Message-ID: <006801c8e2ca$350636d0$2e01a8c0@OFFICE> From: "Sauk County Historical Society" <history@saukcounty.com> Subject: Re: Marketing Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:19:04 -0500
Mary
See if your local hotels, campgrounds, parks and B&B's will take some to
make available to their guests and so that they know you are there and will
recommend you to guests asking for things to do. Check with any convention
centers you may have nearby and yes the Chamber is a great resource. Our
chamber shares whatever we give them with the Department of Tourism so that
is taken care of. Also contact antique shops, and other museums in your
area - do a trade of brochures to help each other out. Send a copy to travel
agents and event planners in your area - most senior centers, nursing homes,
banks and service clubs plan trips for their patrons. Get a copy to the
Extension office and any other community development organizations so they
are aware of what you offer and can spread the word. Also send a copy to
local community college outreach offices and invite them to include you in
programming they may offer. Other tourist attractions may take some for
their guests too. Around here competition is fierce for the tourist dollar
so we don't have that opportunity too often. Also send copies to the tv
stations, radio stations, travel magazines or shoppers in your area so they
know about you and suggest a feature story for their publication. Depending
on what you feature in the house, organizations like quilters, china
collectors, wrench collector clubs etc would like to know about you.
Probably some of your members also belong to groups like that and if you ask
in your newsletter they can lead you to the newsletter editors for these
special interest groups. It's better to get the brochures to people who have
an interest in what you represent than to just broadcast them everywhere. So
take a look at what you offer, decide who would enjoy seeing it and try to
get a brochure in their hands.
Mary Farrell Stieve
Sauk County Historical Society
P.O. Box 651
531 Fourth Avenue
Baraboo, WI 53913
608-356-1001
history@saukcounty.com
www.saukcounty.com/schs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Forer" <director@marathoncountyhistory.org>
To: <localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:42 AM
Subject: Marketing
> We have recently finished producing a new brochure for our Yawkey House
> Museum and are now reviewing our options for distribution.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how best to distribute our brochure?
> We
> have talked to several distribution companies in the area, but the cost
> seems very high.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mary Forer, Executive Director
> Marathon County Historical Society
> 410 McIndoe Street
> Wausau, WI 54403
> 715-842-5750
>