[Poll] Do you advertise your site off line?

[Floris]

Some people might have a budget, others might not. But there's always the option to advertise online and offline. Various options are available.

 

[iTuN3R]

Yes i do in various ways online and offline both . My forum offers lot of stuffs for people around this city and we even organize different sort of programs related to fishing , get togethers .

We are fairly new board we are doing pretty good and we have flyers printed for our site so usually whenever i drop by sports center i hand out those flyers to people around fishing sections so does my staff team . Everyone has been helpful so far to bring traffic and people over board and register and get involve in forums

 

[Vincent_imported]

I'm pretty sure I can have a budget, but it has no use for my website

 

[iTuN3R]

I'm pretty sure I can have a budget, but it has no use for my website

That really depends on what kind of forum it is People expect a lot these days and trust me i hate lurkers leeching off information we provide for free and they don't even bother registering and contributing .

 

[Vincent_imported]

That really depends on what kind of forum it is People expect a lot these days and trust me i hate lurkers leeching off information we provide for free and they don't even bother registering and contributing .

Yep that's somewhat what I meant
My website is about an open source banning system for games, so going "outside the internet" has no use for me As I'm Open Source I don't even need any advertising

 

[Mikey]

"not yet we're planning to"

with stickers.. flyers.. that sort of thing. Costs $$ though, gotta save!

 

[trilogy33]

Yes. Car forum + stickers = happy

 

[The Pet Board]

So far I have just used Facebook Ads and am about to do a Google Ads campaign. I would like to do an offline campaign but don't really know where to start that is cost effective.

 

[iTuN3R]

So far I have just used Facebook Ads and am about to do a Google Ads campaign. I would like to do an offline campaign but don't really know where to start that is cost effective.

I don't believe in google ad's or facebook much even i have facebook page it's not drawing any attention of people .

Since your board is related to pet and there's a huge opportunity for offline marketing Get a flyer design done with few details of your board and information about your site . Print the flyers black and white should do the job for pet flyers . What you can do is hand out to people walking their dogs specially those who are new with pets and are looking for help regarding their pets . I see such people everyday while walking my dogs . Petsmart ,Petco , Animal shelters , Dog Parks .

While handing out flyer tell them what your site is about and how your site can help them about knowing their pets better . I am sure you have those training guides and stuffs posted and dicussions about foods and all . The more original contents you have the more traffic will be coming your way .

Good luck .

 

[Trombones13]

Yes. Car forum + stickers = happy

Ooh; those are awesome!

Right now, I haven't done any offline advertisement. I had been considering doing t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc., but that's on the back burner due to insane minimum order amounts and costs (and low demand for them).

 

[Stormraven]

I don't advertise my site offline, mainly because it's now dead but even back in the day when it was very active I just let it run it's course instead of run offline. Just depends on what type of website you have.

 

[iTuN3R]

Yes. Car forum + stickers = happy

How much does it costs to get such stickers ? I was thinking to do something like that too .

 

[Stormraven]

Ooh; those are awesome!

Right now, I haven't done any offline advertisement. I had been considering doing t-shirts, mugs, stickers, etc., but that's on the back burner due to insane minimum order amounts and costs (and low demand for them).

That's be good. I'm sure things would take off quickly. Everyone loves the radio lol.

 

[CurveGotti]

I have in the past and will with a new forum I will be launching soon. An easy enough way to do it is just find some people interested in the topics discussed on the site and toss them a shirt or two with the url. I've used other methods as well depending on the site content.