Its sounds like a good plan of attack, but I can tell you firsthand that this type of "guerilla" marketing does not work
We tried this at a business I managed and it ended up hurting us in the long run, I lost a lunch crowd and never gained them back, biggest complaint.. NO PARKING I lost every straggling walk-in I had between 12-4pm, never got them back Cookman loses more business from lack of parking than anything else, and that is a fact Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: "Hinge" <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:39:12 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: [AsburyPark] Re: 2003 Do you ever stop to think that maybe the ghost town we are now seeing points to the fact that the Cookman area is full of low traffic specialty retailers and the residents and employees made it look like more was going on then it seemed? --- In [email protected], "Hinge" <hinge98@...> wrote: > > Duh, I know that. I live here year round. I love how the guy who's > economically doing well by his own admission looks down and tells me to "Get > used to it" > > I'm a struggling 50 yr old and you want me to suck it up. Do you want me to > move out of my beloved home, get a roommate and watch everything I worked so > far for continue to go to shit? > > I'd love to put you in front of a group of residents and employees and tell > them to "Get over it" > > Good luck with that, should you have the balls to do so. > > --- In [email protected], "dfsavgny" <dfsavgny@> wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "Hinge" <hinge98@> wrote: > > > > > > Doesn't it really depend on the income level of the business's in a city > > > with a parking issue? Downtown AP isn't exactly a high income earning > > > area, so it's not easy to compare it to places like NYC, Jersey City or > > > others. Those are full on cities. AP is only a city by name and it's > > > primarily residential. > > > > Hinge, the simple fact of the matter - that you CANNOT dislodge - is that > > the number of cars HOGGING parking spots on Cookman during the week did not > > translate into business for the stores. I have been in the stores a zillion > > times when there was not a space available on Cookman and I was alone. > > > > The parking is done. Get used to it. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsburyPark/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
