An idea to promote your site for free

Here is an idea for free offline promotion.

Put a big sticker in your car with your url, best with a color that will attract the eye (eg. orange), and park it on a high traffic road.

I think this could work. What's your opinion?

It's possible that it could work - especially if your URL is catchy and short.  This technique is especially beneficial if your website is meant for a local audience :) It may work for general-audience websites as well, especially if it's an entertainment/humor site :)

I agree too, especially for what celinus said.

This is an odd form of advertising, but you could leave flyers around in coffee shops with free wifi.

That's a very nice idea.  I will try it

I hope posting my own link is not disallowed here. But this is something I would like to share. My friend who has built a large tupperware business using offline promotion techniques wrote an article for my site which I am sure you will be interested in

100 Creative Ways to Advertise & Market Your Biz Offline

Nice article Lata.

It's ok to post links from your sites, if they are relevant to the topic's theme ofcourse :)

I think that a lot of those ideas wouldn't work for a wine website ;o)

I have been meaning to get my url on the back of my car for ages!

wineo

Propably you should try spreading flyers to quallity restaurants, or park your car (with the url on it) on a place like that :)

I agree. You can many of the things suggested, provided you choose carefully the places where you spread the word.

I need to take offline promotion more seriously.  I guess I am turned off by the fact that google PR doesnt work offline. :P

LOL... very true!

I have a nice big advertisement on my cars windshield.

The only reason it sucks is because I cant check my views to conversions ratio.

The only way to check this is by promoting this way a new site, and wait a little before you promote it with other ways.

I know that this is impossible, but I would love to find someone that did it.

Make me the right offer and you can have your very own WebDigity.com banner on my car ;)

I live in Long Beach, CA and I drive to Los Angeles almost every day, so you know its gonna be visible!

Some more ways:

Go to office depot and get a stamp for $20 that has your URL and a brief description.  Pickup a 1000 pack of bright colored notes. Get to postin and stickin.

:D @ xRealNinjuzx
I used to advertise my friend's local/online Tshirt shop  this way... He asked me if he could put a "banner" on my second car.

nik if u are suggesting i put a sticker on my brand new 2005 car, then u my friend, u are insane

LoL. Actually I am, but anyway this is a promotion method that can help people that have local based sites.

*laughs to self* and this man thinks i am putting a sticker on my car u dont know me all that well

I did something similar with an auto parts company. We had stickers on our cars and believe it or not quite a few people ended up visiting the site.

actually now that i think about it i might get a custom sticker made to go across the back window

Im 4 years to young to even have a driving license so thats sort of out of the question for me :)

hahahahah huhu good yea everyone will think once 5-10% may
apply it you may get 5-20% advertisement ,any way
put link og your site in your visiting card and distribute it like crazzzzy

Great article, earned your site a bookmark.

I actually took this idea a step farther. I got a cheap scrolling LED sign on Ebay and put in the back window of my car with the URL of my humor site http://www.wontonway.com scrolling in different colors. Stickers are good, but something that eye catching is even better, plus it works very well at night. Also, it's dynamic, so you can change the message if you're having a promotion or something.
Tom

WOW I am sure that works better than a sticker! I am sure that you would be stopped by the cops here in AUS for that... lol

Yes, well if you check out the site, you'll come to realize that in terms of reckless and idiotic things we've done, driving around with a scrolling sign ranks pretty low  ;)  :)
Tom

Great idea Tomcat. Thanks for sharing it with us :)

Btw did you have any measured results from this? I mean did you saw any increase to your type in traffic when you added this led sign?

hmmm

That's a good idea, especially if your website's target audience is of interest to the local community.

For those people who are concerned about painting their car or marking it up in any way, here's the approach I would take: get one or two of those translucent plastic banners made that statically cling to the rear window of your car. I have one of those myself; it says "University of Toronto". Get something like that made. When you are in stop-and-go traffic to and from work, who knows who might see it. Or when the car is parked in the shopping centre parking lot, the university parking lot, etc.

don't you have to pay signage fee on anything that you advertise on your vehicle?