Business changes as quickly as the world changes. For every small change in the world, there are several larger ones that can affect how your business functions. Take, for example, the advent of the internet as we know it now. Younger people might not be able to remember but slightly older groups might remember a time where there simply was no internet or quick way to connect to large collections of people quickly. The best that anyone could do was print publications or mass circulation newspapers for getting advertisements and ideas into the world quickly. For most of the history of business, this was a problem and there were no easy solutions. There were several, simple and smaller solutions that many people tried. For example, when movies became a big business people would often put advertisements for their products or services before films as a means of reaching large amounts of people. It was effective enough but it was about equal to most other forms of analog representation. Take the billboard, for instance, which was and continues to be a staple of advertising and information transmission. The billboard was and has been big business for decades but it didn’t really exist until the advent of the national highway system that was put in place shortly after World War 2. Nowadays, however, the internet, digital billboards and easy to access television have revolutionized the world of marketing as we know it. Let’s look at several forms of marketing and how they work, shall we?
The Most Effective Forms of Signage
Any sign company will tell you that one of the most effective forms of advertising is still physical signs in specific locations. Now, there are several versions of this idea, each one specific to different times and different places. Overall the data shows that people remember road and business signs the most and can easily make or break new businesses in terms of customers but the place and the lighting on your sign can have a huge impact on what it is you are trying to sell. Let’s take a look at a few specific examples.
The Digital Billboard
Before we can get into sign repair, sign installation, how to properly locate outdoor signs or anything else that a sign company might do, we have to know how signs actually work. Take a digital billboard located on the side of a highway. Say you are a gas station looking to drum up some business and you rent time on this billboard in order to attract customers. Well, first, before you actually have an advertisement, you need to decide what parts of your business you want to highlight in the ad itself. Do you want it to talk about food or drinks? Maybe you want to highlight your cheap gas prices and how you do better than your nearby competitors. Once you’ve decided on your message, it’s time to move on to your next step.
Design and Color
If you hire a sign company to design your sign for you, that sign company will often have a few questions about how the sign itself is to be designed. For example, you might want a humorous advertisement that will draw people to your gas station or place of business. Humor is an excellent way to draw people in but when people are driving they are only going to glance at your roadside sign. It’s better off to make a sign with a silly image or slogan than one that might go in depth and distract drivers. Then there is the question of color and placement. Usually you want your products and prices the largest on any sign. Any sign company will tell you this and for obvious reason. The type of product you provide, in this case food, drinks or gas at a gas station, is going to be the number one priority piece of information that people are going to be looking for. After you’ve made that important decision, you will then be free to spice up your sign in other ways. The creative sky is the limit so think well and express your business your way!