Business

Carson Frost on Management Agreements

Signvalue’s Carson Frost had these comments on Insider’s post on out of home management agreements: Great Article! We’ve done a couple of deals this year that involved management agreements at the time of sale. From our experience, we’ve seen management agreements as short as a year to as long as […]

Company of the Day: Arnold Outdoor

Company:   Arnold Outdoor Markets: Oklahoma. Headquarters: 5121 N Sante Fe, Oklahoma City, OK  73318 Phone: 405-620-5708 Arnold Outdoor was started in 2000.  The company has digital signs, bulletins and posters across the state of Oklahoma.  The company has a number of locations which serve Oklahoma City’s hispanic community.   The firm is owned […]

Out of Home Management Agreements

A reader asked Insider about out of home management agreements.  A management agreement can help a sign owner generate revenues from a single sign or a small group of signs in a market without having to staff the sign.  It allows the sign manager to generate additional profit from a […]

Company of the Day – Astro Sign Company

Company: Astro Sign Company Markets: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, New York Headquarters: 230 East High Street, Glassboro, NJ  08028 Phone: 856-881-4300 Astro Sign Company was started in 1983 by the Painter faimily.  The company specialized in painting small highway advertising displays.  Since then the company has diversified into sign […]

Geopath Market Spotlight: Cheyenne WY & Scottsbluff NE

Did you know: Ernest Hemingway married his third wife Martha Gellhorn November 21, 1940 in Cheyenne. Cheyenne was established on July 4, 1867. This week’s Geopath Market Spotlight focuses on the Cheyenne/Scottsbluff DMA. Infographics for the top DMAs and much more are available to Geopath members in their geekOUT library. […]

Company of the Day: Ashley Media

Company: Ashley Media Markets: Arkansas. Headquarters: 8100 Bicentennial Rd, North Little Rock, AR  72118 Phone: 501-319-5890 Email:  tjashley.ashleymedia@gmail.com Ashley Media was founded in 1998 in North Little Rock Arkansas by J.D. Ashley Sr and his son Todd Holsted Ashley, Sr. Ashley began with the construction of a 12′ by 40′ stacked billboard on I-40. […]

Cutting Out of Home Utility Costs

Insider moderated a panel on cutting out of home utility costs at last week’s IBOUSA show.  Brian Kline of Reliable Electric and PJ Pedroni of Smartlink participated in the discussion.   Here’s a summary. What are the benefits of installing high efficiency LED’s High efficiency lights use 70-80% less power. Significantly […]

Michelle Coffman Addresses Out of Home Skeptics

Michelle Coffman wears a couple hats as Chief Operating Officer of Cowgirl Communications Group and Director of Marketing for a dental service firm.  Michelle is a supporter of out of home but made this statement in a talk at last week’s IBOUSA meeting:  “We hire a number of managers to […]

Transit Ridership Up in Some Markets

Ridership is up in New York and Washington, DC. Overall, transit ridership was up nationwide nearly half a percent in the second quarter, said stats published by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA). Year-to-date, transit ridership was down .62 percent. In the second quarter, heavy rail ridership increased 3.27 percent […]

Company of the Day – Arrow Signs & Lighting

Company: Arrow Signs & Outdoor Advertising Headquarters:  4545 N. Alby St., Godfrey, IL 62035  Markets:  St. Louis, Missouri Phone: 618.466.0818 Email:   info@arrowsignsinc.com Arrow Signs is a third generation sign business that began in 1981.  Arrow Signs offers billboard advertising with over 50 displays in the Riverbend area. The Company has short and long-term stationary […]