[monkeyman]

anyone had any good responce from adverts in free or local newspapers?also would it be best to include coupon to see what type of feedback you recieve eg 10%off first clean?

[Oakley Windows]

One of my highest returns is in a parish magazine I use to advertise in.

It costs £4.50 a month and Ive probably had about £1,000 of one-off gutter cleans and about £300.00 as a rough guess of regular repeat window work.

[paulscotney]

Never seen a parish mag around here ( lots of non believers here, very nice some of them, especially the ones that speak english  )   but I advertise in the free local mags and cover the  cost on the first cleans of the new customers just about. Sometimes a lot more, but never much less.

[mark dew]

One of my highest returns is in a parish magazine I use to advertise in.

It costs £4.50 a month and Ive probably had about £1,000 of one-off gutter cleans and about £300.00 as a rough guess of regular repeat window work.

I also think parish mags are a good place to have a presence.
My round as it is at the moment has been 90% built on a single advert in a parish magazine which costs me a tenner a year. Most of the rest have been with leaflets which i cherry pick properties to deliver to, or from a recommendation.

[Londoner]

We tried advertising a different business in the freebie papers, it was very expensive and the return was minimal. However, lots of small businesses run continuous ads in these papers so they must believe that its worth the money.

We advertise in one of the local Parish magazines, we get a few from it each time.

[tomy jackson]

papers are rubish , now i do beleve mags are beter , yes it dus work in papers for uther bisness for sum resion window  cleanig dusent its not that the adds arnt sean becorse my custys comented on is that you in the papers , so why thay dont work it dont kowe , im not tarking one or two cusys . wos at one stage at the side of misy stemy windows who did well out of his add to replace the glass , ?

[LWC]

I moved out into the middle of nowhere, 30 mins away from where we used to live, and 30 mins away from town.

I didnt have any work this way, no i was like a new thing round here so i got a few more customers from my van.

I went and asked the local school where the little one goes and said do you need a window cleaner? and they just aid we dont really have the money for that.

So gesture of good wll i did them for free and i got mentioned in the school letter so all the parents saw that then they said why dont you put an add in the local paper.

THought its worth a go, i paid £5 around 2 years ago and its still in there every month and yes i have got work from it!

[DaveG]

Ive got an ad in a parish mag too...i got quite a bit of work from it last year , although ive stopped advertising in there now til February.

Cheers Dave