Cover Your Restaurant Patio With A Beautiful New Awning Today’s Best Awning Products Are The Perfect Winter Solution Got a restaurant, coffee shop, or other serviced business that could use more revenue?Having more seating available for customers is the fastest way to grow your service business’s bottom line.  More seating means more tickets, of course, and that means more cash flow.But who’s got the time, the capital… or even the space… to tear down walls and expand the dining room?Many of your fellow Denver and Colorado business owners have discovered the wisdom of expanding their customer seating without an expensive remodel.With the great selection of amazing new awning products available on today’s market, you can add seating by enclosing [...]

Enjoy Your Outdoor Living Space Well Into The Autumn Enclose Your Deck With A Great Retractable Awning Product There’s no getting around it: Even in the warmest parts of the Rocky Mountain West, summer is well and truly over for this year.The high temperatures are not as high as they were a couple of months ago, for sure… and the lows are much lower.Cookouts and picnics – a regular feature of the weekend just a few short weeks ago – are now looking “iffy” at best.But before you stow the grill and cover the patio furniture, you might consider a way you could get more enjoyment from your great outdoor living space… extending some of those joyful “summer” moments [...]

Give Your Business A New Look Beautiful New Awnings Create Inviting Customer Appeal One of the fastest, most cost-effective ways to give your business an edge over the competition is to create a fresh, attractive new exterior look. And one of the best ways to create that great new look is to add or replace awnings over doors, windows, and exterior gathering spaces. Business is good in Denver and Colorado these days.  A recent online study ranked our metropolitan area at the very top of a list of more than 175 cities as the best place to start a small business (and Fort Collins made the top ten). Savvy entrepreneurs throughout our area are putting money back into [...]

Thinking Outside The Store Box Expand Your Business With Comfortable Outdoor Selling Space Retail shopping space is costly.  Retailers generally pay more per square foot of space than they’d like… and they have to maximize their revenue from every square foot of sales floor. Think of the money spent on attractive point-of-sale displays… merchandising strategies to optimize product shelf space… even window displays that are carefully thought-out and designed (sometimes at great expense) to entice customers into the store or shop. Most retailers will tell you the money they spend on these things is money well spent. These days, an exciting new trend in retail is the notion of expanding the store without taking down a single wall [...]

A Nice Awning Will Keep You Out Of The Weather… … And It Might Be Able To Keep Itself Out Of Harm’s Way, Too! Isn’t it great to be able to sit outside on your patio or deck during one of our warm, pleasant Colorado summer evenings?  To sip a cool beverage or a glass of wine… have snacks or appetizers… or enjoy dinner as you watch the sun go down in a blaze of glory? Maybe that’s why many of your neighbors all along the Front Range have discovered the beauty and utility (not to mention the increased property value!) of having a state-of-the-art retractable awning installed over their outdoor living space. The wind can kick up… [...]

An Awning Can Help Keep Your Business’ People Happy Help Win The “War For Talent” With A Great Outdoor Break Space Maybe you’ve heard: the U.S. economy is roaring, and we’re nearing that mythical state economists love known as “full employment.” In fact, we may already be there.  Recent reports suggest there are now more jobs available in the United States than there are people out of work.  And it’s been a long time since we’ve seen any reports like that. These days, I hear fellow entrepreneurs say all the time that the one thing holding back their businesses is finding enough good employees. Like most things economic, employment levels in our country do tend to ebb and [...]

Need More Living Space? Enclose A Patio Or Deck “Add A Room” To Your Home Without Knocking Down Any Walls Now that the weather’s heating up for the season, it’s not uncommon for homeowners and their families to think about spending more time outside. Morning coffee on the deck… barbecue meals at the patio table… afternoons at the pool… evening wine-sipping in the gazebo or under the pergola… you just can’t beat the many wonderful outdoor living options presented by our fantastic Colorado environment. Of course, sometimes the sun blazes too hot to let the kids hang out at the pool for very long.  When the wind kicks up, it’s harder to enjoy an outdoor meal [...]