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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: matt jones on April 27, 2007, 03:31:33 pm
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Guys how long does it take to deliver 100 leaflets would you say 1 hour or less we are talking semi and semi detached houses here. This reason being i have found someone who can deliver some leaflets for me, he can only do it for maybe a couple of weeks but i was wondering what rate i should pay him? Hence the hundred leaflets an hour question?
regards
matt
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average about 6hrs per 1000 so in an hour I would expect 150-200, I'd pay about £6hr or £20 for a mornings work.
please don't all you bleeding hearts start moaning about slave labour ::) ::) no one is forcing him to work for this price, its his choice
Mike
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cheers mike :)
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The 'dor 2 dor' guy I was in the BNI with said if he pushed himself he could do 1,000 a day solus but that was going some!
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I've done 500 in 3hrs many times, its just mega boring
Mike
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200 per hr semi detached, as above very boring.. :-\
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200 per hr semi detached, as above very boring.. :-\
Thats less than 20 seconds per house non stop, not a chance
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I do relise how boring it is guys i have done them myself many times just couldn't rem how many i could do in an hour? I would of thought the majority of people won't deliver them anyway they will just tell you they have, no matter what you pay them.
matt
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Mattt you are right there - the only people you can trust are family and yourself!
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I average about 150 an hour on semis, but on the new estates where they dont tend to have fences up i can easiliy do 200 an hour ( dont walk on the grass tho), as with Mike 500 in 3 hours easy, but by then ive had enough, id advise not to do more than 3 hours try and stick to 2 this way you dont go mental with boredom, i have a radio on my phone so just listen to that while im goin round on the hands free, if a customer calls it cuts in and i can carry on talking while im posting, untill i have to take details and get the ole PDA out.
Our leaflet responces has gone up since easter holiday from appox 2-1000 to about 4-1000, well happy and dont mind doing them as much now, i ty and do minumum 1:30 hours a day but aim for 2.
Dene
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I listen to podcasts on the ipod and never music. I can easily hear my mobile ring above people chatting but not music!
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If you do an hour at a time you can put out more leaflets per hour than if you work 4hrs at a time.
You then have got to work out what you are doing about travel time etc.
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guys....................
we all have takeaway leaflets delivered to our houses.........................just catch one of them when they are delivering...and ask..........found a pole who asked for £3 PER hour................... :o :o
not bad for him as he is already doing the rounds anyway...so another £3 perhour for him is a bonus!!!!!!!!!! ;D ;D
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Andy A.. Posties have 3.5hr rounds and cover 400-1000 houses, so every chance to do 200 per hr. All depends on area of course ;D
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Hey guys have had alot of interest in people doing leaflets for me. Is £30-£40 enough per 1000 do you think? Its just know one seems to wanna do them for that amount? How much van you afford to pay someone who chances are they will just through them over the hedge?
matt
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If you think thats going to happen do not do it.
I
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well you just don't know do you really. I cant think of a fair price to pay someone because its a cxxp job which most people pay peanuts for. Its a tough one.
matt
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I pay 40 quid a 1000 to get mine out and go out with them when I can or do spot checks to ensure theyve been delivered.
I know of a local firm that does them for £15 a 1000 and they do go out but with 9-12 others :o
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Thanks for your reply andy that was more or less along the lines i was thinking.
matt
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Thanks for your reply andy that was more or less along the lines i was thinking.
matt
Paying to get them delivered is the easy bit, finding people to deliver them at any price is the hard bit, I've tried 4 or 5 different distributors to no avail, I've got a nephew who works for me 2 or 3 days a week to fund his way through college and a couple of his friends do some, I give them a map of the target area, drop them off and collect them later or if I've got nothing doing stay and put a load out myself, its mind numbing work though.
I found most people were cutting across lawns and leaving gates open to try to get them out quicker but using the ones I've got now I know the job is done properly and if they see a householder in their garden their polite, gold dust and worth the money they cost me, Andy
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In the days when I used to deliver a lot of leaflets. On semi type estates I found I could do 800 in a hard day over about 7 hours and puishing it to 1000 was a bit too much. Dont anyone say that I must have been slow, because I am talking about nearly 20 years ago when I regularly ran the London Marathon in under 2hrs 40min.
Dave.
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Tried paying for flyers to be inserted in the local free papers - 21000 for 5 replies, i.e. 0.24 per 000 so back to reliable me to deliver my own which seems to give about 2.5 per 000
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Must say i am surprised with how much interest i have had about this the phone hasn't stopped ringing. Looking at taking on a guy to see how he gets on now i have my rates sorted.
matt
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This was how I used to do it.
Put an advert in the local newsagents window.
Leaflet distributors required, must be over 13 yrs old, £3 per hour.
Usually get paper lads / girls who are interested.
Take them out on a saturday morning to a large, modern housing estate.
Set them off in pairs, with a street map. Take mobile phone numbers to keep in contact.
Drive around in my car keeping an eye on them and giving out more leaflets / instructions.
Usually 3 hrs is enough.
The knack is to take them to an area that they dont know that well, so they cant just nip into a mates house and hide for an hour >:(
4 kids at a time is easiest to manage, any more and it gets to be a hassle watching them.
4 kids @ £3 per hour x 3 hrs = £36. Usually managed to get 1000 to 1200 leaflets out in a morning.
And all I did was sit in the car, listening to the radio ;D
regards
Chris
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not a bad idea mate lol. But I think there is law about that sort of thing in this parts of the woods though :-X
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Think there is a law in the whole of uk!
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Luckily, I have found a distributor who appear to deliver every leaflet I have sent them.
In addition, they also told me when I was 100 leaflets short and asked me to send some more! (They could easily have kept quiet)
Unfortunately, they aren't cheap @ £32.50 per 1,000 (Shared) or £65 per 1,000 solus but the leaflets seem to be getting out.
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I found I could do 800 in a hard day over about 7 hours
You have to weigh this up against what it'd cost to get them delivered, with a dependable company. Would YOU work 7 hours+ for only £32.50?
I have been paying £32.50 per 1,000 with a minimum response rate of 4 calls per 1,000. I'm not convinced doing a solus delivery myself would bring in a better response.
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We paid a total of nearly £800 to have leaflets printed and delivered inside a freebie paper for a different business, not carpet cleaning, and never got a single call. The trouble is ( we learned afterwards) the leaflets are not put in by the paper they are handed seperately to the distributors and they are supposed to put them in themselves.
I reckon to deliver 125 an hour ie four hours per 500 leaflets but four hours is as much as I can stand.
The going rate round here is £35/1000 which works out about £4 to £5 per hour. If you can get a couple of other leaflets for unrelated businesses to deliver at the same time it becomes a viable proposition to do it yourself.
I'm not talking about it being a big business proposition but it provides cashflow if you are just starting out and can't afford to splash out a lot on advertising but have time on your hands.
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Thanks Vince,
Was actually thinking that myself getting paid to actually deliver my own leaflets myself that what be a brill idea.
matt
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Here's another thought:
How about an A4 leaflet with maybe three other companies advertising on it (Two on each side)
The printing/distribution costs could then be shared among the four companies.
If the companies were in related (But not competing) lines of business, so much the better.