Clean It Up
UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: Shaun_Ashmore on January 09, 2011, 10:35:06 pm
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Who still does leaflets?
How often?
How many?
Shaun
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never have done.
Never will.
So can't answer your questions.
Rog
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It's still a good way for someone starting off and has some advantages over other methods but anyone who has done it a long time and I'm sure you've noticed this Shaun if you still do them is response gets less and less every year. It's a bit like spending £1000s on YP and seeing less and less response whilst websites and social media stuff just keeps going up.
Sometimes we carry on doing things out of habit. In the cold light of day it looks like it's only going one way though. I would be gutted to let my girls go though, which I know is not logical but they have done me proud.
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Shaun
PPC mate thats where its at.
respect
IOan
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200 a day Shaun weather permitting and also 10 a side, which is when working at an house, when finished 10 either side and 10 opposite.
Mark
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Any advertising when you are quite is better than none...leaflets are cheap and work will not come to you if your sitting on your backside moaning about having no work.
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I find a leaflet works well. Any type of advertising is good. Its all about using what ever space it is, to its best ability. Example. We placed an ordinary advert in a newspaper for 6 weeks and had hardly anything from it. We decided to test the method by placing an advert of the same size but advertising FREE carpet clean.The phone went mad and yes we went out and cleaned all respondants a carpet for free. But It wasn't the advert that was actually our advertising... It was the FREE carpet clean. We got loads of ...how much for this... how much for that and have gained over 40 regular anual cleans from it. Another good thing about the FREE carpet clean was it can be run against tax as an expense.
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200 a day Shaun weather permitting and also 10 a side, which is when working at an house, when finished 10 either side and 10 opposite.
Mark
You cant be very busy then? 200 a day plus work? :o
I do about 500 a month, set aside 2 - 3 days to drop in selected areas! ;)
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You cant be very busy then? 200 a day plus work?
WHY...i can easy do 200 in an hour depending on the area.
2 or 3 days to do 500? :o you are having a laugh.
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Forum seems a bit slow trying to stimulate more posts, wait for my next one!
Shaun
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Yes i have found this forum slow for a few weeks now. I thought it was my connection. Some days it takes ages to go to the next page
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Forum is slow but I was meaning nobody is posting.
Shaun
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Perhaps they all out delivering leaflets Shaun
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Or out doing quotes on thier push bikes
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Hi jason. When you get lisence back mate?
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May 17th , cant wait , just had 2 coppers try to stop me for riding on the pavement , I pretended not to hear ,and they were too fat and lazy to chase.
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Think you'll find that Mark delivers them on an evening.
I usually average about 140 an hour but probably more
on terraced houses.
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Dont like posting leaflets,but as Im still fairly new to CC,its a necessary evil.
As said earlier,if you have no work,its better than doing nothing.
Chris
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Posted about 200 the other day when quiet. Took me just over an hour.
Got a £100 booking out of it.
Leaflets do work !
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Shaun
PPC mate thats where its at.
respect
IOan
Hi Ian , Sorry to be thick but what is PPC
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got 10000 coming to kick start me off for the year , and yes they do work
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i put out flyers as regularly as i can and may not get interest right away but find people may phone a month or so later and when doing any jobs i would then do a number of neighbour nudgers in the street as opposed to pushing another flyer through and do find i quite often get another job in the street from this even thogh they did not respond to my original flyer.
John
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Shaun
PPC mate thats where its at.
respect
IOan
Hi Ian , Sorry to be thick but what is PPC
I see that as "pay per click" again as with all forms of advertising sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.
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Paul PPC = pay per click, I think.
Shaun.
I delivered leaflets at night a couple of months ago, and had booked 7 jobs for 3 1/2 hours leafletting. One guy chased me down the street to get my advice, and booked,and one called when I was in the next street. I think it is all about timing. I have spent all day leafletting with no response.
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I went out door knocking today (leaflets are essential for this), certainly not going to sit around waiting for the phone to ring.
Picked up 3 new customers within an hour and then had 2 phone calls from leaflets I had dropped earlier this morning.
Leaflets, PPC, Local ads, newsagents, chip shop!
Advertise everywhere you possibly can, everyone lives in a house with windows, everyone is a potential customer.
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I went out door knocking today (leaflets are essential for this), certainly not going to sit around waiting for the phone to ring.
Picked up 3 new customers within an hour and then had 2 phone calls from leaflets I had dropped earlier this morning.
Leaflets, PPC, Local ads, newsagents, chip shop!
Advertise everywhere you possibly can, everyone lives in a house with windows, everyone is a potential customer.
Erm, never tried that, how do you HWE a window?
Do you use a scrim on the carpets then? ;D ;D
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Paul
Its Adwords mate
Respect
Ian
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I went out door knocking today (leaflets are essential for this), certainly not going to sit around waiting for the phone to ring.
Picked up 3 new customers within an hour and then had 2 phone calls from leaflets I had dropped earlier this morning.
Leaflets, PPC, Local ads, newsagents, chip shop!
Advertise everywhere you possibly can, everyone lives in a house with windows, everyone is a potential customer.
good advice - when i moved from essex to north wales years back i did the same thing to get my firm up and running again , went out with flyer's and knocked the door's the next night ,, i got loads of people invite me into their home to give them a quote to clean the carpets etc etc , and booked lots of jobs in from it , probley the best way to get work i think, but you got to be able to handle the No's also ;D
but then im also a window cleaner so we have been doorknocking for years to build up the round's so lucky that dont scare us :o
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Think you must have got used to it john knocking on the doors.
Dont think i could handle the no,s mind so fair play to you ;D
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Never mind all that Clinton. Is that Les Paul still gathering dust?
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Hi Rabb Erm well am going to start again soon going to dust her down.
Bify clairo top group ;)
Ye that dont bother me little men behind a keyboard ;)
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Strangley only 3 percent of population have the correct personality traits for door to door sales
I would advise anybody new to the Industry to join a Double Glazing Company do Utility or Sky sales or Eiesmann for six months before starting in Carpet Cleaning
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secret - big smile , big breath, knock on door , sorry to bother you, even bigger smile now , we posted a leaflet through your door last night , ( they look at the leaflet you holding on your clip board ) and we wonderd if you would be interested in a free quote for carpet cleaning/ window cleaning etc etc , keep the leaflet held high so they can see it .
Most will say - i did see it come through the door and was thinking of giving you a call ( they would of never called , so good job you back on the door)
some say no, not seen the leaflet ( good job you back on the door with it in there face lol )
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YES ..... then you talk the arss of a donkey lol
NO ..... then say thank you for their time .... BUT if they ever need a quote in the futre please keep the leaflet and give us a call.
then move on to the next house quick while you still in the flow
this is all you need to say .
you only have 20 sec's max on the step so you have to be quick to the point .
it's a number's game , it's great if two of you go out in a pair and one does one side and one the other , at end of the road you see who is the winner ... lol
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many moons ago i used to work for a window company knocking on doors and we had to have a permit or something! Does anyone know if you still do?