Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

[Maineiak]

Help! New Hampshire needs branding! This article is just too good to pass up. Post your ideas here:

Mine thus far are:

• A picture of the Hampton Toll with the slogan "Stealing money from Maine tourists since 19XX..."
• A picture of an empty UNH trophy case...
• How about they use the Old Man of the Mountain....oh wait, haha...nevermind! (It collapsed in 2003 for those that don't know)
• "We sell cheap liquor..."

[FueledByRamen]

Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Take a page from Delaware...


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[Rover]

Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

Help! New Hampshire needs branding! This article is just too good to pass up. Post your ideas here:

Mine thus far are:

• A picture of the Hampton Toll with the slogan "Stealing money from Maine tourists since 19XX..."
• A picture of an empty UNH trophy case...
• How about they use the Old Man of the Mountain....oh wait, haha...nevermind! (It collapsed in 2003 for those that don't know)
• "We sell cheap liquor..."

"Cheap Booze and Fireworks now...Hookers and Weed soon to come".

"New Englands Answer to Mississippi"

"Massachusetts' Parasite"


Right on about the toll booths.

[thecomicbookguy]

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Isn't the Hampton Toll on the far side of Portsmouth? I'm pretty sure there are at least a couple of places to get off 95 before you hit the Toll (same with coming up from Mass - I drove from Durham to Revere a few times this past winter, only went through the toll booth once). It's a good thing there are no tollbooths when you head into Maine. Oh wait...

[pirate]

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Just spent a week visiting every new england state...for NH

"Compared to Vermont, we're right wing"

"Just like Maine, but with more teeth per capita"

"More likely to see a moose than a hot girl"

"Our syrup is third best among the northern NE states"

"Fewer black flies, by a mile"

[amherstblackbear]

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Isn't the Hampton Toll on the far side of Portsmouth? I'm pretty sure there are at least a couple of places to get off 95 before you hit the Toll (same with coming up from Mass - I drove from Durham to Revere a few times this past winter, only went through the toll booth once). It's a good thing there are no tollbooths when you head into Maine. Oh wait...

It's the blatant overcharging more than the mere presence of a toll. If NH used the same rates on I-95 that they use on their "own" turnpikes (e.g., Concord) it would be $0.70. What's it up to now, $3.00 each way?

[Maineiak]

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Granite State of Mind

They should just use this video instead of coming up with a marketing campaign.

[Maineiak]

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It's a good thing there are no tollbooths when you head into Maine. Oh wait...

The cost per mile isn't even close in the two states (I-95 corridor):

New Hampshire = $2.00 one way, 16.2 miles = $0.12 per mile

Maine = $5.00 one way, exit 7 to 113 (106 miles) = $0.05 per mile

Both using information/toll calculators from each states respective DOT websites.

[amherstblackbear]

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The cost per mile isn't even close in the two states (I-95 corridor):

New Hampshire = $2.00 one way, 16.2 miles = $0.12 per mile

Maine = $5.00 one way, exit 7 to 113 (106 miles) = $0.05 per mile

Both using information/toll calculators from each states respective DOT websites.

The key to the argument is the comparison between I-95 and the two turnpikes that New Hampshirites actually use.

[legal_hit]

Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

The key to the argument is the comparison between I-95 and the two turnpikes that New Hampshirites actually use.

Exactly, each state is going to have it's own rates for tolls. I don't think Massachusetts charges the same rates on each toll road/bridge/tunnel it operates.

As far as the toll booth in Portsmouth, isn't aimed at Massachusetts residents who travel to Maine more than Mainers?

[Maineiak]

Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

As far as the toll booth in Portsmouth, isn't aimed at Massachusetts residents who travel to Maine more than Mainers?

That was my original point.

[thecomicbookguy]

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That was my original point.

Then maybe you shouldn't have used the phrase "Maine Tourists", which makes people think of tourists from Maine, not tourists going to Maine.

I stand by my point. There are several ways around the one tollbooth. I have no idea what the toll is, as I circumvent it.

[AMC]

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That toll is BS. Maine and Mass. should look into ways to build a bridge out to sea that circumvents that stupid state.

[Rover]

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Exactly, each state is going to have it's own rates for tolls. I don't think Massachusetts charges the same rates on each toll road/bridge/tunnel it operates.

As far as the toll booth in Portsmouth, isn't aimed at Massachusetts residents who travel to Maine more than Mainers?

But doesn't Mass charge for roads & bridges it built itself (Turnpike, Tobin Bridge, etc)? I don't believe New Hampshire ponied up the money to build I-95, yet they collect the tolls from it which I find it be a bit odd.

Then again this is a place that worships a pile of rocks at the bottom of a ravine that used to sorta look like an old man's face if you were loaded, so I guess its okay.

[NMU8405]

Re: Branding Ideas for New Hampshire!

UNH Athletics: Competing for mediocrity since since 1866.

New Hampshire: Trying to steal Maine's Navy base since 1820.