[Neil Grainger]

Hello

I am looking for leaflet distributers in the Berkshire/Hampshire/Surrey areas and have found nothing except Royal mail. Does anybody know of any companies that do this in these area's. 

Thanks

Neil

[cleaning co]

hi mate ,if u are a one man outfit find yourself a fit semi retired man  and send him out few hours aday ,the other opitons like post office etc are to dear and untrustworhty, in the 10 years i hav done leaflets the semi retired man allways given me the best responce and i hav tried all the others, cheers gary

[rioclean]

Hi Niel

If you want the leaflets out, the only way if you have time is to do it yourself.  Ive tried other people to do it with little responce.  Targeting the right areas, you know they are delivered and you can put out less with a fair responce.

Cheers Dave

[paul bruce]

Hi Neil,
As the previous guys recommend do it yourself or use the semi retired man option.When you use the leaflet distribution companies ( there are loads in yellow pages listed under circular and sample distributors) your leaflet is posted together with 5 or 6 others and this makes it junk mail to most people.
You can choose your areas with these companies,but they are not cheap,approx £200 for 1-2 thousand .

Paul

[Chris Bailey]

Hi Neal

I use a local company that I found in the yellow pages.  Costs me £35 per thousand for a solus delivery (on there own) and I have control of where they go.

Semi-retired will suit someone, but I have tried doing it myself and achieved 1000 leaflets in 6hrs!! so you may find it difficult to find someone, but this depends on how many leaflets you want to put out.

Chris

[Ian Rochester]

I've got a bloke who delivers the "Age Concern" and Cancer Research charity collection bags, he drops my leaflets off with those every 6 months, costs me £30 / 1000 leaflets.  The beauty is he knows which houses are occupied, which are holiday homes etc, so they only go through the right letterboxes.

Works well and get quite a bit of work from it.

If anyone is interested I'm just getting some new business cards and flyers done by printing.com they have an offer on this month:

1000 full colour double sided business cards £64
2000 for £86

30000 full colour double sided 1/3rd A4 flyers £422 inc

[Elite (Ben)]

Hi,  i am just about to use DBS for a delivery of 10k. I will let you know if they're any good.  I have also just advertised for my own people, just in case.

[ValueValeting]

You can generally get your local newspaper to include them as inserts for £20-£30 +vat per thousand

[Elite (Ben)]

newspapers tend to bundle 5 or 6 together though, so responses are much lower. i would go solus every time.

[Doug Holloway]

Ben,

Spot on .

I did the figures in N/E London many moons ago and response withsolus was 3 times as good as in paper.

Two weeks ago one of our freebies had 12 inserts which went straight in the bin.

Cheers,

Doug

[Elite (Ben)]

DBS are no good avoid like the plague, they lied to me and were going to deliver mine with 2 other leaflets.

ben

[Chris Bailey]

so what happened Ben?

[Elite (Ben)]

Dbs were subbing to a local company, so i bypassed them and went direct.  the result....... 2 calls for 10k leaflets.

i bet most of them have been recyled and made into bog roll

ben

[BRSL]

Just posted 5000 leaflets with local rag distrabuter

If youve read my previous posts about an over 1% return, well thats just been blown out the window, not one phone call grrrr

get out and do some leg work thats the key, or semi retired that sounds good apart from the semi retired down my way are semi dead and could manage 1-2 a day

yours not impresed
James 

P.S. thats with free room and free spotter christmas deal, got to check my free phone is still working 

[allergease]

I've been delivering my own leaflets and one thing that I have observed is that many houses are empty in the day time. The result of this is that your leaflets are not picked up off the floor until early evening with any others that have been delivered that day (usually pizza take aways). Therefore if you are paying a premium to have your leaflets delivered solus they may well go through the letter box as solus but land on top off another two or three leaflets  

Conrad

[Elite (Ben)]

I now employ 2 people. between them they deliver around 3,000 per week with an average response rate of .0031 but has been up to .05.  I am quite happy with this response rate, but would like to take on a couple more to get up to 6,000 per week.
I have cosidered royal mail to do a large drop every 2 months or so, but people seem to be a bit negative on this subject.
has anyone used the royal mail recently?

Thanks,  ben

[John_Flynn]

If I personally get any leaflets with mail I bin them without even looking at them!!

What do you do???

[Elite (Ben)]

it depends what it is, if its something i need or want, i read it.

ben

[nick p]

Hi

How much do you guys pay your semi retired blokes
ive just got a company to do mine 4 leaflets through the door at same time and no more but response has dropped of since doing it my self
cheers nick p

[Elite (Ben)]

Nick, i pay £5 per hour (on a self employed basis ) plus 5% commission.

ben