Clean It Up
UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Ian101 on July 02, 2010, 05:59:52 pm
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Spent last 2 days dropping leaflets and so far nowt !! :(
They will be getting knocked next week but beginning to think forget the leaflets and just go to door knocking and not bother to use leaflets.
One thing I have noticed though is previously when I do get the odd call off a leaflet they seem very nervous about calling from a leaflet once I get to see them eye to eye theyre all nice and happy.
Like I say I think just leaflets are a no no ... they seem to want to see who theyre dealing with.
trying an experiment tomorrow just going to drive to somewhere I have no customers and havent leafleted and go straight into the door knocking and see what happens.
Onwards and upwards ! ;)
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i have found people dont ring straight away with flyers, your giving up far to easy, i get calls from flyers i've dropped months ago,
also could be that you dont have the best flyer to begin with maybe?
dont just stick to a certain type of property post to all rich and poor
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Ian, not bigging this up, just an example,
door knocked 3 tims this week - 65 houses in all - 20 were out 35 said no, but got a leaflet 10 new custy's.
total canvassing time 5 hrs.
Darran
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Built half a round on leaflets, they do work, but deliver them and forget about them !
you will get calls, but they trickle in,
door knock!!....seriously, you will feel good when you pick up 5 new ones in an hour or so.
that will spur you on.
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bad time to be knocking on doors footys on ;)
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knock on a saturday between 10 - 6 see what u get, if no ones in then put a leaflet through
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me and me mate door knocked twice for 4-5 hours this week and picked up 45 new custies n that was daytime hours 10.30-4.30 prob cuda done better working later use ya leaflet as part of ya ammunition i do pointing out what other services i do.
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One thing I have noticed though is previously when I do get the odd call off a leaflet they seem very nervous about calling from a leaflet once I get to see them eye to eye theyre all nice and happy.
Try putting a picture of your ugly mug on the leaflets,.. you'll be surprised the difference it makes.
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Spent last 2 days dropping leaflets and so far nowt !! :(
They will be getting knocked next week but beginning to think forget the leaflets and just go to door knocking and not bother to use leaflets.
One thing I have noticed though is previously when I do get the odd call off a leaflet they seem very nervous about calling from a leaflet once I get to see them eye to eye theyre all nice and happy.
Like I say I think just leaflets are a no no ... they seem to want to see who theyre dealing with.
trying an experiment tomorrow just going to drive to somewhere I have no customers and havent leafleted and go straight into the door knocking and see what happens.
Onwards and upwards ! ;)
I wonder if having a picture of your face on a leaflet makes any real difference, has you said. People like to know who you are dealing with.
Nathanael: Did it make a real difference?
I have had a frustrating 8 days,. Lost my van keys, managed to get some new ones yesterday. An expereince I will not be repeating.
My return of leaflets is around 1%. But that is advertising more than one cleaning service.
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My whole round was started from leaflets alone...no doorknocking at all....but for this you'll need to put out 10's of thousands of leaflets ....my average hit rate was about 0.5%. I'm sure you'll get a much better success rate knocking and if they are out, note down the address and leaflet then revisit that same house say 3 days later.
Again with leaflets...when you have a house in a street...releaflet that street say every 3 months.
For me leafleting is my preferred method....I always keep a couple of hundred leaflets in the van...and just throw them through letter-boxes when the mood suits me.
Dave.
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Leaflets will work, but is slow build up and at 1% return not that effective and how compact will your work be ?
at least if you knock a street all your work will be in that street.
Darran
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We have been flyering the same 18000 homes for the last year we will keep at till we have a full round and then some,ian if you have the money whack at 10000 you will soon get there quicker than just knocking
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We have been flyering the same 18000 homes for the last year we will keep at till we have a full round and then some,ian if you have the money whack at 10000 you will soon get there quicker than just knocking
Saying my return is 1%, but 7 times out of 10 that will be for enough service apart from window cleaning, even if I have one side of the leaflet to just window cleaning.
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I only tried door knocking once and found the people who said yes are the people who tend to muck you about at a later date. Also I do not like people knocking on my door whiule eating, bathing kids or watching football so decided on leaflets.
I have nearly got a full round from dropping leaflets, word of mouth and just being seen. A lot of it I fell into an area with only one crap window cleaner.
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Both door knocking and leafleting work - it depends on how quick you want/need to build up business.
mostly i knock, yes it's hard - the ole butterflies in the stomach but it works well and not noticed any 'mucking' around by people ( i do charge a 1st clean premium )
it is easier now i truely believe in myself and services and any no's know longer worry me.
i got someone to drop 1000 leaflets in a village a few miles away, six months ago - not a single bite, i then knocked several of these roads 2 weeks ago and picked up half a dozen - some of who said ' oh been looking for a windy for years ::) ::)
Darran
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Both door knocking and leafleting work - it depends on how quick you want/need to build up business.
mostly i knock, yes it's hard - the ole butterflies in the stomach but it works well and not noticed any 'mucking' around by people ( i do charge a 1st clean premium )
it is easier now i truely believe in myself and services and any no's know longer worry me.
i got someone to drop 1000 leaflets in a village a few miles away, six months ago - not a single bite, i then knocked several of these roads 2 weeks ago and picked up half a dozen - some of who said ' oh been looking for a windy for years ::) ::)
Darran
now that just gnaws my head !!!!! ;)
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me and me mate door knocked twice for 4-5 hours this week and picked up 45 new custies n that was daytime hours 10.30-4.30 prob cuda done better working later use ya leaflet as part of ya ammunition i do pointing out what other services i do.
hey thats fantastic going Rich !
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Thanks for all the tips fellas ... only problem if I put my mugshot on the leaflet it would scare the dogs and cats and make all the small children cry ;D ... seriously though not a bad idea !
Went to a new area today knocked for about 2 hours and got 2 defo .. 1 let u know and 1 more defo but I know hes going to be a messer I rekon ... posted a flyer if they were out so may get a few more.
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well done Ian.
stick your mug on a poster and see if the number of dart board sales rise in the area!! :P
at least you know people are reading them... :P
Darran