[bignick]

leaflets do work..... got a call last night from a flyer i dropped through a door about 3 months ago.  Some people must keep them, stickem on the fridge and wait for that rainy day!  going round tonight to quote for wc and gutter clean so probably £80.  Flyers do work but knocking get results faster

[A+CleaningService]

My trick is to stick the leaflet to their windows, with extra strong glue.  It is amazing how many calls I get back.

[Murdie window cleaning]

Of course if you drop enough leaflets you will get some work from them, but my experiance is you would need to drop thousands just to get a small amount.

I'm finding from experiance that there is no substitute to canvassing, instant results and compact work. Going out again later and hopefully I'll pick up several, but I will be leafleting the not at homes.

[Pole 2 Pole]

That's so true bud, but as someone mentioned on here recently, it's the ones that respond to fliers that seem to be the no nonsense punters. I guess it's cos ya not throwing ya services down their throat or putting them on the spot. It's cos they do sincerely take pride in their homes and are willing to pay a few bob to achieve that.

[JRDEasiReach]

true pole, im also finding custies willing to pay me extra if ive no change and then it makes their next clean cheaper, these kind of custies are good custies imo.  They want to keep you!!

[1wayno]

i drop leaflets round explain urself,and the service u provide,and then go back on em,and knock on they door,then it a yes i want em doin blah blah blah,or no,and move on,gives em time to read ur leaflet and think about it,and maybe tlk to they partner about it,rather than puttin em on the spot first time

[geoffreyspecht]

leaflets r a waste of time

[Murdie window cleaning]

leaflets r a waste of time

On there own there not very effective, but I wouldn't call them a waste of time as I've only had a small amount of jobs from the leaflets on the own, but the money I'll earn from these jobs will more than cover the cost of the printing.

[C.C.S.]

i had a call last week from a leaflet i use to drop 2 years ago.

[chopsie]

i had a call last week from a leaflet i use to drop 2 years ago.

well that was worth all that leg work 2 years ago delivering all those leaflets!!! 

[leapstallbuildings]

I still reckon that each leaflet dropped is worth 50p to £1 a year on the turnover.

[Blue Frog Systems]

I've had people ring me from leaflets I've dropped 6 months previous. They don't get a great hit rate compared to knocking, but as said above... Gets good customers I have found.

When my wife was knocking for me, she used to hand a leaflet to anyone who opened the door (and posted those who didn't). she would then say she was delivering them for me and would they like a quote. She did well that way.

Leaflets are not a waste of time. If they were, you wouldn't get them through the door

[chopsie]

I still reckon that each leaflet dropped is worth 50p to £1 a year on the turnover.

you really think? I saw an advert tonight in our weekly free paper,design,print and deliver 10,000 A5 flyers,1 colour, one side,sent out with their free paper to an area of my choice on the week of my choice,£275 plus vat,is that a good deal do you think?(there are other offers,i.e 25,000 both sides printed 1 colour £550 +vat,15,000 full colour 115gsm 1 side £525+vat.

[d.ward]

i got a call from an estate a few miles away from me. Ive only got 5 customers there but got a call yesturday from a woman needing hers cleaned. I was chufted coz out of about 500 leaflets ive printed myself on the computer i got one response.

Canvassing is better ive found tho. Best to drop leaflets then canvass few nights later

[Londoner]

Leaflets definitely get a better class of customer but they are slower and if you are in a hurry then canvassing is much quicker but you get more time wasters. You can get a call back from a leaflet years after you dropped it

I am acting as an "adviser" for my friends son who got made redundant and is building a nice little round now in Watford. On my advice he is doing it with leaflets and the work is building up nicely.

[Londoner]

I still reckon that each leaflet dropped is worth 50p to £1 a year on the turnover.

you really think? I saw an advert tonight in our weekly free paper,design,print and deliver 10,000 A5 flyers,1 colour, one side,sent out with their free paper to an area of my choice on the week of my choice,£275 plus vat,is that a good deal do you think?(there are other offers,i.e 25,000 both sides printed 1 colour £550 +vat,15,000 full colour 115gsm 1 side £525+vat.

Don't do it, most of them go in the bin and never get inside the papers. The ones that do don't get read.

[chopsie]

I still reckon that each leaflet dropped is worth 50p to £1 a year on the turnover.

you really think? I saw an advert tonight in our weekly free paper,design,print and deliver 10,000 A5 flyers,1 colour, one side,sent out with their free paper to an area of my choice on the week of my choice,£275 plus vat,is that a good deal do you think?(there are other offers,i.e 25,000 both sides printed 1 colour £550 +vat,15,000 full colour 115gsm 1 side £525+vat.

Don't do it, most of them go in the bin and never get inside the papers. The ones that do don't get read.

I was thinking that Vince,I just bin all the crap that goes inside the free paper that comes to my place,without reading It.I would perhaps take more notice,but there are piles of flyers in it every week,too many to bother with.

[colley614]

Yeah you get about 10 leaflets in my local free paper and half the 50 page newspaper is adverts! Then you get 3 pages of news and a page of sport on the back apart from that it adverts, houses for sale (adverts) and cars for sale (adverts) 

[ccmids]

when droping leaflets just make sure your address is on it and landline phone number dont bother with mobile phone , people like to see were you come from and see you are genuine , not some numpty jockey who,s out to rob em .

[colley614]

when droping leaflets just make sure your address is on it and landline phone number dont bother with mobile phone , people like to see were you come from and see you are genuine , not some numpty jockey who,s out to rob em .

Yeah I notice a lot of customers say that they noticed were I am from on my leaflet and my mobile hardly ever goes but always have messages left on my phone at home when I get home