[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

Hi all,

My leafleter got caught delivering my leaflets on the cheap (£10 per 1000) and lost his boss a contract with the local council so I am not going to have to find a new leafleting firm. This is a pi$$er as my leafleter only delivered to private estates with big houses for me. Now I cannot be so choosey!

The lady from Amaro rung me and told me they can do me a deal for £20 per 1000 which I don't think is bad to be honest. Maybe that's not inc of VAT though.
Has anyone used them before?

Happy new year everyone!!
John

[robert meldrum]

Is that the Tony Christie one !

[PaulKing]

no thats armadillo

[derek west]

and everybody thought my jokes were bad

who's amaro and do they only deliver in big towns and cities?
derek

[Mike Osbourne]

It's crunchy on the outside, chewy on the inside-Armadilos!

The price of delivery means pretty much nothing, until you have some idea of response.

How many other leaflets will they deliver at same time, will they get delivered? etc.

I would test 10k and see what happens- January as well, if you get 5-6 you are doing well. Do a few months to same area.

or find another scivvey.

[clinton]

Hi john

The company near m charges 26 plus and its not solo

Am too trying to find someone to deliver them for me.

I droped 100 and got three so far and thats not bad

mm crunchy aaahh

[Mike Osbourne]

I started doing local paper and postcodes to nice areas.

[clinton]

Mike

You mean you put leaflets in the local paper

[Ian Rochester]

Amaro are a Newcastle based leaflet distribution company, the last time I spoke to them, probably about 18 months ago, they were quoting me £45/1000 for a 50,000 drop and that was not solo, £20 is a very good price.

[clinton]

Thats a lot of money

The company that does them in the north here is 26 plus

Post office is 33 plus vat for deliverey think its solo :

[derek west]

just done a google. no amaro but lots of others
Leaflet Distribution UK
www.mailboxnationwide.com
www.FrontDoorMarketing.co.uk
www.dbslimited.co.uk

gonna give them a ring tomorrow, see what prices they all have.
must admit i'm sceptical about them all but what can ya do other than do them ya self, and thats a ball ache, if your delivering leaflets your not earning money, if you deliver a load and get booked up youve no time to deliver anymore, talk about catch 22.

anyway, i need to start getting leaflets out, if there too dear i'm either going with royal mail, or advertising for a distributer in the local paper, like a part timer, retired guy would be good, 3000 a week for £60 - £80, think thats fair
derek

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

Here is Amaros website

http://amaro.co.uk/Pages/home.htm

[PaulKing]

hi skywalker they are local to the north east never, I've  heard a bad thing against them in fact I'v never hear anything, but i don't use them there someone over by van hee in felling who is  good and don't charge vat cant remember the name but they are ok

[clinton]

Derek

Am too looking for a retired person

Just how many do you think can be done in an hour

Bescause thats the question i get asked  :

[PaulKing]

royal mail reckon 4 mph but there's a whole can of worms there

[Mike Halliday]

if you look at the maths of leaflet distribution you can see the sense of employing some one.

average job price £80

pay someone £200/week

so he needs to get 3 jobs a week to make sure you are not out of pocket.

leaflet response rate @ 1.5 jobs from 1000 leaflets so he needs to put out 3k leaflets.

these are very Conservative amounts , going solo you will get a much better response.

all it takes is the bottle to pay some one that £200 for 6 weeks then you'll see the results

[derek west]

on average i'd say 2 a minute, so 120 an hour, a good 6 hour day would be 720.
so 4 days would hit the 3k mark, it does depend on where your delivering though, terraced houses would easily be 6 a minute, where as long drives detached would prob be only 1. maybe an average might be 3 a minute but on a standard semi with car length drive, you'd have to motor.
these are  slighlty educated guesses from me so go easy with any disagreements.
derek

[clinton]

Sounds right 

Its a hard boring job delivering so might have to get him to do 500 per day 

Thats what am going to try :

[derek west]

how much you gonna pay clinton.

you need to pay enough so they don't dump them in the river but as little to make sure its profitable.
tough call.

i'm thinking £60 to £80 for 3k, but i'm not sure that'll be enough. but anymore and your into paying proffesional leafleters anyway. surely some retired guy, who's lost his wife family left home.and needs the exercise, will welcome a shifty back hander of £80 to top up his pension.

or maybe not, dya know, i'm waffling and have no idea. (yeah yeah, whats new)

anyone else have some stats we could mull over on this subject.
derek

[clinton]

Think the del companys charge about thirty pounds inc vat for a thousand :

Might be better idea to pay for 500 as wont take that long and they wont get boerd with it.

Am going to pay about 25 for a thousand.