[Neil Jones]

How many leaflets would you expect someone to deliver per hour? I'm considering hiring someone specifically to do this, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this over using a company?

Currently I can get 1000 delivered for £26.50 off a company but they obviously hit areas that i'm not interested in and they aren't solus.

Help welcomed, especially Mike Halliday who I know has experience in this.

[Mike Halliday]

I have a guy working for me who i'm just about to sack, he does 3hrs a day and i pay him £100 a week he get out about 400 a day.

pros of employing your own guy;
total control of the area leafleted
certainty that the leaflets are being delivered
you find your self doing some delivery your self..... so get even more leaflets out

cons;
time consuming, I pick up my guy every morning at 8am even if we don't have a job booked in. Then he needs picking up and taking home.
time consuming (No2) when i use a company the only involvement i have is ordering the leaflets and writing a cheque

[Paul Moss]

Mike why you sacking him i thought he does a good job for you ?

I have just started 2 guys now, i pay them 30 quid a thousand delivered. I give them a photo copy map of the red book, i highlight the roads on the map i want delivering to and give them a thousand leaflets a time. They ring me when they have delivered the leaflets, i do a check on 5 different areas by knoocking on a door and asking ifvthey have had a leaflet delivered. If im happy they have put the  leaflets  then they get paid and another  1000 leaflets and another map with highlighted areas.

[Neil Jones]

Cheers Mike, it is a lot more expensive, but like you said I can pick areas and just hit them over and over again. I might give your tactic a go sounds like a goer. This recent delivery company has just hit crap areas that I have no interest in working in. Just had some good pressure washing flyers designed of someone, only cost me £24.99 for design, well impressed.

[Neil Jones]

£30 per thousand, won't that take them like 7 hours? Isn't that like £3.20 per hour?

[Mike Halliday]

Paul going back to the delivery company  i used before. we  just can't get enough leaflets out, it was good when all 3 of us put out leaflets..... and we may try it again when it gets warmer but we have been doing it this month in -9 degrees,  I'm getting old I don't want to be walking the streets its bad for my arthritis

plus the cons I listed on my first post have started to pee me off, the logistics of employing him are too much hassle.

 

[derek west]

my mates doing mine, he starts up strava and off he goes. gets a 1000 out in around 6 hours and we keep track of every street he's delivered to with the strava app.

[Paul Moss]

Is it just me or are there lots and lots of price shoppers calling lately

[Mike Halliday]

I think the success of leaflets now is a shared leaflet 2 companies splitting the cost, if my leaflet was just carpet cleaning them it wouldn't be financially viable i have pressure washing on the back which helps the profitability

I'm aiming to produce a 'home service' discount leaflet with 4 companies sharing it.  carpet cleaning, car valeting, oven cleaning and drive cleaning just need to find the others.

A4 folded to A5 40k a month

[Carpet Dawg]

mike, cant they not make their own way to work? even if you pay thier bus fair

[Mike Halliday]

they can't be trusted,  even tried with my son and still they don't do as you tell them... they always have a great excuse of why they didn't do what i said

plus drop them off in some middle of nowhere village and they don;t have a choice.... they can't get home

[Neil Jones]

Derek do you pay them by the hour? If so and you paid them around £6.20 per hour that would be £37.20 whereas I can get 1000 delivered for £31.80 of a company on a shared plan. I know it's only £5.40 difference but over 20000 it's £108.
I can't decide whether the difference is worth it??

[Craigp]

Is it just me or are there lots and lots of price shoppers calling lately

yep!

[Craigp]

These days I find delevering leaflets myself just aint worth it, cant get out enough as the return is so low.

Mind you if you aint got a job on it at least makes you feel productive, a lot to be said for that.

I pay a guy 30 per k but results arent what they was a few years ago.

[derek west]

Neil, i believe these companies don't deliver all the leaflets you pay them too. i could be wrong though, but for me the maths doesn't add up.
my worst result was from leaflets delivered by a pro company, never again.

[wynne jones]

If I relied on leaflets for work I'd be sh!tting myself. Every year you need to pump more and more out to get anything. Good job we have half a million Romanians in the pipeline now the polskis are getting tired of working for peanuts.

Hire your own, don't use a company. If you break even its still worth doing, but for gods sake don't rely on it.

[dan paton]

wynne if u dont mind me asking . where do u come from in hampshire . im in eastleigh . it's only curiosity mate as you give good advice on here and i'd like some advice about websites
                           cheers
                                    dan

[wynne jones]

wynne if u dont mind me asking . where do u come from in hampshire . im in eastleigh . it's only curiosity mate as you give good advice on here and i'd like some advice about websites
                           cheers
                                    dan

I'm no where near you mate, in fact I'm quite some distance away. 

[dan paton]

ok no prob

[wynne jones]

You can always get in touch dan, happy to help.