Repositionable vinyl stickers offer bands some great new promotional tools.

Promote your band using vinyl stickers. It is a great way to get some buzz. FotoStick is a new vinyl sticker material that can be custom made with your band's logo or large life size photos of your band in action and huge images of the band members.

FotoSicks are vinyl stickers that are reuasable and repositionable and will not harm walls or most other surfaces. You can stick them just about anywhere and then take them down and move them. If you get them dirty, just wash 'em off with warm water. They'll be good as new.

As a band promotion, you can give away inexpensive smaller vinyl stickers while hawking life size stickers to create a promotion that funds itself. Like teeshirts, they can be very profitable. Unlike teeshirts, they are inexpensive.

Here are a few initial promotional ideas:

• Have the guy at the door hand out small vinyl stickers of your band's logo.

• Sell huge life size wall stickers of your band in action and the individual members along with giant stickers of your band logo.

• Find out where a few friendly agents live and then plaster their neighborhood's bulletin boards and store windows with your band's logo (with permission, of course).

• Add your logo sticker in dvd jewel cases.

• Put these reusable stickers on your fan's cars during a gig.

Here are some more detailed promo ideas...

Band Brew

Do you know of a local brewery? Call up and see about getting cases of beer bottled without their labels. Then, create your own label and order the design from FotoStick. You can place them on the bottles and then when your fans buy beer they get a free promotional sticker that can be re-stuck anywhere.

Steal This Sticker

Place your band's logo stickers on bulletin boards, windows and anywhere else you dare. People can simply peel them off and place them where they want. They won't harm walls, windows and most other smooth surfaces.

Artist Co-Promote

Know some good artists? You can make a deal to have a monthly promotion that includes a limited run of a specified amount of FotoSticks featuring certain artwork. When they're sold out, that's it, they are no longer available. Continue each month and you can promote collecting of your band memorabilia by fans and create some serious buzz. Consider printing t-shirts using the same art and same type of campaign.

Bar Graffiti

Plaster your band's sticker all over the bar or club you are playing in and let the audience know that they can peel them off and keep them.

Fans with Band Members

At every gig have you can have a roady take pictures of your fans with their favorite band members. Then, collect their addresses and send them some free FotoSticks to remind them of the night. You can be sure that they will show their friends and family. Since FotoSticks are repositionable, they can put them on their notebooks or laptops to show around and then they can put them on their wall once they are done bragging.

Summary

Repositionable vinyl stickers are new and they get people talking. Not only are they a great way to get your band's name known, they create a buzz just because they are so novel. Don't hesitate, be the first band in every town to show this new promotional tool to your fans. It's an inexpensive way to get the word out. Plus, by selling the larger six and seven foot wall size stickers they can pay for themselves and you can profit from it in more ways than one.

FotoStick is a 5 mil vinyl material that has a sticky back that can be moved and removed without harming the surface they are placed upon. Unlike static cling, traditional stickers and custom magnets, FotoSticks are tough, durable and more versatile. They're like stickers but they can be used and re-used over and over again. They're like magnets except that they stick on almost any smooth surface. They are inexpensive and you can create one custom sticker to one hundred thousand affordably.