If you are a service-related business, especially one that drives around town, one of the best investments you can make is vehicle graphics. Simply put, a vehicle with graphics gets noticed, whether it is a vehicle magnet, applied vinyl or window graphics. Here is a window and cut vinyl install we completed a few days...Read More
Many of Kona Impact’s clients are people who are making transitions in their life: from employee to business owner, from at-home business to a business with a shop or storefront, and in the case of Ed’s Cleaning, a business that is rebranding. Ed used to own the COIT carpet cleaning franchise in Kona, Hawaii. After...Read More
One thing the Hawaii Island loves is Thai restaurants. We are blessed to have several excellent Thai restaurants, with at least one in each of the main communities. When it comes to Thai food in Waikoloa and Waimea, our choice is Charley’s Thai Cuisine. We have visited Chaley’s many times over the years. Now they...Read More
Kona Impact is located in the heart of the Kona coffee region on Hawaii Island. There are hundreds of coffee farms within a 30 minute drive of our office. Most grow their coffee conventionally: they use pesticides, herbicides and non-organic fertilizers to control bugs and weeds and help the coffee trees get vital nutrients. The...Read More
Like it or not, Hawaii Island is a vehicle-dependent place. Very few people live walking distance to tores, and the best of the island–the beaches and countryside–are always a drive away. This makes your car or truck an ideal way to promote your business. The simplest way to do that is car magnets. These are...Read More
The day after the Ironman World Championships in Kona, I met a man at the dump who let it be known that he was pleased that the competition was done and everyone was going home. He then went on to complain how much he was inconvenienced (the dump, where I met him was closed one...Read More
We do a lot of printing and signage projects for conventions and expos on the Kohala Coast. For most businesses it is far more convenient to have us print the files and mount them on foam core or other material. Shipping is a hassle and the odd dimensions of signs make them unwieldy to carry...Read More
Hawaii is a great place to do custom design work because of the wide variety of influences on local culture. From Japanese characters to Pacific Islander-inspired designs, we live in one of the world’s great places for design inspiration. We recently did a really fun project for a client. He came in and said he...Read More
Imagine you’re planning a trip to Tokyo. You do what most people do and start searching online for hotels, restaurants and things to do. Simple, right? Now imagine that all you come up with sites in Japanese and in English. If you’re like most people, you’ll spend your time and money on the businesses that...Read More