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• Wall Art

  
  The New Trend in Wall Art - Custom Wall Stickers
  
  Creative interior designers are beginning to catch on to a new trend called Wall Stickers. Wall Stickers or Wall Decals are new products that stick to home walls but do not harm them. These vinyl decals are removable and repositionable. They can be custom made in large sizes and applied as is or hand cut to make one printing in to many different design elements. The vinyl material is easily cut using a standard exacto knife. The effect is powerful and vibrant with the cost being minimal for creating your own custom product.
  
  The material is called FotoStick - http://www.FotoStick.com - and it is a 5 mil vinyl with a paper backing. Designers can upload their own photos or graphics and order custom printed sheets in sizes up to 84”x50”. Since the product is digital printing using large format commercial printing units, you can create just about anything you want and expect to get beautiful colors and a fine reproduction of your artwork or photograph.
  
  A great advantage to using the FotoStick product is that it is repositionable. You can put it up and see if you like it. If not, just peel it off and move it somewhere else. For interior designers, they can show their clients the finished room and if there are some changes to be made, no problem, in a few minutes, the wall art can be removed and repositioned easily. For the homeowner, when they decide to move the furniture or redecorate, they can simply peel the vinyl stickers off the wall and put them back up themselves.
  
  The uses are endless. These custom wall art stickers can be made for many applications. Design graphics are a common use but due to the custom nature of these stickers, they can be made as life size images of the homeowner’s family or pets. Even children’s artwork can become fantastic wall art when a little imagination is used. By choosing elements of a client’s kids drawing and then reproducing it in different sizes makes for some fun wall graphics that the family will value forever.
  
  Although wall art is the most common use, the FotoStick material will stick to any smooth surface including the ceiling, on lamps, shelving and just about any surface in the house. Having elements of a main wall graphic placed in spots throughout the room is a wonderful way to pull together a really unique look.
  
  Once again, it must be emphasized, the most valuable aspect of this new home décor product is that it can me applied, repositioned and removed without harm to the wall or surface it is applied to. This gives you so much creative freedom. Unlike traditional stickers or decals, you do not have to worry about making a permanent mistake. You can play with it until you find the look you love.
  
  If you are the entrepreneurial type, you might consider making your own custom wall graphics. The product can be printed and die cut inexpensively. In fact, if you have the right market, you can order these wall art products one piece at a time making your investment to go in to business minimal.
  
  To check out the FotoStick product, vistit FotoStick.com. If you have questions or have special requests, their toll free number is on the upper right hand corner of the website. If you need special pricing for quantity orders, give them a call or shoot them an email. They have wholesale pricing.
  
  

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• Band Promotion

  Life Size Vinyl Stickers of Band Members and Band Logo
  
  New repositionable vinyl stickers offer bands some great new promotional tools.
  
  Promoting your band with vinyl stickers is a new way to get people talking. Vinyl stickers can be custom made with your band logo or life size photos of your band in action and of the band members.
  
  What is this new vinyl sticker material called? FotoSicks – they are repositionable and reusable vinyl stickers that will not harm walls. You can stick them up just about anywhere and then take them down and move them somewhere else. If they get dirty, just wash them off with warm water.
  
  You can give away free and inexpensive smaller vinyl stickers while selling life size stickers to create a promotion that funds itself.
  
  Here are a few promotional ideas:
  
   Give away small vinyl stickers of your band’s logo at the door
  
   Sell life size wall stickers of your band in action and the members along with huge stickers of your band logo.
  
   Find out where agents live and plaster their neighborhood bulletin boards and store windows (with permission, of course)
  
   Place them in jewel cases
  
   Put them on fan’s cars during a gig
  
  Here are some more detailed promo ideas…
  
  The Band Brew
  
  Thanks to Mike Larrabee for this idea, it’s great. Do you have a local micro-brewery? See about getting a few cases of beer without front labels. Then create your own label and order the design as a FotoStick. You can put them on the bottles and your fans can buy a beer and get a free promotional sticker that can be re-stuck anywhere they like.
  
  Steal This Sticker
  
  Put your band stickers on bulletin boards, windows and anywhere else you dare. People can simply peel them off and use them again anywhere they want. They won’t harm walls or windows.
  
  Artist Co-Promotion
  
  Find a good artist or two and have a monthly promotion that includes a limited run of only a specified amount of stickers featuring a certain artist. When they are gone, that’s it, they are no longer available. Do this each month and you can promote collecting band memorabilia and create some buzz.
  
  Bar Graffiti
  
  Put your band stickers all over the bar or club you are playing in and let the audience know that they can peel them off and keep them.
  
  Photos of Fans with Band Members
  
  At each gig have one of the roadies take pictures of your fans with their favorite band members. Collect their addresses and then send them some FotoSticks a few weeks later to remind them of the night. You can be sure that they will show their friends and family. Since they are repositionable, they can put them on their notebooks or laptops to show around and then put them on their wall once they are done bragging.
  
  Summary
  
  Repositionable vinyl stickers are new and they get people talking. Not only are they a way to get your band image known, they create a buzz just because they are novel. So, don’t hesitate, be the first band to show this new promotional tool to your fans. It is an inexpensive way to get the word out. Plus, if you sell the larger six and seven foot wall size stickers it can pay for itself and you may even profit from it in more ways than one.
  
  FotoStick - http://www.fotostick.com - is a 5 mil vinyl material that has a sticky back that can be moved and removed without harming the surface they are placed upon. Unlike static cling, traditional stickers and custom magnets, FotoSticks are tough, durable and more versatile. They’re like stickers but they can be used and re-used over and over again. They’re like magnets except that they stick on almost any smooth surface. They are inexpensive and you can create one custom sticker to one hundred thousand affordably.
  

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