Class: Not-For-Profit Promotion
Objective: To provide another service to maintain
goodwill, and to provide a method for alumni to keep addresses and
information up to date with their alma mater.
Strategy and
Execution: When students
graduate from a college or university, all they expect to receive is
a diploma. But the advertiser provided some 4,500 1991 graduates
with a specialty memento - a registered key tag. Bearing the seal of
the University on one side and an individual registration number and
address of the school on the back, the tag would allow a graduate to
register his or her keys with the Alumni office. Should the keys
ever be lost, the finder would simply drop them in a mailbox and
they would be returned to the school. The school would then mail
them to the individual. The key tags were mounted on a brochure
which included a registration card so the Alumni office could have a
current file on the graduate should the keys ever be sent to the
office. Since the tags have a lifetime registration, the copy urged
alumni to keep their address with the office current. The tags were
given to graduated as they left the stage during commencement
ceremonies.
Results: More than 1600
cards out of the first 4,000 distributed were returned by the
students for registration of keys. The assistant director of alumni
services said, "...The program is a total and complete success. The
public relations and good will created by the program has been
overwhelming...The Alumni Records Office is continually receiving
more and more address updates thanks to this
program." |