Sean Adams
11-07-2005, 11:43 AM
As you may have noticed by now when operating my business we tried a lot of different things to get attention - some worked well - some tanked - some were nothing more than something to look back on and laugh....
Something that did work well was having a presence outside the poll stations. Tomorrow we have local elections coming up and there are a lot of different polling stations for each community where candidates and assistants stand outside and shake hands, lobby for last minute votes, pass out literature, etc...
Each year we did something slightly different - if there was a turf and landscape area we cleaned it up a few days in advance - no charge (usually nothing too significant), nice khakis, company collared shirt or windbreaker, if it was cold out that day we had coffee and hot chocolate, and one year we even had little baggies with bulbs inside and a business card that we passed out to the voters....we'd set up a card table, have a little sign out front, keep to ourselves and just be seen...picked up some really nice accounts... I can assure you we never had any competition, and of course we never showed any political affiliation
Something that did work well was having a presence outside the poll stations. Tomorrow we have local elections coming up and there are a lot of different polling stations for each community where candidates and assistants stand outside and shake hands, lobby for last minute votes, pass out literature, etc...
Each year we did something slightly different - if there was a turf and landscape area we cleaned it up a few days in advance - no charge (usually nothing too significant), nice khakis, company collared shirt or windbreaker, if it was cold out that day we had coffee and hot chocolate, and one year we even had little baggies with bulbs inside and a business card that we passed out to the voters....we'd set up a card table, have a little sign out front, keep to ourselves and just be seen...picked up some really nice accounts... I can assure you we never had any competition, and of course we never showed any political affiliation