Looking to creatively advertise your floor meeting, program, or event? Or perhaps you want to get information out to your residents that they will pay attention to. The following are A to Z idea starters that will make you think beyond the traditional poster.Some of them are a bit whacky (admittedly), but some of them will help get your creative juices flowing.
A
Add a letter to the program title on a bulletin board each day
Advertise on related items
Advertise on stairs
Announce programs at Hall Council
Announce the next program at a current program
Arrows on the floor leading to the program
B
Backwards signs
Bake something before the program
Balloons with the event information on them
Banners
Bathroom publicity
Bathroom stall doors
Blacklight advertisements
Body paint
Bookmarks
Brochures
Build human signs
Bulletin Boards
Bumper stickers
Buttons
C
Cameo
Cartoons
Ceiling signs
Celebrity spokespersons
Certificates of attendance
Chain text message tag
Commercial break during a program
Contact paper signs up in the showers
Create a slogan
Crossword puzzle
Cut out shapes and use them as the background for posters and announcements
D
Decorate prior to the program
Decorate a cake with the program information
Diorama
Display case
Door knob hangers
Door prizes
Door-to-door visits
Drawing
Dress in costume
Drinking Fountain signs
E
Early arrival prizes
Elevator messages
E-Mail Announcements
F
Fake dollar bills with program information on the back
Fancy borders
Finger paint signs
Flags
Floor meetings
Floor signs
Fluorescent paper
Food
Footprints on the floor leading to the program
Fortune cookies
Frisbees
G
Giant sized calendars on the wall
Give away items
Glitter
H
Hand out admission tickets to the program
Hang signs in unusual places
Helium balloons
I
Insert flyers into the student newspaper
Inside washers and dryers
Invite faculty or staff to attend
J
Jam out to music in the lobby
K
Knock door-to-door
L
Ladder or puzzle signs
Life-sized people cutouts
Lopsided signs
M
Motorized RC car with an advertisement on it
Music
Mystery guests
Magazine cut outs
Make-up your own word or catch phrase
N
Newsletters
Notices under clocks
O
Offer rewards and incentives for attending
Oversized items
P
Paint windows
Paper towel ads
Perform a skit in the lobby
Personal invitations
Post notices near frequently used items (TV, microwave)
Posts-its all around the hall
Put announcements inside balloons and invite people to pop them
Q
Questions
Quotations
R
Reverse signs hung across from mirrors
RHA
Ribbons with program information on them
Run a piece of yarn from doors to the program
S
Sandwich boards
Scavenger hunts
Send personal invitations
Show a pre-event video
Shower signs in zip-loc bags
Sidewalk chalk
Silent voicemails
Singing telegrams
Stickers
Streamers
T
Table tents
Tear off flyers
Teasers
Three dimensional signs
Tickets
Toilet paper ads
Trophies
T-Shirts
U
Under door advertisements
Unusual items used to make signs
Upside down flyers and posters
Use pictures of RAs, residents, and administrators
V
Very large or very small print
W
White board messages
Window displays
Wrap announcements on candy or gum
Write a poem
Write on bathroom tile with dry erase marker (be careful)
Write on mirrors with a dry erase marker (be careful)
X
Xamine your audience ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Y
Yard signs
Z
Zero in on one word to describe the program
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