Rock in bag marketing with a twist

Marketers like you always make me laugh.:rolleyes: Not everyone has an advertising budget when first starting out. Thus, low cost marketing methods are what they use to get their businesses off the ground.

You only buy from the big guys who can spend tens of thousand to reach you in a "classy" way.

There are fewer jobs in the US because people have been taught to hate telemarketers. We all complain about the high unemployment rate, but fail to look at how we are contributing to it.

At least these people are trying to earn, and not depend on government hand-outs, or trying to steal from me.

Why not admire someone for taking action to grow their businesses. Admire them for trying to make something out of nothing, even if they are putting flyers on cars or doors, putting their flyer in a bag with a rock and getting them out in neighborhoods; and yes, even telemarketing.

I found a great gardener, he used the rock in the bag method, found it in my driveway.

I don't hate telemarketers, they are just trying to get their businesses going or feed their families. If I'm not interested, I just politely tell them so and hang-up. My life goes pleasantly along and I haven't messed up their day.

This has been a "spicy" thread so far. It's lots of fun to read the different positions taken over "rock in a bag" advertising. Great!

LLS

You never know.

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Dan

No one's taught to "hate" telemarketers, they were just universally annoying and that's why the sentiment against them. "No one likes to be sold" isn't that right? So dropping what you were involved in to pick up the ringing phone only to have someone on the other end try to "sell" you... who likes that? It was annoying. It didn't have the "instead of a pest become the welcome guest" thing working for it. That's the fault of the telemarketers and they way they operated, not the public.

To blame the unemployment problem with people who'd rule out certain activities like throwing things into peoples' driveways? That's erroneous logic. People have a choice in what they do. They can get work throwing rocks or get work doing a hundred other things that don't involve throwing rocks at places.

For one thing, like removing rocks from places.

Actually it's that a walkway up to your door is considered a public area. This goes back to colonial days when early Americans distributed handbills voicing their opinions and protests against the authorities. The People felt the need to keep this freedom when the country began and not restrict or mute these voices by not having them be able to contact others in their community. And that meant going door to door and leaving handbills.

Since then however the proliferation of door to door activities perceived as an annoyance and not a matter of keeping citizens informed, has contributed to some communities, incorporated villages usually, who have a policy forbidding that activity. I forget why, but it's something like a corporation isn't subject to those ordinances or something and can make up their own rules, and that may be your case.

As for me, if someone forces me to step outside to pick up what they've dropped on my property, I wouldn't ever do business with them because they weren't considerate. Why would I wish to do business with someone who shows me no consideration? Turn it around: If I were to take the flyers I never asked for that were dropped on my lawn and brought them down to the newspaper that sent them out, and dumped them on their front steps, how do you think they would treat me? "Oh thank you sir! How kind of you to bring us back our paper to recycle"? or "Sir! What are you doing??!! Pick that up right now or we're calling the police and having you arrested. Security! Security!"?

Where would one buy the quantity of rocks needed for a 5K distribution?

Shawn