Helping your community is going to do nothing but help your business. It's a good way to give back to your community and at the same time get your name out to the public,'' said Robert Grover, a spokesman for Sprint. There will be booths for each school to promote itself. And, of course, there will be a booth and banners for Sprint to promote its company. Some people may complain about advertising in an educational setting, but without a lot of these people and companies, students would have to make do with a lot less.'' Incentive Fun, Fun, Fun, an amusement center on Sycamore Dairy Road, opens its doors once every seven weeks to Spring Lake Middle School children who have perfect attendance or get high grades.
Kids get free tokens to play games and the amusement center gets free business.
We don't measure what's in it for us because that's not why we do it,'' said the company's director of marketing, who asked not to be named. The center's offer of free games is clearly having an effect on Spring Lake's attendance. The kids have really responded to the offer,'' said Joyce. Not everyone applauds businesses creeping into schools. Karen McNulty of Consumers Union said ads don't belong in classrooms, where they can distract students from their studies.