I’ve got a big EGO
- Image by Max Sparber via Flickr
Another Friday evening. So much to do, that won’t all get done. This weekend is going to be pretty hectic. I’ve got alot of RE work to do. On a tangent note, why is it so hard to blog everyday? I’ve been aiming to do so, but it doesn’t get done. Then when I do post, I have so much new news that is backlogged, it doesn’t all get told because who feels like writing a novel each blog post? Anyway, I digress.
I’ve revamped my advertising plan. I know that the Newspapers don’t work for me. After about one month, I had received all kinds of calls but they were for properties way out in Lynchville, Illinois (that’s meant as a joke, but did you know Lynchville is a city in Maine, Virginia, and Tennessee? Me neither. Either way, you won’t see me there). My focus is on the college town of Champaign-Urbana, IL. I don’t have the time or interest to learn about all of these little surrounding cities that don’t even have a Walmart (a good measure of city size BTW).
Nixing the Newspaper ads will free-up about $200 monthly in ad expenses. So remember the door-hanger brochure idea I spoke about while back? The brochures are being printed right now and I also got my friend to hook-up a flyer design. The brochures will go into plastic bag door-hangers and be put on doors of houses within targeted neighborhoods, while the flyer will be printed in 11×17 size and put in grocery stores and laundromats and such.
I’ve also got another idea. And I think it’s DOPE! So check this out…as a resident of the Mid-West the winters can be brutal. It’s not that cold yet, but once January and February rolls around it will be an every-morning task of warming up the car for 10 minutes and scraping the ice off of the windshield. And I mean everyday. So since that is a part of the morning routine for most (who don’t have a garage at least), I’m thinking of getting some promotional “We Buy Houses” Ice scrapers. BAHM! How you like that! Genius right? If these free ice-scrapers are distributed to select homeowners and are quality enough for them to actually use, they will read my advertisement every morning. And probably every evening in the parking lot at work before heading home. The beauty is that I can get some decent ones for like a dollar each, which isn’t bad. I’m a marketing machine baybeh! I’m going to let this idea marinate and I may just get some custom scrapers to ad to my marketing mix.
I’m a bit cocky to be as broke as I am right? WRONG! My vision is clear “I can see it NOW” and pretty soon my bank account will grow into the ego. It’s all coming together, slowly but surely.
- Peace Out
P.S.
I forgot I was supposed to bring back accountability Mondays. I’m going to get back on it next week. Despite the fact that none of my blogger friends do it anymore. What’s up with that anyway?! You all know who you are. That’s OK! (said in Al Pacino – Scarface voice) I’m going to bring it back anyway. Bring it back like fannypacks
