Designing digital signage menu boards without a designer

In the fiercely competetive business world of today, point of purchse displays can make or break a business. This is why marketers have spared no efforts to conceive new and fresh innovations in conveying their marketing message.  Bright and bold electronic displays placed within the business premises can create a stupendous visual impact and make a big difference to sales.

Today, online technology has enabled marketers to design a menu board or any digital display board independently and quickly. Alternatively, there are online companies such as Sign Menu who can custom design a digital menuboard or any digital signage online. For details please see www.signmenu.com.

Conventions, which have for decades advocated the assitance of advertising agencies and freelance designers become redundant in this internet age. By opting to design the menu board online the marketer saves time and costs.

The objectives of designing a digital menu board are :-

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Digital menu boards designing versus offline designing

Change is an essence of life. This axiom holds true for businesses as well. Today, we see conventional methods of advertising such as print or television being complimented by digital signage advertising the world over. In recent times the menu boards of a restaurant presents a case in point where-in printed menu cards are rapidly giving way to digital menu boards.

Let us first examine the offline process. This process involves three parties ie, the restaurant owner, the advertising agency , and the designer. Most often the designer is not known to the restaurant owner and hence the restaurant owner has to interface via the ad agency.

An example

Let’s suppose the restaurant owner wishes to incorporate a special item in his menu. This special item can be serverd individually as well as with combination with other items,ie, as a ‘combo’ package. This entails a complete change/modification/editing of the menu card.

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