£800 is a realistic figure for the printing and 'reliable' solus distribution of 20,000 leaflets per month in south west england,FACT, if you find reliable distribution for those quantities, i would suggest that you cant, but you can try :-).
Mike £800.00 per month, i believe, of course i may be wrong, but i doubt it, is not within the means of young Matt, if as you say he gains the required response from his drops then fine, but, what if he doesn't, living and trading in his part of the world for the past 15 years, i already know he won't. OF COURSE , NOTHING VENTURED , NOTHING GAINED i hear you cry, Mike you always are very off the cuff on these forums, thats fine for you, you are established and very very good at what you do, for some £800 goes a long way to keeping their life in order, if you had no response or very little from 2 mail drops you would not have to worry so much, your experience, savvy, and previous customer base would see you through, i would suggest it is not quite the same situation for matt and others on this forum, who sit back in wonder as to how you do it, as you well know mike it aint just your leaflet drops that make you a success story, or at least i hope not, otherwise life would be far to easy wouldn't it!
Matt homenclean has given you some good advice in one of his previous posts, i would echo that, as far as my profile being hidden, thats not correct, its just not filled out, like so many others on these boards, i have nothing to lose if you dont listen to my advice, so i really dont care if you do or dont, but i can tell you, IT IS GOOD ADVICE, if you choose to take it so be it, if not, well then all i can say is good luck. As an experiment if youve got a credit card book your first 20,000 drop on monday with another 20,000 to follow, you have to pay for them up front you know, and if they dont work your money is gone, for good, come back here afterwards and tell us all how well your mail shots have done, i am very confident you will be licking your wounds after the first 20,000 begging for advice on how to stop the contract for the next 20,000 going out, or maybe you should wait another month til the sun shines every day, or maybe 2 months so it really is summer, or how about christmas, thats supposed to be a great time of year to leaflet....NOT ANY MORE IT ISNT, these are all things you must find out, can you afford to chuck £1600 down the drain on some guy called mikes say so, if you are you shouldn't be in business. What works for one doesnt work for others, if it did, this carpet & upholstery cleaning game would be far to easy and we would all have work coming out of our ears and be millionares, we are not, thats a fact too.Anyway whatever you decide to do, good luck mate, at the end of the day you have to decide the right way to go. see you around!
