Banner Sales Volume

[Fred Weiss]

How many banners of all types and sizes do you sell on average in one week?

 

[Salmoneye]

A lot less now that my city of 200,000 has banned them. They are only allowed hard mounted on the side of a building and require a $60 permit.

 

[TheSnowman]

We dropped off BIG time in the last year. But, I'm not printing them for free either....

 

[Circleville Signs]

A decent amount of that is wholesale though

Gary

 

[Techman]

Locally I sell none.. The local printers are using them as printer cleaner jobs just to keep their heads from drying out.

Out of area I am selling a few.

 

[signgal]

in our area banners require a temporary permit and then you can only have them up for 30days out of the year and in some places you can't have them at all. They're getting harder to sell and we're just not the kind of people who will sell 'em and let the customer deal with the consequences. We have a construction company who hangs them on their job site and they're good for at least one a month but we're averaging 2/wk

 

[National Sign Co. - Print]

Feb. is always a banner month for us (no pun intended). The job attached requires 24 rolls a day to be printed to meet the deadline. Started Jan 15th job is due Feb 25.

 

[Steve C.]

I don't know what we are doing wrong. The guy who sews my banners also
makes them for the shop up the street from me. While we are doing less than
5 a week they are doing 15 to 20. I'm fairly sure it's not price.

 

[Gino]

Looks like a weekend's worth of work there, Mike......... :Big Laugh

We're all over with banners. We might go a week with only two or three, then have a week where we'll do 125 or so.

Silk screened, vinyl die-cut and digitally printed really adds up after a while. I put in 11-25 a week for an average count.​

 

[Replicator]

Lucky to have 5 a month right now, but in the summer it's many . . . !

 

[Farmboy]

We do more for ourselves than anyone else right now. We have 3 hanging on the shop at all times. We change them out at least once every two weeks so they don't get stale.

 

[BROWNDOG]

down to less than 5, mostly for quick events, races, etc. lost alot to liquor companies a while back, and then the county started cracking down on them,
Just curious Fred why do you ask, is it the regulations, or are you just comparing your own numbers?
why do you think that municipalities are getting strict on banners while we are all on harder times?

 

[HaroldDesign]

Lots and lots of the pop-up banners lately. Nice margins on these things!

 

[CL Graphics]

dont do many here as the party store up the road will do 30" x 10' banners for $45. Thats right 10 FOOT for $45

 

[Fred Weiss]

down to less than 5, mostly for quick events, races, etc. lost alot to liquor companies a while back, and then the county started cracking down on them,
Just curious Fred why do you ask, is it the regulations, or are you just comparing your own numbers?
why do you think that municipalities are getting strict on banners while we are all on harder times?

It was a suggested topic for a poll by a shy member and seemed like a good one to me. As to governing authorities cracking down ... that happened a long time ago here. Mostly because people were abusing the laxer regulations and using banners in place of permanent signs that would require permits. Falls right in with a separate thread going right now regarding vehicle graphics. End users will often look for loopholes in the law to advertise on the cheap.

I think the majority of "crack downs" is a result of government catching up with practices they don't like. I'd put it in the same category as coroplast signs in the medians.

 

[SE SignSupply]

Feb. is always a banner month for us (no pun intended). The job attached requires 24 rolls a day to be printed to meet the deadline. Started Jan 15th job is due Feb 25.

I need to buy my banner stock from you! Are those 300' rolls?

 

[National Sign Co. - Print]

I need to buy my banner stock from you! Are those 300' rolls?

Actually they are 368 foot rolls. Starflex in Korea made these rolls for us . This particular Job is 540 rolls and required a non PVC banner that only Starflex could produce.

Starflex is the biggest banner MFG. in the world. They pretty much private label everyones banner stock (Ultraflex,Grimco, Arlon etc etc...)

 

[SE SignSupply]

Actually they are 368 foot rolls. Starflex in Korea made these rolls for us . This particular Job is 540 rolls and required a non PVC banner that only Starflex could produce.

Starflex is the biggest banner MFG. in the world. They pretty much private label everyones banner stock (Ultraflex,Grimco, Arlon etc etc...)

I will check them out, if it's not PVC what is it? Fabric?

 

[National Sign Co. - Print]

I will check them out, if it's not PVC what is it? Fabric?

Smooth PE. Just like scrim banner with NO pvc, phatletes, cadmium or any other heavy metals. True toxic free banner....

 

[kstompaint]

dont do many here as the party store up the road will do 30" x 10' banners for $45. Thats right 10 FOOT for $45

This is basically why our qty of banners is low. Nobody wants to pay for 'em and I won't do 'em for free.