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<h1>How To Advertise Your Products and Services To College Students For Free (Almost)</h1>

Dear Visitor,
Today, I am going to talk about a singular experience and
present to you a rare opportunity to advertise your products, to
one of the greatest and most controllable markets, accessible
almost for free, through an overlooked media. (It has nothing to do
with Pay-Per-Click, or newspaper )
I am talking about college students as the market, and the
college campus as a center of marketing research and
experiments.
Is A College Campus A Flea Market In Disguise?
I come from Mirebalais, a small city in Haiti. And when I was a
boy I used to go the market (make it flea market or open market) to
buy chicken, which I intended to raise without my mother knowing.
(that&#8217;s a different story).
But if you&#8217;ll bear with me, you&#8217;ll see the
relationship between a college campus and an actual flea market.
And if you can see the relationship you&#8217;ll see the vast
opportunity for market testing and covert marketing research that a
college campus offers.
How Much Controld Do You Have Over Your Audience On A College
Campus?
In a flea market, people are gathered to buy and sell their
products. On a college campus, students are gathered to buy
education, and sell themselves to each other. Those students carry
with them their everyday dreams, their everyday wants, their
everyday desires. And these emotional buttons can put in motion by
your advertisement because those students carry with them the same
emotions that people carry with them in the marketplace.
Control? Wednesdays and Saturdays were the market days in my
little city. And when you go to the market, you could not avoid the
sellers: the people crying :&#8221; Fresh milk, right from the cow.
Buy now and mix with your coffee..&#8221; You could not avoid the
other merchants yelling: &#8220;Sweet potatoes. Delicious sweet
potatoes. Big ones too. Unearthed today, boil them and delight your
family. Give your children good food. Sweet potatoes.&#8221;
Once you step into the market place, you were
&#8216;prisoner&#8217; of the offers.
The same thing goes for college students. Once they enter the
buildings, they are prisoner of your advertising. They&#8217;re
under your &#8216;control&#8217;, we could venture to say&#8230;for
as long as your flyer can attract their attention, they won&#8217;t
fail to miss it. As long as your offer taps into one of their
emotional needs for recognition, love, amusement, success, they
won&#8217;t fail to respond to it.
And here&#8217;s how the college campus becomes a place of
marketing research and market testing for any company that sells
products that college students want.
Direct Response Advertising Using Flyers
The college campus becomes A MEDIA where the students are held
captive (they have to go through the buildings). And that gives you
control on the delivery of your message. That also enables you, if
you are disciplined, to test different messages. This
wouldn&#8217;t apply to hit-and-run companies&#8230;that do one
special promotion and drop the ball.
And because you&#8217;re certain of having these eyeballs for
the next three months&#8230;you can test different messages and see
which flyers get more responses. Which flyers are picked up quickly
and which are ignored religiously. You can research the reaction to
your offer, covertly. I am not talking about focus group, but
direct response advertising through flyers.
(of course, we should remember that the population is diverse.
Age, ethnicity are two major points of diversity. Most college
students are old teenagers and in their mid-twenties, but more and
more older people (30&#8217;s and up) are returning to college, for
many reasons (career change, get education&#8230;.)
Now if you sell something that college students want, all you
have to do is present your offer to them&#8230;.on campus.
How do you do this?
Four Key Elements In College Campus Advertising
Message (Content and Design)
Support(what type of paper, what color of paper, what size of
paper)
Delivery (when and where on the college campus)
Measurement (Response Device and direct observation)
How do you compete against the clutter of flyers that abound on
posting boards?
Stay tuned&#8230;.this question I will answer in my next
post&#8230;.I&#8217;ll back up my answer with a specific
campaign/market testing I conducted at Massasoit Community College
in Brockton, Ma.
Swans G Paul

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