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Internal Digital Signage Has Compelling Applications

  
  
  
  
  
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Internal digital signage offers unparalleled opportunities for your business to enhance the customer or visitor in-store or in-office experience, while providing consumers with product or service information designed to stimulate buying. Because of the inherent flexibility of a digital system, messages can be rotated on regular schedules, changed quickly to adapt to new offers or conditions or even provide critical information in an emergency. Changeovers can be handled on site or remotely to affect multiple locations.

Three Reasons To Consider A Turnkey Solution When You Need Signs

  
  
  
  
  
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Signage can be a key element in any company’s marketing strategy, especially if the business is one that depends on a steady flow of new customers or even impulse shoppers. How better to reach thousands of prospective customers, day in and day out, and at such low cost, than through well-crafted, well-situated signs?

The Benefits of LED Sign Conversion

  
  
  
  
  
LED signage

With energy prices on the rise, you may be finding it harder to justify the financial strain of aging signage on your energy budget, especially as that signage begins to lose its luster. After all, two of the most important aspects of sign design are efficiency and effectiveness. If you’re questioning either, this may be a good time to consider the benefits of LED conversion.

Location, Location, Location: It Matters Where Your Signs Are

  
  
  
  
  
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You wouldn’t choose just anywhere to open a retail business, would you? A flower shop in an industrial park? A trucking company on Restaurant Row?

Repair Or Replace? Do Your Signs Need Either?

  
  
  
  
  
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Is your signage showing signs of age? Are its colors faded, its light bulbs blown out, its surface dirty? Have some of its tubes lost their neon, perhaps? Is its vinyl cracked or peeling?

Sign Size Matters: Bigger Is Not Always Better

  
  
  
  
  
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Common sense says that the larger a sign is, the more effective it will be. After all, the typical highway billboard captures more eyeballs than any poster-size sign could do in the same location, no?

Tell Your Company's Evolving Store: Message Signs

  
  
  
  
  
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No doubt you’ve seen message signs cropping up all over in recent years: on the highway, on shopping avenues, or wherever there’s a density of auto or pedestrian traffic. Message signs are used in numerous settings, locations where the goal is to quickly convey a timely message.

Animated Signs: How Motion Creates Impact

  
  
  
  
  
animated signAnimated signs are some of the most engaging that a business can invest in. Images and text that move or change in color or lighting over time may make more of an impression than static images.
      
There are several different kinds of moving signs to consider. Perhaps the most venerable are those that employ mechanical movement. A hand waving, "Howdy," an arrow moving to and fro to point out an important word or graphic, a model train or airplane with wheels or propellers shown in motion --  all are powered by a set of gears and levers and electrical motors working behind the scenes. But not always. Some of the most effective moving signs -- and the most maintenance-free -- are those powered by wind.
      
Another type of moving sign relies entirely on electricity, with a screen  controlled by electronics showing a series of images that create the illusion of movement -- a movie, essentially. This screen may be a grid of light bulbs or light-emitting diodes (LEDs) which can show both text and graphics in motion. With the latest LED technology, such displays are not limited to a single color of light, as were older, zipper-style signs. Now, a sign can show two, three or even four colors at once, making the display that much more realistic and eye-catching.
    
The latest variation on this theme is the high-resolution video screen. Thanks to high-intensity LEDs, these screens can present TV-quality video footage in a way that's visible even during daytime. Naturally, programming such screens requires extra care concerning the imagery that's to be shown. And some towns limit their usage for reasons of traffic safety.
    
Finally, there are signs whose images change with the viewer's own motion. These are frequently used in places like airports, where streams of people walk by.   

Motion creates impact. That's clear. And there are many ways to create animated signs. It's up to you to decide whether moving signs fit well with your sign strategy and your brand, if they can create the message you want to send.   Contact us and one of our competent sign management program specialists can help you make that decision.

Photo credit:  Steven Damron

Five Types Of Exterior Signage, And Why They're Effective

  
  
  
  
  
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When selecting exterior signage for your business, you should know that you have a wide range of options. A sign might be the first thing that a potential customer sees that represents your business, and it can help you send a message. If you want to stay in people's heads, it is crucial that you plan and implement your sign program wisely.

With so many options to choose from, you can easily find exterior signage that will suit the needs of your business. Here are five different choices you'll have:

Early Sign Strategizing Is Key

  
  
  
  
  
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No matter the size of your business, a corporate branding program is essential in optimizing strategic goals over the long term. Every program is unique, and success depends on addressing long-range sign strategy early in the development process. Unfortunately, smaller sign companies are ill-prepared to provide long-term brand consistency, leaving you with a short-sighted sign strategy that is unlikely to succeed.

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