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The benefits of a well-lit exterior are not at all a mystery. Serving as a deterrent to crime and injury prevention, in addition to offering better visibility and reduced liability, exterior lighting isn’t something most businesses go without. However, you need to provide something more than just bare minimum lighting if you want customers to be able to evaluate your product in effective and desirable light.

This is where parking lot lighting becomes a necessity in enhancing curb appeal for your car dealership.

Get New LED Lighting Parking Lot Fixtures For Free! When I hear claims like this sometimes I read them just to find out what’s the catch? In this case, believe it or not there is no catch. In fact the retrofit to LED parking lot lighting is better than free and will actually pay you to do this with a positive cash flow from Day One in most scenarios. Too good to be true? How can this be? Let’s do some real analysis with some real world scenarios and see what kind of results you can get by replacing your existing HID parking lot lighting with LED parking lot lighting.

When it comes time for your sign company to partner with a sign manufacturer, you'll want to be prepared with helpful questions that will determine which sign manufacturer is best fit for your sign company’s needs. That's why our sales team has put together the top 10 questions to ask sign manufactuers as a sign company.

Every sign company needs specific strategies in order to improve sales, brand recognition, and customer experiences. Outlined below are five sales tools for sign companies that every sign company should consider implementing.

Even though electronic message centers have been around for many years many sign ordinances have not keep up with this technology. This fact can make it a challenge to know if your new LED sign will be permitted or, if it is, what specific rules will apply to the daily operation of it. However there are some tools you can use to get past the bureaucratic obstacles if you are willing to spend some time researching the actual codes. This article will help you learn to navigate LED sign regulations in your community.

If you're thinking about purchasing an LED display, you likely have some questions about what problems you'll have to deal with in case something goes wrong with your LED display. Or maybe you have an LED display, and you're trying to troubleshoot an issue. Either way, read on to understand the issues, severity of the issue, and solutions to LED display faults in this LED display troubleshooting guide. 

LED Signs (or Electronic Message Centers) are becoming more prevalent than ever. Years ago there were just a handful of amber orange colored signs that read only the time and temperature. Today, they are being used by just about every type of business—billboards, restaurants, schools, and churches are just a few of early adopters of the LED sign technology. It’s obvious that LED signs are here to stay, but why are they becoming so popular? Take a look at these top 10 selling points of LED signs:

Energy costs are second highest cost in schools' budgets, following personnel costs. With energy costs taking up such a large portion of a school’s budget, it is sensible to upgrade to more energy efficient practices and products. That’s easier said than done, though—where will the funding come from to support these energy efficient upgrades for schools? Despite the long-term savings, and higher quality of school that would result from energy efficient upgrades, it’s challenging for these projects to be approved. Either taxpayers don’t want to pay for the high upfront costs, or there isn’t room in the school’s budget to start the project. 

Financing options for energy-efficient upgrades and projects have been few and far between the last several decades. However, that is starting to change as of lately. Below you'll discover how you can overcome a lack of budget or present cash to progress with your proposed energy efficiency project. 

Lack of budget is the number one reason energy efficiency projects don’t get approved.

Energy efficiency projects require upfront investments, which many business owners have not budgeted. As a result, many projects don’t move forward due to lack of available capital, despite often-impressive ROIs and short payback periods. 

 An up-to-date parking lot lighting system is essential to having a safe and secure property. While you may have installed good parking lot lights years ago, it’s likely that you need an upgrade if your facility is ten years or older. Outdoor lights—both parking lot and facility lighting—used to concentrate on cosmetic enhancement instead of focusing on providing an area that’s safe to walk and drive in, as well as offer security from crime. The foundation of many lawsuits have been opened due to negligence in inadequate parking lot lighting.