While reading a reading a recent issue of Greg Swann's BloodHound Blog I noticed an article about custom yard sign, each designed especially for a specific property.
For want of a better name I call them single property yard signs. Sounded like a pretty cool idea to me so I started doing some research as to how I could create my own.
Greg is somewhat of a perfectionist along with being an innovator. After reading the process Greg goes through to turn out one sign I decided to look for a qucker and easier way.
Fortunately in Knoxville we have a great printing company called Print Edge who can print basically anything on most anything.
I did a sample of what I thought I wanted in Microsoft Publisher, printed several versions out on 8 1/2 X 11 paper, saved a high resolution version on a thumb drive and went to visit Print Edge to see what they could do for me.
It turned out to be remarkably simple. Tom Qualkenbush, one of the Print Edge customer service guys took at look at my samples and said they could easily print them on 4 millimeter Coroplast, which is sort of like a corrugated box only plastic, for about 20 bucks each, full color on 2 sides and with waterproof and UV resistant ink so they won't fade in sunlight.That's in the pretty standard 24 X 18 size which the majority of yard signs all over are.
Below is what my first effort looks like; it's working for me right now in the front yard of one of my listings.
As I said this is the first effort. I already intend to make some changes for the next sign. First I didn't use a high enough resolution on the photos so they look very slightly pixilated so I'll double the resolution and Tom said that should cure that.
I didn't have a good company logo, Tom says they have them and he can drop one in to replace the company name. Tennessee real estate law requires the agent's name to be the same size as the company name and phone number and to appear on all advertising so we're good to go on that.
Here's another example from Mariana Wagner in Colorado
Single property yard signs, cost effective, and another easy way to make your listing stand out from the others and you to stand out from the other Realtors in your area.
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