Looking for ways to boost engagement for your Hall High School club, group, or event? Well – look no further! This article will not only answer every question you have ever wondered about how to effectively advertise at Hall High School but will also give you insight into how to get ahead of the advertising game!
Step 1: Know Your Audience
The first step in attracting attention is to know who you are trying to reach. Don’t put cupcakes on your Engineering Club poster (unless you are giving out cupcakes). People may be heavily misled by the false advertising which will lead to a group of very discouraged engineers who are cupcake-less.
Step 2: Design with Pizzazz
The second step is to make your poster look like there is something on it that is less boring than any of the other posters. Use a cliffhanger like, “Read this to plant a tree in the middle of a landfill,” or even as extreme as, “Attend this meeting or the entire world is going to be set on fire by cats dressed as burglars!!”
I guarantee, the more captivating your poster is, the more students you will have drooling over your subject. However, you must make sure that your poster is not full of junk, or else people will be more focused on what is going on in the poster instead of your actual subject.
Step 3: Create Attention
Trying to find every outlet to advertise? Creating attention with strategies besides hanging up pieces of paper with blue tape that will get taken down by a passerby or ripped up by an angry teacher is vital for advertising effectively at Hall. It is scientifically proven that 99.99 percent of students at Hall do not read the posters.
Here is what a random passerby had to say as they were on their way to class: “I took down an impressive 57 posters in this one passing period. Not one student election poster stood after fifth period today. I cannot stand the excessive amount of posters, like, we get it – you want to be student president!”
As you can see, people have very little patience, especially with meaningless text on a piece of paper. But one sure way to get attention for anything is by being loud in whatever way you want. One very intelligent strategy to accomplish this is to go on the announcements.
Every time I sit in the beginning of period 2, nothing excites me more than the wise words that Derek Williams and Dan Zittoun have to say about the status of the school. Not only that but when I hear “Helloooooo Hall High School,” I immediately think the majestic and precious Jon York is making a valiant attempt to advertise the Answer Show
By the way, I just wanted to mention the Answer Show is June 9, 2023 at 7 p.m. in The Black Box! (There is totally no bias in this; I’m just showing you how attention-grabbing a good announcement can be!)
Another place to advertise is in the cafeteria! Who remembers how exhilarating it was to watch Mr. Zittoun crush push-ups with the Navy recruiter? Wow, that is something that everyone there will remember for the rest of their lives. Not only is our fearless principal decisive and smart, but he is also a BEAST!
Getting a group of 100 or more students to crowd around a circle and putting a principal in the middle to do a push-up or two will definitely grab the attention of many. Whether it’s a bake sale or a meeting for an Environmental Club, the biggest lesson to take away from this step is to convince Mr. Zittoun to do push-ups on the cafeteria floor as a horde of people cheers him on. That’s the zinger. That’s the secret sauce.
Step 4: Hang posters in concentrated areas
Don’t be foolish and hang your posters on a random wall in the A wing! If you want students to see your posters, hang them in places that you wouldn’t expect! Here are a few examples.
NOT WHAT TO DO
As you can see here, there are excessive posters in a single area. Therefore, people will be less inclined to look because they are afraid they will be overwhelmed by the 300 other candidates who people should vote for in the Student Council. In addition, it also just looks super messy. It’s like a printer had oil poured in front of it, and the printed papers slid all over the wall and dried up there.
INSTEAD, THIS IS WHAT TO DO
As students are on their way down the stairwell after being dismissed from class and from school, they wonder to themselves, “Was there a 9-foot person who was able to hang this?” Well, the answer is– no, you silly goose! Instead, squeeze through the railing on the stairs adjacent to the wall in a way you have never squished your body before and hang up the poster so that everyone’s attention will be caught by a dangling sheet of paper! And unless you have a 9-foot friend or have read this article, it’s pretty challenging to be taken down by a random passerby.
And, there you have it! Every single thing to do and not do if you want to advertise effectively here at Hall High School. You have been enlightened. Now take this information and use it to your advantage. Maybe I should advertise this article as an advertisement. That would be funny.
