No, I don’t mean “naughty” like I went to a nude beach and read from my WIP with a bull horn. But on the morning we left the vacation house (this is the absolute last time I’m going to mention my vacation, promise), we scoured each room on each floor for our belongings and a lightbulb went off in my head. Keep reading.
When we first arrived, we investigated all the nooks and crannies. Drawers, closets, cabinets, etc. Other renter-people will probably go through the same rigmarole. Add to this the fact that I have to get rid of my current stock of business cards (so I can order new and improved ones) and VOILA! Instant Hide-a-Card game. I pulled the stack of cards from my purse and proceeded to put one in each of the previously mentioned drawers, closets, and cabinets. I put one between the plates in the kitchen. One on the glasses rack of the wet bar. One in the DVD player. Yep, right in the drawer. One in the tissue box in the bathroom. And one in a framed picture of a starfish that had the same color scheme as my business card, allowing it to blend in, but not really. Subliminal marketing. That’s right. Be impressed.
The experience has left my mind overwhelmed with possibilities! I work in a bookstore. I can stick my business cards in all the books within my genre! I can stick my cards in Snooki’s book because obviously the reader doesn’t know what she’s doing when it comes to choosing decent reading material! Oh my stars, there’s even an email list on the counter next to the register that just screams to be a part of my planned press release! The sky’s the limit!
Speaking of the sky, would it be too much to hire a sky-writer who also rains my business cards down on the world from above?
This obviously has nothing to do with my novel, but I figure it’ll grab people’s attention. (image courtesy of aerialadvertising.com)
Anyway, anyone else have any naughty marketing ideas, regardless of how inappropriate?
journeyofjordannaeast 
I left my novel’s promotional bookmarker in a hotel drawer near the bible recently. I haven’t had the nerve to leave it elsewhere yet, but maybe I better get a little more creative…
Hubby-pants suggested once that when my novel is released I should ”replace” the bibles in our hotel rooms. I thought that was a bit much…
Hmm, maybe just a tad. But an A+ for originality. 😉
Haha, that’s what I said.
I LOVE IT! 😀 hehe. Don’t get rid of it just move it somewhere so your book is more obvious ;D. Brilliant ideas though I need to do that, I have like 500 cards and I can’t seem to get rid of them if I tried.
The only thing I didn’t think of is how to figure out if my Hide-a-Card was successful. Hmmm
Good luck with your 500 cards. I only have a couple dozen left now. 😀
I guess if you get more traffic or something it worked.
I guess. But that’s why I want new cards with QR codes or whatever they’re called: to link people directly to my first chapter.
That’s definitely a good idea 🙂
Love this idea 🙂
Thanks! And gracias for the reblog!
Your welcome 🙂
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I might have to do this 😉
Love it!
Thanks so much!
Brilliant ideas honey, but, be careful…..
A guy left some post adds of his book in our local Waterstones, and the staff went online and gave him bad reviews for the book, because they were peeved that he’d left his cards in there 😦
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Oh no! Why were they peeved? British people are so touchy, jk.
The shop was VERY peeved, it all got a bit nasty 😦
The general consensus was that he shouldn’t of left cards advertising his book in a shop where it couldn’t be purchased from. Still, he made the national newspapers and had an apology from Waterstones. He probably got better publicity out of it than what he was originally trying to achieve lol 😉
Good luck honey xx
Omg now I’m totally doing it!!
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Ha ha ha! 🙂
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