First Wave of Flyers!

This week has been quite exciting, we’ve gotten two new sponsors on board, W124 Works and Gavin’s Graphix. Additionally, we’ve started our hard-copy marketing campaign.

You can find a copy of the flyers here, but watch out… they’re 20mb in size! We’ve been using the scores from the World Cup in the hope that people don’t ditch the flyers right away. On one side I made a little scoresheet for the world cup (something that can be hung on a wall… sort of) while on the other side there is our blurb about TeamBookTwo and The Timbuktu Challenge.

A teaser if you want to see what they look like without downloading the high res print version:

In case you are wondering why there are two “backs” it’s quite simple. If the house we were distributing to had an England flag on their car, window or anywhere else…. they would get an England version. If not, they would get a neutral version 🙂 We try to make everyone happy!

On that line – if you’ve received a flyer and are now reading this – I would LOVE to hear from you! It would have made listening to Jacob complaining for an hour worth it! The entire time we distributed the flyers, he complained… and didn’t hand out a single flyer! So; please, if you’ve gotten a flyer and you thought “let’s see what it’s about”, please do leave a comment! (or drop me an email on the contact us page).

As an incentive, I’ll drop an A3 version of the World Cup standings by your house if you got one of my A4 versions and came here! (Just leave a comment and I’ll contact you on the email address listed with the comment to sort out giving you the flyer).

Anyhow, back to the sponsors. W124 Works was kind enough to donate 4 wheels & tyres, which we will be collecting next weekend. Gavin’s Graphix was kind enough to do all the vinyl’s for the car; which I’ll put pictures of as soon as the vinyls arrive and go on.  Please do take a minute to visit both sites, even if you don’t drive a W124, keep W124 works in mind. Similarly, if you need Graphics for your car, van or truck, drop Gavin’s Graphix a line!

From a preparation point of view, the car’s paint is now finished… I’m tempted to fiddle with the paint on the wheel arches and maybe on one of the doors… but otherwise the paint is done! Only vinyl’s now! From a mecchanical perspective, I want to change the fuel filter, oil filter, air filter, pollen filter, (along with any associated fluids), spark plugs & leads and generally have a good rummage around the engine bay before we leave!

The launch is in 2 weeks… so we’re calling it close with the decorations!

From a “news” point of view, we’ve had interest from a few magazines: Mercedes Owner, Total Off Road, Pentax User and Mensa Travel SIG… if you’re an editor and are interested in running an article, get in touch and we’ll be happy to accomodate!

I think that’s it for this week’s update; and I do realise that I’m breaking my usual trend of scheduling the update for Monday morning… but I’m watching the Brazil game and cheering Cote d’Ivoire on!

M.