Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
Information => Forum News, Information and Help => Topic started by: admin on August 27, 2009
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We're passed the 100 member mark with over 2500 posts which is brilliant - now we need more!
Please post any ideas you have on how to get the word out to new people.
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Put an ad in trail, TGO or outsider mags
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Put an ad in trail, TGO or outsider mags
I should have mentioned that free or very low cost is quite important...
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i could offer 10% off wine s bought in the Lurgan wine company
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i could offer 10% off wine s bought in the Lurgan wine company
There really is nothing better than cheap drink..
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Unlucky Jonno its for new members ;D
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I think i could stretch it and fit you in Jonno :D
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I think i could stretch it and fit you in Jonno :D
Yeehaaaaw!
Trouble is the drive would probably cost more that the 10% discount.
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Think big Jonno the more it costs the more the discount. I'll order you a pallet of Lurgans Finest wine ;D
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Put an ad in trail, TGO or outsider mags
Put an ad in trail, TGO or outsider mags
I should have mentioned that free or very low cost is quite important...
If its free your after then all you have to to is join there forums and post a link.
Also It might be worth while to have a link to a downloadable forum logo that people involved in avents (The MMM for example) could print of and attach to themselves will competing.
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What about adding a link onto everyone's Facebook page..... ie more exposure at little cost....
Even create a Facebook group.....
Just a thought
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I start back at UUC in two weeks, they have a great sports club, with surfers, sailing, kayak/canoe etc. Jordanstown has aload too including climbers as far as i remember. Does anyone know what Queens does??
Why not get a few fliers drawn up and i will bung a few around uni - just a handful, see how that goes??
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i found the site by following a link at the bottom of a post on another forum.
car stickers are an idea as well as theyre cheap and people notice them.
also the fact thats its an n.i site made it more real to me ,meaning i could go to the places mentioned on the forum and also take part in activities which didnt involve a flight or boat journey to the mainland.
also,if your out and about walking of whatever , mention the site to people too.any time i see someone out on a sit on top kayak i tell em about kayakanglingireland.com lol , even got a wee plug in there myself :D
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You need to get some flyers or cards sorted out mate. You missed a very good oportunity when we did the event at the autumfest in Carnfunnock. We had an audience of 100 plus if we had given out flyers or cards you could have had at least another 50 members. I have a link on our website to ni wild and when we are running other events we will plug this site but it would be good to have some cards or at least a poster to advertise.
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So whats the latest on Flyers or posters?
What about Radio Ulster... Your place and Mine. They are often looking interesting local events activities etc. Maybe worth giving them a ring to chat about forum and events that have taken place.
We did a piece on Geocaching last year, got people interested.
HoU
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Yeah, it all fell by the wayside. My complete lack of artistic abilities holds it all back a bit :)
Is still on the cards though.
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we could raise some money for charity - by doing an outdoor thing - and get a bit of PR from the papers that way....
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we could raise some money for charity
We could always setup an Air Ambulance "charity". That way we could raise £750k or so then all disappear to the Himalayas for a while :D :P
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Get flyers up for outdoor places like cotswolds, jacksons etc or get teams in for diff events and have ni-wild all over kit. Also flyers for events like country fair in shanes castle
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What about a mass niwild voluntering day helping the mourne trust . Mourne trust get some work done niwild gets free advertising in the papers . Someone on here takes photos for a living I think ,maybe they could call in a few favours and get it in more papers if possible :) just a thought .or paint a big niwild. Com on the side of cavehill but not sure that would go down to good
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Can we get some linkage from the iPlod site?
Target the contact person of the numerous NI walking/rambling clubs with an email. If they don't have web sites, a fair number have newsletters that go out before each walk they do (including the lunch menu on the back....it's all very civilised..). Also try offering the club a hosted forum a lot of them are non-techy.
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Also flyers for events like country fair in shanes castle
My head of department's father is the organiser for this event along with the Ballywalter one.
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With the talk of the iPlod (and IMHO mentaltons running 50km in the dark/rain) and the talk of flyers (and the excessive work involved with them) I just had a brain fart using the first images I came across.....perhaps the call to action is a bit too subtle.
(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1297/4662477991_f50f4fbace_t.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4662477991/sizes/o/) (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1307/4663098568_1cc6c30951_t.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4663098568/sizes/o/) (http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4663098546_4979b32543_t.jpg) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/mcrobert/4663098546/sizes/o/)
Possible uses:
- print them out and stick them on your dashboard when you are heading for the mountain
- slip a small laminated version into the route card of the iPlod'ers
- laminate a large one and stick it to the back of your ruck's rain cover
- other...
ps. domain names are one of my 'things' this domain name should really be registered without the hyphen..and in .com as well, to stop some nasty typosquatter causing problems with people trying to find this site.
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Cheers for the suggestions all. We'll have to get some of them into practice so we can swell our numbers!