Services:
Great computer programmer, packaging & shipping training, crate building made easy, large freight training, bookkeeping, accounting, customer service training, store design, store locating, store operations, and most importantly, consulting on whether or not you should open a mail and parcel center. Rutledge is too modest in his biography. In essence, he didn't want to write about himself, so we did this for him with pleasure!

Vita:
Rutledge started his work life very early at the age of fifteen working in a family auto parts company at the retail counter, doing deliveries, cleaning, and overseeing and working in the warehouse. In his part time as a teenager, he totally rebuilt autos for his own pleasure in racing and fun on the sand and for four-wheeling in the mountains.

When he went to college at Clemson University, he designed and built his own solar powered home and lived in it until he moved to Charlotte. The move was prompted by Duke Energy, which hired him to be a nuclear production engineer.

Rutledge is a mechanical engineer by formal education and a nuclear production engineer. After writing software performance applications for the nuclear power industry for 20 years, Rutledge is now writing software for the packaging and shipping industry (see The Packaging Expert).

He started a chain of retail packaging and shipping stores when it was a new industry, so he knows the in's and out's of it quite well. He and Fran have won five national awards in this industry while working with a franchise. In addition, they were voted as the vendor with the best products and services at the Associated Mail & Parcel Centers National Convention in 2004. This was an award voted by the members at the convention, which to them is the highest award, so they are most appreciative.

Rutledge is a certification trainer for AMPC (Associated Mail & Parcel Centers) teaching Basic Packing and Advanced Packing.

Rut is too modest to have written much about himself, so we (the staff) have added to his biography. We have received rave reviews on his training, store designs, and crate building training, not to mention the fact that he's fun to talk to about new ideas.

Don't ask Rut what time it is, since he will tell you how to build a watch! That's what it takes these days in his position!

Email Rut, or send a personal email to rut@visionalliance.com. Make the subject title of your email "Pack Ship Request" so that it will be detected as non-spam. Also, you can contact Rut toll-free at 866-365-8988.

• BASIC PACKAGING & SHIPPING
• PACKING FRAGILE ITEMS
• CUSTOM BOX MAKING
• CRATE BUILDING
• CRATING & BOX MAKING SOFTWARE
• GIFT WRAPPING
• MAIL BOX RENTING
• PACKING & SHIPPING STORES OPERATIONS MANUAL
• SALES & MARKETING
• ART OF RENTING MAILBOXES
• EMPLOYEE MANUAL
• SUPPLEMENTAL PROFIT CENTERS
• HOLIDAY PLANNING

• FREE STORE SIGNS
• CONSULTING SERVICES
• INDUSTRY LINKS

• CONTACT VAN
• COMPANY PROFILE
• SITE MAP

“One of my employees and I spent three days . . . . The training was unquestionably the very best I could have ever received. It was extremely informative and quite active . . . . The on site training . . . was worth more than a thousand business books and manuals . . . . ”
-- Marcela Bodkin
Mailboxes Express

Current Status on Consulting:

We are booked until June 30, 2006. Please contact us via email (make subject title "Pack Ship Request"), and we will try to find you a consultant for your needs.