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I was thinking about creating brochures /flyers things like that to distribute around movie stores, parking lots and the like.
Do you guys have any good ideas or something else you guys have done.
Thanks in advance. This forum is a great place for information.
*JP
Plus they are extremely time consuming to put out
The only circumstance I would consider using fliers an brochures is
local fliers for a bricks & mortar local business
or
brochures posted to regular buyers to prompt them to buy again
Then again, perhapas you've had a different experience with brochures
However, they always resulted in some sales an some traffic, just very expensive, the trick may be to do seriously gigantic quantities of it like Dell do to sell PC's, i couldn't afford that risk
News ads - waste of money. People ignore ads. Don't you?
Fliers - limited use, mostly annoying. The only time I look at bulletin boards is when I'm looking for something. When I find fliers on my windshield, it's usually not until I start driving, and then I look at the company who put it there just so I can associate it with a curse word.
Television is the best external media we have found. Make your commercial SIMPLE and DIGESTIBLE, with TASTE. Jabbering word-blasting car commercials aren't effective (unless you're looking for a car.) Your task is to introduce something NEW and motivate the audience to pay attention, or at least remember a NAME and a TOPIC. Take three concepts and repeat them, visually and verbally, for 30 seconds.
We broke in with about $2300 at a local station, two months of spots prime time on our target market. A cable rep saw our commercial, approached us with a package that was much less expensive - 300 prime time spots for about $800, local cable shows. Nationally of course is more expensive.
The other place I would hit is the captive TARGET audience of pre-theatre advertising. Get your TV ad onto film and use it in the ads they play before the shows. It's the perfect place to display an ad, here they are at a movie and it's an ad about a movie website.