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I am thinking about advertising my yard haunt this year for a few days. But after looking at the prices a 2 X4 runs $74.00 a day... Do any of you have any sponsor's and how did you go about setting that up?

By accident.


My brother owns a music store.

A neighbor owns a party supply store.

Another owns a self storage.

(Though, it's more me advertising for them at the haunt in return for setting up my sound, free pick of damaged products, and discount on storage, not them paying for an ad to my house.)

well for one look at what is free to set up.

Try Craigslist.org. The have a community listing you can use.

Set up a myspace account. can put lots of things on there.

You don't need to buy space in the paper to tell people about your hanunt. The local papers are always looking for very local news stories. Write up a press release and include a good photo. Give a short history on who you are and what you do, how long you've been doing it, some of the surprises to see, date time, maybe a link to your myspace or hauntspace page telling more and how to contact you.

I suggest a good picture as those listings get really noticed. Making your headline eye catching is important.

look online for the proper way to set up a press release. theres lots of tutorials

Redneck220,
Great suggestions on contacting the local news rag. My friends and the Mrs. Spook always are telling me I should do the same.

For the past few years I have put up a sign similar to real estate sign at the begining of my road alerting folks to my haunt and this has worked out well.

I think the newspaper doing a story on your haunt is a good idea. The craigslist option is a good idea too.

I work at the local newspaper and tried that route last year, even had a writer come out and photograph the 4 acres/ 3 houses that we have. The big boss said that we couldn't run the article because I am an employee. Have you ever heard such a thing. So then I asked him to write it up in my neighbors name. He never got around to it..

Originally Posted by TheGothicPrincess

I am thinking about advertising my yard haunt this year for a few days. But after looking at the prices a 2 X4 runs $74.00 a day... Do any of you have any sponsor's and how did you go about setting that up?

I agree with story in the local paper idea - this has worked great for me. Most smaller papers are always looking for people to do stories on leading up to the holidays. They would probably be very interested to interview you over how you made everything, set it up, why you do it, etc. I've gotten great advertising the last two years this way. Attendance has increased dramatically and I haven't paid a dime. The newspaper reporter even got an independent journalist award for the write-up she did of me in 2006.

I may go outside of my area with letting the newspapers know, what I am doing. Then again, I will have my neighbor who does this haunt with me, call the paper and get them to do the article on her...

Originally Posted by TheGothicPrincess

I may go outside of my area with letting the newspapers know, what I am doing. Then again, I will have my neighbor who does this haunt with me, call the paper and get them to do the article on her...

I'm guessing this means you only have one local paper? And yeah, that is weird them not wanting to write an article about you because you work there. You'd think they'd jump at that.