 LED SBA Report &Your R.O.I.
The value of Digital Signs- According to the U.S. Small Business Administration:
http://www.sba.gov/smallbusinessplanner/start/pickalocation/signage/text/features.html
LED Signs are often reffered to as Electronic Message Centers or EMCs.
"EMCs are an investment in your business and provide the best and most cost-effective forms of paid advertising. The only form of advertising that may be more powerful is word of mouth (although it can be neither purchased or controlled)."
"Is an electronic message center a cost effective advertising medium? Yes. Businesses often select their advertising medium,and messages, based upon the cost per thousand exposures of their messafe to the public. On this basis, no other form of advertising comes close to matching the efficiency and cost effectiveness, dollar for dollar, of an electronic message display. Compare the figures below:
Newspaper advertising - the cost on average is about $7.39 for 1000 exposures within a 10- mile radius of the business location.
Television advertising - The cost on averafe is approximately $6.26 per 1000 exposures.
Radio advertising - The cost is about $5.47 per 1000 exposures.
New LED electronic message center display - The cost is less than $0.45 per 1000 exposures. How? Assume, for example, that you spend $30,000.00 on this type of system, and that its useful life is about ten years. The amortized daily cost of the message center would equal about ($8.22). Add to this the daily cost of electricity for this new LED unit (approximately $0.60 depending on the sign specifics), thus giving your business a daily message center expense total of $8.82. With a daily traffic count of 20,000 vehicles passing your business, you would have a cost of less than $0.45 per thousand exposures (counting drivers only)!
Best of all, with an electronic message center, a business does not have to worry about missing its target audience, becoming "yesterday's news," or facing expensive production costs for changing its message, as happens frequently with the other forms of advertising mentioned.
With an electronic variable message display:
The business owns the form of advertising
The advertising works for the business 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
The sign acts as the "salesman on the street" attracting customers into the business
The advertising speaks directly to the potential customers as they drive past the business location, and the EMC makes the business a landmark in its community.
What level of return on investment can I expect?
For businesses that choose to enhance their signage with an electronic message display, the owners typically see an increase in business of 15% to 150%. Using the smaller number, consider the following example:
A small business generating $1,000.00 a day in revenue adds an electronic message center. The business soon increases by %15%, adding another $150 per day in total revenue. That translates into an additional $1,050.00 a week in revenue, or $54,600.00 per year.
It has been said that in retailing, "the last dollars are the best dollars," meaning that each additional customers adds a greater marginal percentage to the business's bottom line profit. In the foregoing example, we can only speculate on the actual inpact upon profit, but assuming that the business was at or above its " break even" point before adding the electronic message center, the addition of $54,600.00 per year in revenue would clearly add to the business's profit.
Keep in mind that with this example, the investment in the electronic message center unit would likely be about one-third of the additional revenue generated in the first year of its operation alone."
The SBA suggests that up to 50% of sales come from signage and 85% of sales come from within a five mile radius. It also states that 89% of businesses fail due to improper signage.
|
