The Mill Creek Super Store is certified by the Washington State Department of Transportation to fabricate traffic and construction signs. The Super Store is also a member of the Master Builders Association.
One Year Anniversary Celebration – Signs Now Mill Creek
On Thursday, January 28, Signs Now Mill Creek celebrated its One Year Anniversary. In attendance were over 50 guests, including local clientele, key business leaders, business entrepreneurs, and chamber ambassadors. David and Rani Bal, the owners at Signs Now Mill Creek, hosted the party as a “Thank You” to their first year clients. “We wanted to host this event in appreciation of our clients during our first year of business,” remarked Rani Bal. The celebration offered cake and refreshments and lasted all day—the first guest arrived at 8:30 in the morning and the last guest left at 6:30 in the evening.
As part of the celebration, guests were offered a tour of the facilities, and many were shocked and surprised as to how many marketing tools Signs Now offers. One guest was completely blown away and expressed, “I had no idea you guys did so much. This is so cool!” It is a wonder what a simple sign can do for your business; with the economy at a turning point, now is the time to drive business awareness through marketing tools.
During the Anniversary, guests were asked if they would provide testimonials, below is the testimonial of Doug Elburn, the Regional Director of LeTip International:
I’m Doug Elburn from LeTip International, privately the biggest networking in the country, and I like to be a resource to all my business contacts that I know in the area. One of the greatest businesses that I know, that will give visibility, that will help companies generate more referrals, is to have a company that is professional in the signs business; and there is no one better than Signs Now in Mill Creek. I highly recommend them. They have great customer service. You will look really good when you chat with your clients about this outstanding team in Mill Creek.
Here at Signs Now Mill Creek, the staff bases their work ethic off of the store’s motto, which is “To Enhance the Value of the Businesses We Serve.” Signs Now strives to be the best, which can be readily seen in our client’s finished products. Please remember, your signs solution is only a phone call away! For quoting, or any questions regarding the products or services Signs Now offers, please call (425) 481-4900, or email lobby@signsnowmillcreek.com.
Make it a Great Day!
2010 Mill Creek Festival and the “Best Kept Secrets”
The last meeting occurred on Tuesday, January 19th around midday at Mill Creek City Hall. Quite a few folks were present and eager to begin the execution phase of the festival. Additional ideas and planning activities were also inventoried. There are a lot of different functional areas that must be covered. For example, securing sponsors, organizing the two stages, provisioning the food areas, handling the childcare and the biggest of all is planning out the infrastructure and getting the buy-in of local businesses surrounding the area where the festival will be held. The last topic is challenging. Opinions of the local business owners and property managers vary. Some are very supportive because they recognize that the Mill Creek Festival generates mid range and long term benefits for them and the community. When you have twenty-thousand people show up over two days you can bet that it generates a buzz. Furthermore, the attendees discover new businesses that they might not have otherwise discovered. The attendees tell their friends and family. There are plenty of little “best kept secrets” within the Mill Creek community waiting to be discovered by the broader community. The smart, leadership oriented business owner understands the long term benefits of the Mill Creek Festival. The festival induces new distribution channels of business opportunities and the sharp business owner recognizes that this is valuable to the community because we all share in that when our community prospers. Business is about letting people in. The Mill Creek Festival is a celebration for the people of the region. It raises long term awareness and the additional revenue that it generates helps the community grow and prosper. Let’s turn the page on the recession and share in prosperity beginning with 2010! When you visit with local Mill Creek shops, let them know how you feel about the festival!
Rental Property Landlords
As a rental owner, you are constantly looking for the most cost-effective marketing solution. As you know, marketing is not always cheap. How do you spread the word to potential consumers, while maintaining a budget? The solution: learn the process of marketing…effectively. If you have an idea of what you would like to do, but do not know how to go about it, come in for a free marketing consultation at Signs Now Mill Creek. As a design studio, we make sure the signs you purchase are up to snuff in visibility, color schemes, and appropriately sized for the occasion. Through the process of marketing (and marketing well), you can reach your target market above and beyond what you ever thought possible. Step one of marketing: come in for a visit to the Signs Now Mill Creek Super Store today!
Community Business Referrals
Signs Now Mill Creek is your one-stop Marketing Tools Super Store based in Snohomish County in Washington State. The Mill Creek store provides enhanced design and service. We are located at the border between Mill Creek and Bothell along Bothell-Everett Highway (SR 527) at 180th (south of Mill Creek Town Center). You can find us on the corner opposite of Bartell Drugs, Wild Vine Bistro, 7-Eleven, Elle Marie Salon and Silver Dollar Casino. We serve the following communities: Mill Creek, Bothell, Lynnwood, Everett, Marysville, Kenmore, Woodinville, Kirkland, Redmond, Bellevue, Edmonds, Mukilteo, Sammamish, Renton, Tukwila, Medina, Mercer Island, Capitol Hill, and downtown Seattle.
At Signs Now Mill Creek we come into contact with many local businesses that work within our community. If you are looking for any of the services within the list below, we will gladly refer you to them – just ask. This is an excellent way to support local business and the employees who work and live in the surrounding community. Please remember that these employees and their families then contribute back to the local community and so the region and everyone within it prospers including you.
Signs Now Mill Creek will refer you to a local business, but it is up to you to decide if you wish to give work to that business. Signs Now Mill Creek is not an agent representing any of these businesses and so does not endorse or guarantee the quality of work for any referral that you receive. It is still up to you to determine if you wish to do business with that referral.
Call us up at 425.481.4900 and ask who we might know that belong to any of the following categories:
Accountant
Advertising Specialties
Arborist
Attorney – Personal Injury
Attorney – Real Estate / Business
Attorney / Family Law
Attorney Business
Attorney – Wills / Trusts / Estates
Auto and Truck – Service / Repair
Auto Body Repair
Auto Sales and Leasing
Bankcard Services
Banker
Bookkeeper
Carpet Cleaner
Caterer
Chiropractor
Computer Consultant
Contractor – Handyman / General / Roofing
Contractor – Remodeling / Floor Covering
Contractor Electrical
Contractor Painting
Contractor Plumbing
CPA
Credit Card Processing
Dentist
Direct Mail Advertiing
Directional Drilling – Horizontal / Vertical / Specialty
Duct Cleaning
Financial – Advisor / Planning
Fire Safety Equipment
Floor Covering
Florist
Gift Baskets
Graphic Design – Print / Web / Video
Hair Stylist
Handyman
Health & Nutrition Products
Heating & Air Conditioning
Home Inspector
Insurance – Home / Commercial / Business / Health / Life / Disability
Interior Design
Internet Web Design
Janitorial & Cleaning Service – Residential
Jeweler
Landscape – Design / Maintenance
Martial Artist
Massage Therapist
Mortgage – Loans / Broker
Moving and Storage
Painter
Payroll Service
Photographer – Photography / Video
Physician
Printer
Real Estate – Residential / Commercial / Escrow
Security & Alarm Systems – Residential / Commercial / Business
Send Out Cards
Skin Care Cosmetics
Telecommunications
Title Insurance
Travel Agent
Window Perf—A Marketing Solution and Memorable Creation
What exactly is “window perf?” Window perf is a porous material that has somewhat of a ‘peek-a-boo’ character trait. Since window perf is not perforated, the white front and black backing allows you to see an image on the outside, whereas from the inside, the window looks merely tinted.
Where can you use window perf? Window Perf is an excellent marketing solution for store front windows, and especially vehicle graphics! It is an excellent option for turning your windows into key advertising space.
“An Arbitron, Inc., study shows that more than 95% of Americans travel by car each week, creating a mass audience for your advertising. Branding your business is simplified, considering that 1 wrap can generate between 30,000 – 70,000 impressions each day! Vehicle wraps are now being recognized as an extremely cost effective and unique form of outdoor media for all sizes of businesses and company promotions. Vehicle wraps are like giant billboards, only more creative, and they move in the area your company services. They work 24 hours a day, generating awareness for your company and are constantly reaching new and potential customers.” –Signs Now Corporate Website
Advertising these days can become expensive very quickly. However, with vehicle graphics, there is only a one-time fee! Although vehicle graphics are initially more expensive than advertising your company in the phone book or on craigslist, it is something that will pay for itself over and over again over time.
Window Perf is an option for your company, but it can also be used for personal use. Signs Now recently had a Mill Creek officer come in and purchase window perf for her personal vehicle. She wanted to honor the memory of the fallen Lakewood Police Officers. Support for incidents, such as the Lakewood Police Officers, can be shown in multiple ways, and window perf is one of them. You too can create a lasting memory with vehicle graphics; for today, it is a reminder that we will never forget the memory of the Lakewood Officers.
Customer of the Month: Northwest Pharmaceutical Compounding Company
December Customer of the Month
For the month of December, the crew here at Signs Now Mill Creek has named Michael Jones, owner of the new Northwest Pharmaceutical Compounding Company, as the Customer of the Month!
NW Pharmaceutical Compounding Co. has a projected opening date of February 1, 2010; NWPC is a specialized compounding-only pharmacy that makes customized prescriptions for the patient, and “For Office Use Only” medications used by the practitioner. In addition to “off the market” meds, they make different strengths, time release forms, tabs, capsules (i.e. thyroid), lollipops (i.e. anesthetics), effervescent tabs, ointments, creams (i.e. topical hormones), suppositories, nasal sprays, and lip balms (like Chapstick). They do everything from Human Medicine (ob-gyn to dermatology), Hospice and Dental to veterinary medications. In the future, NWPC will be compounding sterile medications: opthalmics, wound preparations, otic (ear), and injectables.
As an added bonus, they offer free shipping (all the time) and coupons for their prescriptions, or for friends or practitioners’ patients. (To receive coupons, please call NWPC for a mail-out or download coupons from their website at www.NWPCRX.com.) They also offer Nutraceutical supplements (tremendous selection) and Cosmeceuticals, which may compliment prescription therapy (free shipping on these items, too!). In addition to these added bonuses, NWPC will be hosting bi-monthly seminars, each covering several topics with guest speakers.
Michael Jones has been in pharmaceuticals for 42 years (he started at the age of 16), and has been a pharmacist for over 30 years. When asked why he joined his particular industry, he said: “I discovered the overwhelming need for a compounding pharmacist while working in a busy compounding pharmacy in Tacoma. I could not believe that I could now un-tap and really utilize my vast clinical knowledge and contribute so much to the betterment of patients’ lives (especially women), and also pets and animals well being.”
Outside of being a pharmacist, Michael enjoys sailing, astrophotography, music (he plays a 12-string guitar, the Banjo, and keyboards), people development (business), socializing, and especially his patients.
As a Customer of the Month, Michael will receive a FREE box of Frost doughnuts, and a Company Bio on the Signs Now Homepage for the rest of the month of January. Each month, we will pick a customer that “Stood Out Amongst the Rest.”
Stay tuned for January’s Customer of the Month, who knows, it could be you!
For more information about Northwest Pharmaceutical Compounding Company, visit them on the web at www.NWPCRX.com
Northwest Pharmaceutical Compounding Company, Inc. (NWPC)
17901 Bothell-Everett Highway Ste F-102
Bothell, WA 98012
Pharmacy (425) 483-3144 / Fax (425) 402-0750
Marketing Factors From Your One-Stop Marketing Tools Super Store
With marketing, there are many factors that need to be taken into account. Who is your target market/viewing time/ indoor or outdoor…? As you can imagine, each factor plays a significant role in creating a marketing tool that suits your specific needs. The crew at Signs Now Mill Creek will work with you to make sure your image and message remain focused and united. Brand recognition is an important part of getting your name out there; that is why Signs Now always gives our best in recommending, evaluating, and assisting our clients in purchasing the best marketing tool solution. Come in for a free marketing consultation today! And remember….there’s only one original super store for marketing tools and that’s Signs Now in Mill Creek!
Large Format Wall Graphics
Looking for a way to make a big impact? Use large format wall graphics to display your brand identity, products, services or any message that you want your clients to know. Bigger is better! It conveys brand strength and power. Customers equate that to a brand that is better than your competition. A large format brand image is much more likely to be remembered by your customers months or even years later simply because of the powerful psychological impact!
2010 Mill Creek Festival
One very cool event that occurs each summer is the Mill Creek Festival. The festival is an excellent place for families to go and reconnect with the community. There is a large booth area that is set up for local businesses to promote themselves and generate awareness about their products and services. Food is plentiful and there are a number of family friendly attractions that are very kid friendly. Attendance last year was well over 20,000 and so the festival is a very big draw. Last night at Mill Creek City Hall the Mill Creek Business Association (MCBA) met to begin planning the festival for 2010. Present were sponsors, business owners and city council members. The most refreshing thing that I heard and felt is the number of people who genuinely care about Mill Creek and the festival. The passion was clearly evident. I walked away feeling very good knowing just how much positive energy exists in our community. I like the fact that there are people looking out for the rest of us in the community. The ideas that were pouring out and minute details that people were thinking of lead me to believe that the 2010 festival will be simply excellent! There may be some changes that might occur in 2010, but that is because the festival attendance has grown so large that some adjustments might be needed to support its overwhelming success. It’s a very big job to put together such a large festival and like everything that grows in its success, new adaptations must be made to support it. More later.
