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your own vehicle
hi all as you may know i have been playing about with vinyl for around a year , things are going well and i want to push for more sign work (i also have a car body repair shop which is my main income) after 14 years in a booth i would like to keep clean , any way i want to design my van which is a nissan vanett e i need some feed back as what to put on it , i.e banners, a boards , shop windows etc etc i would love just to have a logo and a phone number but i want to use this as a free way to advertise with out it looking cheap (if this is poss ) and will it bring in more work??
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Rich,
As far as the success of signing your own van I would guarantee it will bring in new business if used in conjunction with other basic forms of promotion like the yellow pages etc. I didn’t get my own done for 6months after I had it and the first week after I put the graphics on it a guy from down the road called and said he never new what I did ! OK I work from home, but still it has got me subsequent jobs too plus it makes you look much more professional when your out on a job or site visit. I spoke to a customer last week who said he thought I had a fleet of vans because he “kept seeing my van everywhere” !
As far as the design goes, I would make it eye catching but not over cluttered with text. A strong logo is a good place to start but don’t feel the need to try and list everything you can supply as this is usually too much for people to take in especially when you are on the move.
Personally my advertising consists only of my van, website and YP ads which along with recommendation works very well for me.Of course you can make use of the design forum here and we will all give you some constructive help with it too !
Hope this helps a little 😉
Nigel
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hi rich
i dont blame you for wanting to do more sign work the motor trade is sutch a rat race these days
there are some very creative people on here far more creative than me
who will nodout help with your design- the vannett is not easy cos of the very deep panels – will it bring in work – YES IT WILL – as i say to my customers about there van its the cheepest advert you will ever do.
cant make my mind up as to weather your logo should be corny or not dynamite signs could cunger up so may big bang thereies.chris
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I was just thinking the same sort of thing Chris – I personally would avoid too much of a “corny” big explosion type thing and go for a more subtle approach, maybe change the “i” in the name to a stick of dynamite for example ??
Nigel
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