Steemit Marketing Idea - 10,000 Flyers (Brainstorming Session, Please Help Out)
This is a low-cost idea that will help get the word out about Steemit to thousands of potential new users. I would like us to design several 8.5 x 11 flyers that can be printed out and hung up in coffee shops, book stores, colleges, etc. Once the designs are done, users can pick their favorite one(s), print off a few color copies at their local print store (should be less than $1 per color copy, and 10 cents for B&W) and then hang them up in their local areas. I would like to set the goal of having 10,000 flyers printed out and hung up by the end of July.
What do you think? Can we do it?
Phase 1:
Brainstorm what would be good to include in the flyers.
Phase 2:
I will host a contest for the artists and graphic designers of the community to put together the flyers. My budget for this will be ~300 STEEM. 100 STEEM will be awarded to the 'best', 50 STEEM to the two runners up, and 10 STEEM to anyone who submitted a reasonable quality entry, even if it wasn't selected.
Phase 3:
Everyone should 'go crazy' and print off a bunch to hang up in their local areas. The flyers will be posted as .jpeg and .pdf for users to download and print.
Commence Phase 1 -
Please comment with your suggestions on what would be good to include in the flyers!
- What are good ways to grab attention?
- What do we want to say?
- What are good themes?
- What are good 'catch phrases'?
- Are there any specific facts or pieces of information that would be good to include?
- Are there any good images to include?
- What should the layout look like?
- Etc.
I am very INTO this and as a Graphic Designer I will be submitting a entry as well! Cant wait. I got so many ideas already.
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It's funny how the low tech method may be quite effective. I've found that people are so used to being bombarded with email that they actually welcome a postcard in the mail or a flyer... old school works sometimes.
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I envision the concept of a bank vault or an ATM machine with STEEM dollars giving away tokens or spewing it out into a crowd of people or like a social media jackpot Casino style.
Nice idea! I'm a graphic designer and I will certainly submit a entry. We might also need an option to translate the flyers in the native language of the user.
Cool! Really great idea.
Ok, so I had this idea come to me while I was delivering my book donation with the bookmarks I made by doing a Steemgig. I was going to offer much less then you though to make the flyers so its nice your doing this. You have more power to work with then a minnow like me :) !! But my plan was to do this through a steemgig/contest to create the best flyer. Implementing the mascot I am currently running a contest to create, into a flyer (with the best pitch in one page that can be made.) You can see the entrants in the #postartchallenge tag, the contest is still going on for about a week. The goal of the post art challenge is to encourage people to make Steemit inspired page spacers, and Steemit logo challenges, stuff to create new steemit art, for people to incorporate into their posts and to use advertising on other platforms. From steem users, for steem users.
As well as the good consumer psychology advice I found here , Where the decision was to move away from the word "blog" (which is an intimidating word for average people) to 'post.vote.get paid' .. In order to help create the pitch.
But after the flyers were done being created. I was going to have a new steemgig. Offering to pay people an undecided amount of SBD's to go out and hang flyers. Then take pictures and post them on steemit as proof, and then I was going to pay those people for completing the steemgig. Wouldn't cost me much money and it would incentivise the spreading of the flyers.
There are so many projects, we needs to somehow get them all together to share resources and exchange ideas. Like how did I just find out about this post today. No buenos.
Anyway hope some of this helps. I am on discord and steemitchat if you ever need any help sir. Also reading through the comments, I like the idea of giving them something for coming. maybe not a certain amount of steem just for joining. But in the flyer, you could send them to some certain steemit link that could be a landing page for flyer initiates. and we could figure out somehow to help them enjoy the platform.. I think giving them an upvote when they actually post thats worth 2$ will energize them more then just getting 2$ for showing up (although, maybe not initially now that I read that) .. Anyways, what you are doing is awesome. I hope to be a quarter as beneficial as you one day haha
Cool, thanks a lot for your input. I'll let you know if there's anything you can do to help.
Hi @timcliff, as I mentioned on steem chat I'd like to put forward one of the flyers we have done for promo-uk. This seems to be the most popular one so far. It is designed to include the branding for Steemit whilst having the most popular topics on there to help grab interest.
Awesome, thanks!
In advertising, words like "You", "Your", and "Free" are very powerful.
It would be a good idea to include those power-words in the flyer.
Thanks, I hope it is a success!
Good tips - Thanks!
I love the old school approach of spreading the word through flyers. Count me in Tim! :D
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