In my last post, I mentioned how I'd been on Radio Leicester to promote the climb. Well, I'm not sure that I've got anything as a direct result of that, but I'm now looking to use it as a springboard - to put the idea into people's minds so that they've heard of us when they read about us print.
And I'm hoping that they will do that very soon: Leicester City are interested in getting our names and pictures into the programme for the QPR game on Easter Monday (The designated LOROS fixture) and there's a good chance that we could get a mention in local paper The Leicester Mercury and a couple of other websites!
Also this week, we told the world of the Leicester City 606 boards (the messageboards from which we all met!) what we're doing, and we received a great response; several people pledging money to us and giving the JustGiving.com account a serious boost. However, I'm sure we will be returning there over the coming weeks to see if we can do even better!
As such, it's been a pretty busy week, firing emails back and forth and dealing with dramas that have gone away almost as quickly as they appeared.
Apart from that, it's all down to bugging friends and family...
Showing posts with label Publicity. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Publicity. Show all posts
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Monday, 22 March 2010
The publicity machine starts to accelerate
Some major progress!
I appeared on Radio Leicester's football forum tonight, along with presenter Ian Stringer, one of those who will be doing the hike with us. I was pretty scared just thinking about it... Indeed, I don't know what a doctor would have said about my heart rate at one point when it was pounding like a drumroll... But by all accounts, I didn't disgrace myself.
I think.
Anyway, I've managed to publicise the event but the sponsorship on the Just Giving site (http://www.justgiving.com/TheFoxesOfNevis) remains low. So hopefully if I can get a mention in a few newspapers or other literature then that can start to build! As such, I have sent off a series of emails tonight to try to obtain publicity through the media.
In other news, I've got our official photo online. (See below.)
Okay, so there are only 10 of the 13 of us in this photo, but it is very difficult to get us all in the same place at once.
Once I get a chance to take a picture of 11 or more of us there'll be a new official photo!
I appeared on Radio Leicester's football forum tonight, along with presenter Ian Stringer, one of those who will be doing the hike with us. I was pretty scared just thinking about it... Indeed, I don't know what a doctor would have said about my heart rate at one point when it was pounding like a drumroll... But by all accounts, I didn't disgrace myself.
I think.
Anyway, I've managed to publicise the event but the sponsorship on the Just Giving site (http://www.justgiving.com/TheFoxesOfNevis) remains low. So hopefully if I can get a mention in a few newspapers or other literature then that can start to build! As such, I have sent off a series of emails tonight to try to obtain publicity through the media.
In other news, I've got our official photo online. (See below.)
Okay, so there are only 10 of the 13 of us in this photo, but it is very difficult to get us all in the same place at once.
Once I get a chance to take a picture of 11 or more of us there'll be a new official photo!
Friday, 19 February 2010
LOROS helps out!
I've been in touch with LOROS themselves and I'm happy to report that I received a very helpful email back containing various suggestions, perhaps the biggest one being the taking of publicity photographs and getting in touch with the local paper, the Leicester Mercury.
As such, we now need to get everyone together for said photograph, which is easier said than done. You see, the considering that we all met from an internet forum, we all come from different walks of life. Hence it's difficult to get us together all at once! I may have to compromise and get as many of us in the photographs as possible. However, this is at least driving the publicity side of the trip forward.
In other news, it looks like we may have another climber on board, in the way of silkily-skilled Joey. That's silky football skills rather than mountaineering/hiking skills, of which I know very little. Even so, I have little doubt that he'll be racing the rest of us to the summit!
As such, we now need to get everyone together for said photograph, which is easier said than done. You see, the considering that we all met from an internet forum, we all come from different walks of life. Hence it's difficult to get us together all at once! I may have to compromise and get as many of us in the photographs as possible. However, this is at least driving the publicity side of the trip forward.
In other news, it looks like we may have another climber on board, in the way of silkily-skilled Joey. That's silky football skills rather than mountaineering/hiking skills, of which I know very little. Even so, I have little doubt that he'll be racing the rest of us to the summit!
Friday, 5 February 2010
Contact with LCFC
Good news yesterday!
I received an email from Leicester City Football Club that they should be able to feature us in some way in a match later on in the season - The home game against Queens Park Rangers on Easter Monday. Hopefully we might get into the programme or even get onto the pitch at half time! (Currently a hope rather than an expectation.) Essentially that should give us plenty of publicity and encourage other Leicester fans to give money to our cause.
Exactly how we receive that money is yet to be decided. A couple of options have popped up - one being setting up an account with a site called justgiving.com and the other being that we collect 'by hand' and had all proceeds in to the club after the QPR game. However, considering the QPR game is a few weeks before the climb I'm getting drawn far more to the former.
Whatever that decision though, this is excellent news and I hope to drive on from here. Issues around transportation and accomodation remain outstanding, but I'm hoping to close in on them over the next few days. For now, I'll just enjoy the moment and dream about stepping out onto the pitch at the Walkers... Not to play of course. That would just be silly. Wouldn't it.
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I received an email from Leicester City Football Club that they should be able to feature us in some way in a match later on in the season - The home game against Queens Park Rangers on Easter Monday. Hopefully we might get into the programme or even get onto the pitch at half time! (Currently a hope rather than an expectation.) Essentially that should give us plenty of publicity and encourage other Leicester fans to give money to our cause.
Exactly how we receive that money is yet to be decided. A couple of options have popped up - one being setting up an account with a site called justgiving.com and the other being that we collect 'by hand' and had all proceeds in to the club after the QPR game. However, considering the QPR game is a few weeks before the climb I'm getting drawn far more to the former.
Whatever that decision though, this is excellent news and I hope to drive on from here. Issues around transportation and accomodation remain outstanding, but I'm hoping to close in on them over the next few days. For now, I'll just enjoy the moment and dream about stepping out onto the pitch at the Walkers... Not to play of course. That would just be silly. Wouldn't it.
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