Someones doing well with offline affiliate marketing in my city

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Putting up signs without a permit on public property comes under the vandalism act.
There are walls in cities all over Australia that seriously get posters plastered on them so often that occasionally the whole thing just falls over forward, and there's maybe 2 inches of posters just pasted on top of each other.
Funny thing is when that DOES happen, you see that the bricks have an embossed bit that says "Post No Bills".
Like wise, you obviously can't do it on someone's private property, without their permission.

There are mobs out there like Attractive Promotions | Your One Stop Street Level Marketing Shop. & Poster distribution | flyers | cafe posters | promotion | advertising | Melbourne that you pay to stick posters up. Most of the places they do it are entirely illegal, but because they do it so often, and don't get caught, local councils have just pretty much given up on them, especially as there's no way to prove they're the ones doing it.
They'll even do graffiti for you if you pay them enough.
The odd thing is that I'm yet to see the groups that hire these promoters get in trouble for it, which is where I'd go if I was the one tasked with going after them.
 


vcm said:
What did you enter for your income? I hit the less than $24,000 to see what happened and was forwarded to Dating Service at Love Access - Free Personals, Chat, Webcam...

I'm wondering if they treat each lead differently - BigWill - did you enter more on the income box? And where were you sent once you hit the submit button?
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Holy crap! So they get the sign on the 5 o'clock news!

Nice.

You can't buy publicity like that.
 
A long time ago, I made a decent bank off of 24x30 screenprinted signs with tubing. Designed to be nailed into telephone poles etc.

Product name, Offer, Phone number. Got lots of "that is illegal" phone calls, but never had any hassles since I re-routed the number through 2 bounce phone numbers. Sales were awesome - each sign was like $3 in bulk - I think I made something like $30 per sign I placed or something like that.

Towards the end, I was placing ads on Craigslist for people to buy the signs and place them all across the country. never tried it with a website.

Sold the business and stopped doing it... but it did work.
 
Offline marketing is often overlooked. Someone I work with made £90,000 in 12 months a couple of years ago selling one of those self-help mentoring audio/book courses, purely through direct mail and print classified ads. It's getting cheaper as well due to online competition.

Personally, I used to spam the shit out of every town in the South West UK (Bristol, Bath etc) with a1 dayglo signs saying "CARNAGE" to advertise a techno night I used to run. Worked a treat, although I got some major C&D threats from the council. Shame I never achieved my ambition of getting an ASBO though :(
 
Bartlets said:
Sometime back I have seen somebody placing stickers on cars in parking lot. They made a pic of hot girl on sticker with catchy slogan with web/affiliate url in short. Thats also nice way of offline promotion as long as car owner is NOT around while placing the sticker!!
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i'd end up in jail if i caught some dude putting a sticker on my car.
 
So my signs come this week.

I found a monkey off craigslist to put the signs at all the busy intersections for $1 a sign. I paid $120 for 100 signs. So test is going to cost me about $220

We'll see if it makes a good return within a few weeks.

If I don't reply im in jail. Will post results after I get out.
 
Did you order the signs locally or online? I see signs all the time tied to the street sign and light post where I live. Some have been there over a year, I wonder if they worked out for them.
 
crazyfish said:
Did you order the signs locally or online? I see signs all the time tied to the street sign and light post where I live. Some have been there over a year, I wonder if they worked out for them.
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I live in a town full of pig farmers, have to order everything online.
 
So if I'm living in a city (not US) in which this method in not being used yet at all, should I follow this plan:

1) Create a similar landing page for my city then forward it to a dating site
2) Print up heaps of posters and put them up everywhere
3) Hopefully watch the money roll in?

Note that whilst where I live this is also illegal it is one of those places where every poll is already covered in posters anyway (a few more wont make much difference).

I quite like this idea.
 
jazzODIN said:
Create a similar landing page for my city then forward it to a dating site
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From what I understand, this scheme does not forward to a dating site like match.com or eharmony - it's pretty much one of those matchmaker services that charge a lot of money (hundreds/thousands) to pair you up with another

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Note that whilst where I live this is also illegal it is one of those places where every poll is already covered in posters anyway (a few more wont make much difference).
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So I guess yours would get lost in the shuffle, a victim of literal 'banner blindness'
 
Not far from there and I see them every now and again. Also, ads run in local papers in some of the smaller towns around, dirt cheap advertising.
 
BigWill said:
So my signs come this week.

I found a monkey off craigslist to put the signs at all the busy intersections for $1 a sign. I paid $120 for 100 signs. So test is going to cost me about $220

We'll see if it makes a good return within a few weeks.

If I don't reply im in jail. Will post results after I get out.
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May I ask where you ordered them?

I'm looking into this currently and would love to know your experience if they've arrived yet (experience on ordering/quality)
 
redtricycle said:
yeah, i see tv commercials for freecreditreport.com~
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Well I was shopping for a new car,which one's me
a cool convertible or an SUV
too bad I didn't know my credit was whack
'cause now i'm drivin' off the lot in a used sub-compact
f-r-e-e,that spells Free
Credit Report.com baby
saw their ads on my TV
thought about goin' but was too lazy
now instead of lookin' fly & rollin' phat
my legs are stickin' the the vinyl and my posses gettin laughed at!

hahah, such good marketing.
 
BigWill said:
So my signs come this week.

I found a monkey off craigslist to put the signs at all the busy intersections for $1 a sign. I paid $120 for 100 signs. So test is going to cost me about $220

We'll see if it makes a good return within a few weeks.

If I don't reply im in jail. Will post results after I get out.
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Hey Will you in jail yet? Seriously, how did it go with this?
 
BigWill said:
So I have seen signs all over my town for the last 2-3 years with this site.. Searching Lincoln Singles for Lincoln Dating . After you enter your info it just prefills out a form for an affiliate dating offer.
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So if i understand this correctly the owner of this landing page created his own form that contains the same form fields as on the landing page of the advertiser, and upon submit it will process the information entered into the form of the advertiser?

Or is this a white label set up?

I would really want to know how to create landing pages like this if it's being processed to the advertisers form?

Is it possible to collect form information on your own landing page and then forward it through the advertisers form?

This would be great for creating your own landing pages, do your own split testing.
And a nice plus when you're doing PPC with Adwords.
 
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