Our room Q-Spot Billiards has been in the same location with the same storefront since 1966. It is a painted sign with overhead spotlite lamps shining down on it. We often hear I've passed by for xx years and never knew you were here from a new customer. Qur front is 100' from the street and our sign is about 20 feet up on the front of U shaped shopping center building. We are the only tennent that is open after 5 PM which makes an almost empty appearence to the substianal auto traffic. Have any of you tried storefront LED, the programable moving messages style for adverizing? We can place it flat on the front or make it flow around the corner of the inside corner of the U shape of our room location. Basic internet research suggests 2x10 foot signage which is pricey 2/3K to us as a family billiards room which is smoke an alcohol free. Any experiance info with this type sign for pool hall operations will be helpfull. Thanks, Ken Ken.
Outside LED signage
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This is an old thread, but anyway, since you got no response...I'm not a room owner. I looked at your web page and found a picture of your storefront sign. Comments intended to be helpful
1. What I saw of your web site looks like you quit updating it sometime this past summer. If you are going to have a web site, it needs to be kept updated. For example, 9-ball videos ended in July, "summer fun league" link and page, etc. I hope you are still in business.
2. On your home page put a link to Google maps below your physical address so people can get a map to your location in a form they are used to. Your address should be set as text outside your logo. Currently your logo takes up the whole first screen of your home page. You are wasting (sorry!) the most valuable space of your web site. Use the bottom half of your current page as the new top, just below or beside a small Q-Stop logo / banner. It would help to widen your home page.
3. By far the best sign "update" to attract new / casual customers would be to have a good sign out on the street, perpendicular to the traffic. Then people can find you while driving down the road. It's not clear if you have this or not.
4. Second would be to forego the LED sign in the window and update your big existing storefront sign and sign lighting. I suggest looking at other local signage and working with a local sign shop that has a design practice.
For both 3. and 4., "Pool" or "Billiards" needs to be biggest word, and jump out visually. "Q-Spot" means something once your customers have found you, not before (no offense).
1. What I saw of your web site looks like you quit updating it sometime this past summer. If you are going to have a web site, it needs to be kept updated. For example, 9-ball videos ended in July, "summer fun league" link and page, etc. I hope you are still in business.
2. On your home page put a link to Google maps below your physical address so people can get a map to your location in a form they are used to. Your address should be set as text outside your logo. Currently your logo takes up the whole first screen of your home page. You are wasting (sorry!) the most valuable space of your web site. Use the bottom half of your current page as the new top, just below or beside a small Q-Stop logo / banner. It would help to widen your home page.
3. By far the best sign "update" to attract new / casual customers would be to have a good sign out on the street, perpendicular to the traffic. Then people can find you while driving down the road. It's not clear if you have this or not.
4. Second would be to forego the LED sign in the window and update your big existing storefront sign and sign lighting. I suggest looking at other local signage and working with a local sign shop that has a design practice.
For both 3. and 4., "Pool" or "Billiards" needs to be biggest word, and jump out visually. "Q-Spot" means something once your customers have found you, not before (no offense).