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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: S_RICHARDSON on October 14, 2006, 09:12:48 pm

Title: yell
Post by: S_RICHARDSON on October 14, 2006, 09:12:48 pm

how many people use the yellow pages to advertise?

Title: Re: yell
Post by: abacus on October 14, 2006, 09:16:03 pm

Hi
 I do not a great response so I only have a small add now but have had some good contracts out of it and some well paying one offs

grant

Title: Re: yell
Post by: niceandclean on October 14, 2006, 10:16:35 pm

Depends on if you want commercial or residential? I think yell is good for commercial, but all the local mags, village news ect are really good and cheap, i have picked up alot of work from these!!!

Title: Re: yell
Post by: pjulk on October 14, 2006, 10:19:49 pm

I did with poor results so have now cancelled this years.

Title: Re: yell
Post by: freshwater on October 14, 2006, 10:25:42 pm

Is this yell.com or the Yellow Pages. If its the pages then its a waste of money, spend your advertising budget elswhere. Dont know about yell.com

How would you find a window cleaner?

I would ask the people in my street when the window cleaner comes round.



steve@freshwatersystems.co.uk

Title: Re: yell
Post by: pjulk on October 14, 2006, 10:42:51 pm

Mine was with yellow pages.   Poor results.

Also the phone directory 118247 that was even worse with no results.

For me im sticking with the local parish mag they have pulled me in more work than anything else.

Paul

Title: Re: yell
Post by: drew86 on October 15, 2006, 03:08:38 pm

I just have a free listing on Yell, and have had some responses from it but only 1 off jobs, but still didn't cost me anything to advertise.
Drew

Title: Re: yell
Post by: gerrystyles on October 15, 2006, 03:14:50 pm

Had yellow pages and yell.com for two years got absolutly nothing from it. complete waste of money.

Do regular leaflet drops and line ads in local paper

Title: Re: yell
Post by: thewindowcleaner1 on October 15, 2006, 11:37:33 pm

I use the free add and have ajusted my listed name to read as www.thewindowcleaner.biz this works well for me, don't get regular calls but do pick up some tasty contracts, ie now have 6 blocks of flats on books plus because I am in yellow pages my name also comes up in searches on YELL.COM which would be the place most bussiness would look at first (being a I.T. age)

Title: Re: yell
Post by: Kev TWC on October 16, 2006, 09:18:07 pm

i have had an add in yellow pages for a lot of years works very well for me , i would always recomend at least have the free listing and stick with it . it takes time but pays off in the long term,i have just advertised with google will see what happens,yell. com had for some years have had a few enquiries from it but mainly domestic window cleaning

Title: Re: yell
Post by: carl stanton on October 16, 2006, 09:31:33 pm

yell pages grt for me paid for itself three years in a row! domestic work you will only truly know if you do it. but be prepared to lose out if you do. and dont pay the first price they give you! if you get work from it and you dont want it sell it on!

Title: Re: yell
Post by: j.v. price ltd on October 16, 2006, 09:37:10 pm

The yellow pages for us where a complete waste of time just a few old ladies asking to have there windows cleaned when the advert was for commercial window cleaning services, yell.com was a different story don't know if it was just luck but within the first week had collected 10 times the cost of the links and services, it has died off but at least 5 leads a month...

charlie

Title: Re: yell
Post by: carl stanton on October 16, 2006, 09:40:06 pm

have been talking to my yell rep this week and with yell position makes a diffrence and wording of coarse yellow pages work's for me, yell.com has not yet but got 2 years for one