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Title: xmas Marketing
Post by: markpowell on September 22, 2010, 06:35:44 pm
Has anyone else started thinking about Xmas marketing yet,  "Xmas Bookings now been taken" etc on leaflets and monthly books etc. If not when will you make a start?
Noticed the supermarkets are now stocking up
We are only 14 weeks away now :o
Mark
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Steve. Taylor on September 22, 2010, 06:44:22 pm
Mark i was just thinking the same thing a couple of hours ago. As jan & feb are poor months for me was thinking about a present with a difference idea BUY SOME ONE A CARPET CLEAN GIFT CARD
For jan or feb & get the second room half price or something along those lines :-\ :-\ :-\

Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Mike Halliday on September 22, 2010, 06:46:53 pm
no need to market for xmas we will be snowed under without any effort. what we should be marketing for is the winter slowdown.

from mid November I will be pushing for booking in jan & feb. Anyone now showing an interest if further work ( yesterday I was asked "how much would my suite cost?" ) so I told them straight..... if they are willing to wait until jan or feb they will get their living room cleaned again free of charge.
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Steve Barnett (Carpet Care Plus) on September 22, 2010, 07:03:22 pm
Just totted up my figures for the year so far, believing that January was the worst month, bearing in mind the snow - but turns out that Feb and March were the worst.

Agree with Mark, now is the time to start working your database or looking for commercial work for the new year.
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Deep Cleaning Solutions on September 22, 2010, 08:49:59 pm
"no need to market for xmas we will be snowed under without any effort"
When does it start getting busy in the lead up to xmas,are we talking a few days before or a few weeks before.
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: gr cleaning solutions on September 22, 2010, 09:02:37 pm
Ive got 2 jobs booked for xmas up to now also priced up a lot off carpet cleans for customers off the window cleaning side off the business just need them to book them in  hopefully.Ive put an add in the parish news and there no other carpet cleaner in there so finger cross that could bring some calls in also got some new postcard size leaflets made up thinking off giving them out at the school when i pick my kids up maybe do that in a few weeks.Also ill be updating my facebook daily.
Last year was my first xmas carpet cleaning and never really pushed it this year I'm really going for it

  Gavin
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Colin Day on September 22, 2010, 09:13:35 pm
Mark i was just thinking the same thing a couple of hours ago. As jan & feb are poor months for me was thinking about a present with a difference idea BUY SOME ONE A CARPET CLEAN GIFT CARD
For jan or feb & get the second room half price or something along those lines :-\ :-\ :-\



I have been asked twice this week if I do Gift Cards for Oven Cleaning.....

I wonder how many of you out there have had success with this approach?
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Mike Halliday on September 22, 2010, 09:14:57 pm
Keyplan I find a slight lull the begining of Oct due to people perhaps thinking......' I 'll leave it until closer to xmas' then from end of october the rush begins
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: derek west on September 22, 2010, 09:15:29 pm
i've just ordered 10,000 xmas crackers with "affordable carpet crackers" written on the side

they have a joke inside with my phone num,ber on it.

when they pull it a load of red wine drips out onto the carpet, jackpot. ;D
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: wynne jones on September 22, 2010, 09:17:48 pm
Colin if people are asking, why do you need to ask?

January jobs, NICE!
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: elliott cleaning on September 22, 2010, 09:22:22 pm
i've just ordered 10,000 xmas crackers with "affordable carpet crackers" written on the side

they have a joke inside with my phone num,ber on it.

when they pull it a load of red wine drips out onto the carpet, jackpot. ;D

 ;D Your way ahead of the rest of the world, Derek.    Is this business really the right place for you ;)
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Colin Day on September 22, 2010, 09:30:28 pm
Colin if people are asking, why do you need to ask?

January jobs, NICE!

True, I'm on to it!!!
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: wynne jones on September 23, 2010, 12:08:21 am
Make sure they cover only a certain travelling distance.  ;)
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: Colin Day on September 23, 2010, 08:24:38 am
Make sure they cover only a certain travelling distance.  ;)

Oh bugger.... ;D
Title: Re: xmas Marketing
Post by: DanielWelford on September 24, 2010, 05:41:41 pm
Colin

I was just thinking about doing the same. Particularly good for oven cleaning I think.

Dan