Advertising needed

[gemd89]

I am looking for some advertising for my business Clothing Chain.

I am open to any ideas.

So what can you offer and what price?

Thanks in advance

Gemma

 

[RedEvo]

Have you considered vehicle advertising? I'm involved with this new vehicle advertising company.

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[gemd89]

I will take a look but dont know if its really for my business

Gemma

 

[Venus International]

We have just posted this message on another thread, hope we can help….

We are a direct marketing company and handle all aspects of advertising and distribution. The leaflet distribution side of things tends to get good feedback if you choose a solus option rather than a share saver. Its cheap to get the flyers printed and like most of the posts say as long as you make your advertising clear and readable with something to attract attention then 99% of the time you will get really good results. What normally works best with our clients is rather than a discount or voucher, putting an open day or event and sending a ‘invitation’ to come and visit you. We recently handled a campaign for a large florist in Manchester who just made a member of staff stand outside in a bunny rabbit suit for 4 hours handing out free chocolates to passers by. We distributed 5000 leaflets locally and the turnout was excellent.

There are alternatives to leaflet distribution such as direct marketing where we post out advertising material to specific businesses or residential properties. We have access to a large database of clients who we know are interested in receiving information on certain sectors and this way we know that we can get a better response from the campaign.

We would be more than happy to discuss your requirements in more detail if you would like to arrange a leaflet drop and our prices are very competitive starting at just £25 for 1000 leaflets distributed in your chosen area. We can offer discount for large orders and our minimum order is only 1000. We can also provide you with the company details of the florist so you can ask for yourself how we handled their campaign and how successful it was.

Good Luck

 

[gemd89]

Try flexionline.net its free to advertise

Thanks
Mike

I just did, took my ages to upload the pages and then when i had clicked post an ad, nothing appeared - just featured businesses.


Gemma

 

[gemd89]

Just been to a5leaflets.co.uk and going to put an order in for 5000, the excercise of delivering them myself will do me the world of good.

Thanks anyway

Gemma

 

[XanderMarketing]

I am looking for some advertising for my business Clothing Chain.

I am open to any ideas.

So what can you offer and what price?

Thanks in advance

Gemma

What do you want to achieve from your advertising?

 

[MASSEY]

Just been to a5leaflets.co.uk and going to put an order in for 5000, the excercise of delivering them myself will do me the world of good.

Thanks anyway

Gemma

I used to deliver leaflets for a curry house when i was 16 and it was soooooooo boring,

I will never ever deliver a leaflet ever again

Good luck

 

[gemd89]

Gets me walking and fit, keeps the babies quiet in the pushchair! All good!

Thanks massey

Gemma

 

[gemd89]

I hope to get traffic and sales from my site...the leaflets are to go along with the new design and payment feature

Gemma

 

[relaxkids]

hiya - i did leaflet drops and usually got one sale per 100 leaflets dropped. Just thought you might be interested.

 

[flexionline]

Hi we have been doing some maintenance on the site today and it was down all is u and working now

Regards
Mike

 

[ThePublisher]

Gets me walking and fit, keeps the babies quiet in the pushchair! All good!

Thanks massey

Gemma

I hope you are delivering to terrace properties where the doors are all on the street, otherwise are you going to abandon the babies at the gate, or push the pushchair up every path?

I have people delivering magazines for me on a monthly basis (as well as doing a lot of deliveries myself). I won't let people deliver whilst taking young children with them.

 

[Greatime123]

For your type of business offline and online advertising is very effective.

OFFLINE

Door to door leaflet dropping

Offer promotions/discounts

Newspapaers Local and nationwide. For nationwide the Evening Standard is a good one.

ONLINE

Forums - add link in beauty, fashion related forums

Classifieds - there's loads free paid and both such as: Vivastreet, BTtradespace, Gumtree, Locanto, Craigslist, ADtrader. UKBusinessforums has one too. Check your ads weekly, monthly.

Social : Facebook - create a Facebook/my_business account. Twitter is another.


!Keep at it so people get used to you and will buy from you.

 

[gemd89]

Hardly abandoning them - all this political correct stuff! World gone mad!

I will have a very good friend helping me deliver while we also watch the babies, dont worry no one would steal them - they would soon bring them back! lol

Gemma

I hope you are delivering to terrace properties where the doors are all on the street, otherwise are you going to abandon the babies at the gate, or push the pushchair up every path?

I have people delivering magazines for me on a monthly basis (as well as doing a lot of deliveries myself). I won't let people deliver whilst taking young children with them.

 

[gemd89]

Thanks relax, will see how well these leaflets go...we are in kind of different business areas though

Gemma

 

[whattie]

you can also use social media, like facebook and twitter in order to promote your products. Ideally check how much and what do you need in order to do product placement in magazines like stylist or in Evening standard.

 

[gemd89]

Its just expensive doing product placements but something i will look into more.

Trying a few other things at the minute,, with regards to some parenting websites.

Im on facebook page 'i love dressing up' feel free to join - more members would be lovely!

Gemma

 

[yourmajesty]

Hey Gemma I am based in Bradford I run a community based website and would love to help you out in terms of promoting it on our site. I think at a local level is sometimes good idea as it is cheaper and also re the leaflets thing, there are 2 ways to go either contact local businesses like takeaways and taxi firms and see if they need leaflets delivered at same time. Social networking tried that did not help me tbh for my web design business it is a sorry state when I walk round leeds and bradford market and empty market stores. The local papers love a good story so why not have a poll like would the leaders wifes wear what you are selling be imaginative. Just trying to help. All the best and I mean that. I am trying to run my businesses to support my son after being laid off.

 

[yourmajesty]

By the way, when I delivered my leaflets for my local community website I took my son Thomas out. It shows that you are more than a business person and people respect and understand rather than sitting at home collecting payments off the state etc. Good for you I would take your son/daughter you will enjoy it on a sunny day.

 

[gemd89]

Son and daughter! Your right...just trying to earn a living!

I suppose it would be easy to live off the state with all money they throw at people for not working but i soon get bored of watching tv, unless there doing ugly betty or sex and the city reruns! lol.

Ill be out next week delivering the leaflets to tie in with the new website changes so hopefully it will go well and i aim to chat to somepeople aswell - hopefully the personal touch will help!

How much do you charge for promoting businesses on your community site?

Gemma

 

[gemd89]

Still looking for advertising ideas...definately need more traffic

Gemma

 

[smallbusiness-uk]

I am looking for some advertising for my business Clothing Chain.

I am open to any ideas.

So what can you offer and what price?

Thanks in advance

Gemma

hi gem, stephen here from smallbusiness-uk visit our site and register 100% free. when there we can offer flash advertising or standard advertising without paying per click, instead we offer advertising space at a set cost viewable by thousands of businesses uk-wide. for example £20 a month for a flash listing and just £12.50 for a standard monthly listing, if you register we provide you your own page where you can showcase your videos photos and broadcast any offers and products you wish to sell. And its a completely free service.

 

[smallbusiness-uk]

may i advise you that our traffic will be low until june 30th when we notify all our members of our new website and major changes, that's access to over 20,000 companies!!!

 

[eMagCreator]

Do you have an online or offline shop? It makes a big difference if you are to target the right people.

 

[VickyK86]

I am looking for some advertising for my business Clothing Chain.

I am open to any ideas.

So what can you offer and what price?

Thanks in advance

Gemma

Hi Gemma,

Do you know where about's you would like to advertise? As the cost depends on the medium you would like to advertise in. I would happily propose a media schedule for you, based on targeting your clothing company where your target audience will become aware and interested in it. Are you also looking for the design and copywriting of the advert?
Regards
Vicky Kenrick

 

[gemd89]

online only my shop!

Thanks guys, keep the ideas coming
Gemma

 

[eMagCreator]

If you want to get a better success ratio and conversion to your website then spend your money on online advertising. Leaflets and flyers are great but think of the conversion rate first of all of how many people will even read them and then also how many will both read them and go online to type in your web address, that's a lot of leg work for a small amount of visits.

Try simple stuff like a highlighted ad on Gumtree.com and then try some online clothing or fashion magazines which are the same as print but online so you can get some good prices for a full page ad compared to print ads. Think of what other things your target customers are interested in and aim to advertise on their sites. Facebook ads may also be another good option, have you got a group set-up for your company?

 

[smallbusiness-uk]

I would recommend doing flyers in the local; area again, highlight key pricing, add a quote reference point to measure it's success and go with it, print is extremely cheap nowadays, if your doing google ads or facebook start off on a small campaign as you don't want to get swamped, use as many blogsites as you can, we will advertise you free for a month on our site when it is completely built for a month if you like, pm me any special offers and i'll add it, our site is a little of completion but when its up and running i'll be sure to advertise you.

google ads would be better for your type of business i reckon also, on facebook there are so many things to do, what with the socialising (if you can call it that) and all the games, photos and content to distract people, there is less chance of them clicking your ad, google is more practical people will find you with the search they require.