[fishman78]

Hi everyone just thought I would say hello. I Have been lurking around this forum for about a year on and off. And have gained some great advice. I will start traditional as feel happy doing this after plenty of f practice on mine and friends houses.
      Anyway have decide to try and build myself a round .
I Have ordered some leaflets as not thatl comfortable with knocking doors . Do you think this method will be very successful
  Also if anybody as got any work for sale in the gu post code that would Be great to get me started

[Kwackers]

We are leafletting and have found it has been good. Pick an area that will take you 6-8 weeks flat out to do. Do that area by the time you have cleaned quoted and finished leafletting you'll be ready to go again. I re-leafeletted an area. Took me around 4 hours (only about 200 houses though) and got 2 calls so they keep coming after the first drop

Just keep at it with the leaflets its a numbers game

[AS Window Cleaning]

welcome, and good luck fishman. you've started right by doing your research. now look the part and be prepared for a lot of leafleting. and persistence. do a good job, be regular and don't cut corners. quote realistically but not too cheap, and your half way there.

good luck dude, get it right and its definitely worth it..

[Johnny B]

Welcome to the mad house!

I am in the process of building a new round following a relocation just over 2 months ago.
  
I am a great believer in knocking doors to get my face known, and supplement this with leaflets. I strongly recommend this approach. I simply say something like "Hello, I have started a window cleaning service in this area. Is this something you would be interested in at all?"

You will get either a yes or no. No-one is going to bite your head off, so why not give it a go? Have the leaflet to hand, and many will take one from you.
  
In 10 weeks I have 95 customers, of which 40 odd are likely to be good, regular customers. The others are occasionals, as and when they require my services. These will be replaced when my round becomes full of good regulars, but for now they have helped me on my way.

Hope it goes well for you.
John

[sven]

Hi everyone just thought I would say hello. I Have been lurking around this forum for about a year on and off. And have gained some great advice. I will start traditional as feel happy doing this after plenty of f practice on mine and friends houses.
      Anyway have decide to try and build myself a round .
I Have ordered some leaflets as not thatl comfortable with knocking doors . Do you think this method will be very successful
  Also if anybody as got any work for sale in the gu post code that would Be great to get me started

hi mate  welcome to the forum.

I may be selling some work in the new year,   where abouts are you based ?

[fishman78]

Hi thanks for the helpfull words
 think i will see how the first few thousand leaflets get on first before i start door knocking
I,am hoping that starting this time of year that the customers i do pick up will be good ones.
i have ordered some embroided tops as i feel a good image is important .
i,am planning on giving customers a bill after there clean with a set date for there next clean on and a referal offer. is this how you guys do it ?
  I,am based just outside farnborough gu postcode.
,
Just need to get out there i feel and deliver as many leaflets as possible now

[AS Window Cleaning]

Thats it, as johnny said, door knocking is the best way, i found.  Alot slower, but people like to see someone instead of a leaflet pushed thru from anybody.

I like the embroidered tops, that will look nice.  I never did referral offer, but its a good idea, i thought of it many times but never needed to.  I was going to do for every new regular customer referred they got that amount knocked off their bill, so if they were a £10 house and got you a new £8 house, they would get that much off their clean.  Its just an incentive for them to get you more work too.......  Fortunately we never needed it, and once you are there, regularly doing a good job, if your customers are like our, they will recommend you anyway.

Cheers!

andy

[fishman78]

hi got my leaflets today and managed to get out and post a few hundred only about 9,500 to go.
 What kind of response rate do you guys normally get off leaflets is 1% a realistic figure to achieve ?

[Johnny B]

I dropped around 1000 leaflets when I first started, from which I have so far got about 2 customers. I knocked the doors, but as no one was home I posted the leaflets through the doors.

I knocked a further 1000-odd doors, and have gained 90+ customers. Hence the benefits of knocking become clearer. It also becomes easier the more you do it. As Andy said, it is slower, but it's better to get out there and get known than to drop thousands of leaflets, then sit and wait by the phone.

Best wishes,
John.   

 

[sean84]

What size leaflets are best and what info would you recommend putting on there apart from the obvious contact details?

[fishman78]

well picked up a few jobs after just delivering a few hundred leaflets.
One is a small poly conservatory roof was going to clean this with car brush and tfr or caravan cleaner is this the best way.

   One is also a inside outside job was going to do this using pure water and my cleaning solution in a bottle and my cwagtail .
  do you all think these methods will work ok