Everyday Randomness

Home Business Window Sign

I had a customer today ask me why I don’t have a sign in my yard or on my window advertising my home business. First of all I admit it can get a little confusing for some of my new customers.

Sometimes they have trouble finding my house because I don’t have a sign, and when they get here they have a trouble figuring out which door to use. That’s because this is an old house that was once a duplex, so we have two doors on the front of the house. One leads into what is supposed to be the formal living room that I use for my office, and the other leads into the guest bedroom.

Sometimes I’ll have customers knock on both doors because they don’t know where to go. Recently I started sticking a sign I printed out quickly on the one door that says “use other door”, but that’s all I’ve got as far as signs go. There’s nothing officially showing my business name, and that’s something I would like to have.

I realized I can buy vinyl window signs from VistaPrint for as low as $11.99, so that’s something I’m really thinking about doing. I could put it on the window in the room I use as my office, so it would give my customers a better idea of where to go. Then I could order one of those signs that hangs from the mailbox like I’ve seen other home businesses use. Then my customers would have no problem at all finding the house.

What would be even better would be my own little building separate from the house, like the huge unattached garage we have, but my Grandpa can’t even convince my Grandma to clean her junk out of it to give him room for his lawnmowers, so I doubt I’ll ever be lucky enough to convert that to my business space. Besides, I like the setup I have now since I work all ours of the day and night, and the window signs are removable. That means I could take it down when I’m not open for business or when we’ve got something going on here like holiday celebrations, etc.

Best of all, I can either choose to create my own logo design or I can use VistaPrint’s design template to create a sign within minutes.  It’s something I’m definitely going to check into.