Rock in bag marketing with a twist

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Does anyone know where I can find table centerpieces that are custom made? I REALLY want to do the rock and bag method, but i want to do it with a twist.
#offline marketing #bag #marketing #rock #twist
  • What is the rock and bag method?

    Thanks,

    Martin
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    • Simple,

      People put a flyer in a bag with a couple rocks in it and toss it in driveways.

      I'm trying to figure out a more classy way to do this. We put out alot of advertising for my other business and this would save a tremendous amount of time over door hangers
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  • Smells like Genius.
  • Curious as to how the table centerpieces are going to come into play...
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  • Any Dollar Tree or 99cent stores sell fake bouquets for $1.00, you can break them down into individual flowers or smaller bunches. If you live in a major metro area there may be a flower mart where you can get centerpiece items really inexpensively(you may need a wholesale license to shop there). Oh yeah, don't forget thrift stores, you may be able to find really large arrangements for really good prices.

    I'm curious about how you'll use these too.


  • For those curious, this is what I'm looking for. Except its going to have my advertisement in the middle
  • How big are the rocks?

    If one of those went through a window or into a car
    in the driveway you'd definitely be getting those
    businesses calling you but for all the wrong reasons (lol).

    All joking aside it does sound like a cool idea.

    Kindest regards,
    Andrew Cavanagh
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  • You've lost me on this one.

    I'm not sure why this would work well?
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    • Maybe it is just me, but I don't think that there is a classy way to do this. Methods like this and flyering cars in parking lots just rub me the wrong way. I'd never buy from someone that through garbage in my yard for me to pick up, or that made a parking lot a disaster by littering cars with flyers. Honestly, I'm not too keen on flyering houses either, though it seems to be more accepted. I hope it works out for you, I just wouldn't buy from such tactics. Then again, I wouldn't buy from a telemarketer, and I myself was one back in the day and did good business that way. Different strokes for different folks I guess.
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  • If I were you I'd be putting a clear call to action on your website Unique Hydro Wash | What's Eating Your House?.

    I don't even see a phone number on the home page...
  • Rock and Bag is a proven method, sure you may get some complaints but you will get business. There is a company in florida that grew into over a million in sales just using a rock and bag method.

    And I know about the website, It's still under construction. It's a sister site for my main site.
  • I looked it up and it appears as though the 1st amendment is on Whiffys side.
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    • LMAO at this.
    • He'd probably agree . . .

      I showed my friend, the Judge here in Bulloch County, what he said - he cracked up.


  • Plus - your flyer is offering free pizza for a house wash. What does that have to do with "insurance" ? ? ? ?
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    • I'm going to start a pooper scooper business and try this out. I'm going to take some of my "collections" during the jobs, place them in bags for the weight, and toss them out into people's yards and driveways. I'll be sure to put my first amendment disclosure on the bottom of my flyer. Brilliant!
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  • Well it does get your advertisement out there but not sure how effective it would be...seems like a lot of trouble. Why not just use Craigslist for your local area?
  • For all you people that think this is a bad idea. .. please give us some ideas on how a starrup business can market.

    Before anyone says website... we have several on the first page of Google. Postcards are too dang expensive for a startup
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    • Depends on what you are selling but if you are time rich and money poor pick up the phone or hop in the car and hustle.
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    • Postcards are ok for a limited # of advertisers.

      Use a 7 x 14 card - go sell enough ads to cover the card cost and EDDM fees and run your business as the largest ad . . .

  • put a golf ball in the bag. then throw a few dozen in my driveway.
  • Produce a flyer or postcard with multiple ads on it and get other businesses to go in on it with you. You might even get them to pay for it entirely and could profit while getting the word out about your business. Not sure exactly what you're trying to promote, but see if it has a commercial application and go walk in and talk to businesses. Get started there, and then if you want to go into retail work in residential communities you'll have funds to market with. Or go hustle doing something else entirely and make some money to use in this endeavor. Talk to everyone you meet that might be a candidate for what you offer, and participate in local forums and work into conversation what it is that you do. Once you get some clients, work them for referrals. Pick up the phone. Apparently you make signs, use them strategically for whatever you're offering. Find other businesses in similar but not the exact same services and work a joint venture with them. Maybe you can tap their customer base by offering something that they don't, but would like to.

    Or just throw rocks in bags and sue the first time someone has issue for a violation of your first amendment rights to advertise. Boom, you'll be able to retire, not to mention all of the postcards you'll be able to send.
  • What Is Rock In The Bag Marketing?
  • put a horses head in their bed..that always works.

    Enough of the "tricks."
  • Don't ask, next week it'll be the sea weed and the squid method. Ridiculous



  • Not mine, but you get the idea
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    • What does the rock cost?
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  • Are you partnering with the place you're getting the pizzas from? Get some cheap stickers/decals made and have the pizza parlour stick one on each box that leaves their store.

    If you're really stuck for money, get someone with fantastic penmanship to write the message on a pad of post-it-notes. They can easily be stuck on a pizza box, too.

    i.e. "Want to know how to get a Gino's pizza free?" Then add a website addy or something.

    I dunno, not my forte but seems like one potential avenue of great, free advertising. After all, the pizza guy is getting your biz every time someone signs up for your service, right?
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