Yard Signs

[newbie35]

Who has used them? Do they work? Where do you order them from? I am thing of getting some and putting them all over town. Let me know your experiences with them.
Thanks

[McCallum & Sons]

I use them mainly for installation jobs. I got mine from my sign guy. Anyone who does signs, vinyl graphics etc should be able to help you. Make sure you get approval before you go posting them everywhere. Most developments have homeowner association rules against this type of advertisement. Put the sign up during or after a nice job you worked on.

[mattfromNY]

I use them, but only while we are working on a project. If we are trimming hedges, or mowing, or shoveling snow off roofs, we'd have a sign out front. Amazing how many people commented while walking by or called and said they'd seen our signs at a jobsite. I dont know exact figures, but they definately pulled us some work, and paid for themselves. I paid $25 each with stakes, just one color on white boards. This year I am going to put my phone number bigger, though, b/c some people said they saw the name, and had to look up the phone number b/c they couldn't read the sign while driving by.

[mattfromNY]

I dont know about posting them all over town. I've seen another local company do this, and his signs were spray painted, pulled out and put back upside down, run over, etc. Evidently people dont like him too much, but at any rate, my opinion would be it doesnt look very professional, unless you are showing off a job you've done or are currently working on.

[newbie35]

I dont know about posting them all over town. I've seen another local company do this, and his signs were spray painted, pulled out and put back upside down, run over, etc. Evidently people dont like him too much, but at any rate, my opinion would be it doesnt look very professional, unless you are showing off a job you've done or are currently working on.

Thanks for the reply. I agree with you about the professionalism but I was talking with another business owner last week about Christmas light installation and this was his only mode of advertising. He was doing this in an area he does not service for lawn care. His first year he got 65k in lights from this. I agree 100% about it looking tacky but if it works who cares you know. I'd rather look tacky and have a big bank account than look professional with no work. I guess in his case he was serving a demand through signs for services that people wanted regardless of the impression on the business. He even had the Ferrari dealership so these were high class people. I haven't decided yet what I will do but am looking for all your opinions.
Thanks

[Clear-Cut]

i dont think you would really need a yard sign for when ur doing a job...if you just put a sign on your truck or trailer it would save you the time of pulling the sign out and putting it away

i dont see how it looks unprofessional..especially if you just finished up doing professional looking landscape job

[mattfromNY]

Thats cool, I hope it works out for you! I live in a small town, It might be different in more populated areas. Ya gotta try it or you'll go to your grave wondering!

[mattfromNY]

JM- I meant it looked unprofessional to me seeing another companies' signs all over town bent over, run over on street corners, spray painted, nailed onto telephone poles, etc. It looks much more professional to have a sign in a yard you're working on or you just worked on. I agree about the truck and trailer signs, but ever try reading the SIDE of a truck while you're driving past it? a sign placed perpendicular to the road is much easier to read. As I said, just my opinion.

[Ed Ryder]

Hmm... you might want to try using a phone number to an untrace-able pre-paid cell phone on your signs, and no identifying information. Then screen your calls carefully.

If you put the signs up all over the place, you'll get some unhappy people calling you, including probably code enforcement people.

[echeandia]

If you put the signs up all over the place, you'll get some unhappy people calling you, including probably code enforcement people.

Not if he makes them look like an election campaign sign. Those people plaster their signs all over the place and never get a fine.

[Mow2nd-2]

i don't use 'em most customers don't want 'em in their yard.

[ubirajara83]

i dont think he is talking about the big wooden signs he is talking about the small plastic signs you see all over town usually for yard sales. go here
http://www.signsbyspeak.com/index.htm

[RICHIE K]

I use them when I do big jobs

[Crpdeth]

I use them...Just the same metal frame, signs you see everywhere else, I have a large amount of clients who dont mind and the signs have totally eliminated the need for door hangers as advertisement.

I think the key is to not take advantage of the clients and only leave the signs up for a month or so, then move them to another location...This also helps you in the way that you are in a fresh area alot.

The signs have brought us more business than any other form of advertisement that we have tried in the last 21 years or so.

Crpdeth

[GreenN'Clean]

I only use them when I'm doing jobs near the highway or busy roads. I've used them a couple years and only got a couple calls from using the signs.

[newbie35]

No what I am talking about is putting them at entrances to neighborhoods and such. Not in a non clients yard but in a public area with lots of traffic. I might also consider putting them in a clients yard but would discuss this with the client beforehand.

[ffemt1271]

i use them, i have a friend who does vinyl signs, i help him in the winter and on large projrcts, and he does my signs for cost $5 w/stake i also had him make me some magnetic signs for my truck.

[Steve's Mow & Trim]

If you're doing any type of landscaping in fron of the homes, then stick one in the ground for the duration of the project and about a week following. Outside of for a landscaping job, I wouldn't use them. I ahve them for whehn I do edging, retaining walls, sod work, etc

[leaflandscape]

This is waht our signs look like. We only have two of them, and they've lasted us four years.We find them in bushes or blown away sometimes, but they look ok and get us some good work, so what the heck.