Inexpensive way to have Grand Opening Flyers Designed

Companies first starting out are always under tight budget constraints and don’t always have the time and personnel to help them with creating flyers or announcements.  Here is a quick and inexpensive way to have flyers, business cards, and posters designed without breaking the bank.

Fiverr.com is a place for people to share things they’re willing to do for $5.00: Funny and bizarre, social marketing, graphics, advertising, technology, business project all can be hired for $5.00.  Imagine you want to have a simple flyer made advertising your grand opening to use on social media networks.  Instead of wasting time doing it yourself, spend $5.00 and have a professional build a poster or flyer for you in 2-3 days.  Most designers will allow one to six revisions to a flyer, but the nice part is that this is throw away marketing material.  This is a once in a life time flyer.  Don’t spend countless hours designing it, have something created that is professional looking and be finished.  Then use it to market your business grand opening and move on.

There will come a time when you will need a professional graphic designer to build custom advertising, but for now the key is creating a flyer and getting the word out to the public that you’re open.

Each year more and more people are texting and the trend is not declining.  Look around and you see people texting while eating, in meetings, and even going to the bathroom – it is an addiction to some. IPad users are using applications to link into the data stream. Allowing them to Internet surf, control the TV, and to send and receive text messages. Information is flowing all around us and a trick to getting your business in the text messaging loop is by converting Twitter message in to SMS text messages.

Like any opt-in marketing program you are going to have to entice followers to join the service, but this you have to do that with email newsletters, Facebook fan pages, and all the other social marketing programs.  However, there is a way to allow followers to follow your Twitter messages via SMS text-messaging.   Tell customer to text “follow (Twitter account)” to 40404.  This is a Twitter feature that allows for mobile message distribution.  Followers receive these Twitter messages as a SMS text message.

This service is available for US residents and any Carrier charges still apply for receiving text messages.

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A Game of Chance

The goal of the game is to add fun to a grand opening and give people a reason to buy products.

Grand Opening Promotional Card Game Scenario

A customer enters the store and walks directly to a table. On the table is a deck of fanned out playing cards. The customer selects a card. The card selected will determine the customer’s discount bag — hearts 10% off, a club 15%, a diamond 20%, and a spade 25% discount on selected items that can fit into the bag. If a person draws a wild card then a 50% bag is given. Use only one deck of cards, remove the cards as the promotion progresses. Once down to the last couple cards, reshuffle the deck and start all over again.

Items needed

• Deck of ordinary playing cards
• Shopping bags of different sizes
• Sharpie Marker

Setup for Grand Opening Card Game

Discount bags will need to have discount % written on each bag.

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