17 Methods For Getting Free Advertising

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1. Place copies of your circular on bulletin boards
throughout your community, such as in coin-operated
laundries, grocery stores, barber shops, etc. Concentrate
on Fridays and Saturdays when shopping increases.

2. Check with local newspapers. Before going to press,
many smaller newspapers have space left that needs
filling.. Your ad may be just the right size to occupy
this unfilled space and they will run it free.

3. Place your circulars on windshields of parked autos.
Youngsters will be happy to do this for you for a dollar
or two. Check first with city ordinances to see if this
is permitted in your locality.

4. Leave sales literature on doorsteps of homes & businesses
in your area. Do this on weekends in residential areas;
weekdays for businesses.

5. For free advertising listings, send a long self-addressed
stamped envelope to Fun Mates Press -FM/03, Box 6466, San
Francisco, CA 9401. Ask for a copy of their _Free
Advertising Survey_ form.

6. Have your best pulling 1_ or 2_ ad made into a rubber
stamp. Stamp this on envelopes of all of your outgoing
mail.. Check rubber stamp dealer_s ads in current mail
order publications for price information.

7. When you have envelopes printed with your return
address, have them also print your best ad directly beneath
your address. It costs noting additional to have this
printed on the front of your envelopes.

8. If you publish a mail order magazine, newspaper,
adsheet, etc., contact other publishers, If your
circulation is equal to theirs, many will be happy to
exchange an equal amount of ad space with you.

9. Many publishers will give you free adspace for mailing
a few copies of their publication. Simply write to them and
ask if they will give you a free 1_ ad in exchange for mailing
50 to 100 copies of their pub.

10. Write informative articles for mail order trade
publication. Most publishers will give you free ad space for
the use of your article.

11. Take advantage of advertising _specials_. Many publishers
offer ads on a 3-for-the- price- of -2- basis, or 4-for-the-
price-of-3, etc. This saving is the same as getting one ad
free of charge.

12. Some publishers offer a free classified ad with your first
display ad. Watch for such specials. Use the free ad and pocket
the savings.

13. When starting a new publication, many publishers will offer
reduced ad rates to help fill space. Watch for ads regarding such
offers.

14. In your ads, request a SASE. Then insert some of your other
offers in regular outgoing mail. This is the same as getting
free advertising.

15.. become a _mailer_. get your printer_s lowest price for
printing circulars on both sides of the sheet. Contact other
dealers and state you will print and mail their circulars for
this price _with no conflicting ads on the back_. Then print
your circulars on the reverse and distribute them with your
outgoing mail. There is no extra cost for postage and envelopes,
and your side of the circular is paid for by your customers.

16. Offer a free commission circulars. Print one of your
regular offers on one side; a commission offer on the reverse,
leaving space where the mailer can rubber stamp his name &
address, Your offer gets a free ride.

17. If you use a postage meter machine, use the ad space
directly left of stamp imprint for a free message.