Comments on: Campus Beautification & Circus Dogs http://www.hiceschool.com/100-days-at-nc-state/campus-beautification-circus-dogs/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:30:09 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Joe Hice http://www.hiceschool.com/100-days-at-nc-state/campus-beautification-circus-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-239 Joe Hice Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:40:41 +0000 http://www.hiceschool.com/?p=1312#comment-239 Cody: Great comments. One of my goals with the blog is to get people talking about issues that concern them and this is certainly one of them. Given the passion around sandwich boards and other advertising tools on campus I'm hoping we can pull together a group to actually develop a plan. I'm out of town through next Wednesday, but lets plan on putting our heads together and making some informed recommendations. Cody: Great comments. One of my goals with the blog is to get people talking about issues that concern them and this is certainly one of them. Given the passion around sandwich boards and other advertising tools on campus I’m hoping we can pull together a group to actually develop a plan. I’m out of town through next Wednesday, but lets plan on putting our heads together and making some informed recommendations.

]]> By: Cody Williams http://www.hiceschool.com/100-days-at-nc-state/campus-beautification-circus-dogs/comment-page-1/#comment-236 Cody Williams Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:14:36 +0000 http://www.hiceschool.com/?p=1312#comment-236 Advertising on campus, a task that many of us struggle with on a daily basis. With a campus population that grows on a semesterly basis and budgets that seem to only decrease this is a marketing nightmare. As someone that thinks about this on almost a daily basis I have quite the opinion on today's post. I have been marketing programs and events on campus for almost 8 years now and I am far from finding the golden ticket to reach students. As a student I often challenged the administration on finding new ways to advertise and reach students with limited budgets for student organizations. I will say that I am one of the sandwich board pioneers, going back to my IRC days when I purchased one of the first sets that the campus saw. I don't disagree though that it has become overwhelming with how many are now on campus. I would be one of the first to say though that removing them from campus all together would be a mistake. They are by far one of the cheapest, most visible and effective means of advertising on campus. Student organizations such as Student Government, UAB and IRC have all invested money in purchasing not only the boards, but also eqiupment to produce new posters for each event. As well as the SORC office, which now allows student organizations the opportunity to borrow boards for events. Now there are lots of ways that the issue of empty boards laying on campus for weeks or months can be addressed. One idea would be to have every board on campus registered with the SORC office and assigned a unique barcode to track each board. Any board that is found empty on campus or laying around x amount of days past an event could be reported to the SORC office and the responsible group contacted. Failure to fix or remove the board in a given time period could mean that it is cut loose and held for ransom until retrieved. I think that this is an issue on campus and one that should be addressed by a group of people that have the ability to make informed decisions. Electronic boards on campus are far from the solution to sandwich boards. Take into consideration that at any given time most boards have probably 10-15 slides running. Each slide is displayed for maybe 15 - 20 seconds. Meaning that in order for someone to see every slide they would have to watch the board for a minimum of 2.5 minutes. Something that I doubt most students are going to do. As for placing ads in the Technician, the average student organization has no where near the necessary funds to make this effective. I wish there was a magic solution to all of these issues, but the truth is I only see the problem getting worse as we continue to grow and expand across 2 campuses. Advertising on campus, a task that many of us struggle with on a daily basis. With a campus population that grows on a semesterly basis and budgets that seem to only decrease this is a marketing nightmare. As someone that thinks about this on almost a daily basis I have quite the opinion on today’s post.

I have been marketing programs and events on campus for almost 8 years now and I am far from finding the golden ticket to reach students. As a student I often challenged the administration on finding new ways to advertise and reach students with limited budgets for student organizations. I will say that I am one of the sandwich board pioneers, going back to my IRC days when I purchased one of the first sets that the campus saw. I don’t disagree though that it has become overwhelming with how many are now on campus.

I would be one of the first to say though that removing them from campus all together would be a mistake. They are by far one of the cheapest, most visible and effective means of advertising on campus. Student organizations such as Student Government, UAB and IRC have all invested money in purchasing not only the boards, but also eqiupment to produce new posters for each event. As well as the SORC office, which now allows student organizations the opportunity to borrow boards for events.

Now there are lots of ways that the issue of empty boards laying on campus for weeks or months can be addressed. One idea would be to have every board on campus registered with the SORC office and assigned a unique barcode to track each board. Any board that is found empty on campus or laying around x amount of days past an event could be reported to the SORC office and the responsible group contacted. Failure to fix or remove the board in a given time period could mean that it is cut loose and held for ransom until retrieved.

I think that this is an issue on campus and one that should be addressed by a group of people that have the ability to make informed decisions.

Electronic boards on campus are far from the solution to sandwich boards. Take into consideration that at any given time most boards have probably 10-15 slides running. Each slide is displayed for maybe 15 – 20 seconds. Meaning that in order for someone to see every slide they would have to watch the board for a minimum of 2.5 minutes. Something that I doubt most students are going to do. As for placing ads in the Technician, the average student organization has no where near the necessary funds to make this effective.

I wish there was a magic solution to all of these issues, but the truth is I only see the problem getting worse as we continue to grow and expand across 2 campuses.

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