[busydaffodil]

  GIRL POWER.     Those pink flashy dresses & high heels can do wonders.   Perhaps you guys should try it out?  Oh, Ross already has!

[marc al]

  Sarah

    I sent out 25 letters to care homes for that result, the home were having reliability difficulties with the window cleaner they use now, not surprising really at the price he was doing it for.
    If anyone wants a copy of the letter please e-mail me at marcaluzzi@aol.com, I will wait until tommorow (sunday) night and mail you all back in one go.

   Marc

[Jon T.C.]

Hiya Marc,

To date I have sent out approx 25 ish letters and got 2 monthly commercial jobs from it.  A nursing home at £60 and Funeral Director at £30.

For the cost of the 2nd class stamps (approx £7)  it has generated over £1k of additional business in the next year.

I was told that the best time to do this sort of marketing is March so we have not sent any more out since the first batch was sent.  I already have my prospect list on database and will send them out early in March.

Like everything else though its getting your name in front of the right prospect at the right time and MAY have nothing to do with how you do it (ie Leaflets, letters etc).

Its worth a go though - for the sake of quite a low outlay the returns will be good if you pick up just one job on a years contract - and you can claim back all the costs.

Let us know how you get on with it Marc.  I know Tosh has adapted one as well so we will have to compare results in about April time.

Good luck,

Sarah




Sarah

70 have gone out in the post tonight !!

Got a Guest House £30 every for weeks. I am going to follow up others with a phone call thurs/fri. 

Cheers Sarah !!

[Sarah Sarill]

No problems Jon - just glad its worked. 

Would have felt a real dumbo if no-one else had got results. 

What a start eh 

Sarah

[Jon T.C.]

Another today !! £30 - 4 weekly care home 

Haven't even started follow up calls yet !

[Sarah Sarill]

Keep going at this rate and you'll be going Vat registered before long 

Who needs a course on Marketing eh   

Sarah

[windows_chepstow]

I've sent 42 of Sarah's letters out last week.  I've not one phone call yet!

I'll try again next month!

[Jon T.C.]

Was the spell check done in Welsh or Geordie, Tosh 

Jon

[Sarah Sarill]

Tosh,

When are you planning to follow them up with a telephone call.  Dont leave it much later than the end of this week though.

Ps  :  Would like to see a copy of your revised wording.

Sarah

[windows_chepstow]

Ps  :  Would like to see a copy of your revised wording.

Sarah

Sarah,

I've deleted your original e-mail (sorry).  Could you e-mail me again?

[Sarah Sarill]

Hi all,

As you all know I am currently planning our Spring canvassing campaign, mainly for commercial but also a specific leaflet campaign for residential only for streets we currently work in.

My database of business customers is now almost done and ready to print.  Once the letters have gone out it is important to follow up these leads with a telephone call.

I have had an email from a member asking for some help in the wording used for this call which I am in the process of doing and will post at a later stage.

They also asked me if cold calling businessess works and it got me thinking. I work in sales and have never cold called for our own business.  I have put together the bones of a cold call script to use myself and thought it may help those who are less comfortable doing this type of sales call.

It is only the bones and you will need to be prepared to answer questions about your own company and put in bits to represent your own personality.

Hope it helps,

Sarah