LED
Digital Electronic Message Centers are also known as LED
Signs, Display Signs, Jumbotron Signs, Changeable
Signs, Changeable Letter Signs, Scrolling Signs,
Marquee Signs, Video Displays, and Readerboard Signs, among others.
Electronic message centers help your business many ways:
They allow real-time communication with potential customers. With almost 20% of the US population moving in a year, new potential customers of varying demographics are always viewing your signage. What is effective now may not be effective later…or after lunch.
They attract attention through animation and brightness so they increase awareness of your business location and your products.
Message center signs are prettier than signs with changeable plastic letters, improving the appearance of your business.
Your message is not limited by the size of your reader board.
Your advertising dollars are invested in selling in your trade area, preventing excessive advertising expenses.
Changing your message, any time you wish, is as easy as typing. It can be done often and safely.
Quality electronic message center displays are readable from a further distance, especially in poor lighting.
Research shows that you have 3 seconds to attract a passer-by's attention and communicate your message. An electronic message center will make your message stand out from the crowd of signs around you. Even displaying the time and temperature can give a viewer valuable information which they will associate with your business. Combining that capability with animated messages, possibly in color, can really drive your sales up, 15% to 150%!
Even the Federal Government has determined that signs containing electronic message centers are safety enhancing devices, not traffic hazards! This is why they are used on roadways to communicate with drivers.
The
importance of signs in helping a business to survive was
recently underscored when the Small Business Development
Center (SBDC), with their NxLeveL for Entrepreneurs
training program, which is available in 40 states, added
an entire week to their program to present more deeply
"…the importance of signs and their impact on a business…"
We
can help, so long as your landlord and the City understand
the importance of good signs and allow you to install
signs that will help your business. Unfortunately
this isn't always true. Choose your location(s)
wisely (and receive your landlord's approval of your
signs package BEFORE you sign your lease.)
City Signs Ordinances, and Landlord Lease Restrictions,
can doom a business.
Most City Sign Ordinances can be accessed by visiting our "Permits
& Approvals" page, after accessing our "Installation
& Service" page,
if you care to learn about them without our help. However we have worked with them for so long we know most
of them by heart.
Remember
the axiom "Location, Location, Location!" The
supreme importance of "location" is the numbers of
potential customers that will see your signs...and be able
to read and understand them. Very important
design
and marketing considerations.
If you are
located in the Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" in Texas the
Texas Department of Transportation has probably counted
traffic in front of your new location. Go to
www.dfwinfo.com/trans/data/tcins
to see how many vehicles will see your signs every day!
Other regions have similar information available.
Surprisingly 30% of
traffic on almost all business streets occurs when it is
dark; people see your sign only if it is lighted when it
is dark out, including on dark days when everyone else's
sign is lighted.
With 18.6% of the
entire US population moving each year, your sign will be
constantly seen by MANY potentially new customers.
Free Demonstrations
Arrange an on-site demonstration today!
View the importance of everything we discuss below.
Signs Manufacturing rents sunburstleddisplays™ LED full-color digital animated electronic message centers.
Click on the "Rentals" tab on the left for details.
Using Our Website to Learn About
Sunburst Displays™
Your sign
forms that very important "first impression" your
potential customer has of your business. Your sign must always look nearly as good as it looked the day it was installed so that you survive; don't give potential customers a worsening impression of your business as your sign ages.
Click on the "Technical Details" tab to the left to learn about the intricacies of an LED digital electronic message center.
Also discover how we make each sign to last;
including the use of CNC manufacturing, rust-proof metal, structural-steel
frames, high-end automotive paint, high-impact plastics, and most importantly,
sophisticated
protective coatings. All our signs include these many hidden features, critically important to you but often ignored by competitors so they can make more money. We even add self-cleaning properties.
You are leaving your computer out in the Texas rain, ice, heat and cold.
Sunburst Displays are built in Texas, for Texas, by us.
But, it takes more than an excellent sign for your success. It must be installed properly, and someday in the far future, hopefully, it will need to be serviced. This is why it will be very important to you that WE manufacture, install and service LED electronic message centers!
Please use and enjoy this
website, the largest information resource about electronic message centers on the internet, in conjunction with our Corporate website www.SignsManufacturing.com, created so you can learn about all types of signs and how you can control their affect on your image.
We believe that if you're a knowledgeable purchaser there's a real good chance you'll become our customer.
Guaranteed Highest
Quality...
Guaranteed Lowest
Price™
As
detailed on the pages that follow, everything
will be done to make your sign look better, and last
longer...Guaranteed.
Signs
Manufacturing Corporation also guarantees that our price
will be the lowest price you can obtain on the products
described in this website; now or anytime during the next
90 days.
If you are
offered a lower price by someone else we will match that
lower price PLUS give you 10% of the difference.
"Cost" and
"Pricing" tabs on the left help determine general budget pricing for types and sizes of signs and explain our 5 different payment options.
But, please, contact us to develop an exact plan to meet
your particular needs - for free (see our "Sign Design" page.)
The
detailed construction and installation information below, and to the left, is very important in
developing a sign that will accomplish your goals.
Please contact us to develop a plan to meet your
particular needs.
Our professional staff will usually have exact quotations, and exact scale
drawings of your signs installed on your building or property ready for
you the same day we meet with you. (Much faster than the 2 1/2 week
average in our industry.)
If you are planning for the future, please bookmark
our website as a "Favorite" so you can find us when
you are ready.
You May Qualify for a "Better Than Free™" Sign
Dependent on your location, Signs Manufacturing may be able to offer you INCOME from a FREE pole, pylon, monument sign, or electronic message center.
Why Buy Factory-Direct, from a State-Licensed Company?
Why not buy from a Sign Dealer (also called a Sign Broker or a Sign Store?)
There are literally hundreds of them.
Would you give a car dealer $10,000 and tell him to buy you the best car
he can for the money, sight unseen (or from a drawing?) Don't you think you would get the car that made him
the most?
Do you think you
could meet your needs asking for the cheapest car he can buy?
Why would a sign dealer (sign broker or sign store) be any different? Remember, they are
merely buying a sign from a manufacturer, maybe foreign, to resell to you, usually to resemble a
drawing, making the most money they can.
You need to know
ALL of the details on how your sign will be manufactured, and how it will be installed.
It needs to meet YOUR needs, not the seller's profit goals. What is he
telling the manufacturer you don't need so he can make more money?
Believing "...a sign is a sign" gets you a Yugo instead of a Cadillac.
Remember the Yugo? They didn't last very long, either.
Also, most sign dealers, sign brokers and sign stores cannot legally install
or service an electric sign. Ask to see their license.
Ask to see a manufacturer's license also. A few are not licensed to do
electrical work, either, they also have to hire other companies to install the
signs they make.
Now, who provides the warranty? The manufacturer, the installer, the
salesman, anyone? If the sign was installed illegally
do you think they'll honor their warranty? Did they REALLY obtain your
City sign permit? Is the sign even safe?
As a large, UL listed manufacturer, our name is on all our signs. Just like you,
we can't afford to have a bad sign destroy our business. We have to care,
particularly with our LIFETIME warranty.
If you wonder if a sign-seller can legally install and
service electrical signs through-out Texas go to
http://www.license.state.tx.us/LicenseSearch/,
enter "Electricians" in the "Inquire by License Type" box and the name of the
sign business or person in the "Inquire by Name" box. If they
are not licensed they can not.
So someone can sell you signs and not be licensed to install or service them. You may have to have this done. But unless the electrical signs
you buy are "listed" (U.L. usually) they won't
be allowed to be installed in Texas, a State of Texas Consumer Protection Safety Law designed to insure that signs are safe to use, with a few local city
ordinance exceptions. It is not illegal to sell them to you, however. Buy carefully.
"I had a ****-a-**** (sign company) right across the street … that store's out of business now … I found out they hired some other company to build and install our sign and they did a really #@%&&$ job, the thing has never lit right. ****-a-**** Corporate won't do anything, they say the closed store was an independent franchise, and the sign builder/installer won't fix it, they say we weren't their customer. I need you to come out, tell me what it will cost to get the thing working properly and get it fixed."
Chris Jennings, Jimmy Johns
Why Should I Buy thru Signs Manufacturing?
Signs Manufacturing is an excellent sign company, we make great signs. But just being a good sign company does not necessarily mean that a company can install and service Electronic Message Centers. They may be able to weld, install fluorescent lamps and roll paint, but can they build, program and service a computer?
Digital LED electronic message centers are very complicated computers, remotely served by other computers, use proprietary software programs, and are not what most sign company employees, or electricians, understand.
But because these signs are electrical they must be installed by a qualified electrical sign company or an electrical contractor. We are the largest electronic message center manufacturer in North Texas; one of only 3 in the entire State! And we are State licensed as both an electrical sign contractor and as an electrical contractor.
We know what we are doing when it comes to Electronic Message Center fabrication and service. We even carry all parts in stock for immediate replacement if something fails.
A large part of our business is repairing mistakes other sign companies and electricians made installing signs they bought and resold to their customers.
"We paid $34,000 for a full-color LED message center from Wal**** Signs & Lighting. It took them 11 months to get it installed. It is now 4 months old and has never worked in full-color mode. They don't know how to make it work. Can you fix it?"
Jack Miller, Grace Point Church
Electronic Message Centers are usually built into additional signage, not installed by themselves. Doing so makes them less expensive and more effective at the same time!
But most electronic message center manufacturers do not manufacture additional types of signs.
Signs
Manufacturing makes more than electronic message centers.
We manufacture, install and service
church signs,
school signs,
apartment signs,
park signs,
governmental signs,
architectural signs, etc.
Interior signs as well as
exterior signs.
We
manufacture
road signs and
building signs including
channel letter signs
(internally lighted with neon,
Solarbrite™ LEDs, the new automatic color-changing SpectraLites™ LEDs, or externally lighted with
first-surface
LetterLites™ LEDs),
neon signs,
wall sign cabinets,
pole signs,
pylon signs, monument signs,
message centers,
PinLights™
LED signs,
architectural
signs,
plastic lettering,
metal lettering,
trim-cap lettering, awning signs,
plaques
and
more!
We champion
brighter, energy-saving
EnergyStar Signs™ solutions that save our
customers money while
protecting our environment.
We will
give your company an edge and help make you money.
We have lots of experience.
Click our "Sign Design" tab to learn how we can help you - for free - design signs that will meet City, State and Landlord sign restrictions, and your needs.
Free Factory Tour
Come and see the array of equipment
and tools, and the facility dedicated to making good
signs.
Contact a sales consultant to arrange a
plant tour, or just stop by. Click our "Contact
Us" tab for location and contact
details.
State Licensed Sign Installation and Sign Service
Signs Manufacturing and Maintenance Corporation is a full-service sign company.
We
provide
sign site surveys,
sign permits,
sign installation
and
sign maintenance
services for electrical and non-electrical signs for our customers as well as other sign
companies. We
provide this work in Dallas, Fort Worth (DFW), and ALL of
North Texas and Northeast Texas.
State Sign and Electrical License Numbers: TECL17503, TSCL18015, TSCL18016.
Our technicians are also
Quality Certified Signs™ certified. (Click the "Installation
& Service" tab for details.)
Area Codes 214, 254, 430, 469, 682, 817, 903, 940, and
972.
Serving Collin, Cook,
Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fannin, Franklin, Grayson,
Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman,
Lamar, Navarro, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Tarrant,
Titus, Van Zandt, Wood, and Wise Counties in Texas.
We also have signs in 43 different
states, and 6 other nations.
Sunburst Displays' Four-building Manufacturing Campus prior to our 7,500 sq. ft. expansion (2001 photo courtesy of Bing.)
Weekend photo showing Sunburst Displays' 2004 Building Expansion, taken during our 2009 re-roofing project (Courtesy of Google Earth.)
E-Mail Specials & Newsletter Blog
Occasionally Signs Manufacturing will
have excess production on certain sign types, or discounts on installation
or service exceeding our standard LIFETIME WARRANTY 20% discount.
Or, we have information about Sunburst Displays, or the sign industry, we would like to share.
If you would like to be informed of these specials by email, click on the
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Additionally
We are the "greenest"
sign company in Texas. Click the "Our
Environment" tab on our "About
Us" page to learn about our environmental
efforts.
Texas' Success Story
The Dallas/Fort Worth "Metroplex" continues as the
fastest growing large city area in the United States, year-after-year. It is the fourth
fastest growing such area in the world. As fast as in China or India!
North Texas is expected to
gain over 4,000,000 new residents in just the next 4 years!
The business economy HERE remains healthy! Well over
100 new businesses are started in just the D/FW Metroplex every week.
And, the large "National"
companies have placed expansion plans on "hold",
world-wide and Texas-wide, because of their over-all
problems; leaving lots of opportunity for local and
regional businesses in North Texas and Northeast Texas.
Don't let the "doom-n-gloomers"
talk you out of being successful. This is the best time ever to
start a new business in North Texas and Northeast Texas.