Did you miss your chance to market yourself.... on Halloween?

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Now that you know about this, will you do it in 2011?

  • Yes

    Votes: 12 100.0%

  • No

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Maybe

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    12
DJ J Mac said:
Steve, messing with kids in any manner (halloween candy, using them to pass out religious messages, having them hand out marketing materials for their parents, etc) is just one of a very small number of things I believe wholeheartedly should never be done.

Let the parents enjoy trick-or-treating with their kids, don't make them have to sort through business cards. Its bad enough they have to check for any suspicious looking candy.

JT:
Of course it would not be appropiate to attach a business card to the team schedule if you were coaching the team. At that point, you're not there to get gigs from the kids or their parents, you're there to be their coach.
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Are you equating tainted candy to business cards????

You must have gotten a rock, or a business card....Let me ask you this; if I stapled a free McDonald fries gift certificate to the card ....does that make it any better?

Do you have an issue with parents putting in McDonald gift certificates? after all it's nothing but a solicitation from McDonalds....
 
DJ J Mac said:
Kirby,
I'm at work so no beer. :trisad: But maybe when I get home. :tribiggrin:
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Sorry, I forgot it was Monday....seems like a Sunday to me. Took the day off of work so I could have a 4 day weekend.

Guerilla marketing is not for everyone but one of the main messages in that approach is to find something that will get your message out in a creative way and to think of different avenues of promotion to make sure your message is heard loud and clear.

xoxoxo

Kirby
 
Steve send me the cost of the book you and anyone else it will be more than ten dollars per webcast offering. I would like a few jokes added in my candy bag though.
 
Steve LeBlanc said:
Are you equating tainted candy to business cards????

You must have gotten a rock, or a business card....Let me ask you this; if I stapled a free McDonald fries gift certificate to the card ....does that make it any better?

Do you have an issue with parents putting in McDonald gift certificates? after all it's nothing but a solicitation from McDonalds....
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Dude, I've got a problem with people trying to trick-or-treat for charities, etc. And with those who give apples, or money, etc.
 
What's wrong with apples; a good, healthy treat..do you perceive people as cheap when they give an apple? Is money not a treat? I guess you can enjoy the sugar high, the feeling of allowing your kids to put on weight eating all of that sugar laden crap in the bag....
Its not like are kids aren't fat enough.
Perhaps the kids should be collecting money for unfortunate children who aren't so fat and privileged...there'd be a novel approach; but hey; giving to those less fortunate, learning a life lesson; that would scar them emotionally....

My head hurts.....
 
This form of marketing is lame. If it happened to me when I was a kid, I would have just discarded the business card. The crappy part is that my parents would claim that the candy is for them because it has the card attached to it.

As a parent, I just wouldn't take my kids to that house again. Therefore, the issue is avoided in the future. Of course, I would not utilize the service either. I tend to avoid jerks who spam my house with fliers.
 
DJs are the only group of business people that are ashamed to market themselves.

I think it was Steve that mentioned the McDonalds certificates there's a prime exmaple.

Any successful business is always on the marketing train
 
Steve LeBlanc said:
....We're not talking a massage parlor sticking in cards or a call girl service.....
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ummm,, what's wrong with that, a little candy for the kids aqnd a little candy for Daddy!,,, :tritongue:
 
DJ Ducky said:
This form of marketing is lame. If it happened to me when I was a kid, I would have just discarded the business card. The crappy part is that my parents would claim that the candy is for them because it has the card attached to it.

As a parent, I just wouldn't take my kids to that house again. Therefore, the issue is avoided in the future. Of course, I would not utilize the service either. I tend to avoid jerks who spam my house with fliers.
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How would you know where it came from? I let my kids walk up to the houses by themselves. We didn't even see the cards until they got home.

On a similar note, I found out, was that a local kids dentist gave away toothbrushes with his contact info on them. My kids did not visit that house.

I think that I WILL do this next year, but only add my Bubble Boogie cards... and, of course, give out candy.... full sized bars! Sadly, though, we never get more than 25 kids, and last night we only got 6. Usually we get 15ish.
 
DJ Ducky said:
This form of marketing is lame. If it happened to me when I was a kid, I would have just discarded the business card. The crappy part is that my parents would claim that the candy is for them because it has the card attached to it.

As a parent, I just wouldn't take my kids to that house again. Therefore, the issue is avoided in the future. Of course, I would not utilize the service either. I tend to avoid jerks who spam my house with fliers.
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I suppose you won't be taking them to the house that gave away apples or money either.....just junk sugar crap and potato chips...or collecting money for Unicef

Only houses that give a way the premium crap.....Yup that's looking after the kids. I think the neighbors know who the jerks are in the neighborhood:triwink:
 
Steve, most parents I know throw the apples away...too easy to taint with any number of things. At least the candy is wrapped and sealed.
 
You haven't seen shows on tainted candy and how easy it is to do?

In this day and age; like most innocent activities of years gone by; times are different. There are all kinds of creeps out there and secondly; kids don't need all that crap.

Collecting candy from strangers is one of those activities.

Preserve those memories by organizing parties at local community centers where the fun is focused on games, movies. Modify the activities to show children good values, like instead of collecting crap candy, collect non-perishables for the food bank...etc.
 
Steve LeBlanc said:
Only houses that give a way the premium crap.....Yup that's looking after the kids.
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I grew up on worse premium crap than there is today. As an "adult" I don't eat it so much. Guess what? I'm still here.

Halloween (in the US) = candy. It's called "tradition". All cultures have them.
My girl always got her sweets and her healthy food. The loot from Halloween always gets rationed out and lasts for months.

You don't like it when others jump to conclusions, why then are you suggesting that parents aren't looking after their kids?

:trirolleyes:
 
Those of you who are against this, I have to ask: do you send Christmas (or "holiday" or however you want to put it) cards out? If so, how is doing this any different?
 
Patrick, are you talking about personally sending them or the business sending them?
 
Patrick do you send out christmas cards to all folks around your city? It certainly is different sending out your XMAS cars as you arent handing them out randomly on a street corner or putting them in a unknown kids bag. I suppose we should go to the local elementary school and go through classrooms and insert business cards in each kids backpack or cubby space.
 
patrickrlewis said:
Those of you who are against this, I have to ask: do you send Christmas (or "holiday" or however you want to put it) cards out? If so, how is doing this any different?
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No, I do not, but I have an expectation of seeing them in my mailbox during the holiday season. I would however be surprised to find a Kit Kat in my mailbox.

See how that works?

:triwink:
 
We plan on sending cards out to anyone we have come into contact with this past year, be it a potential client who has not booked yet, someone who did not book with us and went with another company instead, someone who just inquired about our service, plus all past and future clients.

I really have no problem with what these businesses did, because I don't see it as an intrusive way to advertise. The people who got the cards can just simply throw them away if they don't want them.
 
DJ J Mac said:
By the way, many of our neighbors go trick-or-treating as a family. I'm not gonna trash on my neighbor's memory of her 3 year old playing with the inflatable ghost in our front yard by trying to sell my DJ service to them.
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you make a good point, Mac
but if you remember getting home with your trick-or-treat bag as a child
you'll probably remember going straight for the candy you liked the most and ignoring everything else
(like getting socks and underwear for Christmas?)
only the parents noticed the cards...
and they probably didn't pay it anymore attention than their kids did
 
I was gabbing with one of my coworkers with this. She said that amongst candy, folks were giving out pencils, notepads, pretzels, and even bags of carrot sticks. She thought it was lame and so did her kid. I asked about the business card idea and she was turned off by it. Her thinking is to let the kids have their holiday. It's bad enough that one can't go to a town parade without being bugged by people with flyers or politicians trying to solicit votes.

In my opinion, the kids should make good on the trick or treat part. ;)
 
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