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Post by ukuleleron on Jun 13, 2010 13:05:31 GMT
The problem is we all have different lifestyles. If you posted it on twitter or facebook, I'd probably see it. If you printed it in the visitor, I wouldn't. The complete opposite goes for a lot of people while some don't go online or buy a newspaper. You could post notices in the tourism office and around town, you could do flyers under car wipers. We'll never cover everyone but surely we should be using the cheapest methods that reach the widest audience i.e. online. Cover the local forums, send it to the gov.uk sites, ask other sites to add links and tweet it. Well, I do post on facebook and twitter (there are links from my site or from here www.lunevalleyaudio.com/wall.htm ) There is a rack full of flyers and posters in both Morecambe and Lancaster Visitor Infomation centres (there is no 'Tourism' any more) When you say 'you' I presume you mean 'them'? I don't think Lancaster City Council would be interested in going round poking flyers under car windscreen wipers and they have a strict policy on where posters may be stuck. What other promoters do, is up to them but in my experience marketing is a skill a lot of them lack. I believe that my website probably fulfills your criteria for being the widest and cheapest method of reaching my target audience, not counting the local papers of course. It would be lovely if promoters did what you suggest, and some do, in the last couple of hours I`ve had four notifications of events taking place locally, all duly added to my website and the imminent ones twittered and facebooked. |
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Post by accykeef on Jun 13, 2010 14:01:23 GMT
If it was posted on Twitter or Facebook we definitely would not see it.
I assume all the local gigs appear in The Visitor although I cannot be certain.
I would suggest that promoters would be likely to send details to them as they consider it worth their while, the same would go for a website with a proven audience providing the information is presented in a diary format and is accurate.
A printable programme of events would be a bonus too.
How about a big notice board near to Carlisle Bridge?
It would give people something to look at as they try to get into Morecambe.
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Post by ukuleleron on Jun 13, 2010 14:26:34 GMT
If it was posted on Twitter or Facebook we definitely would not see it. I assume all the local gigs appear in The Visitor although I cannot be certain. I would suggest that promoters would be likely to send details to them as they consider it worth their while, the same would go for a website with a proven audience providing the information is presented in a diary format and is accurate. A printable programme of events would be a bonus too. How about a big notice board near to Carlisle Bridge? It would give people something to look at as they try to get into Morecambe. The problem isnt getting the papers or websites to print, it`s getting promoters to inform the media of their event in the first place. I refuse to chase after promoters, if they want their gig publicised, they have to tell me - quite often it's a member of the public or a band member who lets me know about a gig. As far as The Visitor goes, again they only print what they are told about they are a commerciaol venture and won't have a person who spends their time scouring websites so that they can advertise gigs for free. A big notice board near Carlisle Bridge? There used to be notice boards on all the lamposts on every major road into Morecambe and Lancaster. The council (County) took them down. There are very few public notice boards left. Maybe some enterprising person should start up a free newspaper containing details of all the local events and delivered to every household and public premises in the area [ how big an area?] and handed out in all the supermarkets. It would have to be weekly of course, someone would have to work full time to collect and colate the data. and ensure that it was accurate. and someone would have to deliver it. Oh yes, and someone would have to pay for it... You might return some revenue from advertising but too much advertising and it would just become another free rag to line to bottom of the budgie cage with like the Citizen (deceased) and the Reporter |
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Post by accykeef on Jun 13, 2010 15:03:21 GMT
I don't think the free newspaper route is viable any more. I personally keep up to date with news via the Daily Mail Online website. www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.htmlNot too bothered about the politics but in my opinion this website is a very good example of a news site. The content is well laid out, is regularly updated and is usually accurate. There are the serious stories and the not so serious mishaps, my kind of news reporting. The Evening news on the BBC is our other source of info as we tend to have it on while the butler and the maid are serving the bowls of gruel. |
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Jun 14, 2010 12:48:50 GMT
The trouble with almost all forums is that they start off with an enthusiastic group of contributors, but soon dwindle down to a handful of regulars There may only be a few regular contributor bt that doesn't mean that guests simply viewing the site shoud be disregarded. The more places that the council can use (for free) to inform people of events then surel the better. All it takes is for the council to send out a few regular updates. I have asked people just to either email me or pop on the site and let us know anything of interest but no response. Perhaps people suspect I am intending to send them a quarterly bill or something. Ideally if the council website keeps itself up to date that should serve the required purpose. |
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Post by ukuleleron on Jun 14, 2010 13:56:31 GMT
The trouble with almost all forums is that they start off with an enthusiastic group of contributors, but soon dwindle down to a handful of regulars There may only be a few regular contributor bt that doesn't mean that guests simply viewing the site shoud be disregarded. The more places that the council can use (for free) to inform people of events then surel the better. All it takes is for the council to send out a few regular updates. I have asked people just to either email me or pop on the site and let us know anything of interest but no response. Perhaps people suspect I am intending to send them a quarterly bill or something. Ideally if the council website keeps itself up to date that should serve the required purpose. Absolutely, but I don't think that MTC's website is intended to be a What's On site - I`m not quite sure just what the real purpose of it is. Information about Council decisions? propaganda? or just that they feel they should have one of those new fangled interwebs things like everyone else? I agree, in an ideal world every town would have its own website which would be treated like a notice board for all and sundry ( Like my own 'Wall' www.lunevalleyaudio.com/wall.htm ) Sadly this never happens. I've contemplated having a 'Notice Board' as well as The Wall, I`m not sure anyone would use it. There are several Morecambe and Heysham facebook pages, all of them basically dormant (good idea at the time syndrome) Your remark about quarterly bills has a ring of truth about it. A lot of promoters I`ve mentioned my site to, don't believe that it's free and that they will get charged. A lot of sites start off free then start to charge after a month or so. A lot of subscription 'What's On' sites start up but rarely last long. I would hope that some Morecambe councilors read this forum, are they even aware of its existance? |
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Post by WillowTheWhisp on Jun 14, 2010 16:12:49 GMT
I would hope that some Morecambe councilors read this forum, are they even aware of its existance? Well, we can soon check that out. I know of another town forum, a very busy and popular one, which the council in question refused to acknowledge the existence of preferring to squander £500,000 on a waste of space of its own which served no purpose whatsoever. BTW one of those Facbook pages is mine - an unsuccesful attempt to promote this forum but I really wasn't clear how to go about it. |
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I had been telling my hubby about the time I was in Morecombe when the Moby Dick and Hotel was hit by lightening and burnt down. My parents, sister and myself had just come off the Moby Dick when lightening stuck