Hi Dustees
Don't feel down, you can try to hard and come across to potential clients as being desperate and switch them off, heres one to try, are you registered on Ebay? if so look at where you have slots available and auction the slots off, you need to atract people from Reading so put this in your title with other stuff to attract customers, ie "Home cleaned in Reading slot available must see" advertise your self as a new company and are able to ofer fantastic cleaning, also say reason for the slots that are availble canceled due to illness or somthing. if you are paying your staff you might as well keep them busy. Have you got a good quality leaflet? I know people go on about the sucess rate of leaflets but I have invested in good quality leaflets full colour A5 open brocure, I have had printed 20,000 I have about 4,000 left! these have lasted me 3 years. if I need work I leaflet I get a good hit rate, 1 customer for every 60 leaflets droped, my problem is keeping the jobs I have because good cleaners are so hard to find. marketing your business is all about quality in your approach, if you get that right you will find you are able to charge more and only attract the right customers ie with money to spend, I am sure you can and will turn it arround. good luck kind regards Phil