sorry wire-quin : Tue Mar 16, 2010 8:59 pm  

but the facebook overload smacks of desperation. I am thouroughly depressed at this state of affairs and even more so, because we apparently have a marketing professional in the office who is responsible for it.......2,500 if we're lucky on Saturday and that's with free tickets advertised to those who would have paid anyway....Genius....pure Genius

Re: sorry wire-quin : Tue Mar 16, 2010 9:08 pm  

The bar after the game was empty on Sun like Ive never seen it before. Speaking to people straight after the game was painful. Some who have been coming for years were saying they have had enough. As you have suggested it could be a very low crowd on Sat. Hudds are running red hot at the moment and it could be a long afternoon similar to Leeds and Warrington, just this time at home.

Re: sorry wire-quin : Tue Mar 16, 2010 11:06 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

but the facebook overload smacks of desperation. I am thouroughly depressed at this state of affairs and even more so, because we apparently have a marketing professional in the office who is responsible for it.......2,500 if we're lucky on Saturday and that's with free tickets advertised to those who would have paid anyway....Genius....pure Genius

Here we go - the club tries something different and GF knocks it - what a f***ing surprise. Is it just that you didn't think of it? or what?

Re: sorry wire-quin : Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:36 am  

Paddock Punter wrote:

Here we go - the club tries something different and GF knocks it - what a f***ing surprise. Is it just that you didn't think of it? or what?

I can't be arsed searching for it, but I suggested the use of social and new media ages ago. I have no problem with it, but the timing of the salford offer (2,000 members my butt) and the constant updates for the hudds offer just smack of reactionary marketing. If you can be bothered, read my post from last October suggesting ways to attract more fans. If put into place THEN and not now, they may have attracted better gates,but we will never know...will we.
I applaud initiative........but when it's PROACTIVE.
As for me having a pop/knocking it....too f()cking right I'll have a go.......a 5 yr old could have come up with the stuff to date in the MASSIVE marketing campaign........I have no personal issues with PB, DH or anyone else at the club and as I know little about tactics on the pitch, I leave the armchair coaches to comment on the team, but the marketing of the game, club and team is a shambles and I don't care who tires of me saying it.......it is a f()cking disgrace! And I'd be suprised if the massive shirt deal with WIN didn't have an escape clause in it.......I mean...it's a MASSIVE deal......exposed to 2,500 hardy sould a fortnight

Re: sorry wire-quin : Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:22 pm  

gutterfax wrote:

I can't be arsed searching for it, but I suggested the use of social and new media ages ago. I have no problem with it, but the timing of the salford offer (2,000 members my butt) and the constant updates for the hudds offer just smack of reactionary marketing. If you can be bothered, read my post from last October suggesting ways to attract more fans. If put into place THEN and not now, they may have attracted better gates,but we will never know...will we.
I applaud initiative........but when it's PROACTIVE.
As for me having a pop/knocking it....too f()cking right I'll have a go.......a 5 yr old could have come up with the stuff to date in the MASSIVE marketing campaign........I have no personal issues with PB, DH or anyone else at the club and as I know little about tactics on the pitch, I leave the armchair coaches to comment on the team, but the marketing of the game, club and team is a shambles and I don't care who tires of me saying it.......it is a f()cking disgrace! And I'd be suprised if the massive shirt deal with WIN didn't have an escape clause in it.......I mean...it's a MASSIVE deal......exposed to 2,500 hardy sould a fortnight

just because they didn't do it when you suggested then

Re: sorry wire-quin : Wed Mar 17, 2010 5:30 pm  

Paddock Punter wrote:

:SLEEPY: just because they didn't do it when you suggested then

That is the fundamental problem with this initiative, yes.

Re: sorry wire-quin : Wed Mar 17, 2010 10:53 pm  

Paddock Punter wrote:

:SLEEPY: just because they didn't do it when you suggested then

In a nutshell.....YES.
Planning a MASSIVE campaign is key to that MASSIVE campaign having a chance to get a ROI. Without planning, it is essentially a MASSIVE waste of time and money.

Re: sorry wire-quin : Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:09 pm  

The best time to market a product is when it's at it's best (Coke, McDonalds, etc) leaders in their field yet ALWAYS marketing their product.
I agree GF, when Quins were competing in the top half of the table is when the marketing should have been in overdrive.

Now imagine they get 10,000 (8,000 new fans) to this game this week and watch Quins get tonked and find it utterly boring that is just as bad as getting low gates. They won't part with their money to watch dross.

I'm a Wire fan in London, i used to watch the Quins games quite regular. Now i just don't find it entertaining enough to warrant a 2 1/2 round trip to The Stoop.

You can't dress a turd in plastic and sell it to Cadburys

Re: sorry wire-quin : Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:11 pm  

Wire_Yed wrote:

You can't dress a turd in plastic and sell it to Cadburys

Nope.....but if said turd could play second row you could flog it to Quins RL

btw....an example of the reach of facebook from the virtual terrace

PBGIANT wrote:

http://www.facebook.com/quinsrl?ref=mf#!/quinsrl?v=wall&ref=mf

1500 fans by 5pm Friday then everyone that’s a fan gets a free ticket for Saturdays game (v Hudds)

I appreciate not everyone is off but sign up for it and remove yourself on Monday morning!

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Re: sorry wire-quin : Thu Mar 18, 2010 2:25 am  

gutterfax wrote:

Nope.....but if said turd could play second row you could flog it to Quins RL

btw....an example of the reach of facebook from the virtual terrace
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Yep. Agree, that is poor but always likely to happen.