My story of Chattel......

Jason you just don’t get it and something tells me you never will.
I have no interest in taking you on as a partner. My wife and I don’t
need a third party telling us how they wouldn’t do things our way.
Thanks but no thanks.

Steve

here in misisisisisisisiiiisisppi....

owner has the boxes.....I offered to sell ads on a separate page that would cover the box...

we split the profits on the sales minus my daily fee...of 200.

had possible 22 ads at 200 for 5000 boxes...4400 gross...

copies are PRINTED..not Kinko-ed....for 5 cents each...

employees put the ad page on the box with a post it note...

so........

no boxes to buy.....sell ads to the friends of the pizza owner...
employees place the ads....we split the profits...

tokk 3 days at 200..(600)...250 for the printing....

4400 minus the 850....3550 divided by 2....1775....each...

he would have to sell over 600 pizzas to make the same profit...on those give away 5 dollar pizzas....using a gross profit of 3 per ....loved it...



now...

we are having a FAIR in the city ..I have been asleep at the wheel...having over 500K people go through the gates with NO coupon book or any marketing materials...

anyone ever done anything with this kind of crowd?

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ba...adol-campaign/


these are really cool....

wonder how muchthey charge the client for these ?

"tokk 3 days at 200..(600)"

Bob, are the three days for selling, and then creating the file for the printer? If so, it seems kinda open-ended from the shop owner's perspective.
Did you have a previous relationship with this pizza shop owner?

Jerry

matter of fact, it is a national franchise...

the ONLY exposure that I am uneasy about is the store's employees NOT including the flyer/ads on the boxes...




dont understand the open ended part....we ended up with 20 ads as business cards....and 2 banner ads....

printer scanned the cards, and printed ....

hope that explains it...

the shop owner has people that

cut his grass
fix his car
work at this home
sell him insurance
florist
car parts
windshield repairs
golf course
sports shop
local convenience store
apartment complex
video store
gym
real estate
2 churches
day care
chiropractor
dentist
one martial arts guy
home builder/ I buy houses buy
auto dealer and 24 hour medical clinic

not all were the owners referrals, some were referrals' referrals.

still could have an attorney liquor store beauty shop ...all kinds of categories ....I do what Skip said...use the different classes in the yellow pages/....

now, I am worried about the distribution....will have to order a pizza myself and check it out ...

thinking this could be expanded into a 'sectional' best of the best directories and have 50 or 60 listings....

weak point here is still the distribution...and only way to avoid that is to buy the boxes myself....printed....and then the ads get thrown out with the empty box....

hope this helps...

bob

Bob the open-ended part refers to what you get in daily fees. It isn't ethical of course, but you could have made another $200 by dragging your feet during the implementation. Or maybe I am misunderstanding.

well...

i guess so ...

but primarily worked the phone for contacts..from the store ...so caller id was the pizza addy ...

and then ......just did a DON on em...."drop by for a quick minute...show you can have dinner with 5k prospects for a nickle apiece..."

anyway

gonna give it some time and see what happens...

if you want to be on your thinking hat, give me something to do with the 500k people that will be here for the fair the next week....

thanks

Offer the fair to be a roaming photog.
Have a few people go around the fair and shoot kids on rides and playing games. Have them report back to you every hour to "dump photos on a puter) You add border then print and display for sale to fair goers.

If you want an example, shot me an email to (cndle4 at yahoo dot com)

Another thing I see every year at my state fair (Wisconsin)
Is a coupon sheet for to the various vendors at the fair. The sheet costs $1 and it also affers $1 off addmission to the fair making it "free" to the buyer of the coupon SHEET.
You get the idea. It may be to late this year for this one but, think about it next year.
Make each sheet generate $2 in ads.
Pay back the fair admission to the gate pay your "flyer pimps" 50 cents and you keep 50 cents from each sheet less printing.

If you set this up and only 25,000 people buy your ad sheet, you make $12,500 Less printing.


Hope these are a couple of Ideas that will help you out
Jason