Signs and Awnings: How Can These Two Types of Companies Work Together?

Signs and awnings go together like the proverbial hand and glove. They’re made for each other, because they have a similar job to perform — identifying and promoting businesses. It’s no wonder you see so many sign awnings that accomplish both goals as a single unit. That makes sign and awning companies natural partners.

Sign and awning companies can work together locally, and they can join forces to serve national accounts, too. Developing a long-distance working partnership gives your sign company an expert on the ground that specializes in sign awnings for New York City and the surrounding area.

That means they’re intimately familiar with the behind-the-scenes details that affect awning manufacture – the local building codes, unusual architectural issues, NYC’s notoriously harsh weather conditions and even highly localized factors such as major thoroughfares that generate high concentrations of grit and grime that can be problematic for sign awnings.

Working together expands business opportunities for sign and awning companies.

You can advise and support one another on an ongoing basis, work collaboratively to design and manufacture custom sign awnings, even help one another out with overflow work during peak seasons or if an extra-large job order comes in unexpectedly.

Many customers have needs that go beyond sign awnings. They may need additional signage to identify secondary entrances, special parking or other areas. This is a perfect opportunity for sign companies to support awning company clients. Or a customer may want additional awnings, to adorn upper floor windows or provide retractable or temporary seasonal outdoor coverage. This is a perfect opportunity for awning companies to support sign company clients.

Professional courtesies are never a problem.

It’s easy for sign companies and awning companies to work together smoothly, because everyone speaks the same professional language. Both understand structural engineering factors that affect design and fabrication as well as installation. Both understand the need for sign awnings to brush off even the worst weather, and both understand the importance of complying with official regulations that affect how awnings look or how they’re made.

Sign companies can look to their full-service awning partner to accommodate virtually any type of custom fabrication, creating exactly the look customers envision. You can just send over the specifications, and they can get to work. Or the awning company can offer their creative design skills to help customers figure out what they want.

Combine treatments to create unique two-in-one sign awnings.

There’s a practical limit to the dimensions and overall size of signs. But awnings can be much larger, and they can project in entirely different ways than typical signs, making them more versatile. Sign awnings can add flair and color to a customer’s business exterior in ways signs can’t. And they can accommodate different types of graphics, including those that can be applied anywhere on an awning with digital printing processes.

Make signs that attach to awnings, especially all-metal Mapes varieties, or position signage above awnings so they appear to be single presence. Fashion fun posts for canopies that serve as upright signs. Fabricate beautiful signs of copper or stainless steel to serve as awning coverings. Produce 3D fabric-covered structures to adorn signs and awnings.

A state-of-the-art awning company can provide full color autoCAD drawings as well as full color photo renderings, so everyone involved in the project can see in advance what the new sign awnings will look like once they’re installed. And speaking of installation, they employ OSHA-certified crews who have experience installing all types of sign awnings, to ensure long-term performance and safety.

There’s almost no limit to how sign and awning companies can work together to create products customers love, whether they’re located near one another or across the country. And because both understand that time is money, customers can enjoy quick turnaround on their projects. That’s important when you’re anxious to see your new sign awnings finally installed and welcoming new customers.

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