“eBags, Co-founder Thriving After Overcoming Setbacks”

After coming across an article about our Colorado Sponsor, eBags, AHMC would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them on their indisputable accomplishments throughout many years of adversity and hardship.

Diagnosed with a rare form of muscle cancer in 1998, Peter Cobb, eBags’ co-founder was given a 25% chance to live only three more years. When doctors informed him that his treatment had worked, he joined forces with a former colleague and decided to launch the startup company they called “eBags” which is now a retail site that sells luggage online.

The company was growing steadily until the September 11^th terrorist attacks in 2001, which demolished air travel and luggage sales… directly affecting their online business. Putting things into perspective, Cobb and the others realized that there is more to the big picture than just the way the economy affects small businesses. As a result, eBags put a number of key business practices in place which helped them stay afloat while many well-established online retailers were forced to close down.

As a result of their efforts and hard work, the company’s sales are up 26% from the previous years and they are projected to continue that growth while laying out a strong foundation of business practices for other online retailers and small startup businesses that are trying to do the same.

eBags has been part of the Colorado Sponsor a Highway Program since the spring of 2010 and is continuing its involvement through 2012. We happily support their business for not only giving back to the community, but for being an inspiration and positive example for small businesses everywhere.

Whether you are an online retail store, a family-owned pizza shop, or a well-established corporation…  There will always be opportunity to grow your business like eBags, even during adversity and hardship. With Adopt a Highway being a small business our self, we can relate to a number of these complications that other companies and their employees are facing on a personal, and even a national scale.

Our goal is to always make sure our company and our employees, as well as all of our participating sponsors, are always coming out on top. We work hard to put strong and effective business practices in place to continue bettering ourselves, our sponsors, and the community one day at a time.

For more information about eBags you can visit their website at www.ebags.com, or to view their article in the Denver Post click here. 

Vuong, Andy. “EBags, Co-founder Thriving After Overcoming Setbacks” The Denver Post. 21 May, 2012. Web. 23 May, 2012.

Adopt A Highway Maintenance Corporation® (AHMC) provides your company or organization the opportunity to brand your company name and logo while supporting the community your customers live and work in. The best part of the Adopt A Highway®/Sponsor a Highway® program is, AHMC does all the work, while your company gets all the positive recognition.

Adopt A Highway® signs are displayed on America's busiest highways and interstates, offering our sponsor's businesses positive exposure 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Thousands of people are driving by your business every day, don't you think they should know you are there?

Initially joining the program in September of 2010, Tool King now has 8 Interstate signs around the Denver area and has recently helped AHMC kick start its new Colorado Ramp Program by adding two additional ramp signs making them the largest Sponsor in our Colorado Market!

Not only is Tool King committed to delivering the best selection of products and services at the lowest possible prices to its valued customers, Tool King has been making a huge contribution to its community for the past two years by keeping Colorado’s roadways clean.

Internationally renowned as a tool resource, ToolKing.com is a favorite amongst Internet shoppers, ranking in the 'Top 50' several years in a row.

Today you can visit their 10,000 square foot Superstore in the foothills of Lakewood just west of Denver, Colorado. The store is packed with nearly every product sold on ToolKing.com, many of which are on display for you to explore "hands-on" before purchasing. Their friendly and knowledgeable retail sales staff will help you make informed tool purchasing decisions.

AHMC would also like to thank Tool King’s Director of Marketing, Jeff Plante for his involvement in the Sponsor a Highway Program. We look forward to bettering the environment and the community with such an active and supportive Sponsor. Thank you for your continued efforts in helping AHMC keep America’s roadways clean!

Visit http://www.tooliday.com for huge discounts on a wide range of tools.

For additional information about Tool King, or to shop their online store, please visit http://www.toolking.com

Headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, TVEyes Inc. provides online real-time search and indexing for television and radio broadcasts, as well as audio and video search infrastructure for search engines.

Its Media Monitoring Suite™ is in use by corporations, professional sports teams, political campaigns, elected officials and the military to provide up-to-the-second intelligence on broadcast in multiple languages for US and international markets.

TVEyes’ mission is to organize the world’s TV and radio broadcasts and make them universally searchable by the spoken word. 

AHMC would like to welcome such an innovative company to the Connecticut Sponsor a Highway Program. We appreciate your contribution to the community and look forward to the road ahead.

For additional information please visit http://www.tveyes.com

AHMC would like to welcome Cardinal Heating and Air Conditioning to the program!

Since 1992, Cardinal Heating and AC has proudly served their neighbors in Seattle and the greater Eastside, including Redmond, Issaquah, Kirkland, Bellevue, Woodinville, Mercer Island, and Bothell. They offer complete Installation, Maintenance, Repair and Service of: A/C Systems, Boilers, Gas Furnaces, Radiant Floors, Geothermal Systems, Heat Pumps, and solar heating system.

Thanks to Cardinal Heating and AC for their support!

Out of home (OOH) media is made up of more than 100 different formats, with the major and more commonly used categories including billboards, street furniture, transit, and alternative media.

While outdoor media has a number strategic uses, it can be confusing when trying to determine what features relate directly to what benefits, especially when there are so many forms of outdoor media available.

We have found that the Adopt a Highway Program falls into a very unique category of outdoor media and provides the maximum benefits to you and your business for the least amount of time and money.

The chart below shows how some of these benefits and features match up with the services provided by the Adopt a Highway & Sponsor a Highway Programs.

Every day the use of out of home media is proving to be more and more effective, so whether you are a small business owner or you work for a large corporation… don’t miss out on a great opportunity to join the the Adopt a Highway Program and leave a lasting impression on hundreds of thousands of potential consumers every day.