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  • #31
    Quoth Panacea View Post
    Does this really bring in customers? Maybe it should seem obvious since they do it year after year, but I'm really curious as to how good a marketing tool this is.
    In case Gaki's offline, I can tell you it seems to work wonders at the one I work near.

    She waves and dances, but also gives out coupons to the foot traffic.

    Back when I smoked (outside observing LL), I witnessed a few people read the coupon and then walk into the establishment.
    "So, if you wanna put places like that outta business, just stop being so rock-chewingly stupid." ~ Raudf, 9/19/13

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    • #32
      Quoth Panacea View Post
      OK, Gaki, I just gotta ask . . .

      Does this really bring in customers? Maybe it should seem obvious since they do it year after year, but I'm really curious as to how good a marketing tool this is.
      My site actually started asking people, "What brought you to Liberty?" and people continuously replied "I love your little dancing fools," or "One of your ladies put this '50% off your tax return' coupon in my hand and she was so nice!" It's all in the way we portray ourselves. It's not about the signs in the windows of tax places, it's all about how we wave at INDIVIDUALS. We're not just waving at the sky and nothing, we're making eye contact and waving at kids and giving out little foam crowns.

      People are suckers for a huge smile, a friendly wave, and goofy people dancing on the sidewalk. Our tax place does WAY more business due to the marketing strategies. We're actually sponsoring a bingo night this week and us dressed up girls are going to be there calling back the numbers and greeting people at the door. It's all about being the friendliest place to do something you have to do anyway.

      Plus it reminds people to do their taxes. xD We have plenty of other marketing strategies such as sticky coupons for people's car windows, lottery-type scratch offs where you can win a dollar amount off your return (I was handing out scratch tickets that were ALL winners the other day, it was pretty funny to see everyone go crazy over it.) We have fliers that other businesses put on their front tables or desks, and the gas station all the way across town lets us dance freely on their corner so we're getting a ton of positive feedback from it.

      In other words, we have raving fans.

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      • #33
        That's actually really cool
        They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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        • #34
          I saw a walking red oilcan and a Lady (??) Liberty out and about today. I waved
          "For a musician, the SNES sound engine is like using Crayola Crayons. Nobuo Uematsu used Crayola Crayons to paint the Sistine Chapel." - Jeremy Jahns (re: "Dancing Mad")
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          • #35
            Quoth Spork4pedro View Post
            Hehe...back in my working days I used to love tax season! Why?

            Because tax season was our SLLLOOOOWW time of year (smoothie place) so we had more free time for advertising or "BANANA SUIT" time! We'd send out employees wearing the banana suit holding up our latest promo signs and since we were across the street from lady liberty tax, drivers often would see a banana among the group of lady libertys (liberties? hmm..) It always cracked me up to see the looks on people's faces when they would pass by!
            When I was a Lady Liberty, a banana was actually thrown at me by a douche leaving the grocery store across the street.

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            • #36
              I saw a Lady Liberty with muttonchops today...




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              • #37
                Wow, people are crazy... If that's not a "real job" then what is? Some people don't realize even standing for long periods of time IS work. Its not easy standing that long and you haveta look all happy and wave. Trust me, thats definately a job. We should all get paid more, we have to act every day.

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                • #38
                  Quoth Panacea View Post
                  OK, Gaki, I just gotta ask . . . Does this really bring in customers?
                  They interviewed a company near us, Panacea, and the owner claimed that 75% or more of their customers are brought in by the dancing Liberties.
                  Sorry, my cow died so I don't need your bull

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                  • #39
                    "Get a real job" has been thrown at me as a waiter.

                    They don't realize, and I didn't either until I checked, I made $10k last year just from Mothers' Day to the end of the year . . .

                    The fact, when my dad joked about having a real job and his kids didn't, made him gape for a few seconds.

                    Similarly, hearing how much I made in a period of a month when I would do creative writing by commission . . . one person threw me $200 for a thousand word story because I let them hand me the dramatis personae and skeletal plot outlines. They were really good at characterization but actual writing . . . they got bored after the first hundred words.

                    (And yes, a couple professional writers I did correspond with over the years would joke about "finally considering getting a real job" :P )

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                    • #40
                      Screw getting a real job, I want a fictional one. Provided it pays, of course.
                      Something kind of sad about the way that things have come to be.
                      Desensitized to everything, what became of subtlety?

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                      • #41
                        Quoth terakhan View Post
                        Screw getting a real job, I want a fictional one. Provided it pays, of course.
                        Problem is, it would pay fictional money.
                        I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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                        • #42
                          Quoth Dracalous View Post
                          When I was a Lady Liberty, a banana was actually thrown at me by a douche leaving the grocery store across the street.
                          Oh my CWs and I have had plenty thrown at us while rockin the Banana suit. I've had rocks, cups, obsenities and (my favorite) a banana peel that I slipped on (straight outta cartoons style! It was HILARIOUS!)
                          Now, if you smell the roses but it doesn't lift your spirits, you're either allergic to rose pollen or you need medical intervention. ~ Seshat

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                          • #43
                            Ohh I hate the "get a real job" line. My mother's idiot loves to tell me that freelancing isn't a real job. Hmm, funny...it feels like I'm doing real work, and I've bought real things with the real money they paid me. Maybe I'm not a real person either and everyone just thinks I am because I'm a really smart ghost.

                            This coming from someone who can't hold down a job longer than two months, has filed for bankruptcy, and the only jobs he can get are hard labor (construction, etc.) Methinks he's simply jealous that I can make money sitting on my ass at home drawing and writing and he's too dumb to know how to.

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