My son, Brandon, has been on ice skates for over 10 years and been playing youth ice hockey for just as long. Once he graduated to the travel team (Frederick Fury), being a graphic designer in the sign industry, I decided to digitize the Fury logo from his jersey and make a sticker out of it. I incorporated his name and jersey number into the design, made a sticker and slapped it on the back window of my SUV.

Well of course, Billie's Mom wanted one, Luke's Mom wanted one, Adam's Mom wanted one, etc., etc., etc. Hmmm, we may be onto something here.

I contacted Nelson Burton (Metro Maple Leafs) and offered to do an on-site fund raiser night. Nelson promoted it and Brandon and I loaded up the equipment and drove out to The Gardens Ice House (Laurel, MD). As our very first on-site event, things got a little crazy but, Brandon and I made it work, we did $500 worth of customized, team logo sticker sales (in just 4 hours!) and contributed 20% of our sales to the Metro Maple Leafs Youth Hockey Organization. (Brandon walked away with $100 for a few hours worth of work. Not bad for a 12-year old, huh?)

The business has gone through several transformations and today, we have our second website design, we do fund raising campaigns for youth hockey organizations across the country and we have our professionally-packaged, generic designs (Hockey Mom, Hockey Dad, Goalie player graphics, Slapshot player graphics, etc.) in Pro Shops and Play It Again Sports in both the U.S. and Canada!

We are committed to providing original, life-like (super-detailed) designs, packaged professionally and at an excellent value. In the future, we will be replicating this concept in every youth sport that exists so check back often or feel free to contact us for your specific fund raising (team logo) needs - regardless of the youth sport.

Thanks for your support and remember, "Life is tough. This stuff is fun!"

Mike Rogers
Founder | SlapShotStickers.com