Everything You Wanted To Know About Yard Signs

Common Terms & Questions Regarding Yard Signs

Terminology, Effectiveness and Strategies

Quality Materials, Printing Questions, Rapid Delivery & Installation

Designing Options and Recomendations

Terminology, Effectiveness and Strategies

Why are they sometimes called lawn signs?
Yard signage is often referred to as lawn signs because these Coroplast sign boards are abuntantly seen installed in neighbor's lawns using stakes and sign frames. They are mostly used in the political world where supporters will stake campaign signs in their to display their voting preference for a particular candidate during election times. These signs are also often installed in a lawn using sign frames by realtors who are listing a home for sale. With these two common occurences, the coined phrase lawn signs became popular.
Why are Yard Signs Often Called Bandit Signs?
In many cases a service related or consulting business will use these cheap corrugated signs to advertise their services by strategically installing them along the road side and at busy intersections where cars will have to come to a stop due to red light or stop sign. These public streets and private property areas will restrict the posting of the signs, but because of their low cost, high impact value, service businesses will use them for advertising regardless. For the few days they last at these public places, business owners can easily justify the cost because of their tremendous effectiveness. Because of these restrictions and the intentional ignoring of zoning laws and sign regulations, many people have used the phrase, "Bandit Signs," because of the quasy legal nature.
What does it mean when they are called Coroplast Signs?
Coroplast is the brand of material that is used to construct these sign boards. It is essentially corrugated plastic, similar to cardboard, to give these plastic boards added strength to withstand windy conditions and be more durable for outdoor use.
Are Corrugated Signs The Same as Yard Signs?
YES! This type of signage is often referred to as corrugated signs because that is the material printers use to construct them.
Why Should I Use Yard Signs to Advertise My Company?
If you are a repair business, a consultant, you buy houses or items from consumers, or any other service business that caters to the local community, advertising with yard signs by placing them at customers you provided a service too, or strategically installing your signs at intersections, helps you attract potential customers almost immediately. These signs are so cheap in price, that even if your exposure time is less than two days, a service business can easily justify the low price due to the huge impact these signs typically produce.
How Long Will My Yard Signs Last Before They Are Taken Up?
IF you have permission to place your yard signs in the lawns of past customers, they can last for weeks advertising the services you offer. However, if you are like most service businesses and place some of these signs at public city owned intersections and at private shopping center properties, they can be taken up with a couple days. Regardless of their life cycle, these cheap yard signs are priced so low, even if you only get 24 hours of exposure, you will easily justify the advertising cost you incurr.
What are good Strategies for Installing my Yard Signs In Public and Private areas?
The best strategy is to acquire permission for placing your yard signs. Many business owners don't mind helping other businesses as long as you are not competing, but if you are posting your yard signs in public intersections and private parking areas without permission, We recommend doing so during the weekends either early in the morning on Sunday or late in the evenings on Friday to maximize your exposure time.
What are the best sizes to use, when placing my yard signs in a public area?
If you have acquired permission, we recommend using the larger corrugated signs we sell. However, if you do not have permission, using a smaller, less unobtrusive size can help you maximize the advertising life cylce of your yard signs.
Should I use larger sized yard signs in places I have permission to install them?
ABSOLUTELY! By using our larger full color yard signs in areas that have permitted you to install your signs is always best for increasing the viewership and ensuring your signs are more easily read by motorists as they pass by your sign boards.
How can I be sure my yard signs are getting noticed?
Simplicity in your message and design is important to how well your signs will be processed by your target audience. Other considerations such as the average speed of your viewer should also be taken into consideration. The slower your viewer traffic is moving the better readability you will have to maximize your results.

Quality Materials, Printing Questions, Rapid Delivery & Installation

Will My Yard Signs Be Made of Durable Material That Will Last
YES! Esigns takes great care in the Coroplast material we have selected to ensure your signs stay easy to handle but have the durability needed to last even in harsh outdoor conditions.
Can My Yard Signs Be Printed In Full Color?
Yes they can! Esigns full color printing capabilities will print eye catching full-color graphics and even photo quality prints on your yard signs to ensure your designs are as effective and vibrant as possible.
Will My Sign Designs Fade In The Sunlight?
NO Your Signs Will Not Face in Sunlight! Esigns uses Ultra Violet resistant inks to print all the signs we sell ensuring your signs do not fade in outdoor conditions providing you with a vivid, eye catching sign for years
Can I Receive a Discount If I Buy My Yard Signs In Bulk?
Esigns has many pre computed price breaks in our system for volume orders on our yard signs, and if you are planning on purchasing more than what we have already accounted for, call or email us for even better pricing.
What are the different ways I can install my yard signs?
There are many installation options for installing your yard signs. From the sign frames Esigns sells to our yard sign stakes, making your signs look professional and stay sturdy in the outdoors will be an easy task.
Will my Yard Signs Look Professional When I receive them?
Our quality control process is exceptional at Esigns when it comes to inspecting your designs and printing the finished product. Esigns takes great care in the quality of the signs we deliver to our customers and we do not settle for second best.
How Fast Will Esigns Print My Yard Signs?
For Typical volume orders, Esigns will print your signs within 24 hours of receiving your final design draft. However, if your order is for an exceptionally large volume, it could take us two days to complete your quantity.
Once Printed How Fast Will Esigns Ship My Yard Signs To Me?
Esigns will ship your order within 24 hours of the printing process. For normal orders, our shiping method is to ship UPS by ground. However, we do have expedited shipping options where we can ship next day for an additional charge.
Can I re-order yard signs with the same designs over and over again?
Yes, Esigns will store your past designs in our system under your account to ensure you will be able to re-order your same signs, even if you need to alter your past sign designs using our designer tools.

Designing Options and Recomendations

Does Esigns Provide Easy To Use Tools To Create My Yard Sign Designs From Scratch?
Yes! Our state of the art design system provides you with all of the tools you will need to add artwork from our library of clip art and images, upload graphics and images from your computer to our system, change color schemes to the choice of colors you prefer, add any custom messages to your signs, and change font styles to fit the type of sign you need to create.
Does Esigns provide me with Free Yard Sign Designs?
Esigns has 1000's of free sign designs that you can apply to any of the sign products we sell including the corrugated sign boards we sell for our yard sign collection.
Can I Customize The Free Yard Sign Designs Esigns has Created?
Absolutely! Any of the free sign designs we have created are fully customizable using our sign design system. In other words, you could use our free sign templates to give you some great ideas, and then customize any of them to fit the exact choice of signage for your next advertising campaign you have in mind.
Can I upload a sign layout I Have Already Made or Had My Graphics Department Make?
Yes, using our file upload system, any pre made sign design you created or had a graphics professional create for you can be easily uploaded at the time you place your order.
Do I have to be a Graphics Expert To Use The Esigns Design Studio?
No Graphics skills are required to make professionally looking signs using the design tools we provide. Our designing software can be accessed in real time from any of the existing templates we have created or you can start from scratch at just about any juncture from within our site. Once you are in our designing section, creating a new sign designs or altering an existing sign template from our huge library of templates is simple. Our expert designers made our tools so easy to use any novice can easily create professional looking signs in minutes.

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