Riverstone
My friend and I both do tarot readings at a local independent bookstore. We divide up the week so that there is always a reader available every afternoon and into the evening. We're trying to come up with ideas to promote ourselves as tarot readers (with our personal phone numbers) and also to bring more tarot reading clients into the store. Since the advertising will be on our dime, so to speak, we'd like to keep the expenses as low as reasonably possible. We each already have business cards. We've checked into newspaper ads and found them to be a bit expensive. We were thinking of having some flyers printed to post at businesses with bulletin boards available to the public for announcements, etc. Also, we're going to have a poster sized sign made to put in the bookstore window, with the owner's consent.
Would you please share your ideas for inexpensive self-promotion with us?
A little background: The bookstore owner is selling the business and doesn't want to put money into advertising. We've met the new owner and we will continue to do readings after the store changes hands, but it hardly seems reasonable to ask the new owner-to-be to pay for advertising. This whole change-over will take a few months and we don't want to wait that long. We want to get busy telling the world we're here. Thank goodness for independent book stores! The local Barnes and Noble store manager told me that corporate policy forbids tarot readings in their stores and store cafe's. Could this be true, or is it just because we live in a conservative area (Utah)?
Would you please share your ideas for inexpensive self-promotion with us?
A little background: The bookstore owner is selling the business and doesn't want to put money into advertising. We've met the new owner and we will continue to do readings after the store changes hands, but it hardly seems reasonable to ask the new owner-to-be to pay for advertising. This whole change-over will take a few months and we don't want to wait that long. We want to get busy telling the world we're here. Thank goodness for independent book stores! The local Barnes and Noble store manager told me that corporate policy forbids tarot readings in their stores and store cafe's. Could this be true, or is it just because we live in a conservative area (Utah)?