What results are achieved by every successful sign? To identify, to communicate, and to create the image you desire. It is hard to accomplish all three in a single sign.
Good signs incorporate
design and marketing
decisions creating the message, look, colors, sign
types, sizes, quantities, etc. to create the required impact. They draw attention to themselves.
Quoting U. S.
Small Business Administration research, 89% of businesses
that fail do so because of improper signs!
Stated differently, good signs give a business an almost 90% probability of success.
Will ANY business decision you make affect you more? If you stop and think about it, you can’t even risk buying an “average” sign; you need “exceptional” signs.
The trouble with improper or average signs is that you will never know how many potential customers they’ve driven away, or not attracted, by simply looking inappropriate. Your success or failure may be determined the day your sign is installed!
Fortunately, we are not a sign company, sign broker, or sign store. We are a sign manufacturer. We engineer exceptional signs for our customers.
It
is the most targeted advertising a business can do
according to the
U. S. Small Business
Administration (SBA), which also states
that 85% of a businesses sales usually come from
within a 5 mile radius. Proper signs
constantly advertises a business to a potential
customer who frequents the area where the business is
located.
If a
sign costs money it is not doing its job. It should
effectively advertise a company and earn them money.
As
examples, how important is a free-standing
pylon sign
to a business? McDonald's says that simply
changing a
Monument sign
in front of one of their stores to a pylon sign
increases their store's business 15%. A
Whataburger that was unhappy with their new store's
volume removed their brand-new pylon sign and
installed one 40% larger and taller. The store's
volume increased 23% the day after installation, and
sales have exceeded the previous months for more than
5 years now.
The
right signs for the job helps a business survive by
bringing higher sales volume.
The
importance of signs in helping a business to survive
was recently underscored when the Small Business
Development Center (SBDC), with their NxLeveL for
Entrepreneurs training program, which is available in
40 states, added an entire week to their program to
present more deeply "…the importance of signs and
their impact on a business…"
We
can help, so long as the city allows your tenant signs
that will help their business.
Remember the axiom "Location, Location, Location?"
The supreme importance of "location" is simply the
numbers of potential customers that will see your
tenant's signs...and be able to read and understand
them.
The Texas
Department of Transportation has probably counted
traffic in front of your location. Go to
www.dfwinfo.com/trans/data/tcins
to see how many vehicles will see your tenant's signs
every day! Other regions have similar
information available.
Surprisingly 30%
of traffic on almost all business streets occurs when
it is dark; people see your tenant's signs only if
they are lighted when it is dark out, including on
dark days when everyone else's sign is lighted.
With 18.6% of the
entire US population moving each year, your tenant's
signs will be constantly seen by MANY potentially new
customers.
Using Our Website to Learn About Signs and Create a Successful Image.
Your
sign forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your
sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the
day it was installed so that you don't give potential
customers a worsening impression of your business as
your sign ages.
Click our "Sign Types" tab to the left, then pick any of our products and
discover how we make each sign to last; including the
use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal,
structural-steel frames, high-end automotive paint,
high-impact plastics, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings.
All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.
We champion
brighter, energy-saving
EnergyStar Signs™ solutions that save our
customers money while
protecting our environment.
No matter what type of signs you are considering, please
explore our "Lighting Choices" tab for that product, with
its own "Energy Savings" tabs. In fact many of our unique sign designs can even be Solar Powered!
We
will give your company an edge and help make you
money.
We are the
"greenest" sign company in Texas. Click the "Our
Environment" tab on our "About
Us" page to learn about our environmental
efforts.
Please use and enjoy this 387 page website with over 2000 images, the largest information resource about signs on the internet, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your customer's image.
We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.
If you click this "LITERATURE
DOWNLOADS" tab you can download "Sign
Buyer's Guide" ".pdf" files for your
records and/or to give to your tenants. They
contain all the specific design, manufacturing, and
installation information for each type of signs.
Sign Design Safety
Issues
Signs that are too small to be read easily under existing driving conditions
cause traffic congestion and accidents, in addition to not helping a
business become successful. Carefully examine our
Letter Visibility charts listed under the
Design & Marketing page.
Monument signs can potentially block traffic visibility and cause accidents
at driveways and intersections. Moving them away from the street makes
them more dangerous and less effective (above) unless they are significantly
larger.
Externally lighted signs cause traffic congestion and accidents on dark or
rainy days, and at night according to Penn State studies.
Monument signs, because of their smaller lettering when compared to pole
signs and pylon signs, cause traffic congestion and accidents, verified by a
different Penn State study.
An excellent place to learn about the critical,
mechanical, aspects of sign design necessary for a
safe and successful sign is at
www.usscfoundation.org/USSCGuidelineStandards.pdf.
It would be nice if cities would read this before creating
sign ordinances; there would be less congestion and fewer
accidents in business districts. Businesses in the City would be more
successful, also!
We champion
brighter, energy-saving
EnergyStar Signs™ solutions that save our
customers money while
protecting our environment.
No matter what type of signs you are considering, please
explore our "Lighting Choices" tab for that product, with
its own "Energy Savings" tabs. In fact many of our unique sign designs can even be Solar Powered!
Cash, Credit Cards, Conserve You Nest Egg™ 0% 15-month
financing, or Signs on Time™ Lease/Purchase or Conventional Leasing.
Click on the "Cost"
tab on the "Sign
Types" page for details.
Sign Cost Information
We
sell our signs FACTORY-DIRECT, WHOLESALE to the public.
Each Sign Type, above and on the "Sign
Types" page, has a "Cost" tab under its
"Pricing" tab that lists general budget pricing for that
type of sign.
But, please, contact us to develop an exact plan to meet
your particular needs - for free (see our "Design
& Marketing" page!)
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for you
the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week average in
our industry.) Contact us NOW...Please!
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark our
website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when you are
ready.
Dependent on your location, Signs Manufacturing may be able to offer you INCOME from a FREE pole, pylon, monument sign, or electronic message center.
Contact us for exciting details!
The Obama Tax Compromise
Equipment and machinery purchased in 2012 will be 50% deductible during 2012, the balance depreciated.
An initial amount of $125,000 in purchases is fully deductible.
Signs are business equipment.
Fraud Protection
"After being ripped-off by one
sign company, who took my several-thousand-dollar deposit
but never delivered my sign, I was nervous. I'm sure
glad I met you guys!"
Paul Lewis, Jubilee
Mortgage
Signs Manufacturing is insured,
registered, licensed and bonded per all City and State
regulations, and even carries product liability insurance to protect our customers, and their customers, which is very rare among sign companies.
We even offer our customers free coverage on a $2,000,000 insurance policy providing Deposit Insurance if we were to default.
Visit our "Cost" tab on the "Sign Types" page for details on all of the above.
We've got you covered!
"...I had to hound Vital ***** (a sign broker) for weeks and weeks, then I had to call ******** (the manufacturer) to finally get a hold of Vital *****. I thought Vital ***** was taking my deposit money and running. When he asked for the second deposit I was kind of hesitant based on my experience with him. I did some research on Vital ***** and there were judgments in Dallas County, civil judgments for Vital ***** taking money and not putting up a sign! But the manufacturer said I had to deal with him, and he already had a great deal of my money.
The installation company he subcontracted with, City *****, finally did show up and after giving them another $30,000 the sign was installed but City ***** didn't pay Vital *****, I guess, his "fair cut" of it.
Vital ***** was initially mad at City ***** and then he was mad at me, so he came and took the controller out of the sign so now it doesn't even work! I tried to go back to ******** (the manufacturer), and gave them all of the documentation and they said it's between me and Vital *****, they won't do anything about it. I'm never dealing any way but directly with a manufacturer again!"
Mr. Sinkler, Freedom Wash
Why Buy Factory-Direct from a State-Licensed Sign Company?
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him
the most?
Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed. It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he telling the manufacturer you don't need?
Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, UL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care,
particularly with our LIFETIME warranty.
If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
http://www.license.state.tx.us/LicenseSearch/,
enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the
sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box. If they
are not licensed they can not.
So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them. You may have to have this done. But unless the electrical signs
you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't
be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city
ordinance exceptions. It is not illegal to sell them to you, however. Buy carefully.
"I had a ****-a-**** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right. ****-a-**** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer. I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."
Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns
Guaranteed Highest
Quality...
Guaranteed Lowest
Price™
As
detailed on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.
Signs
Manufacturing Corporation also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.
If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Service
We
are a full-service
sign company.
We provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits, sign installation and sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs.
We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of North Texas and Northeast Texas.
Area Codes 214,
254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and 972.
Separate "Home Pages" for
individual cities (Blue above) contain specific sign
ordinance and permit information. To view
the "Home Page" for a city, "Click" on that city
(above) and you will be forwarded to its individual
page if we have created one. Not all the cities
above have separate pages.
Green cities have websites
accessible for specific sign ordinance and permit information from
http://www.tml.org/links_cities.html.
Serving Collin,
Cook, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin,
Grayson, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt,
Johnson, Kaufman, Lamar,
Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant, Titus,
Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43
different states, and 6 other nations.
The
Hottest New
Signs
Three new sign-types will separate your tenants and shopping centers from the
crowd.
Gaining attention gains your customers customers.
These lighted signs are better-looking, cost less, and use less energy.
Click on the images to learn about these exciting new concepts.
Go to our "SpectraLites™ & LED" page under Channel Letter Lighting Choices to learn about Channel Letter faces that automatically change colors. There is a video so you can see them in action.
Patents Pending.
The BLUE BOOK Building and Construction Network
We are a member of The BLUE BOOK Building and Construction Network.
Look for our ads and listings under both "Signs" and/or "Tablets."
Here are just a few companies who JUST received signs from us:
E-Mail Specials & Newsletter Blog
Occasionally Signs Manufacturing will have excess production on certain
sign types, or discounts on installation or service exceeding our
standard LIFETIME WARRANTY 20% discount.
Or, we
have information about Signs Manufacturing Corporation, or the sign
industry, we would like to share.
If you
would like to be informed of these specials by email, click on the "Newsletter
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If you are not old enough to have piloted a
business during the late 1970's, and depending on what our future
brings, you might appreciate our Blog about inflation. It is
written from the knowledge-base of our senior Watson, who did, and
another of the family members, who has a SMU degree in finance.
Just for Fun
Go to our "Not-so-Good
Signs" tab on our "Design
& Marketing" page to witness Signs Manufacturing's "The Not-so-Good
Signs, the Bad, Ugly, Stupid & Dumb Signs" Awards Contest! You can
also view the world's most expensive (to purchase and to feed) animated
message center.
Your
sign forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your
sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the
day it was installed so that you don't give potential
customers a worsening impression of your business as
your sign ages.
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