"It was a really dark night," recalls his father, Maxx Messinger. "It was a little misty, too, and it was impossible to see the house numbers." Maxx remembers saying to Owen, "It's a good thing this isn't an emergency," to which a hungry Owen replied, "No, it's a good thing we're not pizza delivery guys trying to find a house." Needless to say, they did eventually find the house and headed home. On the way, a grumpy Owen took notice of the reflective highway signs on Baltimore Pike and remarked, "It's too bad they don't make house signs out of that stuff." "That's a great idea," exclaimed Maxx. "Let's do it!" Owen perked up. Suddenly, dinner and a game weren't important anymore. As soon as they got home, he and his dad hit the Internet to research materials and manufacturing information. At that moment, FindUs911 was born.
Father and son built a small manufacturing facility in the garage of their Thornton home, and they also set up a mobile manufacturing base in the family van. Then they hit the streets, selling their new reflective address signs door-to-door to test consumer reaction. Within a few weeks, several neighborhoods were blanketed with the green reflective signs, easy to see day or night in almost all weather conditions. In fact, so much interest was generated by the appearance of the signs, people started calling local municipal offices and fire houses to find out how they, too, could get their reflective address markers.
The low-cost address signs come with all necessary hardware and can be mounted in minutes on existing mailbox posts or on heavy-duty steel posts. Installation is also available at a nominal fee, according to the father and son entrepreneurs. In addition to their door-to-door efforts, Maxx and Owen are marketing their new business in association with fire departments and rescue squads, donating a portion of their sales to the participating fire fighting organizations. They are also marketing their new business on the Internet at www.FindUs911.com. "I'm really proud of Owen for coming up with this idea," says Maxx. "In an emergency, every second counts." "Yeah," adds Owen. "And every second the pizza guy can't find you, the colder your pizza gets."
For more information on FindUs911, call: 610-500-0169 emal: Maxx@FindUs911.com
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