So has anyone used flyers effectively?

[jestew]

I hand out flyers and make sure to have my website on the flyers. My business is primarily not online but I have not had very good results from as far as traffic from the flyers.

[veikoh]

I'm thinking to use flyers also for my Picture Dating Community site when I will get MMS picture uploads sorted out.
My idea is to distribute those to the colleges and campuses noticeboards, so I estimate that average 12 persons will read each flyer, the sign up rate has been 12% per visitor so from 1000 flyers I can get around 1400 members.

[posylane]

I wife opened a gift, invitation and embroidery shop in town. Having a very small advertizing budget I hit the pavement with flyers to the local community. We did not offer a discount in the flyer, and the return rate (from people talking about the flyer) was about 0.5%. I walked about 250 miles but business picked up to the point where I had to go work the store.

I would not put a lot of money in flyers myself, but they did drive traffic.

[emd5005]

Smitty,

I would still suggest using Adwords. You do have the option to only advertise locally, so I would definitely recommend it! Good Luck!

Erica

[NMConsultant]

Flyers are a great inexpensive way to market.

I've posted flyers with pull tabs around college campuses and have gotten quite a high ROI on it, considering it cost virtually nothing for the paper and ink.

Also incentives for people to visit the website are great, too. Coupons or a special 'download' are always great.

You could team up with someone who would like to promote a product or something and you could offer a coupon for that free product or service as an incentive for people to visit the site!

[posylane]

I've posted flyers with pull tabs around college campuses and have gotten quite a high ROI on it, considering it cost virtually nothing for the paper and ink.

Flyers advertizing the appropriate item will really work well on college campuses.