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Building Signs

Increase Visibility and Awareness of Your Business

Building signs come in many shapes and sizes, channel letters and backlighting. Because it’s not just a good option but essential to communicate with your customers and clients visibly in a bold way, these large format, weather-resistant and durable signs can help you do that.

Here are a few ways building signs work directly FOR your business or organisation.

  1. Creates Awareness for All

Building Signs create an ideal first impression for your business or organisation and also bring in new customers. Create awareness for prospects and draw passersby near through highly visible signs. For increased awareness, some businesses sometimes install a similar sign on various sides of a building for enhanced branding. As opposed to marketing tactics that must strategically target a demographic, building signs can provide awareness for anyone at any time who might be passing your location. In large cities, this can be thousands of people a day who may have the specific need you can fill.

  1. Helps People Find Your Location

Imagine you’re late for a business meeting and you’ve got to make a wonderful first impression. You’re sweating about being on time and hope that you make it. How much more helpful would it be in that moment to have a building sign that is large enough for you to be able to recognise from afar to guide you exactly where to go. With so many people using virtual map options and visiting places they’ve never been, it is important for your business or organisation to be easy-to-navigate, and building signs have the power to do that.

  1. Brands Your Business/Organisation

Identity is something we understand in the human world, and it’s no different in the business landscape. Fully branded building signs can give life to your business or organisation and also enable you to communicate a more established feeling to newcomers. These signs convey feelings of security and permanence to your brand. With your sign being the first thing they see, you can truly start the business relationship off on a good foot. Your high level of professionalism, seen through your building sign, can help them feel you are trustworthy of their time, money and business.

  1. Provides Advertising

Building signs are also a cost-effective way to advertise from your business location and many businesses see a return on investment with prospects coming their way. These types of signs can be seen as an advertising expense that only happens once but gains market share for the life of the sign. In addition, the way that signs work is more natural as they are noticed and available when the eyes come to it, which is very different from a TV ad. With various touchpoints in the marketing and advertising world, your sign can act as another business impression in their mind.

With the help of building signs that are customised with your specific business, brand or organisation, you have access to all of the above benefits. Creating a great first impression, wayfinding, branding and providing a creative take on advertising are all line items on the daily “to do” list for a sign. They are also your best employees as they work both day and night on your behalf. Getting people to your business is something that can take a little time. With some careful planning to get the right sign solution in place, you will be well on your way to setting yourself apart from the competition and reaping the rewards that these applications can bring about.

Interested in having a customised exterior sign made or revamping your current building signs? Call FASTSIGNS today!

Products and services may vary by location. Please reach out to your local FASTSIGNS center for more information.

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Building Signs FAQs
  • Working with architects, designers and branding agencies, we provide the most appropriate materials and installation methods based on design and budget. Materials for building signage can include acrylic, metal, stone, magnetics, glass, digital signage, exotic wood, architectural films and finishes, whiteboards and more.
  • FASTSIGNS provides building signage for the built environment including oversized graphics, textured wall coverings, dimensional letters, channel letters, DDA safety signs, digital signage, glassboards, dry erase boards, magnetic receptive graphics, interactive digital wayfinding, modular wayfinding and more. We help you bring your design to life using functional, flexible materials that integrate into the environment.
  • A font or typeface refers to the letters or characters that comprise the copy on the sign. It’s important to choose a font that draws attention to the building signage and blends with and complements your environment to raise the visibility of your message. Fonts are categorised by Serif, San Serif and Specialty. Keep in mind that when choosing a font for outdoor signs, the font size should be large enough to view at the optimal distance. The font should be highly visible, reflect the desired design intent, and connect with your environment.
  • FASTSIGNS uses sign materials for short-term applications and also materials for long-term building signage. The expected lifespan of a building sign varies based on whether it’s indoor or outdoor and based on the materials used. We can meet your project’s requirements for durability, sustainability or flexibility.
  • Building signs include a broad range of solutions for the built environment. Whether you want to establish brand identity on the exterior of a building or connect people with interior wayfinding, we can provide a wide range of materials, products and technology for building signs. From interior wall graphics and digital signage to exterior dimensional letters, we provide solutions to enhance décor and brand your space.
  • We can bring your building sign designs to life and incorporate your business logo, photos or artwork into designs that match your environment. Signage is an integral part of your architectural design and space just as a logo is an important part of brand identity.
  • Building signs can stand alone, be mounted to a wall or pole, be integrated into or on walls and floors to become part of the design of a building, facility or campus.
  • We provide a proof for your building sign. Our experienced professionals will fabricate your building signs in a timely fashion after you approve the final proof. At FASTSIGNS, our customers count on us to meet timelines and budgets, as well as to deliver expert project management for building signs.
  • We can provide an on-site consultation to determine your needs for building signs. You can contact your local centre to request a consultation to discuss your fabrication and installation needs. We provide more than you might expect, and we can help you make your statement.

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