{"id":10596,"date":"2016-07-25T05:07:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T10:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=10596"},"modified":"2016-07-25T12:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T17:40:53","slug":"no-really-my-business-needs-a-new-sign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2016\/07\/no-really-my-business-needs-a-new-sign.html","title":{"rendered":"No, really, my business needs a new sign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Muske wrote\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2016\/07\/your-small-business-needs-a-sign.html\">Your Small Business Needs a Sign<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ouch! This really hit home for me. Our store sign was damaged by wind and hail, and we left it there for way too long because it seemed like such a big job to do anything.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10591 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sign-box-detail1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Sign box detail1\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sign-box-detail1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sign-box-detail1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sign-box-detail1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sign-box-detail1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Too many questions: how much will it cost? Which big city sign company can we trust? (no local sign companies!) Or should we get a local welder to bodge something together? Or&#8230;. We were stuck. So we just stuck up some temporary flags that say &#8220;LIQUOR.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then we managed to find really plain temporary replacement faces for the sign. Turns out we had these panels all along in storage, but weren&#8217;t sure they&#8217;d work. They&#8217;re horribly generic, but better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10590 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Black-and-white-sign-e1468606007882-300x285.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Black-and-white-sign-e1468606007882-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Black-and-white-sign-e1468606007882-768x730.jpg 768w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Black-and-white-sign-e1468606007882-800x761.jpg 800w, https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Black-and-white-sign-e1468606007882.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s high time to get a permanent solution.<\/p>\n<p>We\u00a0finally made the decisions. We bought an old sign box from another business. I designed new sign faces online, and we got a nearby company to print new faces for it. I put the order in on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let you know how it goes.<\/p>\n<p><em>New to SmallBizSurvival.com? Take the <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/guided-tour.html\">Guided Tour<\/a>. Like what you see? <a href=\"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/get-updates.html\">Get our updates<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glenn Muske wrote\u00a0Your Small Business Needs a Sign. Ouch! This really hit home for me. Our store sign was damaged by wind and hail, and we left it there for way too long because it seemed like such a big job to do anything. Too many questions: how much will it cost? Which big city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":10591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7,24],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Sign-box-detail1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10596"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10618,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10596\/revisions\/10618"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}