{"id":25534,"date":"2024-01-22T20:42:17","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T20:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advint.valpak.com\/advertise\/?post_type=testimonial&#038;p=25534"},"modified":"2024-02-19T17:37:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T17:37:28","slug":"budget-blinds","status":"publish","type":"testimonial","link":"https:\/\/www.valpak.com\/advertise\/testimonial\/budget-blinds","title":{"rendered":"Budget Blinds serving Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong>&nbsp;Krista Guagenti, Owner<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My name is Krista Guagenti. My company is called Budget Blinds of Worthington and Upper Arlington. It\u2019s a franchise. We do custom window treatments. We opened in 2011 and we have been advertising with Valpak since my very first day. I decided to advertise with Valpak because the other franchisees in the area said, \u201cYou have to advertise with Valpak,\u201d so I was thinking, \u201cHow could print advertising possibly work? 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