[judas]

Any one else found that the marketing for carpet cleaning just does not live up to the promises of £30.000 to £60.000 per year. I have sent out 30.000 flyers
with only one reply, adds in yellow pages/thompsons 3 local papers per week
the church mag etc, some weeks i dont get a call at all. We get a great response from the work we have done. Is it me or American bullxxxx.

[flyfish]

depends on your flyers, who posts them, how much you pay for them, and yes £30,000-£60,000 is realistic if you have the patients, sending out 30,000 leaflets ain't going to get you this type of money, i would be wise to checkout who is posting your leaflets, if i only got 1 call for every 30,000 leaflets i sent out i would be very worried forget yellow pages(rip off) try looking on the internet in your area for thebestof.co.uk £220.00 per year, responce is brilliant plus it puts you at the top on the first page of google,  hope this helps

[flyfish]

whilst searching for marketing products,came across this, ideal, feedback looks good

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item==1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1

[Ian Gourlay]

It can be very soul destroying when marketing does not work.

The problem is it is not an exact.

Some times it works some times is does not.

The problem with leaflets is it requires a lot of work and the odds per leaflet are not good.

You would not bet on a leaflet in horse race.

But if you average sale is £100 a thousand leaflets over a period of time could bring in £300 plus  on top of that you will have referals

so you could generate £450 to £600 from  a thousand leaflets which cost £60 to distribute.

Did you have thirty thousand put out in one go?

[Paul_Ashworth]

Has any body tried the Phone book for advertising (classified section) and what sort of response have you had out of your own area's or do you find it better to use an 0800 number out of your own area.

[craigp]

fly fish that what you posted sold by same bloke sells those card holders you was promoting,

you gotta be him!!

your just on here flogging your stuff on e bay.

[Doug Holloway]

Hi Guys,

I have removed the link , if anyone wants it they can go to ebay.

Incidentally the product is 'Gauranteed' , which is a bit sad when the seller can't even spell.

Cheers

Doug

[tomh]

not such a flyfish !

[flyfish]

cor, lots of bitches on here is'nt there,
come on girls put your handbags away, supposed to be businessmen on here, as for you graigp, did you go to school, can you write that sentance out again in english, sounds like my 4 month old daughter speaking lol

[flyfish]

hey doug, guess what we know each other, your in harley street , we have meet a few times

[Doug Holloway]

Hi ,

Flyfish , can only think you are Russell.

Why not fill out your profile and have a real name.

Cheers

Doug

[craigp]

will know its flyfish cus he'll correct his spelling mistake on 'guaranteed' now we pointed it out.

why do you hide behind anonymity?

[Liahona]

At least I had a good excuse about Liahona, best, Dave.

[flyfish]

hey guy, real name
 paul johnson,
if you look on cleantalk, on the home page, i am the uk supplier for the business cards on the move, which you would of by now seen on ebay, i was not trying to market my product on here, just make other cleaners aware that the product is there if they want it, i pay a fee to nick on cleantalk to advertise the product on his site,   there you go all out in the open,,NO HARD FEELINGS I HOPE,    Doug i meet you in leigh on sea, you was on a job, spoke to you about the way you clean, about 4 months back GUARANTEEED LOL

[craigp]

no hard feelings paul

now i know i wont pick up on what you post

by the way the card holders are good, ill be buying one myself, and i not got a problem with suppliers/importers pointing out there products, just like to know there position.

[flyfish]

Cheers craig

If you do want one, and after 2 months of it being on your van you feel you are not getting any work from it i'll give you 100% money back and that's "GUARANTEED"

[Doug Holloway]

hi guys,

Excellent , peace and love has descended.

Paul,

Are you local ?

Have to get together for a beer.

Cheers

Doug

[the red carpet]

Back to the topic, either your leaflets are $hit (and i doubt that because they would have to be really bad to get that response) or they didnt get delivered (wich is more likely)

whoever you paid to deliver them knocked you.

Deliver 5000 yourself and record the response
you then know what to expect if your paying someone to deliver them, and if they dont get the same response sack them and try someone else.

Also experiment with different leaflets, this does make a difference
I have know got my response rate to, for every 5000 delivered i get around 15 decent jobs straight away (within a week)
and then a few more trickle through over the next couple weeks
so i end up with around 20 jobs at £100 each thats £2000 from every 5000 leaflets

ps. it has taken me the best part of a year and a lot of different designs, racking my brains for new ideas and a lot of walking the streets testing designs to achieve this

but iv got it down to a fine art now with £1100 worth of work booked in next week

[flyfish]

hi doug, no not local to you, im from Ealing in west london, was passing your way to go and see a mate at southend,  but yes no problem will catch up with you for a beer, i know where you are in harley street so ye no probs

[flyfish]

red carpet

that is a very good reponse rate per 5000 wow, any chance on letting me know what you put on them to get that kind of custom, would not copy yours as i see you have put a lot of time and effort into them but a few good tips from you would be great
paul