[Dave_Lee]

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.

[Phillip Mold]

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

[matt jones]

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

[Chris R]

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 

regards

Chris

[matt jones]

not a bad idea mate lol. But I think there is law about that sort of thing in this parts of the woods though   

[davep]

Think there is a law in the whole of uk!

[calmore]

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.

[calmore]

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.

[Londoner]

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.

[matt jones]

Thanks Vince,
Was actually thinking that myself getting paid to actually deliver my own leaflets myself that what be a brill idea.
matt

[calmore]

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.