[feldon]

Well after a job this morning I dropped 250 of my new d.i.y leaflets and got a job booked for £115 whilst I was still out delivering

[Gary Longley]

Well after a job this morning I dropped 250 of my new d.i.y leaflets and got a job booked for £115 whilst I was still out delivering

Nice one, so its paid for your paper, ink, own design work & 'dropping' them 

[feldon]

Its only cost me £14.95 for the paper, the ink is free as I got a commercial laser printer for free with quite a lot of toner left in it, the only other cost has been around 2 1/2 hours of my time to deliver 250 leaflets.  Doing another load tomorrow so hoping i'll get some more yet.

[Steven Lawrence]

things really bad over here,mate works for company with three vans,now just one and struggling.I was pretty cheap for the quality i was doing but now its just price price price,mad the way things have gone.pleasedont start going on about quality of work and shxt cause i have been a carpet cleaner for 25 years and always been flying but last couple of years has been really hard.people dont price anymore for quality,just price.So i have to really get a head of the comp by being in there face,flyers seems like a good plan.

i man of truth , its hard for most i am like you work here is poop but i am quite lucky as i now have a massive property base so i couldnt careless weather we get any work or not , we dont advertize at all  , no web page, no papers northing at all and we still doing ten jobs aweek still running two truckmounts but one may only move when i take it to the shop for a pint of milk , its a 58 reg and as 7,000 miles on the clock lolololol 4000 of them were done on trips to redruth with it
thats why ive dumped the big money and gone back to charging cheap going to review it in a few weeks may even lower them more time will tell , as long as they pay the wages and running cost then i am happy


 theres going to be alot of people that come on saying there earning this and there earning that , i like to know what they do with the money because my garge in bigger then most of there houses so there just talking bull or they have a real bad habit sniff sniff

your garage maybe bigger than my house, but i bet my garage is worth more than your house!

[Ian Gourlay]

things really bad over here,mate works for company with three vans,now just one and struggling.I was pretty cheap for the quality i was doing but now its just price price price,mad the way things have gone.pleasedont start going on about quality of work and shxt cause i have been a carpet cleaner for 25 years and always been flying but last couple of years has been really hard.people dont price anymore for quality,just price.So i have to really get a head of the comp by being in there face,flyers seems like a good plan.

i man of truth , its hard for most i am like you work here is poop but i am quite lucky as i now have a massive property base so i couldnt careless weather we get any work or not , we dont advertize at all  , no web page, no papers northing at all and we still doing ten jobs aweek still running two truckmounts but one may only move when i take it to the shop for a pint of milk , its a 58 reg and as 7,000 miles on the clock lolololol 4000 of them were done on trips to redruth with it

thats why ive dumped the big money and gone back to charging cheap going to review it in a few weeks may even lower them more time will tell , as long as they pay the wages and running cost then i am happy

 theres going to be alot of people that come on saying there earning this and there earning that , i like to know what they do with the money because my garge in bigger then most of there houses so there just talking bull or they have a real bad habit sniff sniff

If you not bothered about making money because you have so much already why not just concentrate on your property empire

[Hilton]

things really bad over here,mate works for company with three vans,now just one and struggling.I was pretty cheap for the quality i was doing but now its just price price price,mad the way things have gone.pleasedont start going on about quality of work and shxt cause i have been a carpet cleaner for 25 years and always been flying but last couple of years has been really hard.people dont price anymore for quality,just price.So i have to really get a head of the comp by being in there face,flyers seems like a good plan.

i man of truth , its hard for most i am like you work here is poop but i am quite lucky as i now have a massive property base so i couldnt careless weather we get any work or not , we dont advertize at all  , no web page, no papers northing at all and we still doing ten jobs aweek still running two truckmounts but one may only move when i take it to the shop for a pint of milk , its a 58 reg and as 7,000 miles on the clock lolololol 4000 of them were done on trips to redruth with it

thats why ive dumped the big money and gone back to charging cheap going to review it in a few weeks may even lower them more time will tell , as long as they pay the wages and running cost then i am happy

 theres going to be alot of people that come on saying there earning this and there earning that , i like to know what they do with the money because my garge in bigger then most of there houses so there just talking bull or they have a real bad habit sniff sniff

By the state of your posts we could assume that you must be on some kind of substance abuse.

I am sure that most on here would be pleased with your ongoing success and you are to be congratulated that you have diversified away from carpet cleaning, as many of us have also done no doubt. The fact that you do not have a reliance on carpet cleaning revenue, something that is going to become harder and harder as the austerity drive continues, is a good business decision and I would encourage others to do like wise.

I have to say though that you appear to gloating at those less fortunate than yourself which is not nice and if the intention is to antagonise some then it appears to be working, you say you do not leaflet, yet on another thread announce you will going to war in another area by price cutting to the bone, good luck with that by the way, I assume you will have to leaflet to do this and advertise. ?

[Garyj]

hi,i dropped golden pages 3 years ago,I was paying ten grand a year for years.Started paying for seo on website hoping for results,robbed,now i going to try a two day course and do it my self.What kind of response do you guys get from flyers.Think the average call for flyers is between 2-4%.How do you guys do?

You weren't really robbed by the SEO company though. Is your site still not back on Google? How much of your came from Google? Do you think it would pick up again if you were back up there?

[Hilton]

I was talking to a chap on Monday who put 250000 leaflets out over a 12 month period and had a 0.5% response,

He actually did 4 jobs a day from it over the same period, I don't know what it cost him but the the value of the work brought in over the same period  was £85 - 100k on average sales.It does show that on big numbers a small percent return makes a difference.

There is a famous multi-millionaire who built his whole business on flyers and DM putting out millions per year he reckoned on a 0.5-1% response to make a huge amount of money.

[Brendan (chem2clean)]

garyj,yes maybe robbed is harsh.paid 4 grand over a year and only only ranking well on some keywords,in fact some keywords that i was first page,ie carpet cleaning,carpet cleaners ,i now cant find.

[garry22]

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garyj,yes maybe robbed is harsh.paid 4 grand over a year and only only ranking well on some keywords,in fact some keywords that i was first page,ie carpet cleaning,carpet cleaners ,i now cant find

That's because Google changed the rules drastically overnight.

Some people who were top of page one for ten years or more got wiped out. Many people have lost jobs and busnisses since the end of April.

Sadly the search results seem a lot worse now than before. I looked for a local tradesman a couple of days ago and gave up after six pages of directories.

[wynne jones]

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garyj,yes maybe robbed is harsh.paid 4 grand over a year and only only ranking well on some keywords,in fact some keywords that i was first page,ie carpet cleaning,carpet cleaners ,i now cant find

That's because Google changed the rules drastically overnight.

Some people who were top of page one for ten years or more got wiped out. Many people have lost jobs and busnisses since the end of April.

Sadly the search results seem a lot worse now than before. I looked for a local tradesman a couple of days ago and gave up after six pages of directories.

Garry, you have noticed it too. You are starting to get results creeping in that remind me of the Netscape days. So much for a mission to deliver relevancy (rather than be greedy beggers).

Lastest black hat technique at the moment is to give your competition search term backlinks, what a crazy Google world we live in.