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Five Questions for Deacon Wardlow of Vantage LED signs

Seems like three big digital sign manufacturers – Yesco, Daktronics and Watchfire – get all the press.  I recently discovered a fourth digital sign maker you should pay attention to: Vantage LED.  The California headquartered Vantage LED provides large digital signs to sports arenas.  They will be supplying the digital arena […]

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Billboard financing and radio station financing powerpoints added to www.billboardloans.com website.

You can access a radio station financing powerpoint Dave Westburg presented to the NAB leadership Development Program in November 2013 by clicking this link You can access a Billboard financing powerpoint in which Dave Westburg discusses billboard industry issues and billboard financing trends by clicking this link.

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A bad billboard lease

You can’t be too careful when you negotiate a billboard location lease.  I want to tell you about one of the worst billboard leases I’ve ever seen.  It’s a lesson in what not to do and here’s why: The lease term is 9 years versus a 20 year norm in […]

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13 billboards key component of political campaign.

Here’s an interesting Reuters article about how 13 billboards were a key component of the successful campaign to defeat the United Auto workers attempt to represent workers at Volkswagen’s sole US factory.  Volkswagen wouldn’t let the anti-union group campaign on company premises, so the anti-union group bought 13 billboards in town so […]

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Why you need billboard insurance.

Sign insurance is important.  Hurricanes and storms can wreck billboards.  The digital billboard pictured below was destroyed by an electrical short.  One of my lending clients had a digital board damaged by a fire on an adjacent property. Lenders will require you to carry three kinds of insurance.  (1) An umbrella […]