How Can I Get My Business Card Dispensers Looking Busy in the Fastest Time Possible?

nattytude

How do you get the displays looking busy, even if you don’t have enough clients to fill them up….any ideas??

Feb 16, 4:09 PM

Once you have them in there, then it’s a different ball game. This is when you can start to play them off eachother to ’secure the spot’. You should always report back to your clients as to how many of there cards have been taken also, this gives them security in the fact that someone is loking after the display and ‘ontop of things’!

One other point, is that the more displays you have clients cards in, the higher the probability of the getting calls! so don’t be shy to give away a few spots initially. You also increase your chances of business owners calling you to enquire about advertising in your displays!

Hope this helps!

Dean

Feb 16, 10:13 PM —

That is an interesting way to look at it…and I agree with you…although I have had a good experience the other way aswell.

Putting people in for Free is certainly a last resort…not a first option. The way you sign them up for 6 months first up is perfect and i’m sure you might even get the odd person for 12 months?

What I think is good in this case, is that if someone pays you for 6 months for one display (for example), then you could also put there cards in your other displays for FREE without telling them. This would only occur if you had the free spaces to start with of course.

Doing this will increase the chances of the advertiser getting more calls and in turn increase the chances of them re-newing with you!

It’s great to hear your getting calls from your displays…that makes things alittle easier!

Great job Andrew…your input in valued.

Talk soon.

Dean

Feb 19, 5:59 PM —

heresmycard |

Because this concept is new in my area, there has been some resistance to getting owners to sign up for 12 months. I know that it is important to have the displays looking busy from the moment they are installed, so I have been offering a half price 3 month trial offer, and it’s been well accepted so far. I’m also splitting the cards amongst the other displays so the advertiser gets more exposure (and hopefully more calls) and all displays look equally busy. I’m not printing cards for them at this price - just utilizing their existing business cards. Aaron’s idea of the drop box for free ad display is a good idea and I will have to try that. I’ve also put a call to action on my placard that promts business owners to call me for how to advertise in the displays. Another thing I did was pull some cards off of bulletin boards and called the business owner to pitch them on my displays as a more effective networking tool.

Thanks for the ideas, keep ‘em coming…

Dave

Feb 22, 5:12 PM —

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Feb 22, 5:13 PM —

Hi Dean
I don’t know if I can ask this question here but I am looking for a location contract sample that I can use to sign up location. I hope you can help me with this.
Thanks in advance.
Daniel

As I told you in a preview posting, I designed the display with more brochure capacity than other in the market. I have a contract template to sign up advertisers, I just need to get something for the location.

The 2 displays that I placed, I didn’t sign any contract yet. I wonder if this is really necessary?

Thank for your quick response.
Daniel

I have changed my mind about making the displays look busy. I used to think if there were too many empty spots…looked like they weren’t selling. Now I put them out with one or two and wait for the calls…and they will come…especially if you have the location on board and earning a referral commission.

If you feel you need some cards in the display to look full…put some freebies in until space is gone…but leave at least 4 or 5 empty…not one!

This business is like looking in a Kalidescope…everytime you look it changes and it changes with locations. Just try new things and adapt.

dmiles