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UK Window Cleaning Forum => Window Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: dave0123 on July 31, 2008, 09:35:52 pm

Title: Canvassing
Post by: dave0123 on July 31, 2008, 09:35:52 pm: Has anyone been round the supermarkets putting leaflets under the windscreen wipers of cars??

if so how was the results like?

was sitting in asda today and thought should do it that wasy about 400 cars there all in one place, obv have to be done on a dry day though.

dave
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Post by: Dean Taberner on July 31, 2008, 09:40:26 pm: Good idea that is 8)
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Post by: paulscotney on July 31, 2008, 09:46:56 pm: Never tried it but would have thought Sainsbury and Waitrose are the best.
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Post by: dave0123 on July 31, 2008, 10:04:19 pm: I mite give it a go
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Post by: Oakley Windows on July 31, 2008, 10:08:20 pm: That sounds like an excellent idea to help to be able to get your message out fast, only trouble is as I see it, they will then all saunter off once leaving the car-park in their own individual directions, like ants, and spread out into an area covering something like 200 square miles, you'll have a big patch to maintain ;D
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Post by: dave0123 on July 31, 2008, 10:09:55 pm: Well to be fair i do cover the hole area around here a good 12 miles away and further for large commercial. But i see your point :)
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Post by: Rogue Trader on July 31, 2008, 10:12:43 pm: i dit it this time last year and blitzed tesco waitrose and sainsburys close to me , bloody hard work and i got 1 x one off and 1 x monthly that moved after 3 cleans ..... should have spent the day knocking on doors as would have been 100 times more productive!
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Post by: seandyer2003 on July 31, 2008, 11:15:41 pm: good idea, might try it, theres a huge asda opposite one of my rounds, printed about 500 leaflets today doing 5 straight days of canvassing nxt week
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Post by: davids3511 on July 31, 2008, 11:17:27 pm: You could get a bill off the local council to clean up your discarded leaflets.
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Post by: windowwashers on July 31, 2008, 11:28:05 pm: Quote from: davids3511 on July 31, 2008, 11:17:27 pm
You could get a bill off the local council to clean up your discarded leaflets.
I just got fined for fly tipping for putting my recycling out on the day it was meant to go out so be very carefu that was 2 weeks ago >:(l.
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Post by: seandyer2003 on July 31, 2008, 11:28:51 pm: fly tipping? did you put it in bin or just on pavement :)
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Post by: niceandclean on July 31, 2008, 11:51:32 pm: Yeah be careful. A friend of mine put out about 300 leaflets in a car park in Ipswich. He got a call from the council to say that if he didnt want a hefty clean up bill, then he better get back to the car park and pick up all the discarded leaflets. :)
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Post by: windowwashers on July 31, 2008, 11:53:18 pm: Quote from: seandyer2003 on July 31, 2008, 11:28:51 pm
fly tipping? did you put it in bin or just on pavement :)

normal place was not taken so they fined me, you work it out as I cant.
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Post by: chris@c.m.s on August 01, 2008, 01:06:27 am: I wouldn't bother I tend to target houses Rather than people, target 400 cars and you have no idea of their accommodation! walk down a street flyering/canvassing and you know if its work you want or not.
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Post by: Londoner on August 01, 2008, 07:14:55 am: I tend to agree with that. I am too picky to just blitz a car park. The secret of this business for me is to choose my customers very carefully.