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POSTED BY: BUCKTHORN42
UPDATED: Friday, October 28, 2005 18:34
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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:12 AM

Anyone care to suggest what I should do with

www.fruityoatybars.com

?

I registered it, and right now it just points to www.serenitymovie.com. But I wanna do something with it. Maybe a repository for fanvids or something; I know there are lists and links and whatever out there but it would be nice to have them centralized.

Any thoughts?

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:10 AM

DONCOAT

I don't have any ideas at the moment. Once the DVD comes out you could rip the ad and show stills/a vid clip on the site.

I am quite unhappy that I didn't think of grabbing that URL. Nice one!

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 11:28 AM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by buckthorn42:
Anyone care to suggest what I should do with

www.fruityoatybars.com

?

I registered it, and right now it just points to www.serenitymovie.com. But I wanna do something with it. Maybe a repository for fanvids or something; I know there are lists and links and whatever out there but it would be nice to have them centralized.

Any thoughts?

there are a couple of places to get good screen caps of 'Firefly', but if you manage to grab screen caps of 'Serenity' then you will attract the interest of a lot of people who do fan vids and fan art...
Also there are always a lot of people who write fan fiction who are looking for a place to post them because they don't have their own sites...

I guess whatever you are interested in, you'll meet people interested in the same things.
I imagine it takes a while to develop your own site....
but that is the coolest site name!

Congratulations

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:01 PM

JARON95

HAHAHA! Nice one. :) What hosting provider did you go with? Or have you just registered the domain without a host?

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 12:21 PM

UNREGISTEREDCOMPANION

There are places that sell custom imprinted candy bar wrappers. If you are willing to walk the copyright tightrope, you could put "fruityoaty" wrappers on prepacked bars and sell them...or become a custom candy wrapper distributer and make them up for other people.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2005 2:25 PM

BROWNCOATFAN1

just think of it as a great way to advertise the movie to others!!!

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:18 AM

BUCKTHORN42

Quote:
Originally posted by Jaron95:
HAHAHA! Nice one. :) What hosting provider did you go with? Or have you just registered the domain without a host?

The latter... I did it with register.com, and while they have hosting, I figured so long as I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it I would hold back from paying more than I had to. We Browncoats have to be thrifty, after all. ^_^

But are there any hosting suggestions for when and if I DO decide to put content out there? (I kinda have to, I feel some sort of moral imperative)

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Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:21 AM

BUCKTHORN42

Quote:
Originally posted by UnregisteredCompanion:
There are places that sell custom imprinted candy bar wrappers. If you are willing to walk the copyright tightrope, you could put "fruityoaty" wrappers on prepacked bars and sell them...or become a custom candy wrapper distributer and make them up for other people.

That's one of the things I've thought about. Would be neat to sell stuff like that. I may have to look around. I wonder how much of a copyright tightrope it would be, though? Something to consider further. Thanks.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005 4:24 PM

ASIMOV

What I would do if I were in your position:

1) Come up with a few Fruity Oaty Bar designs, presumably based on the ad in Serenity. Then set up a deal with CafePress.com, which can put your designs on t-shirts, mugs, bumper stickers, thongs, and other merchandise. Start selling this stuff via FruityOatyBars.com, and rake in the bucks. It's October and it's starting to get chilly where I live; I'd buy a $20 sweatshirt or a $30 hoodie if it had the Fruity Oaty Bars on it.

2) Also, set up an Amazon Associates account (associates.amazon.com) and link to the Firefly and Serenity merchandise available on Amazon. You'll get a fraction of the money that Amazon gets from every sale made by somebody coming through your site.

3) Consider running contests (à la Fark.com) for fans, like the denizens of FireFlyFans.net, where they could get a free t-shirt or mug for designing a really good new Fruity Oaty Bars ad, or for something else creative. This will help bring people to your site.

Just my $0.02.

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Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:03 PM

INSANITYLATER

I think the opening would need some sort of Flash animation based on the ad in the movie.. and it would need subliminals, well fake subliminals flashed fast enough to let people get it and slow enough to let them see what it says after a few trys. Something like "Buy Firefly DVD Box Set" ... "Buy Serenity DVD" ... Eat Fruity Oat Bars" ... "If You're Psychic And You Know It, Wreck A Bar"...

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Friday, October 28, 2005 4:17 AM

BUCKTHORN42

Damn good ideas, Asimov.

I've been seriously toying with the idea of making it like a Firefly clearninghouse, for fan stuff, fan merchandise, real merchandise, all that. The Cafe Press idea is a good one and will probably be executed in the next week or so. Yeah, I definitely think so. And I can do at least basic web design so linkage and pretty stuff wouldn't be a problem.

The Flash isn't my forte, though. And I'd want more than just my linkage to my Cafe Press store. I'd want linkage to stuff fans have produced, like the Firefly patch and other things. Would anyone out there be willing to assist me on this project?

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Friday, October 28, 2005 4:41 AM

DONCOAT

GoDaddy.com has great prices on registration and hosting. I have both through them.

Mmm, getting to be lunchtime, and I'm craving a Fruity Oaty Bar. They must be a bit like granola bars, don'cha think? Maybe with different fillings... cherry, blueberry, strawberry, raspberry, apple...

Heat them up in the microwave (heh) for a toasty fruity treat!

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Ain't about you, Jayne. It's about what they need.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 4:44 AM

BUCKTHORN42

Cool, thanks. Already have the domain (for three years, no less!) through register.com but definitely have to look around for hosting solutions.

Any help would be appreciated, even if it's just sharing of experience. If it's substantive, content creation-related help, then obviously sharing the profits would not go amiss.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 10:46 AM

BUCKTHORN42

Well, there we go.

I have a store.. not linked through the website yet but it's out there. I so wish I could have used any of the images from the movie or guide but there's the whole copyright thing. Ah well.

anyway.

http://www.cafepress.com/fruityoatybars

I designed the logo myself and will certainly take constructive criticism of it.

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Friday, October 28, 2005 6:31 PM

ASIMOV

And you now have had at least one order!

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Friday, October 28, 2005 6:34 PM

BUCKTHORN42

You own. Thank you so much.

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