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What is a REPUTATION?

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Recognize!

What is a reputation and where can I buy one?

A reputation is being recognized.

Positive recognition comes from being excellent and being consistent and making others feel good.

While at times even SignForce may stumble, or even fall, in the long term (medium term if you follow Keynsian theory) enough work done excellently combined with enough work done at a consistently high quality and making others feel good often enough will lead to people looking up to you and regarding your business as reputable.

The benefit of a reputation is that your brand gets recognized, often your brand will get referrals from people who have used your services and had a positive experience.

It is also possible to get referrals from strangers who recognize your brand, even though they may not have used you themselves. It is essential to ensure your reputation stays intact when working for strangers, both to ensure they are happy to refer you again in the future, and possibly more importantly, to ensure that they do not talk poorly about your business. It is said a positive referral will tell ONE person, while negative talk will tell 13!!

At SignForce our specialty is 3D (three dimensional) signage. We have built a reputation for delivering quality signs, ON TIME.

If you would like to experience the ease of having your signs manufactured and installed, on time without added stress of unfulfilled promises, contact SignForce NOW.

You can contact SignForce on info@signforce.co.za or WhatsApp +27 82 558 6413 or call +27 (0)11 440 7525

Find out more about SignForce by visiting http://www.signforce.co.za

The value of Experience

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Site Plan for Signage

Site plans – for signage projects

At roughly 13H00 on the 4th of September 2015 after cycling down a rutted sand ‘road’ (think wide track) at 70km per hour and passing a cow so close I could have patted her without either of us (me or the cow) having to move more than a few centimeters (read that as inches if you are not on the Metric system) I told my I told my cycling partner that doing what we do either makes us ballsy or stupid or both – what we do being unaccompanied long distance cycling – as things that should logically ‘scare’ us, no longer do.

It is possible the same could be said about work.

When you have been doing a specific type of work for long enough – this writer has been in the signage industry for more than a quarter of a century – there are very few NEW challenges that have not yet been seen. More common are variances of challenges, some of which provide very interesting challenges.

An example of such a challenge was when SignForce manufactured a sample sign for Adago restaurants. The sample was 600 mm in diameter and was SPECTACULAR. So much so that the company decided that wanted the same type of sign as the main sign for that flagship store. It was quite simple. Double the diameter and off you go. Well that is the theory anyway!

In reality the 1,200 mm diameter sign is FOUR TIMES larger than a 600 mm diameter sign – who saw that coming? – and the simple elements that worked extremely well on the 600 mm sign were not as happy or attractive on the sign that was four times larger – the larger sign did not allow for simple expansion because among the issues the open spaces became too large to allow for the same wiring (did I mention this sign was internally illuminated) as the smaller sample as the wiring and lights became visible. This was a wonderful challenge to overcome.

The point of my writing is that experience counts. Especially when the experience has RELEVANCE TO WHAT ONE IS WORKING ON.

If for some reason you follow the SignForce blog you may have noticed that more than once I have referred to SIGNAGE being a SIMPLE INDUSTRY – that is until it IS NOT.

Most folk see signage as shop signs (simple) or billboards (large and not necessarily simple but only engineers and government workers give the structure or location any thought) or street signs (simple and the same as billboards, but signage often includes things we see that assist us to get where we want to be but we really do not pay attention to – such as door numbers, toilet signs, fire signs and other similar statutory or directional signs.

The plan shown with this blog is a sample of simple signage being less than simple, not because of the signs themselves, but more because of the allocated time and the necessary planning to get the approximately 2,000 meters of vinyl cut and applied correctly ON TIME. The modern name for this is PROJECT MANAGEMENT. Welcome to SignForce where we do this all with pleasure.

If you have a signage project that needs to be managed, SignForce is available to assist.

Contact SignForce now on info@signforce.co.za or call +27 (0)11 440 7525 or WhatsApp +27 (0)82 558 6413

Find out more about SignForce at http://www.signforce.co.za