Lovestory of The Promo and The Trashcan.
I wish to share some Promo stories with you.
Living in Miami, the humidity was very high.
We'd be sent out to do promo in full-dress wear many times, then be back on Post.
The Promo pieces used was this 'ticket' that said 'Free Personality Test' on it with bulleted points of ruins.
We had a few other 'tickets' that were thought up by a Public:
These were titled: 'Problems?' also with bulleted points of ruins and questions
designed to make the unsuspecting New Person to call or walk in.
For a while, we'd bundle up tickets in bundles of 500, and simply stick them on payphones.
Believe it or not, this worked well and we'd receive a lot more calls and walk-ins from them.
But then we were made to stop this, due to the MANY calls from the City to stop this.
The next method used was to physcially go out and put two tickets under every car's windshield wiper blades.
MUCH more time-consuming and this was often an All-Hands activity, including most of the Public doing this for us.
Course, We'd get MANY calls from the city again and from irate car-owners, etc.
Also, each of the above methods heavily lined the streets of Miami, and we'd often be sent back out to then
pick up all the tickets and have to throw them away if they couldn't be re-used.
All in all, this method was pointless, cost WAY too much of our time/money and was a quick-stat-count
(which was often falsified like the rest of our stats).
They should've had a 'Trashcans full of Promo' THAT woulda been OUT THE ROOF, UP THE CEILING AND DOWN
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WALL, eh? We'd a won the Bday Game for sure!
The Org is probably STILL using that darned Ticket that we'd tried MANY times to change,
yet it'd never be approved or wouldn't allow to Pilot it for long enough, etc.
Onto other strange stat pushes:
At a Mission: My daughter (and other kids around) used to be begged
to watch the Orientation film nearly EVERY day to count as a stat for that....
For some of Div 6 stats, I used to have to do 'locational workshops' on the Org staff's
children every week, usually on Thurs mornings....
For my bodyrouting stat:
Sometimes we'd give out OCA's to go to the busy lunch-rush crowds rushing by our doors.
I'd stand just inside the door, get their attention, hand out the test to them in such a way to where they'd
have to walk across the threshhold to grab their test, thereby ensuring me a body to stat, whoohoo!:wink2:
More coming soon....