Is your business constitutionally capable of great signage? That’s a bit of wordplay, just like this engaging series of license plates. 51 license plates — one from each state plus the District of Columbia — spell out the Constitution’s preamble in “licensese”. While we don’t know whether any enterprising business owner has ever used our […]
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If you’re over 35, chances are you remember the Talking Heads, or at least some of their lyrics that became pop culture catchphrases, such as, “This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco…” Well, in the twenty-teens, everything old is new again. Our Custom Big Head Cutouts don’t sing, but they’re definitely the life of […]
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Everybody from kids to grandparents loves foam. Think Nerf balls, foam baseballs, paddleballs, mattress toppers, yoga mats…the list goes on. So if you’re foaming at the mouth trying to come up with creative ways to say the same thing differently with your advertising, think foam, foam on the range: foamboard signs, that is! Foam is […]
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Remember the old Starkist Tuna commercial with Charlie the Tuna? Charlie was always showing off his “good taste,” only to be told, “Charlie, Starkist doesn’t want tuna with good taste. Starkist wants tuna that taste good!” Well, at Super Cheap Signs, the opposite is true: we DO want signage with good taste (and if you’re […]
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If the Beatles had released “She Loves You” as an infomercial, it would have been a hit in the business world. Why? Because, according to researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology, “yeah” is the most persuasive word in meetings. (As an aside, John Lennon once described how he met Yoko Ono: Her conceptual art […]
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Because we live in a visual world with nanosecond attention spans, the words on your sign are as important as the colors you choose and the type of signage (banner, yard sign, sandwich board, etc.) you select. The following are a handful of brainstorm-like questions to help you achieve marketing brilliance: The five types of […]
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An intriguing article in Forbes magazine points out that while companies spend an inordinate amount of time and resources attracting new business, the same cannot usually be said of existing accounts. For the most part, once a customer is “won” the sales team ignores them. Existing customers are relegated to customer support and rarely heard […]
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Texting is taking over the world. A popular ad campaign shows a phone and a highway, with the caption, “Park it while you drive.” And a yard sign in front of a police department proclaims in no uncertain language: Text it. Type it. Talk it. Ticket! It’s probably only a matter of time until street […]
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It probably isn’t news to you that meaning makes money: the more you mean to your customers, the more they’ll spend with your business. But how can a small business owner become like Google or Microsoft? Perhaps surprisingly, deep pockets aren’t as crucial as deep personal involvement. A survey of more than 100,000 consumers worldwide […]
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According to one online report, social media management is a full-time job, and then some. Creating and curating content, updating social sites, dreaming up campaigns to boost brand awareness…clearly, working online is at least as time and labor intensive as having a storefront business. Perhaps social media managers should take a leaf from signage specialists. […]
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