[Klean07]

I've just been collared by Yellow pages and Yell.com to spend £500 to avertise with them for next 18 months. Sounds like a good deal. Anyone else on here use them and if so did you get much response?

[prestigeclean]

i spent £350.00 with them last year , never again , enough said regards alan

[Chris Galloway]

Spent £450 (for yell.com) got nothing from it. Not going to pay for it next time. Willl be happy with just free ads. Will be doing my own marketing.

I do mainly residential, so i dont think it worth me paying for it in future, however if you are more commercial based, then it might suit you.

edit - sound like they are desperate... thats not a bad deal for 18 months thou. Say to them you'll agree to £400! 

[Ian Lancaster]

I do.

I've advertised in YP for years.  Two directories (Maidstone and Canterbury)

I get a steady trickle of enquiries and the occasional big job - costs me about £500/year and always pays for itself in about 3 months. 

Took out an enhanced Yell.com ad - total waste of money

[LWC]

£500!

No thanks, the free ad will do for me

[wightsurf]

I have, but will not be doing it again.

[Straker Cleaning]

Not paid for ad in there for over 3 years and never going to again 

[MopTop]

I wouldn't bother. I have a 6x4 cm (ish) slot, only had a few genuine inquiries.  I do get LOADS of calls from other people trying to sell me more advertising tho.  The Y.P. is like a glorified suckers list in my opinion. They sell it as if its some sort of miracle business generator, in reality it's not worth the money.  I would've done better to spend the money on leaflets.

[Pristine Clean]

We have big advert and we also find it works spent £1500 + vat on an advert.

But I get the vat back


Somethings work for others that dont work for you

[mark dew]

I got a call from them a couple of months ago trying to sign me up.
The lady started by asking if i was interested, to which i said no. She then spent the next 5 minutes talking about it without a pause. (I put the phone down and made a cuppa in the meantime).
Eventually she said it would cost £190 (i think) for a small advert and asked me again if i'd be interested.
Maybe 1 day for a presence, but i don't think it is the advertising medium it was 20 years ago.

[weetot]

I have advertised 9 years out of 25 years and the majority of calls you'll get will be people wanting employment (not that theres anything wrong with that) and the rest of the calls are charities asking you to bungee over a bridge.  Thats my experience, hope its been a help.

[trevor povey]

Kicked it into touch years ago put yr money into a nice brochure,a new van or a even a fortnight in Skegness!!

For £1000 investment the least I expected from it was a monthly job for £100 when it didn,t,t realise this return a couple of years running I got told the way forward was yell.com so we lumped into that still acheiving very little.

 

Trevor Povey

[matt]

ive not even got a free ad

i must be missing something

[ftp]

Matt, you obviously don't need the work or you have such a reputation that you don't need to advertise. 

[matt]

Matt, you obviously don't need the work or you have such a reputation that you don't need to advertise. 

indeed

funny you should say that, i had a phone call on my HOUSE phone tyesterday ( now my biz is run though my mobile, i know, it could mean im a cowboy cleaner, but it works for me, and i dont get silly calls to my house )

it turns out they got my details from a commercail job i do ( she was the wife of 1 of the managers ) i guess they used the phone directory as even the commercail job do not have my home phone number ( mobile and fax is enough ) , anyways, they have just moved down to devon and would i go and clean the house  , i said that i didnt really go that far, her response " we will make it worth you while, pay for your fuel and travelling time "

so thats me going down the coast for another day then

reputations eh