Keep your Customers Informed About your Business with Covid-19 Signs

Posted by Olivia Watson
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May 5, 2020
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The outbreak of the corona virus has posed a global challenge on small and medium sized businesses. Amidst all the uncertainties, a lot of businesses are suffering. Most of them have already put their service offerings on hold till life gets back to normal. The ones that are open are most of the times seen struggling to operate. The biggest struggle faced by these businesses is the lack of effective communication. When a major part of the world has self quarantined itself, it becomes increasingly difficult to reach out to customers. Amidst the zero face to face interaction and social distancing, it is quite evident that your business too is finding it difficult to communicate. If you are facing the same problem, you need to communicate with Covid-19 signage and posters to get your communication flowing.


There are a variety of Covid-19 signs, related to the corona virus that you can use to communicate. With the help of these custom signs and banners you can communicate with your customers who want to know about your service offerings, hours of operation, status of business, curbside delivery options and so much more. You can use these signs to communicate whatever is important for your customers to know. You can update them about your changed business hours, compliance policies, revised service information, state advisory about Covid-19, safety information, awareness guidelines to anything that you feel is important for your business. Apart from informing people about your business and sending out information about the pandemic, you can use these signs to educate the general masses regarding the disease and stop the spread. These signs can be custom made as per your requirement and brand message. You can choose from a wide range of corona virus templates.

Out of the long list, let us take a look at a few uses of these signs to help you understand the importance of safety signs and banners in keeping people safe and informed during these difficult times:

  • You can use a corona virus sign to highlight the hours of your operation. Information about shipping or delivery status, curbside pickup information and other details about your service offerings can be laid out in these signs.
  • Keeping your employees safe and informed is the first step to ensure that your business is on the right track. With the help of safety and precaution signs, you can reinforce prevention and safety best practices among your employees to minimize the exposure to risks.
  • You can communicate with your community and the society in general to show that you care.
  • With the help of customized Covid-19 signage, you can keep people informed that your business is following the current mandates laid out by your city or state.
  • If you are selling any essential in these times of crisis, like face masks or sanitizers, hand gloves and the like, you can advertise them through these customized banners and posters.

Covid-19 surprised the world with the spread and efficacy at which the virus spread. This has left all companies in dire need of a solid communication plan. Let us take a look at few best practices that might help you plan your communication strategy via these signs and posters with your customers

  • Remember timing is everything in times of a crisis. Therefore it is time that you act now. You need to communicate as quickly as possible. When you do not communicate anything at all in these stressful times, your customers might create a narrative of their own that might affect your brand.
  • Be human! Yes, this is not the time for conveying a buttoned down corporate message. Remember to be warm and genuine. An empathetic and concerned message will go a long way.
  • Consider how this crisis will impact your customers and create posters with a message for each of these scenarios.
  • In these times, it is important that you empower your employees and make them feel an important part in your communication strategy. Share safety, basic hygiene and prevention tips with them with safety and wellness signs. Most of this information that you share might already be circulated with them, yet as mentioned, in this situation, timing is everything.
  • Make your communication helpful and do not just go self-serving where you might appear to be taking advantage of a crisis situation. These will only self harm your brand.

The use of the Covid-19 posters are not dependant on whether you are running your business as usual or operating at revised hours, you can put these up outside your store, inside your office at reception area, cafeteria, washrooms, meeting rooms and even in personal work stations of your employees. These signs serve multiple purposes and since they can be customized, you can use one template to convey multiple messages.

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