well, so I wanna start the dutch street team..
after today I'll probably have some time to organize it n stuffs..
oh and anyone want to help me? I live in the east of the netherlands, so it'd be usefull if we have more members around the country

oh, and also.. how are other street teams organized? I've never done anything like this before so some tips would be greatly appreciated

I think since you started the topic you should make yourself Head of the Street Team. Then start building a Myspace-site that can help you promote

You can find most of what you need to know in the general thread for Street Teams in the POTF section.

But an example of what we do in our team is to print flyers and stickers and put them up, send mass emails to friend lists, join all possible POTF promotion groups, keep a blog over our work, promote gigging, burn CD's with a few songs on them and help giving them out to people we know (or not know ) Also of course wear POTF merch and talk, talk, talk, talk, talk about POTF!

well I already have a blog, and quite a lot of friends around here that like poets
so I think I have to spam them to help me, and to spam in their hometowns too!

by the way, do you make your own flyers or do you download one somewehere?

my uni has a printing service, I got to find out how much it is to print stickers/flyers/stuff

and maybe a poster or two for myself..

Good idea, I already thought about this too

Well I'm already on some german streetteam (being dutchxD) , not for a specific band, but for a lot of bands actually, so I know like a bit how it all works
What they do is: spreading stickers (basically everywhere, but mostly on concerts), posting banners on myspace, voting when there's something to vote for and send a friend actions.


A thing that could be really handy to spread the word would be a MySpace-page for Poets of the Fall, on which you just randomly add dutch people, so that they get in touch with the band. This will require some work though, and not a lot of dutch people have MySpace. I would say only people who are really into music have it xD But that doesn't matter because Poets of the Fall is music
But still it's worth trying I think.

And I think something should be possible with "Hyves" too, since all of Holland is on it...I'm only wondering what

En best raar om deze post in het Engels te schrijven als het over een Nederlands streetteam gaat, maarja xD Zo kan de rest het ook lezen en misschien tips geven ofzo. Maar ik wil dus wel helpen!

yeaaah whatever, I'm used to talking english anyways
I'll make an artist-poets page.. that's not prohibited in some ways is it?

and I'll also talk about em on my blog, which I have to promote too..
it's in my sig

I have Alev from the Turkish Street Team to help me out with creating flyers, she's really good with that kind of stuff. She does most of ours although sometimes I do it too POTF main site also has some material to get started with, for example with POTF stickers. As for me, who hasn't got any access to printing stickers, took them in my regular printer and used them as sort of PR cards, always in my wallet

well the point is if you use a regular printer, it'll blur when it's raining
but I'll try to do some stuff one of these days..

Yay for the Dutch street team
I live in Purmerend, just North of Amsterdam, and a good friend of mine who studies in Nijmegen and lives near Eindhoven might want to join too..
My mom works at the pop center thing here (P3) so if I need to print posters or anything I could probably do that there.

aaah that's great
we've got quite a bit covered now, think we need some in utrecht, limburg, zeeland and up north.. and maybe gelderland.. and if we're gonna make flyers n stuff we should put em in alternative shops and music venues

oh and STICKERSPAM at gigs (6) teehee I love that

and we should TOTALLY spam 3fm/kink/other radio stations

I'll read through the other street teams topics and stuff to catch some info, I'll see if I can be of any use, anything behind the pc I'm quite willing to do, I'm from a little village in Flevoland, so spreading stuff won't be too usefull, though I'm addicting my school friends already!!

YAY that's cool
and spamming around at gigs and stuff is also usefull

though I doubt it if rise against fans will like poets....

Lordi gig here on the 1st of February. I wonder.. xD
I'll ask my mom if she can sneak any PotF stuff in to the building. Innocent little flyer here, sticker there..
I'm probably going to Amsterdam somewhere between now and in two months, and as I'll be running by some alternative stores I'll print some flyers as well.

Nice, I'd like to help out aswell!

I live in Eindhoven and so I could probably spam some stuff around here.

Maybe I can try and make some posters, flyers and stickers with Dutch lines on it but I can't print them myself. I'd have to do it in a copy-shop and that's rather expensive.

Where can I find the POTF logo, font-type and other elements to use in the graphics?

Go Dutch Streetteam!

uhmm I dunno, there are some things in the street team section on the site, but as far as I know there are only stickers (to print yourself ) and banners to put on sites....

there was a discussion going on about the fonts they use in some other thread, will post it here if I can find it back someday xD

Yeah, I found that thread already

I've been messing around with photoshop and other graphic stuff for years and that way I've been using lots of fonts from dafont, 1001fonts and other free sites.

It was funny to see most of the Poets' types and recognise them because I use them too!

I'm just looking for some vector-graphics of the logo or other important stuff so that it doesn't pixelate when I make an A0-sized poster @ 300 dpi.

I haven't searched around all that much though, so it might be on the boards but up till now I haven't been able to find it

Any help is muchly appreciated

I"m not sure if there are vector images available.. you might 'trace' an excisting picture but I think that's a lot of work, also I'v enever tried it myself so I don't really know how it works....

I don't even have photoshop xD
I use corel draw cos it was available for free because I'm a student at the UTwente..
ah well, I think the possibilities are quite similar xD

Tracing it myself in Illustrator is not done, especially since the moth has a fading pattern to it that requires an immense ammount of detailwork.

I'll see if I can post this question somewhere else so more people read it and get the chance to reply

Hey guys and girls. I might be worthless in the graphic departement, but I could do some advertising bits.

In the next few months I'll move to Rotterdam so if anyone needs a contact over there to do some shameless POTF spamming I could be of help.

I'll join!

Zeg me maar wat ik moet doen. En ik doe het!
Alleen Flyers en stuff printen word nogal moeilijk.. Aangezien het nogal veel geld kost.
Maar zeg het en ik probeer het te doen

Oh en ik leef nogal in Limburg dus hier gaat het woordje wel rond

Limburg in Nederland of Limburg in België?

Nederland

you might just trace the logo without the fading, and add it later with some kind of brush..

that's possible, I guess?

Leeft dit team nog

niet echt.. tis nooit echt in leven gekomen

Zonde zeg. Waarom als ik vragen mag? Slechte communicatie?

gebrek aan tijd en motivatie

das wel jammer

het moet toch mogelijk zijn om ze hierheen te krijgen toch

jaaa ik hoop van wel!

k vind dat iedereen ze moet aanraden bij de lokale poppodia (a)

en ook eens een mailtje gooien naar de tourmanager van POTF

hehe vind ik nou ook
en gewoon naar die rockkroegjes in de stad gaan en desnoods ff de cd's uitlenen