Distributing Flyers on cars?

[green-pa]

Has anyone had much success with putting flyers on cars ( under the wiper)?
I did about 500 last week and didn't get one call that I know of. This is of course about 5x faster than going from home to home but yet I'm sure it's a little more annoying for some that don't need the service. Just wanted to get some input to see if I'm wasting my time or not.

[causalitist]

i second that.

[Norwell]

In my opinion this is just not worth it. Depending on the area you are in you may be setting yourself up for some car repair bills. We did a similar thing when I sold cars. We would leave what was called a "would'cha take" and make an offer on the car hoping to get people into the dealership. We got people in their alright...claiming we scratched their paint, bent their wiper, broke their window. Plus I feel that you cannot target your audience very well. For all you know half of the 500 you passed out went to apartment and town home owners/dwellers. Unless you're passing them out at a golf club, which will never happen, I would think you are spinning your wheels. However this comes from someone who has been out of the game for a while. I'm looking to get back in and would still go door to door...feels like more control to me.

[GreenN'Clean]

Yeah but what areas would you be targeting with the flyers on the cars method? You might put it on a car thats 20-30 miles away or all of them could be way out of your area. I gave up on handing out flyers cause I never had any luck with them. I only run ads in the paper, direct mail and going to run an ad with post mats at some local diners

[Rickco]

I would say don't do it! I personaly Have never looked at anything left on my windshield when comming out of a store. I just take it from under the wiper and throw it on the ground,that's right. I figure that nobody has any right to touch my car or truck and pobibly not the shopping centers blessing to harrass there customers. If there is enough crap blowing around there parking lot I'm sure the solicitor will be getting a phone call,but not the kind they want.

[MattDavis]

I would be pissed off, nothing like getting into your vehicle in a hurry, turning the key and relizing you need to get back out to retrieve the flyer someone left under your wiper......or worse yet not noticing it and having it bow away on the highway.........

[Albery's Lawn & Tractor]

I'd call to ask who the hell you think you are putting that crap on my truck. If you were in the parking lot still I'd drive by and throw it back. Thats a cheap and very unprofessional way of advertising, I always think if this is how they advertise just imagine what the service would be like.

[Horsepower Lawns]

Like others have said DON'T touch my truck..

I would call you but not for lawn work.:hammerhead:

[Runner]

This has been discussed before, and it is about as amateurish and unprofessional as you can get. You are trying to be a professional service not a freakin' barbeque stand that just opened up down on the corner lot. besides that, even if it WERE somewhat accepted as a business practice, what type of people are drawing? What type of people are you shooting for? y9u are hitting people who by far aren't in the market, people who live in apartments, people who live in trailers, and areas that you probably wouldn't find to be "economically feasible" for a service business such as this. Other than that, yes...I too have told these guys running around littering lots to stay away from my vehicle. It sounds like a great way to end up fixing someone's scratched fender, to me.

[green-pa]

If someone put a stinkin' flyer about mowing my yard on my nice car I would be very pissed! Except I'd go a bit further than these guys and I'd pull out a bow and arrow and put a hole in your freakin' leg!:laugh:

[DaughtryLC]

Has anyone had much success with putting flyers on cars ( under the wiper)?
I did about 500 last week and didn't get one call that I know of. This is of course about 5x faster than going from home to home but yet I'm sure it's a little more annoying for some that don't need the service. Just wanted to get some input to see if I'm wasting my time or not.

If someone put a stinkin' flyer about mowing my yard on my nice car I would be very pissed! Except I'd go a bit further than these guys and I'd pull out a bow and arrow and put a hole in your freakin' leg!:laugh:

:confused: :confused: ;) ;)

[green-pa]

I was just being fecicious. lol. I just wanted to pretend I was one of the guys for a moment. It's funny how one guy adds something a little upsetting and then the next guy a bit more, and the 3rd guy really upset, then I wanted to put the icing on the cake with saying how I'd shoot someone for such a thing. It's all silly. But I got the point. I'm not doing flyers on cars anymore. I don't think I got one call anyway and I did about 400.

[fiveoboy01]

I don't like anyone touching my vehicles in any way. Don't know why that is - guess it's just something about respecting others' property.

Anything I've ever found on my vehicle, I've immediately crumpled up and tossed without even looking at it.

[vaulta]

Would putting a business card in bewteen the window and door different?

[NC Greenscaper]

Bad Idea. This ranks up there with the guy sneaking around the isles in Lowes Home Improvement handing out his flyers for home repairs.

[vaulta]

Bad Idea. This ranks up there with the guy sneaking around the isles in Lowes Home Improvement handing out his flyers for home repairs.
Is this any different then putting a flyer on someones door of their house.

[NC Greenscaper]

I've put flyers on homes in neighborhoods that I wanted to work in. You also have the oportunity to meet some of these people and sell them. You don't know who is driving the car, where they live. They may all live in apartments or areas that can't afford your services.

[vaulta]

I've put flyers on homes in neighborhoods that I wanted to work in. You also have the oportunity to meet some of these people and sell them. You don't know who is driving the car, where they live. They may all live in apartments or areas that can't afford your services.

Iam not talking about the demographics, I am talking about do you frown upon it.

[stevenf]

I've put flyers on homes in neighborhoods that I wanted to work in. You also have the oportunity to meet some of these people and sell them. You don't know who is driving the car, where they live. They may all live in apartments or areas that can't afford your services.

Pass them out at target, not walmart. All the rich people go to target.

[Albery's Lawn & Tractor]

Pass them out at target, not walmart. All the rich people go to target.

Target has a NO SOLICITING policy and will quickly escort you off there property after making you collect all the flyers you put out.

[topsites]

My biggest concern in this case is the smartness, I think this clever little tactic would attract exactly those kind of customers...
Something to do with shoving it down their throat, consumers may not have but so much of a choice when it comes to advertising, but the more we force them to take a look, I think the worse things get. And because it's a kind of a backhanded thing, I would advise staying away from this idea.

Come to think of it, maybe that's why my flyer tactic never worked so good. :laugh:

[SLR]

If someone put a stinkin' flyer about mowing my yard on my nice car I would be very pissed! Except I'd go a bit further than these guys and I'd pull out a bow and arrow and put a hole in your freakin' leg!:laugh:

Whew,when i first started out reading i immediatly was fumming that people
actually have the gall to reach out and put they're disgusting,dirty contaminated fingers on my 'just washed'n'waxed pick-up!!


GreATLY relieved to see others are not keen on ******s messing with my wipers/etc!!!!!!!!!!!!!


**"KEEP'yer extremities far from my sheet metal"..i thunks if i came accross someones address/phone# on that paper i would go egg that guys house with used "sheet-paper"!!(not a idle threat however,hint-hint)

[ExclusiveLawnCare]

I dont think this is a good ideal that shows people you are lazy and cant walk door to door and hang or place flyers there, So why would I want you to cut my lawn.

If your gonna do it, do it right.

[DillonsLawnCare]

A face is worth a thousand flyers.

[Sweet Tater]

me thinks some one stepped n a hornets nest...
But I agree, You toucha my truck, I breaka you fingers.

[txgrassguy]

I always throw crap like this away.
And like I posted in the other thread about this, if I find YOUR vehicle I'll return the flyer SOAKED TO YOUR WINDSHIELD.
I actually had this happen about a month or so ago in one of the few times I go to the mall. Damn place is over thirty miles away, is always crowded and parking a quad cab dually is a pain. Came out of the mall with my girlfriend, the only bright part of the day being the times she paraded the bikini I bought her and outside I see a large flyer on my truck windshield.
I located the vehicle carrying the flyers, soaked that thing to the dude's windshield with an old can of Pearl Light beer and waited to see if he would say anything.
The idiot calls the cops, says I defaced his vehicle and the cops asks me what happened, I explain and the dude got a ticket for soliciting without a license plus one for littering. Cop told him he was lucky no one ripped off his windshield wipers or sliced his tires. As he walked away the cop told me he ALWAYS wanted to do what I did but could never catch the people responsible.

[GroundForce007]

I always throw crap like this away.
And like I posted in the other thread about this, if I find YOUR vehicle I'll return the flyer SOAKED TO YOUR WINDSHIELD.
I actually had this happen about a month or so ago in one of the few times I go to the mall. Damn place is over thirty miles away, is always crowded and parking a quad cab dually is a pain. Came out of the mall with my girlfriend, the only bright part of the day being the times she paraded the bikini I bought her and outside I see a large flyer on my truck windshield.
I located the vehicle carrying the flyers, soaked that thing to the dude's windshield with an old can of Pearl Light beer and waited to see if he would say anything.
The idiot calls the cops, says I defaced his vehicle and the cops asks me what happened, I explain and the dude got a ticket for soliciting without a license plus one for littering. Cop told him he was lucky no one ripped off his windshield wipers or sliced his tires. As he walked away the cop told me he ALWAYS wanted to do what I did but could never catch the people responsible.


yeah thats funny yeah i dont do this and i still don't think it would work that well

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