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Promote Modernist Housing
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As a community website, LiveModern relies in part on its visitors and members to help other people know about the market for modernist housing.
Whether by traditional word of mouth or internet-based word of mouse, letting your colleagues, friends and neighbors know about LiveModern is the best way to help grow the market for modernist housing. Here are some ways that you can help promote modernist housing through LiveModern.
Word of Mouse
The internet affords all kinds of opportunities to amplify your passion for modernist housing.
- Tell your colleagues, friends and neighbors about any LiveModern product or service, on any page. It's easy using these simple instructions;
- Place this graphic on your website, linked to LiveModern:
Please use the HTML source code for the above graphic to establish your link.
- Post an invitation to LiveModern on any online forums in which you participate.
- Publish a blurb about LiveModern in your enewsletter. If you do, send a copy to us and we will include an exchange link in the LiveModern enewsletter.
- Put a simple line in your signature file, such as:
Live better at LiveModern(tm), http://livemodern.com
- Share links of your favorite LiveModern pages at
del.icio.us.
Word of Mouth
Connecting with people—face-to-face, in everyday conversation as much as possible—about LiveModern is the best way to get them intrigued about modernist housing. Here are some other ways to help promote LiveModern:
- Print and pass around copies of our handbill (36Kb pdf). These are particularly useful to place at a local store where people buy modernist home furnishings, building supplies, etc., or at any gathering, such as an art opening, at which modernists are likely to be.
- Place a listing in your local want ads, in the "homes for sale" section. Even it is is brief, a lot of people notice these listings. An example text might be, "It's time to move into modernist housing. Live better at LiveModern.com/YOURCITY." Let us know if you are interested in placing an ad, and we can create a special URL for readers in your city.
- Host a local meeting of modernists, using meetup.com (an application is pending for modern.meetup.com). There have been many local modernist meetings around the country this year, usually at a coffee house, and we can help you find other modernists to join your group.
In whatever way that you choose to spread the word about modernist housing, LiveModern and its members thank you.
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Bumper Sticker
How about creating art that someone could download and have printed in their local market, kinda like the flyer PDF idea but for drive-time viewing? I wonder if there is an internet service we could hook up with where someone could order a few for their friends.
Marshall
Excellent!
Good idea. In fact, I have a bumper sticker of my own, promoting Modern Home Design, on my car. I designed and printed it myself for next to nothing (just the cost of the paper, which is actually adhesive backed vinyl). You can buy the bumper sticker "paper" at any Office Depot store for about $8, I think. Design is fairly easy, and you can use the template that is on Office Depot's site (the instructions come with the paper) to lay out two stickers per sheet in Microsoft Word. Printing is done on any color ink jet printer. The printing is surprisingly durable, too. I have had my sticker on my car for at least a month without any noticable fading. It's also water-resistant.
Specifics
If we had a graphic designer (Christy?) do a "generic" LiveModern bumper sticker, there are a couple of specirics we'd need:
- What are the dimensions of the bumper sticker paper that you use?
- What is the actual product name of the bumper sticker paper, so that we could direct folks to the right product? How many stickers come in a package? (People should print up a batch, and hand them to friends.)
- What would we want to say on the bumper sticker, besides "LiveModern.com"? What's going to grab the attention of a driver stuck in traffic and longing for a better life to log on later on?
I love bumper stickers because they force you to get your top level message to be concise and memorable.
Marshall
i can make one up
i think the sheets are a standard 8.5" x 11" sheet of paper. i could make up a .pdf of one sheet with say, three or four and people could print them on the magnet paper.
also, i have worked with a company here at work that can get some really good deals on that kind of stuff, esp. in bulk. i will check costs on that. we got some smaller magnets for 13¢ or thereabouts. i know that then the real cost is incurred with actually getting them to someone, but i'll look into it anyway.
as far as what the sticker should say, i think LiveModern.com with the text "Live better, online" under it would work ok. It doesn't really spell out the the modernism angle specifically, but it does mention modern in the name itself.
I also need to add a bunch more links to my page. I have been slacking big time lately.
:: christy ::
Right
Yes, the sheets are 8.5 x 11, and split down the middle, length-wise so you can peel off two stickers per sheet. You can either use Office Depot's template or make your own, as I wound up doing with my design. The Office Depot template wasn't very flexible, design-wise, so I just made my own, based upon the same dimensions. Once you've got a design, you can take it to a printer or to Kinko's, I guess, if you don't want to use the inkjet sticker stock. I'm not really sure if Kinko's can do stickers, but I would think so.
Not cheap
Not cheap:
http://www.bumperstatements.com/make.ihtml http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/products/productdetail.aspx?prodtypeno=90
Probably need to go somewhere to get them in bulk.
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Hi there,
The document above, Promote Modernist Housing, is my first draft of a web page to do just that. Let's use the Add Comment button to brainstorm ideas to the list. When a new idea is actionable, as some already are, it will be made part of the official list.
So, let's think of new ways that we can get the word out about modernist housing. Add your comment below (if you are a registered member of LiveModernand are logged in).
Marshall