Monday 28 March 2011

Signs For Every Occasion – Every Event – Every Eventuality

There is a suitable sign for every event, every eventuality and every occasion; now is the time to get your business signs, as well as the signage for a residential complex and start creating a little bit of order.

Keeping parking order, deterring illegal dumping of trash and private property signage are all available from signs to you, all made of aluminum that is robust and hard wearing, and will stand the test and rigors of time and the elements.

There hasn’t been a place invented or created where a well placed sign, either a no parking, no loitering or handicapped parking sign will not go amiss.

However I have been giving some thought to all this and there is ONE place where everyone should send a certain sign to, although it probably would NOT work.

My suggestion is to send a sign to Uncle Sam, clearly stating on the sign “No More Taxes”; do you think they might take the hint on Capitol Hill?

Thin out the Undesirables – Place of a few No Loitering Signs Will act as a Deterrent

Weed out the undesirable element from around the area of your business entrance; No loitering signs will act as an inexpensive but high profile deterrent to the less desirable elements that have seem to have no purpose in their lives and even less of a sense of courtesy or deference to the cares or concerns of others in the community.

Does this paint a reasonable picture of your local shopping area or business area, and you want to get rid of the social nuisance that comes as permanent baggage of the loitering oiks.

No loitering signage is an inexpensive deterrent that invariably works, and has the desired effect of moving on the kind of people that don’t register highly on a dinner party list.

There are alternatives to signage of course; however they probably carry a health warning, and maybe one or two solutions are a federal offence.

Handicap Parking Signs – A Convenience for Your Customers


Running a business, such as a retail store, convenience store or a fast food outlet and having parking facilities there should always be sufficient handicap parking signs as close to the entrance as possible for the convenience of those customers who, for one reason or another are less mobile than most people.

Making it clear to customers arriving that certain parking bays and areas are for customers that have disabilities or are less mobile than most people will negate the issues of non provision of disable parking, and generally deter able bodied drivers from parking in close proximity to the entrance.

With more mobility for disabled drivers, and indeed passengers, it makes sense to assist them as much as is reasonably possible.
Do you really want your business to be known as the ogre in town that makes no provision for handicap parking, or as the shining example to other businesses everywhere?

Banish Illegal Parking Forever – Display No Parking Signs


No parking signs strategically placed in and around your business premises will help alleviate the first come first served parking anarchy mentality that always seems to arise where there is set aside customer parking.
Banish the monster that parks across a firs or emergency exit, or the selfish lazy drivers that seem to consider the loading and unloading bay of your premises is fair game for their little car.

Installing parking signs, no dumping signs or handicap parking signs will go some way to stopping illegal or inconsiderate parking.

People tend to follow directions and orders, it is a basic human instinct, one which can be used to full advantage when distribute signage around the premises.
However, if the signs do not deter or stop poor, inconsiderate or illegal parking, which is doubtful, for those that still continue to transgress, organize a car crusher for the day, maybe that will deter them the next time.