how useful are flyers really?

As for other times, well I think they work quite well. I always find flyers in my back pocket after nights out, even for stuff I don't like, and I look at them the next morning. Now I may not go to the event but it can't hurt.

Like most other promotion, the point is just letting people know you exist.

For a local band (which is what I'm flyering for), I think you can't really expect that many people to come to your show based on the flyer alone. But hopefully people will remember your name, become conscious of your existence, so that maybe they'll see a listing in the paper a couple months later and be like, "oh I've heard of them!" (even if they don't remember why!) I think it can help build a reputation.

xpost

Don't go clubbing anymore, so I've been reduced to using the back and front of my Ikea and Argos catalogues, and recently, when very desperate, the cover of Oor Wully. :-(

It's also an excuse to stop pretty girls on the street.

Steve, are you sure you're not just hoping people will say "nah, you don't need to bother with flyers, they hardly make any difference"? Because, and I say this through painful experience, it doesn't really seem to work that way.

xpost - I've only turned down fliers when they're hideous or if I've gotten that one already.

T in the Park was all that was left by the time I was weaned.

his partner keeps nixing my ideas, but won't offer what he really wants.

Hmm... See, call me a hippy, but I hate the idea of all these bits of paper needlessly being printed on, and then thrown away.

I quite often feel sorry for the poor people trying to give them to me and try and say sorry when I don't take something being rudely thrust in my face - but If I take them I'm part of the process giving the impression they are an effective medium.. therefore, I don't.

If there is something on I want to go to, chances are I have already heard about it, or I don't have enough money to go to it anyway - having already spent my money on events put on by people who don't rely on badly targetted flyers for promotion.

i don't like taking them then or ever really, i guess because i'm 'technorati' or whatever i can get any info i need online if i really want to - it's just more junk for pockets/wastebins otherwise

apart from the Poptimism flyer of course

(haha i shd stand in the street and give it to someone: maybe they will be transported BACK IN TIME 23 years)

i think dan selzer still has it somewhere. he dj'ed once there

can anyone recommend a decent uk-based flyer/poster company? currently using j*mj*arprint.com who have let me down too many times so am trying to find a reliable friendly replacement, can anyone help?

I can tell you who NOT to use - i.e. alocalprinter.com - flyers and posters for gigs are really time dependent! They are useless if they turn up the day AFTER the gig they are promoting.

if they are just handed out on the street or left on shop counters they are almost completely worthless

however, if one finds a place where real prospective punters are hanging out and one then accompanies one's flyering with detailed, friendly conversation about whatever the hell it is, they can be very very effective

signed,

someone who has just been flyering in edinburgh every day for two weeks

i think doing one just to display on the internet is good!

Yes, I far prefer that method, it wastes less paper.

But I do love gig posters, I always get one if it's good.

yeah, flyer at relevant shows, parties, record shops where people you want at your party/show/event might actually hang out, etc.