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Become an AJ Shades Dealer in Mississippi

Mississippi summers are long, hot, and humid, which means the demand for real shade runs about eight months a year. Sell American-made motorized screens and retractable awnings with wholesale margins and factory backing.

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Mississippi doesn't have a shade season, it has a shade lifestyle. From April through October, the sun is a daily fact of life: blazing afternoons on the patio, glare hammering through west-facing windows, and evenings when the mosquitoes arrive right on schedule. Homeowners here already spend on their outdoor spaces, pools, patios, porches, outdoor kitchens, because being outside is the culture. Retractable awnings give them command over the afternoon sun. Motorized power screens give them the evening back from the bugs. In a market where outdoor living runs most of the year, these aren't luxury add-ons; they're how the space gets used.

AJ Shades is a veteran-owned American manufacturer headquartered in Southern California, building a nationwide network of independent dealers for our Quality Improvement Products line: motorized power screens, open-roll retractable awnings, and full-cassette awnings. The model, in plain terms: AJ Shades' own installation crews serve only Southern California (San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties). As a Mississippi dealer, you sell and install our products in your own market. We supply wholesale, train you on measuring, specification, and the full product line, and stand behind every awning and screen with our 15-year factory warranty.

The Gulf Coast and the Jackson metro are the twin engines of this market. Coastal Mississippi, Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, pairs resort-style outdoor living with storm awareness, and inland markets from Jackson to Tupelo to Hattiesburg are full of suburban homes with big, unshaded backyards. Dealers buy manufacturer-direct at wholesale and keep the retail margin with no distributor layers. Premium shade competition across the state is essentially nonexistent, which means the first credible dealer in each market writes the rules.

To be clear about the model: AJ Shades' own installation crews serve only Southern California, San Diego, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino counties. Dealers like you sell and install our products in your own market, buying wholesale and keeping the retail margin. We never compete with our dealers on installation.

Mississippi's long season also means a long selling calendar: where northern dealers sprint for twelve weeks, you can build pipeline nearly year-round. Smart dealers here run spring and fall as their two big pushes, spring for the pool-and-patio season, fall for the homeowners who spent all summer wishing they had shade.

Mississippi dealers, this is your market

Why Mississippi is ready for premium shade

Pool builders and patio contractors

Mississippi pools get used half the year, and the deck around them is unusable at midday without shade. The awning or screen package is the highest-margin line item you'll add to a pool project.

Remodelers and home builders

New construction across DeSoto County and the Jackson suburbs keeps adding homes with bare back patios. Get specified at the build stage or retrofit after, both work.

Outdoor living and hearth retailers

Stores already selling grills, outdoor furniture, and fire features are talking to your exact buyer. The dealer program turns that foot traffic into installed-project revenue.

The Jackson metro (Jackson, Madison, Ridgeland, Brandon) and the Gulf Coast (Gulfport, Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Pascagoula) lead, with Hattiesburg, Tupelo, Oxford, and the DeSoto County suburbs as strong secondary markets. Apply and we'll confirm what's open in your territory.

Four steps to your first sale

Your path to dealing AJ Shades

1

Tell us about your business

Fill out the dealer inquiry form, your trade, your Mississippi service area, the line you want to add. We personally review each one and respond quickly.

2

Learn the line

You learn the line inside out, awning and screen construction, measuring, motorization and controls, and the positioning that wins Mississippi customers.

3

Stock and sell

Stock the wholesale catalog for showroom and customer orders. Nothing sells these products in Mississippi like a working unit the customer can touch and operate.

4

Grow with factory backup

Technical questions, tricky measurements, warranty service, AJ Shades is behind you. You keep the customer relationship; we keep the product promise, including the 15-year warranty on every awning and screen you sell.

Want a human on the line first? Text (909) 325-3110, or call Richard Gutierrez at (949) 378-6642, Se habla español. A real person answers, not a phone tree.

If referring installed projects fits your business better than stocking product, look at the contractor program, it pairs naturally with a Mississippi dealership.

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Mississippi dealer FAQ

Questions Mississippi businesses ask us

How do the products handle Mississippi humidity?
They're engineered for it: powder-coated aluminum hardware, stainless fasteners, and solution-dyed acrylic fabrics that resist mildew and fading in humid climates. This is the same specification we ship across the humid Southeast, and it holds up.
What about hurricanes and Gulf storms?
Straight talk: retractable awnings are fair-weather products and must be retracted ahead of storms, wind sensors handle sudden gusts automatically, but a hurricane forecast means retract and secure. Motorized screens are far more wind-tolerant and stay deployed through serious weather. Dealer training covers honest product-to-site matching, including storm-country guidance.
Do I need a showroom to be a dealer?
No. Most of our dealers are contractors working from a working display, their own home, a partner location, or a current job site. In this category, one live demonstration on a hot Mississippi afternoon outsells any amount of printed material.
What's the wholesale setup?
Approved dealers order from the wholesale catalog at dealer pricing, which isn't published online. You set retail pricing for your market. No distributors, no rep layers, manufacturer-direct margin.
Can I sell these alongside my existing contracting work?
That's the ideal setup. Remodelers, pool builders, and patio contractors already stand in the customer's backyard having the outdoor-living conversation. The dealer line turns that conversation into a second revenue stream on jobs you're already winning.
What support do dealers actually get?
Product training up front covering construction, measuring, controls, and positioning; then ongoing access to our team for tricky measurements, specification questions, and warranty service. The 15-year warranty on every awning and screen runs through AJ Shades, factory backing you can sell with confidence.
The Gulf Coast gets hurricanes, how do you sell retractable honestly there?
With the storm logic, not against it. When a hurricane approaches, the awning retracts, manually, by app, or automatically, instead of taking the hit. A storm cannot destroy what is not there. That is a stronger pitch on the Gulf Coast than any fixed structure can make, and Biloxi and Gulfport buyers have lived enough storm seasons to respect it. Inland, the Delta and the Jackson suburbs are pure heat-and-humidity markets where motorized screens do the daily work. The dealer who leads with honesty about storms earns the trust that closes the next ten jobs.
Where do Mississippi dealers find commercial work?
The Gulf Coast hospitality corridor first: Biloxi and Gulfport casinos, resorts, and restaurants live on outdoor space, and motorized screens that deploy for service and retract for storms are an easy revenue conversation. Then the Jackson metro, offices, medical campuses, and multifamily with courtyards and patios. College towns add the restaurant and student-housing patios. Commercial buyers here think in seasons and storms; the dealer who speaks both fluently wins the repeat business.
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