SOAR TO SUCCESS / Feature Article When you encounter a task that is frustrating or difficult, do you begin thinking “how could this be done better?” Jamie Peltz does! She invents products that make her customer’s lives easier. Jamie graduated from The Ohio State University and received an MBA from John Carroll University. She has always been a problem solver and looks at common everyday problems from a slightly different perspective. After working for a large corporation for 17 years, she suddenly foundherself unemployed, but saw this as an opportunity to follow her dream to become an entrepreneur. Over the years she and her team have received multiple patents and been able to commercialize her inventions. SureSwatch® Temporary Paint Swatches An example of one of her inventions that makes life easier is ‘SureSwatch®’, a paintable clear film to test paint colors on a wall, under different lighting scenarios, without actually painting the entire wall. Has this happened to you? After spending hours on Pinterest looking through interior design pictures, you finally decide to change the color of the walls in your home. You head out to the hardware, or paint store and search through the thousands of tints and hues on those tiny paint chips. Adecision is made, paint is purchased and applied, but to your dismay it looks totally different than you intended, once it dries on the wall. Jamie designed ‘SureSwatch’ to avoid that mishap and help correctly choose the right color the first time. ‘SureSwatch’ allows you to see real paint on your wall, in various lighting scenarios. Jamie told us, “People shouldn’t have to live with a bad color choice. If you take that extra step to use ‘SureSwatch,’ before your paint you’re going to be much happier and know you have made the right color choice before you spend your time and money on the wrong color choice.” Most people don’t realize that paint is available in three different bases, white, medium and clear as well as flat, semi-gloss and satin sheens. The bases and the sheens all influence how that paint color will look on your
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