You love skydiving and your cousin loves collecting statues of pigs. With these slightly unorthodox hobbies, you don’t often get a chance to buy pre-made bumper stickers that advertise your interests. Seeing an “I love” window decal that could be personalized with your hobby wasn’t quite as exciting as rocketing toward the ground in the seconds before you pull your chute cord, but it was close!

Not only are you going to have a decal for your window, but you’ve also taken care of gifts for every one of your family members and close friends with one big window decal order. You’ve got “I love John” for the newly married Jane Doe, “I love my hybrid” for your eco-activist brother and “I love my shoes” for your Imelda-wannabe cousin. They’ll love the personalization of their gifts and you’ll love sitting at home refolding your chute instead of braving the crowds at the malls this Christmas!

These decals are also great for fundraisers. You could sell pre-made designs like “I love my shelter dog” or “I love XYZ Children’s Hospital” right on the spot or you could take personalized orders for whatever the person making the donation loves.

You love your restaurant. You love your customers. You love your food. What you don’t love is the huge book of regulations about signage your town so vigilantly enforces. It took you six months to get them to reluctantly allow you to put a sign on the restaurant’s facade and the sign cost a fortune because it had to be a reproduction piece that fit the era your building was constructed in. When you hauled out your daily specials sidewalk sign, you didn’t expect additional problems, though. It was only temporary and went back inside each evening as you closed up. Unfortunately, you were wrong. The town nixed the sign. Now how do you announce your weekly themed specials, like the Italian Wednesday night dinner buffet or your Thursday half price sandwich sale?

Restaurant window signs are ideal for advertising reoccurring specials, especially in historic areas, where getting permits for signage is a challenge. Since you will be using the same specials week after week, your expense is very minimal. To successfully design your signs, you should:

 

• Utilize the ability to have see-through areas in your signs. This option can help windows look uncluttered and will still allow people to glance into the restaurant.
• Consider using a font design that matches your buildings era for part of the text to make the signage seem like it really belongs.

 

You’re in charge of advertising for a big event and you want to put up signage everywhere. However, a few of the stores where you want to place your signs are not interested in putting tape all over their windows to hold up your event information. What you need is a way to convince these high traffic areas that you can advertise the event without making their nice, clean windows look sloppy. Custom window decals may be just the ticket.

Designing decals to advertise events is a great option when you need signage for windows that is easily removable and doesn’t leave bits of tape that are impossible to remove without a razor blade behind. In addition, decals are usually see-through on any parts that do not have text or artwork on them. This makes them much less obtrusive than standard paper advertisements and gives the store window a much less cluttered appearance.

To make sure the businesses where you advertised will welcome a repeat visit next year:

 

• Be sure you stop by and remove your signs as soon as the event is over.
• If the window is smudged, do a quick bit of spot cleaning.
• Make sure to say a quick but sincere thank you as you leave.

 

As you step out of your client’s home, you are met by two very tough looking police officers. They do not look like they want to ask you about buying tickets for a fundraiser event. When one of them barks out an order for you to drop what you’re holding and put your hands over your head, you sigh in frustration and quickly obey the command. Just once, you’d like an entire week to go by without a new client’s vigilant neighbor reporting that you are breaking and entering when all you want to do is feed three cats, a canary and a goldfish named Spike. As you attempt to explain that you are a pet sitter and the only thing you took out of the house was a stool sample to drop off at the local vet, you think that there has to be a way to stop this weekly routine!

What you need is a way to clearly identify your business on your car. That way, the neighbor will realize why you are there before dialing 911. As you finally are able to drive away to head to your next client’s home, you pass a car with something in the windows. That’s it! You need car window decals.

 

• Decals are a great way to show people why your car is parked where it is.
• Decals can quickly turn your car into a mobile advertisement for your business.

 

You love your new blog or website and you’d like to increase your readership. That doesn’t mean you don’t appreciate your current three faithful visitors, of course, (Hey, Mom!) but it would be nice to get your message out to more people. As you look into costly advertising options, it occurs to you that, with your local news slant, what you really need is a way to advertise locally. You drive all over the place running errands and providing your children with their own personal shuttle service, so why not figure out a way to turn your car into a moving advertisement?

 

• Auto window decals are a great option for advertising very short messages, like a website name and URL. While they can hold more information, you should keep in mind that people cannot read a few paragraphs of information in small print while they are driving along behind you. Using a large font and few words makes reading a car window sign much easier and will give you better results.
• Keep in mind that some font colors, such as yellow, pale green and light blue, are not easy to read when you are standing still, let alone when you are in a moving vehicle that is following a moving vehicle with a sign in the window.

You’ve seen the bumper stickers sold by the local schools that say, “My child is an honor roll student at XYZ Academy,” and you are secretly a bit envious. To be perfectly frank, your child may never qualify for an honor roll bumper sticker. He’s an amazingly sweet and helpful kid and plays the tuba like an angel, but school work is a struggle. As you pull into the school parking lot with your squeaky clean minivan that is unmarred by bumper stickers, you notice that the cars on either side of you are so covered in stickers touting their straight “A” kids that you can’t actually tell what color the cars are! That’s it. You’re going straight home, hopping onto the computer and seeing if you can find some kind of custom printing option for your car. Window decals? Perfect!

Window decals can be designed to say anything you want and are a great option for parents who are proud of their kids for things other than their grades. Why not design a decal that says, “My kid won the local track meet finals,” or, “My kid raised money for new playground equipment for ABC Park,” to celebrate how great your child is in other ways?