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Style your salon’s image

Vistaprint UK — Tue, 03 May 2011 17:39:10 +0000

Our products are ideal for starting up or developing your hairdressing business, and will help you to create a stylish and sleek image.

You can choose several products and customise them to match so that you strengthen your professional image.

Here are a few products that are particularly useful for hair salons:

Appointment Cards
Simply essential! Your clients are less likely to forget their appointments with these customised appointment cards which slip easily into a wallet or are perfect for sticking to the fridge or noticeboard. Add your business card design to the verso and your clients will always have your contact details within easy reach.

Decals
Your salon’s image is of the utmost importance, and you must pay attention to your signage. You can use these decals on your windows as a publicity tool, to attract the attention of passers-by, and to communicate your opening times.

Postcards or leaflets
Print postcards or leaflets to let your customers know about all the services you offer, as well as your price list or promotions. Choose templates that match your appointment cards and decals and add photos too!

Gift Certificates
When your clients are happy with your services, tell them that they can purchase gift certificates for friends and family. You could create treatment packages specially designed to be offered as birthday or wedding gifts, for example.

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Customise your advertising

Vistaprint UK — Tue, 03 May 2011 11:48:54 +0000

Advertising, we all know, plays an essential role is increasing the visibility of a company and therefore in attracting new customers. Vistaprint have marketing solutions adapted to all types of business, whether you have a boutique, an office or if you work on the move. Here are a few examples of products that can all be customised with your company’s logo, name and contact details..:

Banners
• You can order banners designed for indoor and outdoor use.
• Sizes can go from 90.2cm x 50.8cm to 242.5cm x 76.2cm.
• They are ideal for attracting attention to your professional events, promotions, sales etc.

Decals
• Decals are an easy way to publicise your company.
• You can use them not only for promotions but also to communicate your opening times.
• They increase your company’s visibility and are easy to move when necessary.

Lawn Signs
• Perfect if you have a bit of space in front of your premises, or if you often work at your customers’ homes.
• Made from high-quality corrugated plastic, they are particularly durable.

Posters
• The best way to advertise your services and products inside your premises.
• Great for announcing promotions or special offers, as you can move them about easily and replace them easily, too.

Car Door Magnets
• Advertise your company while you are on the road!
• Can be removed, so you could use different magnets to announce offers at different times of the year.

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Get noticed with window signage stickers

Vistaprint UK — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 15:54:19 +0000

Look after the outside of your company and encourage passers-by to come in!

Personalised window decals can attract the attention of the public, strengthen your professional image and thus promote your company.

You can use them to promote an event or a product launch and stick them on your glazed doors or windows.

They are also an easy and effective way to communicate your opening times, price list, services and products and your website address if you have one.

Choose a model that corresponds to your professional activity and add your own logo or photo or upload your own template.

Depending on where you want to stick them, you can choose between large and small models.

Window decals are easy to create and can be an effective tool in the promotion of your company.

You could also think about ordering car bumper stickers of the same design at the same time. Stick them on your own vehicle and then hand them out to your employees, your friends and your clients!

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How to launch a new product

Vistaprint UK — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 16:09:52 +0000

First of all, you need to test your idea and ask for the opinions of your colleagues and employees. At this point, all ideas should be noted – they can be discounted at a later stage.

You will need to research the development of your market and consumer behaviour in order to elaborate a good marketing strategy.

Collect all key product information: functions, price, design, packaging, distribution channels…

You need to be analytical and objective, creative and innovative, all at the same time!

Establish your strategy:

• Which market are you targeting?
• Who is your target customer (lots of individuals or a few groups)?
• What exactly are you offering?
• What is your USP?

Once you have found a strategy you like and that you feel is suitable, it’s always a good idea to test your ideas again, this time with clients or partners.

Write sales pitches for both new and current clients, and for different media:

• Rack cards
• Content for web sites
• Stickers and decals
• Competitions or prize draws
• Newsletters / email marketing
• Flyers
• Posters
• Banners
• Postcards and gifts
• In-store or trade show demonstrations

And don’t forget to prepare your personnel:

• Product training
• Sales pitches and examples of use

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Vistaprint – Protect Children and Pets With a Window Sign

Vistaprint — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:24:40 +0000

Is there a way to use a window sign to keep my family safer?

You heard a heartbreaking story about a tragic loss because an unconscious parent couldn’t notify fire fighters that there was a child in the home, and it made you think about the safety of your children and pets. What if you weren’t home when the house caught fire? What if you were knocked out like the mom with the child who died in the fire? You need a way to make sure this never happens to the people and pets you love, but how?

The answer is actually quite simple. What you need is a sign that announces that there are pets or children inside.

VistaPrint makes a window sign that says “Baby on Board” that can be ordered without any alterations and applied to a front window or to the glass of the front door.
If you have several children or your baby insists he or she is not a baby anymore, take a look at some of the many child care designs. You can customize one of them with your message that your children may be inside.
For your four-legged family members, there are several pet designs that can easily be altered to announce that there are two dogs and a cat inside in need of assistance.

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Window Decals for Proud Parents of Students With Average Grades

Vistaprint — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 20:34:08 +0000

Can window decals be designed to brag about my kids?

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 VistaPrint 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?

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Vistaprint – Advertise Specials With Restaurant Window Signs

Vistaprint — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:09:09 +0000

Can restaurant window signs help with signage problems in my historic town?

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.

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Vistaprint – Reassure Clients With Car Window Decals

Vistaprint — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:43:28 +0000

Are car window decals useful for small service oriented businesses?

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.

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VistaPrint – Custom Window Decals for Events

Vistaprint — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:47:43 +0000

Are custom window decals a good option for advertising events?

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.

For more information about Window decals and VistaPrint, please see our Homepage - VistaPrint.co.uk.

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VistaPrint – Auto Window Decals for Blog Promotion

Vistaprint — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:48:50 +0000

Can auto window decals promote a blog?

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.

For more information about Window decals and VistaPrint, please see our Homepage - VistaPrint.co.uk.

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