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Affiliate Programs does distributing flyes work?

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I signed up with a satellite dish affiliate and bought a 1000 flyers from them, flyers look good, they're high quality in color on glossy paper. I'm not real good at speaking to people so I was going to just put them on people's door. I've also planned on hiring a few people to distribute them. I'm not looking for a high number of sales if I get 10 sales out of a 1000 that would be enough, just looking for some extra spending money. I've posted this satellite dish offer on a few local classifieds online, but I haven't received any sales and the flyer has a lot of fine print.

Any advice would be appreciated

Thanks!
 
There needs to be a leader in the flyer , something free for instance , this might get you leads and then your salesmanship can kick in, in these types of fields you are really selling yourself and not the product.
 
yeah the flyer is from the affiliate there's a lot of free stuff including a 30 day risk free guarantee, it's just there's a lot of fine print
 
"10 sales out of a 1000 that would be enough"
That would be incredibly good if by flyering you got 10 sales for a product such as satellite dishes with only 1000 flyers. At least I think so...
 
scrsteven said:
"10 sales out of a 1000 that would be enough"
That would be incredibly good if by flyering you got 10 sales for a product such as satellite dishes with only 1000 flyers. At least I think so...

I didn't know the sales would be that low! I'm going to have to think of another advertising method. I was thinking 10 out of a 1000 is only 1%. Do you have to get permission to put signs on telephone poles and street corners?
 
abcd said:
I didn't know the sales would be that low! I'm going to have to think of another advertising method. I was thinking 10 out of a 1000 is only 1%. Do you have to get permission to put signs on telephone poles and street corners?

most states its illegal, you may want to check out grocery stores, walmart many have a bulliten board rack for business fliers
 
1% would be high, most people probably just throw them away unless there is incentive for them.
 
keep in mind that in many states it is illegal to put them in peoples mailboxes. doors i think are ok (as long as they don't have a dog. hehe). good luck.
 
Luc said:
keep in mind that in many states it is illegal to put them in peoples mailboxes

It's actually a federal (Entire US) offense to put a non stamped flyer in or on a mailbox. USPS can charge up to $300 per incident if caught! Ouch!
 
When I do flyers I put them in the local weekly paper.

It only goes out once a week, but they only charge $20 for 1000 flyer inserts.
I even get to choose the zip code where they get distributed. So I can rotate

at $0.04 per BW copy = $40
All said and done it's only $60 and I didn't leave the house :-)

Maybe something like this is in your area.

Best of Luck
 
There is also car windows, leave them on the bus/train, 'accidentally drop' them on the ground here and there where lots of people walk, leave them in restrooms, waiting rooms - the list is endless.

Guerilla marketing is what you make of it. Try different things and see what works for you.
 
I do flyers for my business in the UK i am a telephone engineer and for me this is the cheapest way of getting customers my product sells for £60 GBP and i get an average of between 3 - 5% jobs out of it considering it costs me £5 for materials its a very good profit i always use flyers for my business as this is the cheapest way of getting customers for me.
 
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