The family business concept looks a little different for Melissa McLin, a third generation printer, after she decided to strike out on her own instead of joining her family’s printing business. But that other business remains in the picture.
“I pretty much gave my grandpa the right of first refusal when I came out into the market available to sell printing,” she says of her decision to start MM Print Design after her late grandfather, her mentor, offered a salary she considered too low. So she decided to start her own business, which creates marketing materials for small to medium-sized businesses.
McLin maintains at least one tie to the family business, Manatee Printers Inc. in Bradenton: that's where she goes for most of her printing needs.