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Old June 25th 06, 01:36 PM posted to rec.aviation.owning
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Default Where to advertise a flying club?

In a previous article, "Dan" said:
We are trying to increase membership in our Phoenix-area flying club
and was wondering if anyone had ideas of where we should advetise?
(already tried flyers at the airport) Does anyone know where I can
purchase a mailing list of all pilots with a current medical in a
certain geographic area? Maybe sending postcards would get us
somewhere.


Our flying club does that. We buy the list from the FAA.

But don't just send postcards, have an "open house" where people can come
and see the planes, and advertise that on the post cards. That and having
a web site that is well indexed and appears pretty prominently when people
search for flying related keywords in your geographic area are probably
our top recruiting tools.

http://www.rochesterflyingclub.com/

And by the way, we don't get high search rankings by putting in keywords
fields or using one of those spammy "increase your search rankings"
companies. I did it by two things:
- I made sure the first page has a clear and succinct discription of who
we are and where we're located.
- I got us listed on the list of flying clubs on the Yahoo web directory
and landings.com, (and quickly found that there are dozens of other web
sites with listings of flying clubs, but they all seem to plagarize from
one of those two).

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