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Nice post and great idea. Sometimes doing offline marketing is a nice boost, especially if you are just starting out in marketing and need an instant boost.

It's seems link there are endless ways to mix and match online methods with offline methods.

Cheers!

That is really good but to get really good business cards done, I went to CardsMadeEasy a online company. They were really great and had excellent customer service. you should check them out!

Martin, nice business idea! I've definitely got to test it out. It seems doable to me.

A very nice business idea.

hmmm.... the first thing that came in to my mind after reading you post is GREAT IDEA!!! thanks for sharing it to us and I really do believe that it could really work...

I drive past one of these big ones, everyday and never thought of this. WoW! very very cool I must say. Must get to work and make use of this.

Great little tip. :-)

nice simple and strait to the point, I will give this a try seems like the opportunities are all over we just need to open your eyes and pay attention to whats around you.
Regards
Suave

Nice. Business cards are always changing, too. There is always a need!

Yeah its very true that in today market offline marketing still works but you cant ignore benefit of online marketing, what you say?

Once again another great idea from Martin! I'm going to start keeping an eye on this guy...

Hi Warriors,

There have been a few people through out this thread that have said they where going to try my idea and i was just wondering if anyone here has done anything yet that they could share here?

Or if anyone needs more help or has any question's for me please feel free to ask.

Much Success,

Martin

I didn't think business cards are that good! There is really nothing impossible in internet marketing. Thanks for sharing this Martin.

adding a QR code next to the business card could be another selling point. next to the business card, have "scan this code to visit "business x's" website" or something of the sort. or the business phone number if they don't have a website yet. This could help upsell the advantages of a website, using the business card idea as a foot in the door.

Martin, I cannot thank you enough for this valuable post!

It's funny that I came across your post as I was about to spend the entire day putting up flyers around down for my personal business but went from the Jobless Dad thread and made my way over here five hours later

I am going to be putting up the flyers tomorrow but making MUCH more use of that time as I get the info from other businesses that have posted in those same areas.

I was wondering if you had any tips that you found to be helpful in carrying this plan (although everything you wrote is more than enough to carry this out), j/w if you had any additional tips or tricks.

Thank you again for the valuable post!

Nice info.
Thanks!

If you really want to take this idea to the next level and make it super professional consider setting up a network of small businesses and promoting a community biz card
display.
Some visuals can be found here . Lots of ways to structure , here is one of them

Take a 60 ct display and put them in just 10 high traffic businesses and charge 10mo per location=100 mo per advertiserx50 spots (we give each of the 10 businesses a free spot for allowing us to put up display)=5k per month=60k yr.

Initial cost for 10 nice displays is less than $5000 and you would be collecting some money upfront anyway so you dont have to pay for this right away.

Make money for years to come.

Once its set up you only have to monitor and make sure enough cards are available one day a month.

wonderful idea but does it really work?

Hello!

Thanks for this great post. But is it really effective? Will it really help me in my work? Does it really work? Can you recommend something for the business cards? I can think of some but I still need other opinions. Thanks for this post thought.

Thank You!

a good idea. I got to thinking to promote my website offlinely. it seem to be useful. lately I pay less attention to the offline world.
sometime I want to practice this idea. thanks for the ​​creative idea

Martin, thanks for a useful post.

I have two questions:

1. The owner/manager of a bulletin board says, "Hey, folks post their ads for free here, and I know you get paid to post these. Either cut me in, or get yourself another board to post on." I guess in this case you'll move along, but what is your opinion on this?

2. Four, five budding entrepreneurs catch on to what you're doing, and before you can bank your third month's profit, the BB owners/managers start complaining about bulletin spam. Have you had to deal with something like this?

Thanks again for a good idea, and for your guidance on it.

Sounds like a great idea. Thanks for posting.

Martin
Very interesting and easy. Just one question: may be I missed something but as you said we can t offer he service to the business owner who already displaying ads on that board. if they already have the ad there, what is the point to offer this service to them or I will offer them to put their ad on other boards?
Sorry if its a very silly question but thanks very much for the great idea. I want to try it out.

Very creative Idea, I'm just not sure IM's would want to go around to different businesses 4 times a month to do this, any thoughts on creating some sort of online boardw you could target with locally oriented keywords?

I have had extreme success by offering qr codes on business cards for my offline clients. This strategy open doors to conversations on multiple ways to use it and I usually end up making additional sales as a result.

@Martin - Very, very very cool idea.

If you have done it before or are currently still doing it, do you mind if I ask...how labor intensive is this for you or in other words... how much time does this take you and what are some of the possible pitfalls?

Are any of the businesses that host the bulletin boards getting mad at you or someone that works for you simply coming in once a week to post and not buy anything?

Nice idea for a business model! I guess one could target several areas with this strategy.

Do you mainly just do one location?

Thank you for this. Its a great plan and can be used in any ways as well. It was just what I needed.

This is a great plan. Will implement it soon!

Awesome idea, I'm a big fan Martin!

While it might cut into your profits, maybe you could appraoch business owners by saying you'd like to rent some of thier wall space? This way you can enter some kind of contract with them for a year so you have some security on the placement of the cork boards.. This should also take care of any greedy business owners.. Nothing too much. I'd still try the free approach first.

I'm going to have to try this once I get a little more cash flow.

As far as ideal placement,some of the best places I can think of are at the car wash just above the change machine. In gyms in the male and female changing rooms. Anyone else have any good ideas for placement? Will edit in some more later.

Oh and also if you broke it down into subcategories like plumber, electrician, physical therapist , then you could also use exclusivity as a selling point.

Great idea and low cost. What are your thoughts on using vistaprint for cards? I've always seen large bulletin boards at most, if not, all laundry mats/coin laundry places I've been too. Where else should I check out for these bulletin boards?

Once again another great idea.

The most important thing, people will be able to have a more popular
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Nice post and great idea

Hi Martin,

Do you copy the business cards onto the flyer at full size, I'm thinking that the size of the flyer needed to fit 10 full size business cards adverts is going to be to big for a lot of notice boards?

Any chance of posting a copy of one of your flyers?

Cheers,

Iain

I have read through this whole thread and I'm surprised that nobody has actually taken action and reported back.

Thanks for sharing your model. I'll report back if I can find enough bulletin boards in my area.

What kind of response rate do people expect from the boards? I can't say I've ever stopped to look at one.