Sales & Marketing

Get Sold on Reusable Magnetic Name Badges

Staff name badges make customers feel welcome and help facilitate friendly relationships between employees and shoppers. The Reusable Name Badge System from Imprint Plus gives management the tools and software to create and personalize badges with names, colors and logos. T...

ISA Launches New Online Learning Tool

The International Sign Association (ISA) has released a new online learning tool to help sign companies implement relevant training at convenient times.

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New Site, Photo Contest For Small Business Saturday®

VerticalResponse, a leading provider of self-service marketing solutions for small businesses and non-profits including email marketing, social media marketing, and event marketing, announced the launch of a new microsite t...   Read more

Marabu Named Fastest Growing Company in SC

Marabu North America has been named as South Carolina's fastest-growing company in the small business category by SC Biz News. SC Biz News publishes both regional and statewide business reports that serve senior level decision-makers across South Carolin...

SFI Co-Founder Steve Kieffer Officially Retires

Steve Kieffer, one of the co-founders of the Signage Foundation Inc. (SFI) in 2001, officially announced his retirement from the SFI board on October 26. Kieffer, who sold his Sheboygan, Wisconsin sign company, Kieffer & Co., in 2008, had retired from active sign work a...

Hingst’s Sign Post Blog: Remembering Stan Gee

At age 52, Stan Gee of Dallas, Texas, passed away on August 1, 2012. Stan was president of Gee Sales and Associates, a sales and marketing firm, which promoted companies in the sign and digital marketplace. He was highly regarded in the industry for his expertise in the vinyl graphic...

Océ's Press Go! Business Development Program

Océ announces new enhancements to the Océ Press Go! business development program. The program is the first customer-designed business development program in the digital print industry. Introduced by Océ in 2010, it was created to give Océ customers the tools and resour...

A Sign Business Expands

Since opening their doors to the Athens community in 2007 as the newest entrepreneurial venture in the Sign Biz Network, The Sign Brothers (Michael & Justin Seibert) have developed a successful and growing business.  In fact, their growth even outpaced their vision, and th...

Research Proves Value of On-premise Signs

A recently released and comprehensive scientific study, The Economic Value of On-Premise Signage, provides strong proof of the importance of signs to businesses. The study, a collaborative effort between the University of Cincinnati's School of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning (D...

NSREC Conference Documents the Sign Industry

The National Signage Research & Education Conference (NSREC) held October 10-11, 2012 at the Kingsgate Marriott on the University of Cincinnati (UC) campus, presented comprehensive data about signage from numerous perspectives. Leading representatives from the University of Cincinnati, T...   Read more