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If you have a color laser printer you can print your own bench cards and save a lot of money and time. Save Time When you have the appropriate blank sign material, you can download and print your bench cards in about the same amount of ti...

As you know, color sells. However, it's a challenge to have impressive colors from your plants at all times. Fortunately, with banners, feather Flags and bench cards, you can get your customers' attention with color whenever you want to.  Mesh ...

Changing out your feather flags regularly will help increase their effectiveness. You can order the 'flag only' to keep your cost down by reusing the ground stake and pole. For example, you could buy a 12' Annuals flag with the ground stake hardware...

Between hundreds of designs, three different standard sizes, unlimited custom sizes and three primary banner material options, we have a solution for almost every sign need. If you don't see what you're looking for here and it can be printed on give ...

Let's first talk about what Meta Tags are and what they are not. Meta Tags are not the silver bullet to get you the to top of search results.  Filling out your Meta Data will not cause you to go from page 30 to page 1 for a keyword. What Meta Ta...

Use the 'Other Text' area to cross merchandise or to further describe your plant. If the template you select does NOT display 'Other Text' then the input area for it will not be accessible when you are editing your plant record. When you select your...

With a plant library of more than 22,500 plant records, using the text search box is the quickest way to find a specific variety. In order to have the best results, use a single word of the Cultivar.  For example, if you are looking for Veteran'...

We can create a great plant library on your site with the plant info you use for your plant bench cards, hangtags and pot labels.

When it comes to installing vinyl banners, think boot camp hair cut: High and Tight!

The best way to clean your coroplast and vinyl banners is to use a sponge and dishwashing soap like Dawn. Do not scrub too hard and definitely do NOT use a pressure washer. I learned that lesson the hard way; a pressure washer will definitely clean y...

If you plan to hang a vinyl banner where the sun will shine through it at some point during the day, be sure to use vinyl with a blockout layer. This will ensure that the light will not 'bleed through' your sign to make it difficult, or impossible to...

One of the biggest sign mistakes is using lettering that is far too small. There are three primary reasons people make this mistake.

In our 'Bigger is almost Always Better' blog on December 18th, we discussed the need to test font sizes to make sure the sign lettering is big enough to read. This blog expands on the tip of how to test font size BEFORE you pay for a sign....

Your Garden Center is competing with anyone or anything that takes your customers' time and/or money. If your customer runs out of time or money or worse yet, both, they will not be spending either with you. Good signage addresses the time constraint...

If you are not careful, a sign can be transformed into an article very quickly as you keep thinking of things you want to tell your customer. The more you try to say, the less is heard.

There are times when you won't want or need a bench card for each and every variety. That's where the 'Multiple Variety' plant records come in handy.

Syngenta Flowers and GardenCenterMarketing.com are working together to make it even easier for garden centers to have customized bench cards, hang tags, pot labels and website pages with Syngenta varieties. 

It is quite common for people to be disappointed with the lack of “pop” on their actual signs versus what they approved on the monitor. Similar to font size, approving color choices based solely on what you see on a computer monitor can r...

All of the characteristic descriptions (Full Sun, Deer Resistant, Summer Bloomer, etc.)  have been translated to both French and Spanish. 

Target does it. Home Depot does it. “It” is using signage effectively to help their customers quickly find the products they are looking for. If successful retailers spend money on signage, it must make financial sense. With today’...

We test all of the products we sell to ensure they will perform well for you. We started UV Resistance Testing on March 24, 2017.

Grabbing an image from the Internet and putting it on your website is 'free' when you do it, but could end up costing you dearly in the long term. 

To state the obvious, there has been a lot of news about the importance of pollinators. Take advantage of heightened consumer awareness with our new 'Attracts Pollinators' signs. Group your pollinator attracting plants with these signs to make it ea...

We have recently introduced the option for displaying metric units on bench cards, hang tags and pot labels.

Recently, customers began inquiring about which templates require the least amount of ink to print. While some templates used less ink than others, we could not confidently proclaim that one template over another was truly ink-friendly. That is, unti...

Smartphones are everywhere.  Sometimes we love them and sometimes we don’t, but for now they’re here to stay and there are a few reasons you need to make sure your site is optimized to effectively capture this expanding audience....

The International Rose Test Garden was one of 24 official testing sites for the internationally respected All-America Rose Selections (AARS). The All-American Rose Selections was a non-profit association of rose growers and introducers dedicated to t...