Impact of yard signs, what do you think?

[john! 1]

Hey, i have been doing a good amount of vinyl yard signs lately and i just want to see what everyones thoughts are.

I notice driving around that i see signs with all this text and people only have a few seconds while driving to see what's on the sign. I'm noticing about 90% of the sign you don't pay attention to due to too much information and obviously the larges words stand out.

Now i would hate to be plain on signs but i have been thinking that just what the customer does and the phone number in large text is what yard signs need. Such as:

SIDING & ROOFING

555-555-5555

Any ideas on what you think makes the biggest impact when doing yard signs?

[BannerJohn 1,324]

you are 100% right. Too much info is stupid and a waste of money for whoever pays for thh signs. But tell the customer that. They want as much for their money as they can get. I especially love the ones where real estate agents waste valuable space putting their pic on it.

[firemalt 10]

Unless they are sitting at an intersection, a driving only has 1 to 3 seconds to read the sign... I think I read somewhere that 3 to 5 words and the phone number was about the max a driving could intake within that time.

[Guest stunad, jr.]

I dunno, but whoever is making the "AVIOD FORCLOSURE" signs at every intersection around here needs to check their spelling.  There were at least 3-4 at every intersection about 4 mths ago/ Gone now....  Friggin amazing these sign people that cant psell anithing rite

[firemalt 10]

I guess that read the research that Cambridge put out awhile ago:

The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid, aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mtaetr in waht oerdr the ltteres in a wrod are, the olny iproamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.

The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it whotuit a pboerlm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Azanmig huh? yaeh and I awlyas tghuhot slpeling was ipmorantt!

[rodbuilder 0]

I'm an old fart at 62 and everyone I have been around in SUCCESSFUL business has the same thought: 

(Remember this!)

KISS - k-e-e-p-  i-t  s-i-m-p-l-e  s-t-u-p-i-d !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Benr98 40]

I'm an old fart at 62 and everyone I have been around in SUCCESSFUL business has the same thought: 

(Remember this!)

KISS - k-e-e-p-  i-t   s-i-m-p-l-e   s-t-u-p-i-d !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol...to funny!  but yet true.  We've had our fair share of customers that think they should put WAY to many words on a sign or banner, and usually they complain later, because it's hard to read, even after they were told what would happen.

[edge 67]

We've got someone in our area selling queen and king mattress sets new in plastic; placing their large plastisol staked signs everywhere. Guess they must have overspent on materials, cause they've chosen to use magic marker in cursive to script them no less. Every time I spy one, I wonder what the rest of the story is.........

Honestly, I've seen them 150 miles apart, figure it must be another internet 'rags to riches' scheme.