Business

Company of the Day: View Outdoor

Company: View Outdoor Markets: Indiana and Illinois Headquarters: 1000 E 80th Place, Suite 700 N, Merrillville, IN  46410. Phone: 866-757-8439 View Outdoor was formed by Dean White in 2004.  White has previously been the founder and owner of Whiteco Outdoor which was sold in 1998.  View owns 575 locations in […]

Kentucky Tourism Site installs billboards.

The Wycliffe Mounds State Historic site has installed two large billboards across from the park entranse and two smaller billboards inside the park according to the West Kentucky Star.  The billboards were paid for with finding form the Federal Highway Administration, KY Department of Tourism and Kentucky Transportation Cabinent.  The […]

Why You Should Record Billboard Leases and Easements.

An unrecorded billboard lease or billboard easement is trouble waiting to happen.  Whoever buys the land can allege that the lease or easement is not in effect if it is not recorded.  Here’s an interesting case from Wisconsin. A company built a bowling alley and received an easement from the […]

Gordon Outdoor

Company:  Gordon Outdoor Advertising Markets: Kansas and Oklahoma Headquarters: Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Phone: 918-636-6474 Gordon Outdoor Advertising operates billboards in Oklahoma and Kansas. Jeff Gordon is the company’s owner. Brian Firth is the company’s in-house graphics artist and production manager. The company operates multiple static, trivision, and LED signs throughout […]

Flynn Sign Company

Company: Flynn Sign Company Markets: Tennessee Headquarters: 85 Burnett Street, Crossville, Tennessee 38555 Phone: 931-484-9591 Email: Sales@Flynnsigns.net Flynn Sign Company is a family owned and operated business started in 1948 by Bill Flynn to hand paint and service signs.  In 1970 the company moved to its 85 Burnett Street location. […]

From the Archives: Five Questions For Matt Schulze, Selective Strutures.

Matt Schulze is a partner at Selective Structures, an Athens Tennessee company which fabricates and installs sign poles, billboards, scoreboards and digital signs. Selective Structures annually fabricates over 1000 billboards each year. You can contact Matt at mschulze@windstream.net, 706-473-3250. Matt’s got the best how-I-entered-the-outdoor-business story of anyone I’ve ever met. […]

Company of the Day: Emerald Outdoor

Company: Emerald Outdoor Market: Washington, Idaho. Headquarters: 9212 E Montgomery Ave, Suite 604, Spokane Valley, WA  99206 Phone: 509-327-0103 Emerald Outdoor Advertising owns 110 billboard faces in the Seattle/Tacoma area, Wenatchee, Portland, Spokane, North Central Washington and Post Falls, Idaho.  In addition the company operates 150 bus bench unites in […]

From The Archives: Replacing A Billboard Client

Insider owns billboards in Indiana and Iowa.  Last year, Pilot, a long-time advertiser, told Insider that it wasn’t going to renew its contract on one of Insider’s billboards in Iowa. Pilot was happy with the board but corporate elected to reallocate marketing dollars to another market.  Lots of small operators […]

Company of the Day: East West Media

Company: East West Media Markets: Tennessee Headquarters: 18 W Madison Avenue, Athens, Tennessee. Phone: 423-337-4444 East West media was started in 2001 by Bobby Mizer.  The firm is family owned and run with 5 Mizer’s active in the business: Bobby (founder), Brad (President, Charlie (Account Executive), Sam (Operations Manager) and […]

Bob Wolfe on Selling Outdoor

Bob Wolfe has been in outdoor advertising for over 25 years. His extensive experience stems from selling both locally and nationally as well as in sales and plant management. He founded OutSelling Inc, in 2004.  OutSelling is the first-of-its- kind, National sales rep firm representing over 15 independent OOH companies […]