Idea for publicity for Red Bulls.

I come in Peace.;-) You all live in the media capitol of the world. I was
thinking that a good way to promote the Red Bulls/ESC/GSS would be to
send some fan's over to Manhatten during the broadcast of any of the morning shows that air every morning. You all can wear your Red Bull replicas
and stand in front of the windows of shows like NBC Today Show,CBS This
Morning,etc. It would help promote your club/supporter groups.

If you ever watch these morning shows,people stand in front of these
windows with signs. It would help promote the Red Bulls to a wider
audience.

I think the best ways to get mainstream media exposure in the area would be to somehow....
-get on the backpages of the newspapers (for good reasons)
-have people who actually know what they're talking about get time on sportstalk radio.

Both of these things are hard to do since since you have Yankees/Mets/playoffs going on right now.
Ironically, great exposure in the future will rely on old fashioned methods such as newspaper & radio.

Then again, paid TV spots on local networks would obviously go a long way.

I agree with your points. But,i believe my suggestions would help as well.

We don't watch these shows.
People standing in front of those windows are out-of-towners trying to impress the folks back home with "Look at me! I'm on TV"!
We need to attract real soccer fans, not people who would somehow decide to attend a game based on seeing people waving signs outside a TV studio.
How the Rowdies doin'?

The "every cathedral needs a choir" video they show before games should be a commercial.

I believe it would help your club become more of a household name. Any
publicity would help IMO. What do you have to lose? It could only help
the team.

The Rowdies are 1-1-1. We tied Miami FC last night 1-1. Our first home
game is May 8th against the Austin Aztex. Thanks for asking

Doing the morning shows couldn't hurt.
Might get some parents interested in bringing their kids.

Heck, put Mike Woods in a Red Bulls scarf and you'll get some local attention!

How can it hurt? It would only help your team.

Uh, that's exactly what I said. It COULDN'T hurt.

I know you agreed with me. I was just thinking out loud.

It would expose the Red Bull's to a wider audience. If the Garden State
Supporters were to send 7-10 fan's with their jersey's on and wearing
their scarves to do the morning show curcuit, a lot of people would see
the team's jersey's.

targeting sports fans is better than soccer moms in my opinion. And soccer moms watch those shows. but it's free publicity so go for it. I think it would be funny.
You would have to out-jackass the other people though. May I suggest getting a large overcoat and sitting on somebodies shoulders so it looks like you are 9 feet tall. But how would random people know it's for a local soccer team, and not two drunk guys from nebraska?

Getting a large flat (about 50'x30') and flying it from the empire state building would get on the news, but somebody's getting arrested.

We could get about 200 large banners, and collectively hang them from overpasses all over NJ at the same time. No?

I'm willing to do almost anything short of commiting a felony to support my team. Going to games, buying tickets for other people, buying merchandise, etc, is the least I can do but I don't want to do the "least".

Been there, done that - the great MPF campaign of 2003. They even showed up at various metro area tv and radio stations with doughnuts. I remember Artie Lange mumbling something about not having an idea where the they came from when Howard asked him about the doughnuts he was shoveling away.

Nasl-usl

http://www.uslsoccer.com/statistics/index_E.html

Um....has anyone seen the cover of Vanity Fair?

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2010/05/world-cup-cover-story.html

There will be a lot more ladies watching the World Cup b/c of that article, that's for sure.

Perhaps more men, as well!

Lots of double takes on that front. I mean COME ON!
Is that a red card in his briefs or is he just happy to see me????

Targeting soccer moms will get people to bring their kids to maybe one or two games a season. As said before, the key to getting a longterm following is by getting hardcore sports fans to the stadium who will actually be loud and make it seem like a good time.

People in the NY area know plenty well who the Red Bulls are, but even many of the soccer fans don't think its worth going out to the stadium.

If that's the case,they're poseurs not real soccer fans.
Screw them!

I'm sorry but I've taken people to (2) games now (including Saturday's game), bought merchandise for others, and have talked to anyone I know who likes soccer about the seats, how the stadium is so nice, how easy it is to get there, what you could do before/after the game, and all about the team, etc...

but if they play like they did on Saturday, why would anyone go to watch that?

This team has to do their own marketing. Play with some quality, bring in players, win something!..& people will come.

the team have to win games to bring more people ... i `m new to ny red bull but last Saturday i saw game vs juventus and feel in love with the team .... 100 % i will go back to the stadium !!!

Do I really need to see Sulley Muntari in his underwear?!

Red Bull should hire the office interns plus a few of their college friends, put them in Red Bull facepaint and jerseys and then have them go through midtown, running aimlessly while screaming, chanting "we are the red bulls, mighty mighty red bulls" really loud in the street, and suddenly freeze in place while getting in the way of pedestrian traffic...

Associations with things that people use every day always help to promote a team or sport. Scratch offs would help. Nothing like the lottery to bring interest lol.

Red bull coffee cups?? Even though coffee is basically Red Bull's enemy lol