[Buster Ingram]

Great thread but it would of made more sense if I knew where you all were.
To get an overall picture of the current trend in cleaning up and down the country it would have been better if your areas had been included with the posts.
I myself am in the Wolverhampton area where Jan tends to be a bit slow, I have always put it down to folks paying off their credit cards after the Christmas big spends. Though there are the weather watchers I have to consider too who talk about snow and leaving their carpets till after the bad weather has gone. What bad weather I think to myself, what they really mean is I'm skint after Xmas but I carn't say that.

Regards
Dave

[Everbrite]

Yellow pages waste of money...............dont bother.

[Ian Rochester]

Fibre Reviver,

I tend to disagree, we get in the region of 10x return on Yellow Pages/Yell outlay, though we do get a far better return on local paper ads and postal flyers.

we've been steady all of Jan, some domestic and a lot of commercial/tourist based work.  Feb is looking ok, this week is fully booked, got a few jobs in for next week.

[Dave_Lee]

Giving Yell a miss this year. I planned three years ago to back in for three years, and they are now up, so I'll try my money elsewhere and see what happens.
Dave.

[COLIN BRIGHT]

busiest start to the year i've ever had

[Steve Chapman]

i'm in Dorset, the first couple of weeks in January were really quiet, but now i'm rushed of my feet, & seems it will continue.
As for yellow pages, they seem to be good for the bigger towns and cities, but I've found not very good for the outskirt area's.
steve

[Shaun_Ashmore]

I'm always busy infact I've never had a day off unless it's been forward planned for donkeys years but I would like to be even busier if I can fit more in! (if that makes sense)
Shaun

[Terry_Burrows]

very Interesting seems very busy in certain areas etc,

[homenclean]

We are very busy based in Leeds, but do alot of commercial work.
Dont forget end of January everyone has just got credit card bills mr and mrs average are skint!

John