In Love With Our Custom Stage Banners
We got an email from a client yesterday. They’re a three piece math rock band from Cleveland and they were starting a 10 city tour from the midwest to the northwest. It was their first major tour, and when they arrived at the first gig, it was clear the rest of the bands booked had a lot more presence and materials than them. They had nothing to dress the stage, no one would know who they were.
They started looking for vinyl banners, but they didn’t expect the multi-hundred dollar price tags they got for professionally produced vinyl banners. They got ahold of us to see if we could help. We set them up with three full color sublimated banners that looked seriously killer. They ordered online and we had the stage banners drop shipped to their next venue, for them to pickup when they arrived. They hung one from each side of the tour PA stacks and hung one up behind their merch booth. It instantly transformed the vibe of their band, they immediately got recognition (12 bands were touring together), people perked up at took notice when they took the stage and they became associated as “One of the headlining acts” of the tour.
People immediately started paying more attention to their merch booth too, which spiked up their tshirt and cd sales, which put more money in the band’s pocket from each gig.
By the end of the letter, the three guys who started out as the unknown underdogs came out on top as one of the centerpieces of the tour, with a new swarm of great fans and bellies full of real food, not gas station sandwiches.
With the myspace discount, the band paid less for all three of our stage banners than for ONE vinyl stage banner, and that wasn’t even FULL COLOR, plus ours are a cloth composite which stores and holds up way better than vinyl, which can crack and wrinkle.
Check them out! You won’t be disappointed.
Tags: band merch, band merchandise, band promotion, custom banner, custom stage banner, dye sublimation, full color printing, full color stage banner, full color tshirts, sublimated banners, vinyl banner
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August 18th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
We are a midwest band beginning to shop for stage banners.
Do you have anywhere to view some of your work? Prices?
Thanks,
Matt
August 19th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
All of our tshirts and banners reproduce at photographic quality, so quality wise, what you send is what you get. Based on your comment, we are going to post a sample section though.
As far as prices go, the design tool calculates a price after you design your tshirt or banner. For banners, the prices start at $85 and go down depending on how many you get.
Compare that to full color vinyl printing, which would run probably around $500 for the same space, and our banners are a great deal.
It’s also worth noting that our banners aren’t printed, they’re sublimated, which means the threads are actually dyed, making your image permanent- Guaranteed not to crack or fade.