She Earns $5000/Month Redesigning People’s Signatures

From an AP article entitled, Hate your signature? Try plastic surgery for autographs…

Priscilla Molina in Los Angeles does a minimum of 300 custom signatures a month, offering packages that include up to three ways to sign, limitless drafts or a new set of initials. She charges between $10 to $55, using the motto: “Where originality meets legacy.”

Molina said her Planet of Names clients include professionals and famous people in search of new ways to sign autographs, though her lips are sealed on the identities of high-profile signature seekers.

So people ask Priscilla to create a nicer version of their signature, and she likely earns $5000 or more each month doing just that 🤑

Looks like she gets most of her business via TikTok, where she’s gained almost 1 million followers since her first post in Sept 2021.

All her TikToks are simple videos of her writing words and letters.

For example, she has 12 million views on this 19-second video of her writing the letter K 🤯

Meanwhile, there’s a guy from Pakistan doing signature calligraphy on Fiverr. His pricing starts at $10 and he has 1000+ positive reviews.

He started on Fiverr in 2018 and could easily be earning $1000/month with that service. Which is pretty good in a country where the average monthly salary is less than $300 🇵🇰

A third business along these lines, via a tweet by Kenneth Cassel…

Randomly found this biz

Fill out a questionnaire, and they send you a custom signature

They’ve done over 10k sales, lowest tier is $85

Kind of wild someone has made close to $1m selling signatures

The business he’s referring to is SignaturePro.

They claim to have served 10,500 clients.

10,500 x 85 = $892,500 

Something about this one smells fishy to me though 🐟

The earliest version of their website is from June 2022, so only a year ago. And by then they had apparently served 6500 clients.

First post on their Instagram is also about a year old, and they launched on ProductHunt last July.

How did they manage to find and serve 6500 clients before launching their website or social media? 🧐

Ann Storm is listed as the co-founder of SignaturePro, and she barely seems to exist online. She calls herself the “chief calligrapher” and the company apparently has a bunch of other calligraphers on call.

So basically an agency model.

While I’m very skeptical about those first 6500 clients, I’m more inclined to believe that they’ve served 4000 clients over the past year.

Looks like their launch on ProductHunt went well, and they did get a mention in the same syndicated AP article that mentioned Priscilla.

Could be a case of fake it til you make it 🤷‍♀️

4000 x 85 = $340,000

If true, that’s an incredible amount to earn in 1 year simply by redesigning people’s signatures ✍️