Lawn Signs + Domains = Profits

[stone2020]

Check out this article on how somebody used guerilla marketing, signs, and domains names to make some money.

http://themetricsystem.rjmetrics.com/2008/11/06/single-lawn-signs-conquer-the-american-landscape/

 

[Chef Patrick]

Yeah, but if you're making a few bucks, who cares that it is illegal defacement of public and private property, and that we taxpayers have to pay for full time staff to clean up your mess? Right? You're technique for placing signs high on poles so it is harder for the property owners and neighbors to take them down is really clever!

It is bad enough that you participate in this (even acknowledged by you) petty-criminal behavior which blights our neighborhoods, but then you even go online and BRAG about it?

Sorry if I sound sensitive, but I'm part of a neighborhood volunteer group (like this one) which works to clean up this illegal blight. We'll spend hours cleaning the streets, and then some idiot like you with a get-rich-quick or MLM scheme will go around and dump a hundred more signs. They may only cost you 90 cents each, but that's because you don't pay the cost of cleaning them up. Are you not smart or competent enough to find a job where you make money doing something productive in society, instead of being one of the street vandal leeches costing us all time and money? Imagine if everyone acted this way.

I'll probably get flamed by all the profit-at-any-cost and screw-the-moral-high-ground folks, but I had to say something.

You make very valid points and you have the right to your own opinions. I personally no longer do this, not because I do not want to but because I have sold my real estate companies and have retired. I do not have the need to place these signs up anymore. Honestly though, bandit signs have made me a lot of money.

Also take into consideration this, I said that these signs are illegal in MOST US cities. That does not mean I posted in those illegal cities. In fact the county I posted in did not have any ordinance banning bandit signs.

One thing that I would never do is put a sign on someones property. I would never go on a property with a house and just plop a sign. Majority of the electrical and light polls are on city property.

So no, you will not get flamed by me for having an opinion, I think it's a great thing. Personally I hate seeing bandit signs on every street corner. But it works and have learned to live with it at this point.

 

[GF]

It's really easy to find out a city's sign ordinances. Usually it's OK to have them on public property so long as they are taken down by a certain time.

Put them up on Friday night near freeway off-ramps, and take them down on Sunday. You'll have each sign seen by hundreds of people, and you'll be ethical.

I have advertised tons of stuff with these signs. I recommend Bandit Signs also, they are who I buy mine from.

- G

 

[Cronus]

If the city gives permission/permit to put up a certain sign at a certain time and place, I have no problem with that. My concern is with the people who don't follow regulations and illegally plaster my neighborhood with this spam, which residents or the city have to spend time and money cleaning up. Particularly since they are normally scams (usually make-money-fast, multi-level-marketing, real-estate/foreclosure, or dating related) since legitimate companies can't get away so easily with the illegal signs. The dating company mentioned in this article is one of the worst offenders around here (and apparently just about everywhere).

 

[Chef Patrick]

Particularly since they are normally scams (usually make-money-fast, multi-level-marketing, real-estate/foreclosure, or dating related) since legitimate companies can't get away so easily with the illegal signs. The dating company mentioned in this article is one of the worst offenders around here (and apparently just about everywhere).

I do not run a dating company but how can dating be a SCAM? Or real estate a SCAM? I'm ok with you having an opinion but it also has to be somewhat factual.

Real estate signs are usually to sell a house, buy houses or help people with foreclosures. I'm sorry but I ran an extremely successful real estate company and bandit signs were an important part of my advertising campaign. If I put out a sign that said we buy houses cash I would pay 100% cash for that house. Would you be calling me a SCAMMER?

Even money making schemes, really if you are so against bandit signs you must hate infomercials!!! Either tv or the bandit sign the public can either look or not look.

Just think, if people didn't put up these signs then someone at code enformcment who takes the signs down, would be out of a job. So although not the best thing in the world it keeps jobs going :]

 

[theuniverse]

good article and good equation Lawn Signs + Domains = Profits

 

[Seabass]

I do not run a dating company but how can dating be a SCAM? Or real estate a SCAM? I'm ok with you having an opinion but it also has to be somewhat factual.

Real estate signs are usually to sell a house, buy houses or help people with foreclosures. I'm sorry but I ran an extremely successful real estate company and bandit signs were an important part of my advertising campaign. If I put out a sign that said we buy houses cash I would pay 100% cash for that house. Would you be calling me a SCAMMER?

Even money making schemes, really if you are so against bandit signs you must hate infomercials!!! Either tv or the bandit sign the public can either look or not look.

Just think, if people didn't put up these signs then someone at code enformcment who takes the signs down, would be out of a job. So although not the best thing in the world it keeps jobs going :]

I totally agree with that.

There is always somebody that wants to stop entrepreneurs to make a buck.

 

[Compassion]

This prompts a more general question:

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/531615-domains-__________-profit.html#post3152742


Domains + ___________? = Profit?

 

[omnia]

..........He made $45 million? .........

...per annum....

 

[Cronus]

I do not run a dating company but how can dating be a SCAM? Or real estate a SCAM?

I'm not saying that ALL dating companies and real-estate companies are scams, but the ones which put up illegal signs tend to be. If a business cares so little about a community (or the law) that they're willing to plaster it with illegal signs that other folks then have to clean up, and then they just go plaster the community again, why would their ethics be any better toward their customers?

If you are so against bandit signs you must hate infomercials!!! Either tv or the bandit sign the public can either look or not look.

I have no problem with legitimate ads in their place. But if someone uses a pirate TV transmitter to run infomercials over the channels I want to watch, I would have a problem with that. And that is more akin to the "bandits" who place illegal signs on other people's or city property.

Just think, if people didn't put up these signs then someone at code enformcment who takes the signs down, would be out of a job.

And the city could then shift him to a more important job or reduce taxes by that much or hire an extra teacher instead. Of all the justifications for scumbag behavior, the "I provide employment to the people who have to clean up my messes and investigate my criminal behavior" excuse has to be the worst.

Anyway, this thread has wandered way off-topic from domaining, so this will be my last post. I am glad to hear that you no longer post illegal sign spam.

 

[Chef Patrick]

this will be my last post

That's good, because this could go on for days. Instead of arguing all your points I will just let you have your opinion and leave it at that.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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I just threw away an EXPENSIVE sign that some creep had the audacity to set up in MY yard.

Who needs this, anyway?

No sympathy if you yard spammers end up in jail and paying a hefty fine.

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[Zepia]

I've thought about setting a forum up for a town, got the name and this seems like a good way to promote it in the area.

I have a 2 town forum (signature) and believe me it's hard to promote it online, the only thing I can think of is through old school marketing (business cards, yard signs and word of mouth)

 

[ofclean]

Just think, if people didn't put up these signs then someone at code enformcment who takes the signs down, would be out of a job. So although not the best thing in the world it keeps jobs going :]

The money pays them comes from somewhere; if hiring sign-removers increased overall employment, it should be government policy to encourage as many signs as possible!

 

[RLKuhn101]

Don't forget grocery store bulletin boards as an advertising medium.

Its free and legal

Robert