Anyone promote their domain name on their Car?

[mally]

Hello all.

As alot of us domainers have at least one, developed website. Anyone considered advertising the domain on your car?

I've seen plenty of other cars doing this, and most of the time I laugh, especially on van's, where there advertising a domain name, yet still show their email address as a hotmail account or something.

I would probably advertise one of my magazine site domains, or ever maybe crisis loans

I always remember seeing a car plastered with adverts, saying work from home an earn £15 an hour. The problem was the car it was advertised on was worth about £300 and was a rust bucket!

 

[khalid]

Problem is your vehicle can be classified as a commercial one - I've seen a guy get refused entry to the tip because of this and he couldn't unload his car full of rubbish!

It probably wouldn't hurt, just think about it both ways.

 

[SuziWong]

Would be easy to do with one of those plastic screen stickers that go over top of windscreen, like taxi company have made for telephone numbers!

 

[cm1975]

You could go for car door magnets, so their easily removed. For example - http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/car-magnets/car-door-magnets.aspx

 

[mat]

Step 1 in looking like a pompous cock

 

[mat]

yet still show their email address as a hotmail account or something.

There are sandwiches down one of the local village shops, really well packed product, yet a nice long yahoo.co.uk contact email on the back for the company who makes them. Quite strange.

 

[Pred]

Problem is your vehicle can be classified as a commercial one - I've seen a guy get refused entry to the tip because of this and he couldn't unload his car full of rubbish!

It probably wouldn't hurt, just think about it both ways.

thats true, you can imagine an over zealous copper nicking you for smoking in the car too!
as it would constitute a works vehicle
maybe im just getting paranoid

 

[doodlebug]

@ Mat, I can't believe you have that on your window :lol:

I think the amount of people who see the URL minus the amount who are not interested in the site minus the ones who intend to look on net but forget minus the ones who do look but nav away and the end result is barely any traffic, I truly believe that the only marketing worth bothering with is direct marketing as in you want to sell a stop smoking product so you market smokers.

Just marketing to everyone gives you limited results unless on TV where you have millions sat in the comfort of their own home and probably with a laptop near by as oppose to seeing the domain while out and about and going off doing their thing while remembering the domain for later.

And yes I always snigger to myself when I see the likes of [email protected]

 

[retired_member12]

The best vehicle to put your url on is a trailer in some field of barley right next to the M6, M40, M1 or M25. Keep it short and memorable, it'll be relatively cheap for the traffic you get.

 

[retired_member32]

you would need to notify your insurance company... a friend of mine had his garage advertised on the side of his car and had an accident and they failed to pay him due to the "ommission of these details" they will try anything to stop paying you...ahhrrrggg.

I was charged to excess payments when the missus hit a bollard in a multi story carpark because they classed it as "double movement" when she tried to remove the car from the post....:-x

 

[doodlebug]

There's a trailer near me which as this on it WEBUYANYCAR and it's got nothing to do with the famous ad, they even have the words scrunched together like that.

If anything it helps to promote webuyandcar.com because you really don't notice the actual url which is ??? I forgot :?

 

[julian]

I thought the proper spelling of Matthew was spelt with two t's - did you have your name changed to match the domain

Step 1 in looking like a pompous cock

 

[mat]

I thought the proper spelling of Matthew was spelt with two t's - did you have your name changed to match the domain

I made sure when I was born that it was spelt wrong to save money on the domain name.

Thats how ahead of the game I was

 

[kendalcottages]

I used to have a commercial Land Rover and advertised our main company website on their locally. I think it brought about a little bit of business, but I'd imagine it was almost insignificant compared to the likes of Google, etc. Most people looking at vehicles aren't sitting at a computer at the time, and don't remember to look back at that address they saw earlier in the day when they do get to one.

 

[droid]

I just matched the plate with the domain name

Gary

 

[SF]

thats a monster gary wow well done! looks ace

 

[mally]

thins one always makes me laugh, the pitch is so funny!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vtib4WZW_4M

Its used to be parked next to the A1 in Darlington, (watch the video and she'll explain what happened with it!)

 

[Whois-Search]

I got "W11 OTS" as a plate and i'm still trying to make it say "W l-l O I S" LOL