[Mike Halliday]

hold a wad of 50leaflets in you hand, bend a leaflet over the end, then open the letterbox with one hand and push the full wad halfway through the letterbox then extract leaving the bent over leaflet behind..... hope this makes sense, stops dogs biting your fingers as well

or use a wooden spoon, our local lads use a 10inch piece of plywood

[samson]

hold a wad of 50leaflets in you hand, bend a leaflet over the end, then open the letterbox with one hand and push the full wad halfway through the letterbox then extract leaving the bent over leaflet behind..... hope this makes sense, stops dogs biting your fingers as well

or use a wooden spoon, our local lads use a 10inch piece of plywood

Or you could just use a thicker flyer 

[Kev Martin]

I have never done Leaflets because they wouldn't work for us but surely after taking into account design time, printing and distributing costs it must be cheaper to have a full page in a Local Magazine offering 10% Discount with a code on all services?  Or sending them to your Free local newspaper for insertion  as they already have a distribution system in place???  Just thinking about alternatives and I may be totally wrong

[Mike Halliday]

Kev do you do domestic properties? ( up market ones I would guess) if so I would not discount using leaflets.

 we have a local very high class magazine called Yorkshire Life who basically showcases Yorkshire. I think all counties have them, I remember staying in a hotel in Cheshire that had one in the room called Cheshire Life, they have all the society weddings and adverts from the estate agents selling million pound plus homes.

I would bet a leaflet insert in these high class magazines would work really well, I would look into doing it but the county of Yorkshire is just too big for the type of work I do.

On your comment about insertion into local free papers, they do offer this service but lots do it so you would be one of many and its 'inside' the newspaper so unless the homeowner  actually read the free paper they will never see your leaflet

[samson]

I have never done Leaflets because they wouldn't work for us but surely after taking into account design time, printing and distributing costs it must be cheaper to have a full page in a Local Magazine offering 10% Discount with a code on all services?  Or sending them to your Free local newspaper for insertion  as they already have a distribution system in place???  Just thinking about alternatives and I may be totally wrong

Wash your mouth out Kevin . . . . . Discount !!!!

[samson]

I sent the artwork, which was approved.  later they told me they couldn't proceed with the order as they didn't have the artwork for the other side of the flyer ( I ordered double sided )   I told them it was to be the same on both sides, and the reception woman person couldn't accept this as a concept, and it took several minutes to persuade her 

[Mike Halliday]

Samson, check out this post on the carpet cleaning section

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=197397.0

It's about a group of carpet cleaners meeting up in Sheffield, I'm going,

is Huddersfield. very far away from this meeting point? If you come we could have a good chat about leaflets and you could talk to other cleaning professionals about marketing and using leaflets, I know they will be carpet cleaners but the marketing concept is the same.

[samson]

Samson, check out this post on the carpet cleaning section

http://www.cleanitup.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=197397.0

It's about a group of carpet cleaners meeting up in Sheffield, I'm going,

is Huddersfield. very far away from this meeting point? If you come we could have a good chat about leaflets and you could talk to other cleaning professionals about marketing and using leaflets, I know they will be carpet cleaners but the marketing concept is the same.

Thanks for the invite Mike, but a bit busy at the moment but I think these things are a good idea for sharing ideas 

[tony braid]

Hi guys have any of you on here used peanut print
Any help would be appreciated
Regards Tony

[tony braid]

Hi guys have any of you used peanut printing

[samson]

Hi guys have any of you used peanut printing

That is the company we used, very good quality 400gsm double sided