Ay-Ziggy-Zoomba.com at the Doyt?

77 91 92 94 · Post by **77 91 92 94** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 10:46 pm

As you guys probably can see I haven't been around the website too long. But I was wondering if this website was completely non-profit, and also if there has ever been any thought to advertising the site maybe in the BG gameday programs or something like that? Just wondering.

transfer2BGSU · Post by **transfer2BGSU** » Tue Oct 05, 2004 11:03 pm

Where were you last year at Gameday?!?!

Oh yeah! This site was advertised NATIONWIDE that day.

Right Grant?

Dayons_Den · Post by **Dayons_Den** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 3:40 pm

Sic Sic provides some nice "low cost" advertising from time to time. They advertised our harris4heisman.com inside Perry Stadium last season . .

Post by **ZiggyZoomba** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:10 pm

77 91 92 94 wrote:As you guys probably can see I haven't been around the website too long. But I was wondering if this website was completely non-profit, and also if there has ever been any thought to advertising the site maybe in the BG gameday programs or something like that? Just wondering.

Completely non-profit (althought not officially a 403(b) yet). It's funded by myself and some of the members who feel compelled to kick in from time to time.

Advertising costs money, so no....I don't advertise unless it's free pub. We did sell some t-shirts last year that had the URL on them and we'll occasionally get a mention on TV or the radio locally. (Watch FOX36 on Friday for more of that).

We may be doing something during basketball season to provide a little more visibility for the site as well.

Any ideas you might have are certainly appreciated though! You might want to post them in the admin section of the message boards though...I always look there, but don't always read every post on the whole site anymore.

Thanks for your interest!

1987alum · Post by **1987alum** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:49 pm

Everyone who sees the Lower Makefield Football Association yearbook at the end of October will get the message about AZZ.com!

NWLB · Post by **NWLB** » Wed Oct 06, 2004 4:57 pm

I often write "Visit Ay-ziggy-zoomba.com" on the walls of select bathroom stalls!

*not really*

Lord_Byron · Post by **Lord_Byron** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 6:55 am

Someon could take their shirt off and run around on the field holding up a sign with the URL on it. Lot's of free pub as the police chase you. . .

Warthog · Post by **Warthog** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:50 am

Lord_Byron wrote:Someon could take their shirt off and run around on the field holding up a sign with the URL on it. Lot's of free pub as the police chase you. . .

Why just the shirt? Maybe we could get the streaker dude from the Super Bowl.

Or how about some hot stripper chick who usually advertises Golden Palace.com

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 8:52 am

Two things I would do if I really wanted to grow membership in this site:

1. Beg/plead/cajole At BG, the alumni newsletter, into doing an item on the Web site.

2. Every August, send a short news release to The BG News on the day freshmen arrive on campus. That would be a few days before the paper starts planning its massive back to school issue, which is very, very hard to fill. At the very least, you ought to be able to get a couple paragraphs in the paper about it.

I wonder how aware students are of this site. It's hard for me to know; when I graduated, the Internet was still sort of a cult for IT majors.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:15 pm

Schad-

I think the internet has changed alot in that regard, especially with everyone having personal computers, its not like the old 16 bit color deals you could have in the dorms for an extra fee anymore.

I like the "At BG" idea better than the BG News idea you had, if only because alumni seem like they are "fans", while students are more "fanatics", if ya follow me.

Schadenfreude · Post by **Schadenfreude** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:37 pm

TG1996 wrote: I think the internet has changed alot in that regard, especially with everyone having personal computers, its not like the old 16 bit color deals you could have in the dorms for an extra fee anymore.

For perspective:

-- There was no WWW when I graduated. E-mail and newsgroups were it -- and, again, only if you were super techy.
-- A few of the Macs in the computer labs had boot up disks.
-- The journalism department still had a typewriting lab.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 1:42 pm

okay, you must have been out of there right before me. I don't remember many typewriters, but I know that it wasn't until my junior year that I knew what the WWW was, though thanks to a friend in a techie class, I had email late in my freshman year. Of course there was no one to email, but that was another problem... *laugh*

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:27 pm

When I graduated, floppy disks really were floppy and they were bigger than Tom Amstuz' third chin.

TG1996 · Post by **TG1996** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 2:44 pm

Flipper wrote:When I graduated, floppy disks really were floppy and they were bigger than Tom Amstuz' third chin.

riiiiight... like you could get anything close enough to his chin to compare without him eating it... why the lies, Flipper? Why?

Flipper · Post by **Flipper** » Thu Oct 07, 2004 3:01 pm

I said his third chin, right? You're assuming that said third chin is in the proximity of his mouth. That my friend, is a dangerous assumption....

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