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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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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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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You’ve heard the maxim is, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” Taking it a step further, we might say, it’s not who you know, it’s how you connect. People like to do business with people they like. To create this kind of relationship — not just with customers but with staff, vendors, […]
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While the name Dave Carroll may not ring a bell, it’s likely you’ve seen, or at least heard of, his YouTube sensation, United Breaks Guitars, a humorous rendition of what transpired with United Airlines after they damaged his Taylor guitar in checked luggage. Carroll made a conscious decision to turn a frustrating experience into a […]
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When it started, almost a year and a half ago, I had an idea;I wanted Super Cheap Signs to have the best web site in the sign industry. When we talked to our customers to ask what they wanted from our web site…well, they wanted a lot of complicated stuff to be added. So I […]
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