Micro-Services: Audits, Consults, Guidebooks

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interior design audit consult

Design Consultations
virtual or on-site

Simply need a quick challenge resolved?
Need an expert opinion?
Are your walls painted the right colors?
Is your reception/service counter in the right location?

$250/hour + travel expenses (minimum hours may apply)
Contact us to secure your spot on our calendar

Comprehensive Design &
Customer Experience Audits

What’s preventing your business from reaching the next level?
What can you do differently to increase traffic, sales and profits?

This intense and powerful assessment helps you understand the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and blind-spots within your business. It’s a one-on-one, highly effective, eye-opening experience where you’ll get high level input, along with practical recommendations you can start implementing tomorrow. An optional plan can be created to help you implement changes over time as cash flow allows.

 

Example of items evaluated:

Exterior

• Landscaping
• Overall image, “look”, brand
• Signage (marquee/illuminated, eye level, store hours, address #’s, open sign, website address)
• Finishes
• Lighting
• Music/aroma
• Decorative accents (awnings, banners/flags, benches, planters…)
• Window displays (theme, composition, props, illumination, signage)
• Entrance door & handle

Interior

• Business name/logo
• Store services & policies
• Directional/wayfinding
• Departmental
• Promotional
• Product & benefit
• Hang tags
• Menus

  

• Historical information/timelines
• Award celebration & culture walls
• Community boards
• Vendor signs
• Banners
• Wall graphics & messaging
• Large format custom wall covering
• Website, QR codes, hashtags

Learn how to avoid costly design mistakes in the future. Realize your selling potential with a design audit of your space – inside and out.
Starting at $5000 + travel expenses, this highly valuable professional design audit is well worth the investment.
Call now to get a date on the calendar – you won’t regret it!

Lighting Audit

The majority of retailers do not have their stores properly illuminated and are losing sales because of it.

It’s the most important design element you’ll ever put in your store. Are you doing it right?

Let our store lighting expert, Lyn Falk, review your current lighting to see what you’re doing right and where there are opportunities to create a better selling environment.

She’ll look at the following:
• storefront lighting
• exterior sign lighting
• window display lighting
• interior ambient lighting
• focal point display lighting
• showcase lighting
• decorative lighting
• natural lighting
• window treatments
• space footcandles
• lamp (bulb) types: wattage, CRI, Kelvin temp, Lumen output
• maintenance of fixtures/lamps

Starting at $2500 + travel expenses, this highly valuable professional lighting audit is well worth the investment. Call now to get a date on the calendar – and you’ll soon “see the light!”

Sign Audit

How many signs are currently in your store?
How many are your customers actually reading?

Our professional graphic designers, who specializes in store signage, will review all of your signage to see which ones work, which ones don’t, and how to clean up the visual clutter. Here is a sample of what they inventory and evaluate:

Interior Signs

Exterior Signs

• Business name/logo
• Store services & policies
• Directional/wayfinding
• Departmental
• Promotional

• Product & benefit
• Hang tags
• Menus

• Historical information/timelines
• Award celebration & culture walls
• Community boards
• Vendor signs
• Banners
• Wall graphics & messaging
• Large format custom wall covering
• Website, QR codes, hashtags
• Business name/logo
• Window vinyl (graphics)

• Open/closed
• Business hours
• List of products & services
• Banners/flags
• QR codes, website, social media icons
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Starting at $2500, this is an invaluable first step to reducing sign pollution.
Reach out now to get your signs in order!

Hundreds of businesses have received our consulting services over the years. Many have turned into long-term clients. Here are a few of our clients who have benefited from our expertise and direction:

“Could have spent an entire afternoon with Lyn, with her wealth of information. The time investment for us was short, information shared by Lyn = PRICELESS!”

Carrie Glaser
Kitchen & Floor Decor, Rice Lake, WI

“You have a wonderful way of connecting with people as you point out areas where they can improve!”

Kathy Wellsandt
Executive Director of The Rice Lake Main Street Association, WI

Whether you’re an independent on a Main Street, an executive managing a chain of stores, or a president of a large corporation – if you have customers coming in to buy a product or a service, your building/space should be the best it can be.

Learn how to capitalize on your strengths and fix the problem areas.