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5 Holiday Sign Tips

With more people out shopping and running errands during the holiday season, make sure they are noticing your business. For many retailers, the holidays represent an average of 20 – 40% of annual sales. Even if you aren’t a retail store, you can take advantage of the extra traffic around your business by advertising with good signage. The key to good holiday signs is that they stand out with design that is original, clever, and eye-catching. Focus on color, creativity, and be sure to get your brand message front and center. Working with an experienced sign company will help bring…

Get Your Exterior Signs Ready for Winter

Harsh Maine winter can really take its toll on outdoor items like business signs. There are several steps you can take to protect outdoor signage from harsh weather. Even if most outdoor signage is made with durable, weather resistant materials, winter brings on a lot of threats for your signage. Cold weather is harsh, add to that the freeze-thaw cycles and ice buildup, and your outdoor signs can really take a beating over the course of a winter season. To help protect your outdoor signage, we have come up with some tips on how to prepare for winter: Consider Location Signs in open…

Vehicle Wraps – What to Know Before You Get Wrapped

Vehicle advertising is a highly cost effective way to advertise your business 24/7! Vehicle Wraps - With the advancements in sign materials and options, vehicle wraps have become a very popular way to promote a business. Using your car or truck to advertise your business or organization markets your brand and message every day, all day, no matter where you are. What is Vehicle Wrapping? Vehicle wrapping is when you fully or partially cover your vehicle in a special vinyl film. It’s a quick way to change the look of your car without having to pay for a full…

7 Reasons Vehicle Advertising Works – Here are the Statistics to Prove It

Vehicle advertising – through vinyl wraps or lettering, is an extremely effective and cost-efficient way to advertise your business. Vehicle advertising has been proven to be one of the most successful forms of advertising available today, as evidenced by a variety of statistics that prove their effectiveness. There is no doubt that vehicle advertising reaches consumers and influences purchasing decisions. It’s considered to have one of the best ROI in marketing that businesses can do. Whether you are a small, one truck business or have a large fleet, turning your work vehicle into a moving billboard for your business is smart…

We’re Expanding! Second Sebago Signworks Location Open in Windham

We're so excited to be expanding Sebago Signworks to a second location in Windham, Maine! Opening this second shop really takes us back to our roots, as our original shop was in Raymond. Owner, Devin Fahie, is looking forward to being able to better service this community, and have expanded space for larger projects and vehicle lettering and wraps. Back to Our Roots - Our Original Shop was in Raymond The Sebago Signworks family business was started originally by Devin’s parents, and called Signs in Seconds. Devin joined his parents at the original shop when he moved to Maine, and…

On Our 25th Anniversary, Sebago Signworks Has a Lot to Celebrate

To reach a milestone like the 25th anniversary in business gives us not only a lot to celebrate, but a lot to be thankful for. We’re very grateful for the local businesses that gave us our start, the large corporations who enabled us to advance our sign-making technology and our longtime customers who continue to come to us for signage and branding needs. As owner, Devin Fahie, grew up in the family business alongside his parents, his own children grew up in the Sebago Signworks shop from the time they were babies. These memories make SSW far more than just…

For the Love of (Antique) Trucks

We aren’t sign people who letter trucks, we are truck people who happen to have a business that does antique truck lettering. Devin's "Truck Garden" At Sebago Signworks, when we say family business, we might be talking about our passion (ok, slight obsession) with antique trucks. Particularly, FORD antique trucks. Sebago owner, Devin Fahie, his wife Renee, and their two sons, Zack and Jax, share the hobby of collecting, restoring and driving antique trucks. As a family, their favorite pastime brings them together while they put on a lot of miles in search of their latest acquisition, and attending truck…

5 Reasons to Use Vehicle Advertising for Your Fleet Vehicles

Vehicle graphics have gone way beyond the old days of sticking on basic lettering of your company name, phone number, and showing DOT numbers. Please, no more “How’s my driving?” on the back of a company truck. Today, the options for vehicle graphics allow us to use your fleet vehicles to get really creative with brand marketing. Vehicle graphics offer so many opportunities to advertise your company and inform consumers about your brand like never before. If you haven’t wrapped your fleet yet – it’s time to embrace this huge advertising opportunity! Here are the top 5 reasons to use…

Tips for Choosing the Right Sign Company for Your Business

Finding the right sign company helps your business more than you may realize. Whether you have an outdated sign that needs replacement, or you’re opening a brand new business and need to get your signage put together, you want to make sure you choose the right sign company for your project. Business graphics are essential to building your brand and marketing your business, so your sign company is part of your marketing team. Most businesses need more than one sign: exterior signs, interior signage, warning and informational signs, ADA signage. It’s important you find the right sign company to work…

The Simple (But Effective!) Way Small Businesses Can Compete with the Big Brands

You don’t have to have the budget of a large franchise to effectively compete with them – we know a trick! Every small and local business owner knows that their competition isn’t limited to fellow small businesses. There are giant brands represented in cities and towns across the country, meaning you’re left to compete with other local shops plus the corporations with big marketing budgets and even bigger name recognition. Every small company has lost business to a large franchise business. Often, it’s only because larger companies look better and people perceive them as more trustworthy. For some reason, when…

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