Holiday Decoration Marketing idea & contest

[Steve]

Let's all get into the spirit of the holidays. I created this flyer you can edit and hand out in your area. The idea of this marketing concept is that you are going to position yourself as the go to lawn care business in your area. You are going to be the one that is leading this outdoor holiday decoration contest. If local residents dont have time to put up decorations, then you can do it for them and include some coupons at the bottom of the flyer to promote this. Then go around your area and take pictures of homes with outdoor holiday decorations and put them on your website. Or put them on your myspace page. Then promote where these pictures will be and how local residents can visit your page to vote for their favorite house. How can they vote? Either post something below the picture in your myspace site or send in an email. Then you will choose a winner near Christmas time and possible hand out some gifts What kind of gifts? How about three trophies to the best decorated houses? Or ask around town and see if any other business owner would like to donate a prize to the winner. Send out a press release to your local paper to let them know you are conducting this contest and how readers can submit their pictures to you by emailing you. I also want to see the picture you take or are submitted. Maybe we can have a vote here for the best overall holiday decoration pictures. Here is a screen cap of the flyer. You can download the flyer here and edit it with a free program called openoffice.org. Make sure you logged into the forum to download all files

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[Steve]

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Post the outdoor holiday decoration pictures you take or are submitted to you! I got some prizes to give away to the winners we choose! - I have 2 free logo designs to give away compliments of Blair Productions - I have a 1 month Platinum membership to Chestin's Champion's Circle. Compliments of http://www.lawncarechampionscircle.com/ - I also have "The Full-Bore version of Keith's Lawn Care Business package includes tips on how to keep a Lawn Care Business running 12 months per year." compliments of http://www.startalawncarebusiness.com - "1 set of 2 full color truck graphics/lettering for the doors. They will also get a set of 3 "we are insured and pay taxes" stickers." compliments of Tony from http://www.amw-graphics.com "up to 27" x 18" per door. Laminated and contour cut (cut around it) if needed depending on the design."

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Cross promotion rocks!

Here's a screenshot from Blair Productions' site to promote the free logo contest!

[Steve]

How sweet! Thank you!

Just so you know I am adding more prizes and you should consider submitting some holiday decoration photos!

I'll definately see what I can come up with. = )

[Steve]

I have more prizes to include in this!

[Steve]

Oh check this out! More prizes!

"1 set of 2 full color truck graphics/lettering for the doors.
They will also get a set of 3 "we are insured and pay taxes" stickers." compliments of Tony from http://www.amw-graphics.com

"up to 27" x 18" per door. Laminated and contour cut (cut around it) if needed depending on the design."

[Steve]

How cool would it be if you could set up a website that could turn on and off christmas lights and then charge someone for setting up such a service! Or maybe have this service at your home and have a link through your website site to turn your holiday lights on or off!

Maybe you could put a yard sign out front that would tell people what site to visit! This could be a great promotion!

Check out his website at http://www.komar.org/

[Steve]

Photos sent to us from from United Environment.

So I've had a busy week.... here are my submission photos... from my neighbor's house. We took 5 1/2 days to do this...