Today we talked briefly in our meeting about the importance of "face time" for advertising the Writing Center. While I think we are doing a great job of promoting the Writing Center through word of mouth, we can always do more. I have spoken to students in several classes and have appointments for one more class session. We have also conducted several writing workshops and I think those have proven useful for helping people feel comfortable with the center.
But I'm more excited about a possible Elvis "campaign" for promoting the center. At the beginning of the semester Ms. Miller, Ms. Rauch and I brainstormed different Elvis songs which could fit the WC. For example, "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog if you don't go the WC." Or, "A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Writing." We've gotten some positive feedback from our first flier "All Shook Up." I'd like us to create some really fun advertising pieces: bathroom stall fliers, sidewalk chalk ads, restaurant board ads, roving sandwich board ads. If we can get a cardboard Elvis we have have pictures of our consultants with the Elvis. He could also stand in the foyer with a sign advertising the WC.
Our biggest challenge at the Tupelo campus is that we are limited as to the places we can put advertising - cork boards, plastic displays at the front lobby, emails. How do we advertise the Writing Center effectively within these limitations?
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