[Big_Fish]

Ours charges a fortune, often gets the text wrong and responses are usually from price sensitive shoppers.
There does however seem to be a growing number of adverts , but more and more weeks when ours actually doesn't get delivered.
I gave up advertising professional cleaning in the money pit, local rag years ago.

Just wondered if anyone uses them successfully?

Nicky

[Scott Martin]

ONE OF THE LOCAL RAGS IN MY NECK WORKS WONDERS FOR ME! AVERAGE £850 PER WEEK IN SALES FOR A 30.00 ADVERT.

A FEW BITS OF COMPETITION WITHIN BUT THEY ARE KNOWN AS COWBOYS AND THEY ADVERTISE IN RAG AT 12.00 PER CARPET! THINK THE CUSTOMER KNOWS THAT YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR

CHEERS

[John_Flynn]

Now that is what you call VFM.

[gwrightson]

Scott I suggest you spend £60 per week
think of the return on that
 geoff

[Mike Halliday]

thats what you call silly

now every carpet cleaner with any sense in glasgow will be  putting an advert in the same paper!!

if you've got a good thing going, keep your trap shut

Mike

[Scott Martin]

Fair point but i am established and only i know what paper! and under what section.

Glasgow has around 100 local rags.

Cheers Guys

ps what is VFM??

[Shaun_Ashmore]

 Value For Money

Shaun

[cheryl new]

For 3 weeks now, our local paper has placed my ad under re-upholstery with other cc's under Carpet & Upholstery cleaning.  They've also overcharged me by £90 and then had the cheek today to actually suggest that it was all my fault!

Richard/Hy-Jan, you might want to check your bank statement for the last week in Feb & the 1st week in March which is when they overcharged me.

The ad in the paper brings in the majority of calls so no wonder it's been quiet.  

 
Cheryl

[*paul_moss]

I put an ad in my local every week some times might even splash out on a quarter page full colour.I also occasionally place an ad in the other paper ( there are 2 by us) as well at the right times of the year.
Must say I dont get a lot of response from it,as my main winner seems to be leaflets.
I would say 6 out of 10 calls are from leaflets.
Paul

[Amberleyandmick]

been getting very poor response - but had a hard look at add and rewrote it so hopefully be improvement soon. -a dry -cleaner has a bigger add- perhaps his draws all the attention

[paul@ctcs]

Does your local paper bring much work?

In a word............No >:

I was offering for a limited period half price cleans and It was a fair size with colour

Paul

[*paul_moss]

Amb
Does size matter

Paul

[Doug Holloway]

Guys,

One of the first things I learned  was that free papers are a serious waste of money (1982 )


Cheers,

Doug

[Scott Martin]

Each to there own Doug!

Works for me! Religiously!

[Doug Holloway]

Scott,

I do think there are certain papers which are more read and therefore more likely to produce a response.

My experience was a long time ago in N.London where there were 3 papers and all were useless.

Cheers,

Doug

[Don Atkinson]

ONE OF THE LOCAL RAGS IN MY NECK WORKS WONDERS FOR ME! AVERAGE £850 PER WEEK IN SALES FOR A 30.00 ADVERT.

  OHHHHHHH IVE JUST WET MYSELF!!!!

[Scott Martin]

This is genuine, £850 is a fugure based on a years worth of work from this ad!

ONE OF THE LOCAL RAGS IN MY NECK WORKS WONDERS FOR ME! AVERAGE £850 PER WEEK IN SALES FOR A 30.00 ADVERT.

  OHHHHHHH IVE JUST WET MYSELF!!!!