Mmmmm, not sure the Forum is the place to hassle hoggster over marketing YET. I would wait for the CEO and new head of Sales and Marketing to be in place before asking tough "business related" questions.
Still, each to their own.

My question is young faces at the stoop, how we get them keep them and get their friends to come. Have an idea would like to know if the club is willing to take the chance.

gone a bit quiet

On this subject of marketing, i see our brothers over on the Union side have not been at it again and have produced a shirt for their big game over the road at twickenham and linked up with a cancer charity. It still makes me wonder why we looking for a marketing manger when the money could be spend by linking up with the same company (EXP Sports) that QuinsRU use,they seem to do a great job for them.

On the Charity angle that was mentioned before in another thread, why dont QuinsRL try and link up with Help the Heroes for our game against Manly,as its a cause close to Sun's heart there could be a chance of good Sponsorship there, plus they would do a lot of promting for it in their newspaper.

And before anyone has a go at me for saying we shouldnt use charity to push our crowds up, im an ex seviceman who love to see QuinsRL do something like this for that cause,just like Union did.

Great post are You listening Mr Hogg?

I was thinking more 13-17 age group as this is a range where kids become hooked tell their mates etc.

Fair enough, maybe cheap drinks isn't a good idea for that demograph!

But to encourage people of that age to come back with their friends it will have to be very cheap, like kids for a quid or something as at that age I rememebr having hardly any money at all to spend, the only live sport I would go to with friends was Spurs in the league cup at £5 a ticket or West Ham at their kids for a quid matches, this was all we could afford on paper rounds or cornershop work, but it was great when we did actually go, a group of us would have a great time, and now these people the are much more likely to go to live sport than people who never did.

Hook them in at 13-17 with kids for a quid,
Offer drink discounts with NUS student cards for when they are 18-21,
then after 21 they will hopefully become season ticket holders in full price seats paying full price drinks like the rest of us.

20,000 london based australians were in TW2 on saturday......no posters, flyers or anything to promote manly?

The Gap between the haves and the have-nots rlwidensrl
They are up for an award....we sold 1 box

Im won't pretend to know a thing about marketing. But i have said before i just don't understand why Quins rugby league who share or in the next office to Quins RU dont just ask about this comapny EXP Sports Ltd and what the cost will be to have them run some thing for us, surely they can work out some sort of deal to have them represent both sides of the Club. They must have some companies on their books who would fancy useing a Box in the summer so can stand outside and watch some great rugby and drink beer(wine for the ladies),then inside at as too cold to go out and watch.

they could appoach this walkabout pub chain if they like a box for the Manly game, offer it at reduced rates for free advvertisement in thier pubs.

I would say at the moment anything is better then nothing and they do seem to delivered for our brothers on the other side of the fence. You only have to look at the Union side of web page at their sponsorship page and see what they do for them.

This is only my opinoin and like i said i dont know anything about the marketing game unlike a few here

Whilst I agree we need to promote the Manly game and the coming season I feel it is too early for flyers. They cost a lot of money to prepare and print and with events so far ahead unless households are really interested they will probably end up on the bin and then forgotten. Run an ad in the local papers - three weeks out, two weeks out and a week out to remind everyone we are here and get in their faces. In Mid Jan start of hand out flyers for the games there should be more chance of the money spent reaping rewards.

Agree with alanw and Briali1 (!). As gutterfax has pointed out, the Quins RU commericially are amazing and commericial effort is apparently non-existant. Surley it is in the RU clubs interest for us to be doing alright as well? I don't see the point of us being Harlequins when the RU side of the club clearly have very little to do with us. As pointed out 1000000 times, Harlequins is the biggest brand in rugby but the RL powers that be at the club are clueless. External help is needed from EXP Sports or whatever.

Flyering at this stage is indeed pointless. 1 week before maximum, right up until the night before the match IMO.

If the Quins V manly game is not advertised at the Barbarian v Australia game at Wembley I for one will be gobsmacked.