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Company of the day: Your Big Sign

Company:  YourBigSign.com Markets:  Michigan Headquarters: 3440 Fenton Rd, Hartland, MI  48353 Phone: 2498-881-9505 Email: alan@yourbigsign.com Your Big Sign place Michigan.  Alan Pittel is the founder. [wpforms id=”9787″] Paid Advertisement

Company of the Day – Zoom Media

Company: Zoom Media U.S.A. Headquarters: 345 7th Avenue, Suite 1501 New York, NY 10001 Markets: North America   Phone: New York (212) 685-7981 Chicago (312) 492-7871 Email:  NewYork@zoommedia.com ZOOM Media reaches 25+ million gym members through their Generation Active video network in 3,600+ health clubs in 190+ DMAs across the […]

Duane Fredrickson on Building a Static Billboard

Circle City Outdoor recently built a new sign in New Prague, Minnesota.  Insider talked with Circle City’s Manager Duane Fredrickson about the project. How did you get the idea for a new sign? I’m always on the look out for new locations. In southern Minnesota, where I operate, outdoor advertising […]

Company of the Day: WV Outdoor

Company: WV Outdoor Markets: West Virginia, Ohio, Maryland Headquarters: 1389 Charleston, Road, Poca, West Virginia  25159 Phone: 304-342-0932 Email: wleslie@wvoutdoor.com WV outdoor is the largest independently owned out of home advertising company in West Virginia.  WV Outdoor operates over 1,400 billboard faces in West Virginia, Ohio, Kentucky and Maryland.  The plant includes posters, […]

Out of the Office – Insider Heads to the Mountain

Insider, John Weller, likes to spend his time out of the office on his bicycle or up in the mountains.  Just returned from a terrific, but too short visit to Mt. Rainier National Park.  The Mountain was out in all its splendor as you can see from this shot, from […]

Billboard Insider Classifieds August 17, 2019

Billboard Insider Classifieds work: “Thanks to you and your website I’ve hired a General Manager.  We received several qualified applicants in response to our Billboard Insider classified”  Justin Powell, Owner, Huntington Outdoor “I bought my General Liability from Stu at Bassler and Co that I learned about on Billboard Insider.  I told […]

Lindmark Outdoor Media Acquires Fairway Outdoor Southwest Division

  Norman, Oklahoma – August 16, 2019 – Lindmark Outdoor Media (“Lindmark”) acquired FMG North Texas, LLC, the former Southwest Division of Fairway Outdoor (“Fairway”) from Fairway.  FMG North Texas, LLC owns billboards in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana.  Lindmark is an Oklahoma based company owned by Trent Lindmark which […]

CRM Systems – Sales Tools or Time Sucking Monsters?

By Randy Brice, Telenotes Let’s take a closer look at some CRM stats: CRM adoption rates are as low as 24% 71% of sales reps complain that they spend too much time on date entry 79% of opportunity-related data collected by reps is never collected on a CRM Selecting the […]

Company of the Day: Wingate Outdoor

Company:  Wingate Outdoor Advertising, Inc. Markets:  Arkansas and Missouri Address: 112 East Church St, Berryville, AR  72616 Phone: 870-423-4707 Email: info@wingateoutdoor.com Wingate Outdoor Advertising operates a billboard plant in Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri.  The company was started by Gene Wingate and his son Ken in 1986 to provide a […]

Tom Giesken on Using Drones to Film Billboards

Are you using drones to shoot sign footage?   Giesken Outdoor uses drones to shoot 30 second clips of billboards which it embeds in the company website.   Here’s what the footage looks like.   Insider talked to Tom Giesken about using drones to film billboards. Did you take the footage yourself? […]