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    • For example, if it is against local codes to leave flyers on cars in parking lots, post them on a bulletin board instead or hand them out to people at a mall.
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    • http://www.churchofsteelle.com/blog1/2004/10/ghost-stories.html
    • http://www.profitquests.com/IdeasOldChristmasTreePickups.html - Another great way for arranging pickups is to print flyers with phone numbers and days for two weeks following Christmas and New Years. Some areas of the country leave their trees up after New Years. Place these flyers on car windows at shopping centers and malls from two days before Christmas through New Years Eve.
      • Pricing - Offer $5 to $15 per tree pickup. Or offer pickup for a donation. The donation method will more than likely only bring in about $5 per tree, but some residents will give $10 to $20. It might be good to experiment during the first year to find the best pricing structure.
    • flyers on post-it-notes to stick on car windows.People take them and stick them in pockets,dashboards-to be found again and again. People keep them for some reason, plus they stick to anyting, and dont harm anything.
      • this is how I was taught to do it: for one hour every day
      • -drive to a strip mall and start sticking the post-it-note flyers on drivers side windows. Also have cards (you could use the post it note flyer, but cards are better) that have a offer on them. when customers walk to and from their car while your sticking post-its, tell them who you are and offer them 2 weeks free and give them the card. It is intimidating at first to talk when sticking post-its, you feel like your've been "caught",but peole really do appreciate someone who is "giving something away" not just selling something to them. - See http://www.stickebusiness.com
      • so you have post-its and cards. Post-its for cars,and cards for people. - One school did this for one hour everyday, and averaged 4 intros and 2 new members a day!
    • how often door hangers can be left at the same apt. complexes & subdivisions? How effective are they? - http://www.pizzatoday.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=2&t=000415
      • I found that anytime you can leave any kind of ad on the person front door it was always the best return rate. then direct mail was the next best
      • Food coupons: i would say that for every 10,00 homes i would get back about 300 coupons... remember the first time you will get less back maybe only 100 or so . the more you do it the more you get back
    • http://www.richmond-il.com/minutes/6042003.htm - No actual violations were quoted
      • Mike Schultz stated that flyers placed on car windows at graduation were unsigned and he considered them trash. He questioned whether they were in violation of any village ordinance.
      • Sue Sullivan stated that she was offended by the remarks Mike Schultz made about the flyers she placed on car windows. She explained that they were placed on cars during graduation since it was the only known time when numerous vehicles would be assembled in the community. Additionally, she stated that the Rte. 12 Bypass needs to be done. If anyone has any doubts just look at what happened last weekend.
    • http://www.litter.ie/best_practice/bestpractice_db.php3?activity=Anti+Litter+Initiatives
      • Local Authority: Cork City Council Area: Cork City Activity: Anti Litter Initiatives Further Information: Cork City Council 021 4 924 234
      • Description: Cork City Council will have the power to impose tough new bylaws to eradicate litter -bugs. Under the Protection of the Environment Bill 2003,the City Council will have the powers to fine owners of supermarkets and businesses and the area surrounding their premises. Also the placing of flyers on car windows will also become illegal under the new laws as well as local sporting and music events having to minimize the amount of litter they produce.
    • http://www.ci.fullerton.ca.us/dev_serv/pc/pcmin20040623.html
      • Passing mention of police putting flyers on cars to try and stop gang problems.
    • At PLU.edu: Pacific Lutheran University
      • April 1 - Campus Safety observed a representative from a local business placing flyers on car windows. Contact was made and the individual was asked to leave campus. He complied without further incident.
  • flyers "criminal littering"
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• "passed out" flyers - 9790 results
  • http://www.sowpub.com/cgi-bin/forum/webbbs_config.pl/read/22855 - Ideas about passing out flyers
  • Radical muslims using flyers for recruitment in denmark

Possible problems with distributing flyers

• Can I put flyers on car windows at malls? on universalaccounting.com
  • You should contact the Mall Security first, they usually have a no solicitating law, I one was doing a detail business and passed out over 100 flyers, the security stopped me and luckily I knew the Head person in security, they made me take them all back, it was hot and I was so nervous Terry
  • Typically most cities have ordinances regarding advertising flyers, so the best place to check is at city hall.
• Louisiana.edu -
  • Placing advertisements or announcements on cars is prohibited.
  • No flyers may be put on windshields of cards on campus.
• In tryin to deal with flyers passed out by pro-white groups, the police then responded that all they could do was IF they found whoever was responsible, all they could do would be to charge them with criminal littering.

Provisions of Novato California: Novato Municipal Code - http://municipalcodes.lexisnexis.com/codes/novato/_DATA/TITLE14/14_6_Anti_Litter_Regulations_.html

• 14-6.2 Definitions
  • c. "Commercial handbill" shall mean any printed or written matter, any sample or device, dodger, circular, leaflet, pamphlet, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature:
    • 1. Which advertises for sale any merchandise, product, commodity, or thing; or
    • 2. Which directs attention to any business or mercantile or commercial establishment, or other activity, for the purpose of either directly or indirectly promoting the interest thereof by sales; or
    • 3. Which directs attention to or advertises any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition, or event of any kind, for which an admission fee is charged for the purpose of private gain or profit; but the terms of this clause shall not apply where an admission fee is charged or a collection is taken up for the purpose of defraying the expenses incite it to such meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition, or event of any kind, when either of the same is held, given or takes place in connection with the dissemination of information which is not restricted under the ordinary rules of decency, good morals, public peace, safety and good order; provided, that nothing contained in this clause shall be deemed to authorize the holding, giving or taking place of any meeting, theatrical performance, exhibition, or event of any kind, without a license, where such license is or may be required by any law of this State, or under any ordinance of this city; or
    • 4. Which, while containing reading matter other than advertising matter, is predominantly and essentially an advertisement, and is distributed or circulated for advertising purposes, or for the private benefit and gain of any person so engaged as advertiser or distributor.
  • g. "Non-commercial handbill" shall mean any printed or written matter, any sample, or device, dodger, circular leaflet, pamphlet, newspaper, magazine, paper, booklet, or any other printed or otherwise reproduced original or copies of any matter of literature not included in the aforesaid definitions of a commercial handbill or newspaper.
  • h. "Park" shall mean a park, reservation, playground, beach, recreation center or any other public area in the city, owned or used by the city and devoted to active or passive recreation.
  • i. "Private premises" shall mean any dwelling, house, building, or other structure, designed or used either wholly or in part for private residential purposes, whether inhabited or temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant, and shall include any yard, grounds, walk, driveway, porch, steps, vestibule or mailbox belonging or appurtenant to such dwelling, house, building, or other structure.
  • j. "Public place" shall mean any and all streets, sidewalks, boulevards, alleys or other public ways and any and all public parks, squares, spaces, grounds and buildings.

14-6.11 Throwing or Distributing Commercial Handbills in Public Places. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon any sidewalk, street or other public place within the city. Nor shall any person hand out or distribute or sell any commercial handbill in any public place. Provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful on any sidewalk, street, or other public place within the city for any person to hand out or distribute, without charge to the receiver thereof, any non-commercial handbill to any person willing to accept it. (Ord. No. 399, § 11)

14-6.12 Placing Commercial and Non-Commercial Handbills on Vehicles. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon any vehicle. Provided, however, that it shall not be unlawful in any public place for a person to hand out or distribute without charge to the receiver thereof, a noncommercial handbill to any occupant of a vehicle who is willing to accept it. (Ord. No. 399, § 12)

14-6.13 Depositing Commercial and Non-Commercial Handbills on Uninhabited or Vacant Premises. No person shall throw or deposit any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon any private premises which are temporarily or continuously uninhabited or vacant. (Ord. No. 399, § 13)

14-6.14 Prohibiting Distribution of Handbills Where Properly Posted. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or non-commercial handbill upon any private premises, if requested by anyone thereon not to do so, or if there is placed on the premises in a conspicuous position near the entrance thereof, a sign bearing the words: "No Trespassing," "No Peddlers or Agents," "No Advertisement," or any similar notice, indicating in any manner that the occupants of said premises do not desire to be molested or have their right of privacy disturbed, or to have any such handbills left upon such premises. (Ord. No. 399, § 14)

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14-6.15 Distributing Commercial and Non-Commercial Handbills at Inhabited Private Premises. No person shall throw, deposit or distribute any commercial or non-commercial handbill in or upon private premises which are inhabited, except by handing or transmitting any such handbill directly to the owner, occupant, or other person then present in or upon such private premises. Provided, however, that in case of inhabited private premises which are not posted, as provided in this section, such person, unless requested by anyone upon such premises not to do so, may place or deposit any such handbill in or upon such inhabited private premises, if such handbill is so placed or deposited as to secure or prevent such handbill from being blown or drifted about such premises or sidewalks, streets, or other public places, and except that mailboxes may not be so used when so prohibited by Federal postal law or regulations.

Marin, CA County Code is current through Ordinance 3424 and the May, 2005

5.04.080 Exhibition of permit. - Solicitors and canvassers required to have a permit are required to exhibit the permit at the request of any citizen. (Ord. 698 § 8, 1954)

5.04.115 Soliciting, canvassing after six p.m. - Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the board hereby finds and declares that the practice of going in and upon private residences in this county by any person whatsoever after the hour of six p.m., when not requested or invited to do so by the occupants of the private residences, for the purpose of soliciting orders for the sale of goods, wares, merchandise, personal services and/or for the purpose of disposing of and/or peddling or hawking the same, is hereby declared to be a nuisance. The maintenance or commission of such a nuisance shall constitute a violation of this chapter. (Ord. 1605 § 1, 1967)

5.04.090 Duty of sheriff to enforce. - It is the duty of the sheriff to require any person, who is required to have a permit, seen soliciting or canvassing within the unincorporated territory of the county, to produce his permit and to enforce the provisions of this chapter against any person found to be violating the same. (Ord. 698 § 9, 1954)

5.04.030 - Applicants for solicitors permit must have 3 character references from county residents.

5.54.140 License tax--Flat rate.

• Every person transacting and carrying on the businesses enumerated in this section shall pay a license tax as follows:
  • (7) Peddlers or solicitors. Five hundred dollars per year.
  • (8) Taxicab. Sixty dollars per vehicle per year. (Ord. 3413 § 1 (part), 2004)

5.54.200 Exemption--Limited income. - Minors and adults over the age of sixty-five years engaged in a business with gross receipts under two thousand dollars per year are not required to obtain a business license. (Ord. 3413 § 1 (part), 2004)

Chapter 6.48 HANDBILLS AND POSTERS

6.48.010 Distributing along roadways. - It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation, or any agent or employee of any person, firm or corporation, to place, or cause to be distributed or placed upon or along any public highway, road, street, square, park, or other public place, or into or upon any private property or territory adjacent to any public highway, in the county of Marin, without the written consent of the owner’ thereof, or his agent, or the occupant of said private property, by posting, sticking, tacking, affixing or placing to and upon fences, posts, trees, buildings, or other surface other than advertising structure any political card or circular or any advertising sheet or device of cloth, paper or cardboard bills, cards or posters, or tin signs, or matter whatever, designed or intended for advertising or making known in a general or promiscuous manner any business, occupation, profession, medical treatment, medicine, or the dealing or selling of any merchandise or thing whatsoever. (Ord. 209 § 1, 1933)

handbills constitutionality

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• http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_updates/first_amendment_cases/first_amendment_westover.htm
  • Unconstitutional limits on political speech and signs

• Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Village of Stratton’s ordinance banning door-to-door canvassing without a permit. In 1998, Stratton enacted an ordinance forbidding "canvassers" to ring doorbells without first going to the town’s mayor, identifying themselves and registering their cause. The Jehovah’s Witnesses, with whom Mayor Abdalla is reported to have had a long and tense relationship, refused to comply. They argued that they needed no permit; their mission was from God. They also objected to being forced to identify themselves to the government. In an 8-to-1 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled in Watchtower v. Village of Stratton, 122 S. Ct. 2080 (2002), that Village of Stratton’s policy violated the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ right to free expression.

• Free Speech Means Not Having to Play "Mother May I?" with the Government - http://www.cfif.org/htdocs/legal_issues/legal_activities/policy_papers/mother_may.htm
  • Noting its 50-year history of invalidating restrictions on door-to-door canvassing, the Court revisited several pertinent themes emphasized during that history. It reminded us, for example, that "‘hand distribution of religious tracts is an age-old form of missionary evangelism — as old as the history of printing presses [— and] has been a potent force in various religious movements down through the years.’" It reminded us of the "historical importance of door-to-door canvassing and pamphleteering as vehicles for the dissemination of ideas" and that to "‘require a censorship through license which makes impossible the free and unhampered distribution of pamphlets strikes at the very heart of the constitutional guarantees.’" And it reminded us that "efforts of the Jehovah’s Witnesses to resist speech regulation have not been a struggle for their rights alone," but that numerous small groups and individuals often must rely on the protections of the First Amendment because "‘[d]oor to door distribution of circulars is essential to the poorly financed causes of little people.’"
  • In order to maintain the basic norm of freedom in our society, we must be ever vigilant of government efforts to regulate the citizenry in anticipation of potential unlawful conduct, rather than in response to such conduct.
  • A free people does not need, and should never have to ask for, permission from the government to engage in lawful speech.

• http://www.municode.com/products/pamphlets/Michigan2004.pdf
  • Hours of solicitation - Limiting door-to-door solicitation prior to 9:00pm is of doubtful constitutionality. City of Watseka v. Illinois Public Action Council, 796 F. 2d 1547 (7th Cir. 1986); aff'd 479 U.S. 1048. See also Acorn v. City of Frontenac 714 F .2d 813 (8th Cir. 1983)
  • Placing handbills on unattended vehicles on public property. Prohibiting such conduct is of doubtful constitutionality unless the vehicle owner is required to put a "no handbills" notice on the vehicle. See Krantz v. City of Fort Smith, 160 F.3d 1214 (8th Cir. 1998), cert. den., 527 U.S. 1037 (1999)
  • Identification of handbill printer. Requiring all handbills to carry the name and address of the person who printed or caused the handbill to be printed is of doubtful constitutionality. See Talley v. California, 362 U.S. 60 (1960)

• Prohibition on resident from placing sign on own lawn - Supreme Court rules against city - CITY OF LADUE v. MARGARET P. GILLEO - http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/ladue.html

• http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14695
  • MADISON, Wis. — The city of Monroe will change portions of its handbill ordinance, an attorney told the federal judge who is hearing a lawsuit challenging the law.
  • Kevin Reak, a lawyer representing the city in the matter, said Aug. 22 that Monroe would no longer prohibit handbills from being placed on cars parked in public areas.
  • The ordinance would be changed, he said, so vehicle owners would have to leave a notice on their dashboard specifically stating that they didn't want handbills placed on their cars, similar to notices on homes forbidding leafleting.
  • The city will also drop a requirement that handbills be folded in a certain manner to keep them from being blown by the wind, Reak said.
  • The Rev. Ralph Ovadal, who was cited under the ordinance after passing out anti-abortion handbills, filed suit against the laws.

• Milwaukee must allow leafleting on auto windshields - http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15524

• Spreading the faith — one windshield at a time

• Landlords can halt tenant leaflets, rules California high court - Majority finds tenant association has no right to distribute pamphlets in privately owned building that is off-limits to public. - http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=14776
  • Cases involving unconstitutional restrictions involving private property — a shopping mall, a bank, a doctor's office — and did not apply because they were open to the public.
  • The court cited a 1979 California Supreme Court decision in Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center, where the free-speech clause was extended to privately owned shopping centers because they're open to the public.

• Free expression on private property - http://www.freedomforum.org/packages/first/freeexpression/index.htm
  • The California Supreme Court held in Robins v. Pruneyard Shopping Center, 592 P.2d 341 (1979), that the free-speech and petition provisions of the California Constitution grant mall visitors a constitutional right to free speech that outweighs the private-property interests of mall owners. The California Supreme Court took the position that "all private property is held subject to the power of government to regulate its use for the public welfare." Id. at 344. In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the state court's decision

• http://straylight.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/91-1200.ZO.html - After an evidentiary hearing the District Court concluded that "the regulatory scheme advanced by the City of Cincinnati completely prohibiting the distribution of commercial handbills on the public right of way violates the First Amendment." [n.4] The court found that both publications were "commercial speech" entitled to First Amendment protection because they concerned lawful activity and were not misleading.
  • The Court of Appeals disagreed, holding that the lesser status of commercial speech is relevant only when its regulation was designed either to prevent false or misleading advertising, or to alleviate distinctive adverse effects of thespecific speech at issue.
  • Under the Fox test it is clear that much of the materialin ordinary newspapers is commercial speech and, conversely, that the editorial content in respondents' promotional publications is not what we have described as "core" commercial speech. There is no doubt a "common sense" basis for distinguishing between the two, but under both the city's Code and our cases the difference is a matter of degree. [n.19]
  • Nevertheless, for the purpose of deciding this case, we assume that all of the speech barred from Cincinnati's sidewalks is what we have labeled "core" commercial speech and that no such speech is found in publicationsthat are allowed to use newsracks. We nonetheless agree with the Court of Appeals that Cincinnati's actions in this case run afoul of the First Amendment. Not only does Cincinnati's categorical ban on commercial newsracks place too much importance on the distinction between commercial and noncommercial speech, but in this case, the distinction bears no relationship whatsoever to the particular interests that the city has asserted.

• Ninth Circuit Overturns Handbill Ordinance Targeted at Las Vegas 'Smut Peddlers' - http://www.mediainstitute.org/digest/winter1999/page7.html
  • A Clark County, Nev., ordinance restricting the distribution of handbills along the Las Vegas Strip violates First Amendment rights, ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in S.O.C., Inc. v. County of Clark.

• Total Restriction on Putting Handbills on Windshields Is Overbroad - Briefed Case - http://www.swlearning.com/blaw/cases/total_restriction.html
  • City ordinances in Arkansas prohibited placing handbills of any sort on the windshield of parked cars. Appeals court struck down the ordinances as in violation of the First Amendment for not being narrowly tailored to assist in the public interest to reduce littering.

• http://www.constitution.org/ussc/319-105a.htm 319 U.S. 105 (1943) - MURDOCK v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Unconstitutional to require registration and tax from Jehovah's witnesses who are distributing material for which they sometimes receive contributions. Such would be a tax on religious expression.

• http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/Speech/advertising/overview.aspx
  • Origins of commercial-speech doctrine
    • The concept of commercial speech, as a category of speech without First Amendment protections, was invented almost offhandedly. In the 1942 decision Valentine v. Chrestensen, the Supreme Court, without analysis or comment, created the so-called “first commercial speech doctrine,” seemingly exempting such speech from any First Amendment protection.

• Green river ordinances - http://sunnyvale.ca.gov/200306/rtcs/03-01CA.asp - Description of Sunnyvale's proposed changes to their prohibitions on peddlers and canvassers.

Search Google: flyers "criminal littering"

• http://www.cleansafeworldwide.org/doc.asp?doc=1404&cat=33 - New Brunswick city council bans flyers.
• http://www.ncedr.org/guides/litter/lidlaws.htm
  • Alabama
    • Ala. Code Sec. 13A-7-29. Criminal Littering.
  • Rhode Island
    • TITLE 37 - Public Property and Works - CHAPTER 37-15 - Litter Control and Recycling - SECTION 37-15-18
      • § 37-15-18 Distribution of flyers on motor vehicles on private property – Penalties. – No person, corporation, partnership, or association shall cause to be or shall distribute flyers on motor vehicles on private commercial property. Flyers shall mean commercial advertising literature which shall include, but not be limited to, advertisement of products or services, whether free or not; notices of events of any type; solicitation of funds, services, signatures or assistance of any causes; etc. Violators of this section shall be fined two hundred dollars ($200), the proceeds of which shall go to the OSCAR fund.

• Greenie Charged With Littering - interested-participant.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_interested-participant_archive.html
  • (Beachwood, Ohio) An environmentalist was distributing flyers on SUVs when he got into an argument with a woman who didn't want his flyer on her windshield. The woman gave the flyer back to the 41-year-old greenie who became upset and threw the flyer on the ground. After being called by a passing motorist, police charged the environmentalist with littering and disorderly conduct. The report didn't name the littering environmentalist.
  • Personally, I think there should be ordinances to prevent organizations from blanketing parking lots with flyers of any kind. In my mind, it doesn't make a difference whether the paper is on the ground or the windshield. It's litter.

• Karl Arther Jadrnicek- 03-11762 - First Circuit www.hawaii.gov/dags/rpts/rpts/leg0000702.pdf
  • On 04-16-2003 a man was arrested by the State sheriffs for "criminal littering" at the State Capitol building parking lot. He had been distributing flyers pertainnig to the legislature then in session. He claims violation of his civil rights.

• Fly Away: Clark Atlanta Says 'No' to Party Flyers on Campus - Clark Atlanta University - http://www.thecaupanther.com/media/paper292/news/2004/11/23/News/Fly-Away.Clark.Atlanta.Says.no.To.Party.Flyers.On.Campus-824567.shtml
  • Due to Clark Atlanta's open-campus, party promoters usually target the north end of the campus by the student center to pass out flyers. Now, if outside party promoters or teams pass out flyers, public safety will ask them to stop or leave.
  • Only Council of Chartered Organizations (CCO) members can advertise on campus.

• Tax day protest against the war - http://www.squadron13.com/CivilResistance/TaxDay2005/default.htm
  • In our attempts to pass out leaflets, first we were asked to leave from the center of the Post Office property by Postal Service employees who said we were not allowed to leaflet there.

Handbills Constitutionality California Marin

• http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/meiklejohn/meik-4_3/meik-4_3-4.html

• 51.4. Talley v. City of Los Angeles. (U.S.S.C.) For facts, see IV DOCKET 40. Los Angeles Super. Ct., App. Dept. affirmed, upheld constitutionality of handbill ordinance requiring identification of author and distributor. Petition for certiorari pending in U.S.S.C.
  • Herbert Simmons, Esq., 343 W. Vernon; A. L. Wirin and Fred Okrand, Esqs., 257 S. Spring St.; Hugh Manes, Esq., 510 S. Spring St.; and Mandle Rottman, Esq., all of Los Angeles.
• 51.5. California v. Smith. (Los Angeles Muni. Ct.) Def. arrested, leaflets seized. Charge: violating city ordinance prohibiting distribution of handbills to passengers in any vehicle. Def's. motion to dismiss pending.
  • A. L. Wirin, Fred Okrand, Esqs., 257 S. Spring St., Los Angeles.

Distribution of flyers

Community centers, libraries, grocery stores, and numerous places on college campuses have free bulletin boards set up. Post a message; pin up a flyer!

Local stores will often let you leave a stack of them by the register for their customers to take. Just tell them that you are promoting a program that teaches children and teens not to steal through character education. (They love that!) Then, ask them if they would show their support of the community by allowing you to leave a stack of flyers on their counter for their customers. Be sure to check back regularly so you know when to leave more.

Check with the local churches... tell them about the program and ask if you can leave flyers on the windshields of the cars in the lot during their services. Or ask if they would distribute them during the service itself.

Colleges, laundromats, grocery stores, and many other places have bulletin boards on the walls that allow free advertising. Place two or three stacks of 4-5 flyers held by tacks at the top so that people can take one.

Call the local indoor shopping mall office and ask if you can distribute the flyers within the mall itself. Some also allow flyers to be placed on windshields in their parking lots, but many do not... be sure to ask first!

Having a yard sale? Make sure you have a stack of flyers for the cashier to give out with every purchase! If it's your neighbor's sale, provide them for your neighbor and ask if they can be given out.

Ask the banks in your community if they would allow you to leave a stack of flyers or brochures in their lobbies or other designated areas.

Many coffee shops and tea houses have bulletin boards as well... print some out to pin up!

Check out the Brochure Suggestions... some of them may work in your area for Flyers, too!

Distribution of Brochures

Contact retail stores, libraries, bookstores, banks and restaurants in your area and ask if you can leave the brochures at their register for their patrons. If you are able to describe the program and get them interested in promoting it, there is a possibility that you will even get them to hand them out with the menus or final check.

Community Centers, Day Care Centers, and other places where parents enroll their children are a great place to put brochures! Ask if they can be left on desks or counters where parents will see them.

Do you live in an apartment complex? Ask the rental office staff to include a brochure or flyer in with the monthly apartment community newsletter distribution.

Don't forget waiting rooms! People are always looking for something to read... hospitals, dentists, doctors, physical therapy, lawyers, check with the receptionist and find out

Hotels and Real Estate agencies have people coming and going every day! Many of these are influential in the lives of children. Ask about leaving them at the front desk and in the lobby on tables. Some even have display racks for promoting local attractions and community resource material.

Are you the member of a club or other group? See if the group is interested in helping you to promote the program! This is a great way to involve the community. More than likely local activities are already scheduled, so ask about setting up stacks of brochures that can be seen by the public! Be sure to ask if a brochure or flyer can be slipped into any newsletters that go out to the membership.

Many communities have a Visitors and Information Bureau... ask if you can leave brochures there. Many newcomers moving into the area, as well as those visiting check with these organizations for local information.

Advertising a House Cleaning Business

Advertising

Advertise in Local Paper: Start by running a text ad in your local newspaper. Running the ad by the month is usually less expensive. Make it short and simple. Something like " Professional, affordable house cleaning services. Call for a free estimate"

Magnetic Signs or Lettering for your Vehicle: Having your business name and contact information on your vehicle is a great way to advertise. Magnetic signs can be purchased for as little as 60.00. We use the vinyl lettering. The lettering looks much more professional.

Flyers: You can print nice flyers on your home computer. Hang flyers at Hair Dressers, Laundromats, Restaurants, Bakeries, Grocery Stores, etc. Put flyers on car windows at local groceries stores and businesses. You can even go door to door in neighborhoods you would like to work in. You cannot put them in mailboxes. but you can put them in the front door.

Door Hangers: Door hangers are a great way to get new clients. Pick the neighborhood you would like to work in and hang the door hangers on the doors. Door hangers are very professional looking and can be purchased at http://www.direct-color.com/doorhanger.html You can purchase 200 door hangers for as little as 64.00.

Business Cards: One of the most inexpensive online shops for business cards is Vista Print. They have professional quality cards at a very affordable rate. Start passing out your business cards to friends and family members. You can also ask your local businesses if you can leave some cards on their counters.

Referral Program: A great way to obtain new clients is through a referral program. Offer existing clients a Party Help or discount when they refer a friend. We offer a Party Help when a client refers a friend and the friend uses our services three times.

Website: These days people live very busy lives so they use the convenience of the internet to shop for the services they need. A lot of working women will shop for services while at work. We obtain 90% of our new clients from our website. You can purchase a website for as little as $350.00.

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Other miscellaneous links:

• http://www.pcfdc.mb.ca/tools/guidebook.pdf
• http://profitable-home-businesses.blogspot.com/ - ideas for profitable home businesses
• http://www.cleansafeworldwide.org/doc.asp?doc=1678&cat=33 Beggars Buy Licences to Beg 7-Jan-2004 - One day after a new Durham city ordinance took effect restricting who can hustle for change by the side of the road, five panhandlers have been approved by the city for $20 permits ... Durham, North Carolina

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