcast is an entrepreneurship and motivational podcast on all platforms, hosted by Aaron Clippinger. Being CEO of multiple companies including the signage industry and the software industry, Aaron has over 20 years of consulting and business management. His software has grown internationally and with over a billion dollars annually going through the software.
Using his Accounting degree, Aaron will be talking about his organizational ways to get things done. His podcast will give you shortcuts to handling situations without having to live it firsthand. With his comedic way of looking at things, you will be entertained by his stories while learning best practices.
Thank you sincerely for being part of this journey; if you would like to see the podcast continue, please share your thoughts and feedback to aaron@squarecoil.com
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20 Aug 2026
#159 Job Costing is the Ultimate Blueprint for Scale
Are you running your custom manufacturing or sign shop using flat square-inch estimates and end-of-month P&L statements? If so, you are operating entirely in the dark and eating thousands in lost profits every single month.
In this solo episode of The AC Method, Aaron Clippinger breaks down why real-time job costing is the absolute backbone of scaling a custom shop. Aaron shares how tracking itemized labor hours allowed his business to hit $230,000 in revenue per employee and unlocked an extra $40,000 per worker in profit growth.
He reveals how a simple $600 electrical outlet fix eliminated a massive welding bottleneck, why employee time-tracking must yield cyclical production data, and how drilling down into product categories (like channel letters vs. vinyl) reveals your true profit drivers.
🔥 Topics Covered:
Real-Time Costing vs. Financial Poison Pills: Eliminating post-month profit surprises.
The $230k Revenue Per Employee Metric: Maximizing output through granular data.
The Welder Outlet Bottleneck: How tracking hours exposes physical shop floor waste.
The Cyclical Payroll Data Loop: Exchanging hourly pay for vital production feedback.
Product-Line Margins: Identifying 22% wins vs. 10% losses across sign types.
📣 "Doing job costing will change you from a good company to a great company. Write it in stone."
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6 Aug 2026
#158 Are Your Workplace TVs a Wasted Asset?
Walk through almost any corporate facility, QSR, or residential building, and you will find blank TV screens or locked computers requiring manual updates. In this episode of The AC Method, Aaron Clippinger sits down with Chris, CEO of Display Now, to discuss transforming any standard TV screen into a cloud-managed visual communication hub.
Chris shares how Display Now grew from a homegrown Raspberry Pi experiment designed for a 59-unit condo building into a cloud SaaS platform operating across 1,200+ companies worldwide. He breaks down why cheap consumer streaming sticks are sabotaging business operations, how purpose-built Android edge players prevent expensive IT support calls, and how Generative AI allows non-technical staff to deploy great designs and local ad networks in seconds.
🔥 Topics Covered:
The "Free" Tech Fallacy: Calculating the real cost of DIY hardware setups.
The Amazon Fire Stick Disruption: Bypassing consumer device limitations with dedicated edge players.
Generative AI Menus: Converting physical photos into dynamic digital screen layouts.
Passive Workplace Communication: Water-dripping weather, traffic, and priorities onto bullpen TVs.
Democratizing Screen Advertising: Monetizing physical display real estate for local businesses.
📣 If you're spending hours maintaining a 'free' tech workaround, you aren't saving money—you're just wasting executive time.
For more information about Display Now visit: www.displaynow.io (http://www.displaynow.io)
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90
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82
Engagement
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