For the month of March: Banner ½ off!

For the month of March BIG Images is discounting its full-color indoor/outdoor banner. Take advantage of this opportunity and get your banners for half price!

Banner is very versatile. It is used for

• posters
• window graphics
• outdoor signage
• hanging graphics
• wall mounted graphics
• and just about any other signage you need

Your possibilities are endless. Take advantage of this low price to outfit your business with

• Counter-top banner stands for as low as $21 (includes banner stand and banner)
• Mid-sized banner stands for as low as $126 (includes banner stand and banner)
• Full-sized banner stands for as low as $184 (includes banner stand and banner)

Some might ask “why?” In this down economy it is very common for small-businesses to cut marketing budgets first. That is the wrong response; in a down economy you do not stop marketing. By offering this discounted rate we are making our most popular product more accessible to small businesses on a limited budget. Banner is one of the easiest and most successful methods of marketing. It’s flexible. It’s easy to install. It can be used as window graphics, posters, or just about any other temporary signage to attract a customer’s eye.

To get more details and a quote for your half-priced banners call Christine at 805-781-9301.

This offer is for the month of March, 2009. To qualify an order must be at least 6 square feet in size and have print-ready artwork. The turn-around time upon recieving print-ready art is 5 days.

The third outdoor domain: the ground

This is part three (of three) in our outdoor solutions roundup. This article sumarizes the advantages and disadvantages of marketing with floor graphics. 

Look down to the ground

Floor graphics are the new playground of large-format marketing. Everyone has to watch where they walk; why not put your logo or product message in their line of sight? Put your product message at the customers feet during the critical moment when they make their purchasing decision. Guide the customers eyes (and feet) with compelling images and visual treats that lead them right to where you want them. 

And BIG Images floor graphics are not limited to easy, clean environments like supermarket floors. We provide outdoor floor graphics that stick to concrete and carpet. 

Advantages of floor graphics

• Inexpensive
• Still very novel so people are more likely to notice it
• Unlimited flexibility of placement—get your advertisement at the customers feet when and where you want it
• Focus the customer’s attention
• [1] Stimulate sales—retail stores have shown 20–30% increases in sales when there are floor graphics.
• [1] Floor graphics offer one of the highest returns based on the price per square foot, making them one of the most inexpensive advertising mediums a small business could invest in.
• Virtually every business with a brick-and-mortar storefront has floor space available—its free to utilize!

Disadvantages of floor graphics

• We have yet to encounter a disadvantage

Products of interest

• Sidewalk Graphics
• Carpet Graphics
• Floor Graphics

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[1] “In-store floor graphics” Published: 18 June 2006. Accessed: 20 July 2008.http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=738911 

Don’t forget to read our two companion articles, Graphics at eye-level, and Graphics up in the sky.

The second outdoor domain: the sky

This is part two (of three) in our outdoor solutions roundup. This article sumarizes the advantages and disadvantages of marketing with graphics in the sky. There are opporunities all around your city for getting peoples attention with street banners, billboards, lightpost-banners and even building-mounted banners. 

Look up to the sky

For above-eye-level marketing, banner and fabric reign supreme; nothing is more cost effective or easy to install as banner and fabric. I am not simply talking about billboards, but rather any graphic above eye level. These could be photos mounted onto the walls above restaurant tables. They could be sponsorship graphics high above the crowd, or even an outdoor mesh banner wrapping the side of a building. 

Advantages of images in the sky

• Reinforces main marketing imagery
• Reminders to the customer
• Focus customers attention

Disadvantages

• Not as direct or personal as eye-level or floor graphics
• Hard to track effectiveness of the graphic
• The most expensive of the three due to the large square-footage of material necessary
• Not every business has the area to display this type of graphic requiring the rental of space.

Products of interest

• Normal banner
• Mesh banner
• Trade show headers
• Fabric Flags

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Don’t forget to read our two companion articles, Graphics at eye-level, and Graphics down on the ground.

The first outdoor domain: the eye-level

This is part one (of three) in our outdoor solutions roundup. This article sumarizes the advantages and disadvantages of marketing with graphics at the eye-level. 

The eye-level

Eye-level graphics are what most people think of first when they want to market with large-format graphics. Thus it is highly competitive. Most of your competitors are already creating posters, banner stands, and window graphics. The trick is to set your marketing message apart from hodgepodge that already inundates the environment. 

Advantages of eye-level graphics

• Customers are virtually guaranteed to look at eye-level
• A little creativity will really set your message apart
• Get the customers attention even when they are not expecting it with vehicle graphics or sidewalk graphics (sandwich boards).

Disadvantages of eye-level graphics

• It’s a highly competitive space. Many businesses already do this so it’s not as novel, and leaves less of an impression on the customer. However, these disadvantages become opportunities to distinguish your business in the other two domains.

Products of interest

• Banner Stands
• Window Graphics
• Rollable Posters and Mounted Prints
• Tradeshow Prints
• Vehicle graphics—reinforce your brand with vehicle graphics
• Sandwich boards & sidewalk displays

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This year’s X Prize Cup will see three new contests—the Vertical Rocket Challenge, the Space Elevator Games, and the Lunar Lander Challenge.

BIG Images continues it’s efforts to better serve the airshow industry. We recently completed our first major project for the X Prize Foundation.

When SpaceShip One rocketed to space on October 4, 2004, not only was it the first private manned spacecraft to exceed an altitude of 328,000 feet twice within a 14 day period, it also was the winner of the $10 million Ansari X Prize. 

That was only the beginning. According to the X Prize Cup web page, “We didn’t just launch a spaceship, we launched a revolution,” and this year, they plan to raise the stakes. On October 20-21, 2006, privately funded teams will compete for $2.5 million in prizes in three different competitions: the Lunar Lander Challenge, the Vertical Rocket Challenge and the Space Elevator Games 

The X Prize Foundation “…spurs innovation by tapping into [humanity's] competitive and entrepreneurial spirits.” BIG Images is proud to be a major part of the X Prize Foundations’ marketing efforts, helping spread their dream of private space exploration to the final frontier and beyond. 

The Challenge 
The X Prize Foundation and Rocket Racing approached us with a need for banners to decorate their co-branded booth at AirVenture Oshkosh, the largest civilian airshow in the United States. 

This booth required double-sided banner stands, tent headers and large banners for covering the inner walls of the tent.

The Rocket Racing and X Prize Foundation tent at AirVenture Oshkosh.

The X Prize Foundation’s graphics proved a challenge because of their liberal use of black—every image had a rich-black background that needed to print as black as possible. 

The Solution 
BIG Images provided the perfect media solution; Our durable vinyl banner allowed for quick production, easy transportation, and great reusability for future shows. 

Our new ink-system dramatically increases the color gamut available on outdoor vinyl, printing some of the richest, or darkest, black in the industry. Furthermore, our new ink-system creates a stronger bond with the material, making banners that will last longer in the rigorous trade-show environment.

Two rocket-powered Mark-1 X-Racers competing Grand Prix-style.

The Rocket Racing League™ is an aerospace sports and entertainment organization that combines the competition of racing with the excitement of rocketry. The RRL was established by X–Prize founder Peter Diamandis and two–time Indianapolis 500 champion team partner Granger Whitelaw to advance the technology and increase public awareness of space travel. The NASCAR–style racing league features rocket–powered aircraft that will be flown by top pilots through a ‘three–dimensional track way’ at venues throughout the world. With millions of fans who enjoy racing and air shows, and an even wider audience enthralled with humanity’s next step into space, rocket racing is destined to become the future of racing! —From the Rocket Racing web page.

The Challenge

The Rocket Racing tent at AirVenture Oshkosh, 2006 with double sided banner stand and tent headers.

Rocket Racing and the X–Prize Foundation approached BIG Images to supply banners for their co–branded booth at AirVenture Oshkosh. With attendance between 200,000–300,000 people, it is the largest civilian airshow in the United States. 

The co–branded booth required banners of matching proportions, double-sided banner stands, tent headers, and large banners to cover the inner walls of their tent. 

In addition, we were able to push the extreme edges of the CMYK color space to deliver the bright and vibrant colors found in the Rocket Racing brand. 

Double sided banner stand beneath the wing of a C-130 Hercules.

The Solution 
BIG Images had the perfect media solution for them: our durable vinyl banner allowed for quick production, easy transportation, and great reusability for future shows. To reproduce the vibrant reds and blues of their brand, BIG Images used it’s new ink-system which dramatically increases the color gamut available on outdoor vinyls. Furthermore, our ink-system creates a stronger bond with the material, making banners last longer in the rigorous trade-show environment.

It’s the best way to spend Labor Day Weekend on the Central Coast!

The San Luis Obispo Symphony Pops by the Sea Logo - Printed by BIG Images 12' 9" tall x 25' wide.

This year, 2006, marks the third year running that BIG Images has sponsored the San Luis Symphony and Pops by the Sea. The SLO Symphony, often noted for incredible marketing graphics that rival their music in quality, uses BIG Images for all its outdoor signage at the annual Pops by the Sea concert, and for the foyer banners greeting the audience as they arrive to performances at the Cal Poly Performing Arts Center.