Spreading the Virus: Recruiting

POSTED BY: Kaele
UPDATED: Friday, March 3, 2006 18:14
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KAELE

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:24 AM

Got my newsletter today from http://www.browncoatsriseagain.com/

I sent them a copy of our little list of ideas on how to spread the signal. Can I get some help with this one? Any website you're a member of, send off our ideas to, post them or e-mail the site owner. This includes fansites of just the characters too.

The edited list of additional things to do:

1) Putting Firefly links in your signature for e-mails.
2) Lend DVDs and recruit.
3) Donate: DVDs and books to amazon wishlists, libraries, college libraries, troops overseas.
4) Vote for Serenity/Firefly and our BDH's on any online poll you can find. Post them here and spread the word so we can all do it too.
5) Write a film commentary, letter to the editor, small feature article, or community voice item to your local paper about Serenity/Firefly.
6) Make up a flyer promoting Serenity/Firefly and this website to be placed around college campuses, in libraries, at the local market, in local comic book stores.
7) Put a personal ad in the paper looking for a group of Browncoats to meet on a regular basis. Get together and play the shiny new RPG together.

A few reminders:
Try postcards instead of long letters to network and movie execs. Cheaper, faster, easier to read.
Please refrain from illegal downloads and copying. Money talks. We're gonna let them hear us loud and clear.

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele

ISAACSHEPHERD

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 2:54 PM

Did anyone produce a flier yet? Or at least ideas for making one. I'll make one myself but it won't be too great. What to say and how to draw people in is more of what I need to worry about.
IS

The Bible's a bit fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.

ARTCAT81

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:00 PM

Donate a copy to your local library, their funds only stretch so far and it opens the 'verse to folks who might not otherwise ever pick it up

Browncoats are the shiniest folks in the 'verse

FOLLOWMAL

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:22 PM

IS

11th Hour right here on our shiny board makes guerrilla marketing posters and fliers I think.

Here is the link to 11th Hour's Blue Sun profile page:

http://www.fireflyfans.net/showprofile.asp?u=3340

I hope you can find some that will help you and if not maybe some ideas?!

If you have any questions, I'll bet if you message 11th Hour they will help you and point you elsewhere if that doesn't work.

" You hold. Hold til I get back." Mal

FEENIX

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:33 PM

Stick with 'You cant stop the signal'...its mysterious enough to pique interest, I use it in several of my messenger profiles and I get a lot of questions from people when they read it. 6 converts who purchased both set and movie, and counting, may not seem like a lot, but when its 5 words in a profile, it is a little going a long way.

SHINEYSHINDIG

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:39 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by IsaacShepherd:
Did anyone produce a flier yet? Or at least ideas for making one. I'll make one myself but it won't be too great. What to say and how to draw people in is more of what I need to worry about.
IS

The Bible's a bit fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.

I could contribute to creating one, given everyone's suggestions to content, what message we want to say, etc., and do a bit of photoshop stuff. It would be cool to have an absolute purpose to a flyer though, besides just saying (and showing) how great a show/movie it is..
It would be very shiney if, say, we could band together by state and locations, and kinda form little browncoat troups.. maybe enlist people like that.. greatness in numbers ya know? Maybe a generic flyer that could work for everyone! Not sure if there are any fan groups like this already existing...?? Can anyone help expand on this thought??

use of a Swhat?

ISAACSHEPHERD

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 4:47 PM

My guess in starting this flier thing, is how we get across to people. Using the sci-fi western genre won't work. Too many people just say it's odd and disreguard. Joss is an excellent writer but some people immediately dismiss him from Buffy and Angel. Maybe we need to market the characters themselves more than anything else. I'm not exactly sure how to do that, but i'm just throwing around ideas and hope it'll spring an idea for someone else or me.
IS

The Bible's a bit fuzzy on the subject of kneecaps.

CEDRIC

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 5:21 PM

We've been doing our part within the scifi community--because believe it or not, a lot of scifi fans haven't been converted yet.

Last weekend, we performed music from our scifi album at ConDFW, where we put on a "Filk of Firefly" panel. During the con, we had several people tell us that they were now convinced to check out Firefly or give it a second try. (Hey, not everyone is convinced right off the bat.)

"Some things stay with you, 'til the day you die."
On the Drift: Music Inspired by Firefly and Serenity, now on sale at
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bedlambards/from/celtic

KAELE

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 6:50 PM

Reminder about those donated DVDs...

Don't forget to grab your sharpie and denote your favorite Firefly website somewhere on the inside, even if it isn't here. (sorry haken!) But 'long as the word gets spread, we'll take any mention we can get. They'll find their way here eventually anyways! ...especially as this site's mentioned on the DVD its own self.

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele

KAELE

Tuesday, February 28, 2006 8:18 PM

You just got volunteered for flyer duty SHINEYSHINDIG.

Find a pic, fairly large. I'm thinking a column on the side describing the show or movie. Then like those adverts all over the college campuses, put fireflyfans.net down there at the bottom for people to tear off. Anyone who distribites them can snip them so people can rip them off instead of remembering the site. Also, anyone who's pinning them up can add their e-mail address to it if they like.

Just got an idea for those postcards. Gimme a few hours and I'll see what lame thing I can come up with... Working...

Kaele
AIM - Dewlanna
YID - jedi_kaele

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