[davep]

Cheers Gary, you too

[carpetworx]

Adobe Reader-[Carpet Worx flyer R2.pdf]
What do you think of my flyer,be honest.

[carpetworx]

how on earth do i send a pdf file?or any image for that matter?

[Joe H]

To post a photo - first of all know where it is on your computer.

Press the REPLY button

below and to the left of the Message box you will press Additional Options.

Now you will see am Attach section which will allow you to upload 2 photos

Press BROWSE and go to the location on your computer where the photo is and upload.

Look forward to seeing the result.

[Ian Gourlay]

Interesting the variation in results.

Gary J  getting 10 per thousand

Paul Shaun and myself getting 1 per thousand this time of the year


Mike is a diffrent kettle of fish as over the years he has achieved Brand Saturation


I think the moral of the story is do not presume leaflets are the road to riches they are just one tool,

 

[*paul_moss]

Ian good point. You need to have your marketing in all areas.
Leaflets
BT
Yellow pages or Thompson
Internet free sites
Web Site
Local papers
Local rags
Church rags
Shop windows
Cutomer letters
etc etc etc
There is not one thing that will bring in piles of works unless your dead lucky.You have to keep advertising in all areas as each one will bring in some work for you at different levels.

And regarding leaflets. There is no secret leaflet or best leaflet to use.All you have to do is design a decent looking leaflet and then keep putting it out REGULARLY, once they have seen it 5 or 6 times on their door step ( rather your company name) they will start to ring.

The best tip I got was off Mike Halliday about 5 years ago,he said.
Put a pin in your local map and market 5 miles around it,and keep leafleting that area. I did that and that alone has contributed to about 80% of my business over the following years.
But even now I still have to market that area, over the last few weeks 20,000 have been put out and over the next 2 to 3 weeks another 30,000 will go out.
Its slow at the moment but once the  weather changes in a couple of weeks it will pay off.

[carpetworx]

Hope this works,what do you think?

[carpetworx]

Thanks joe,your'e a top bloke.

[lands]

Hope this works,what do you think?

Thats a very good one. To the point and easy to digest. Thats how I like it but I guess its what the custies think that counts

[carpetworx]

Cheers Pete,it's DL size 260gfm card.
by the way there is 2 designs to look at.
is better to drop 10,000 in one go or do 1,000 at a time.

[Mike Halliday]

carpetworx, how are you going to get them delivered? if its the same price to put them out as it would a bigger leaflet then I'd use a bigger one also why use such thick card, if you use paper you'll get twice as many for your money.

leaflets are about numbers not fancy artwork, your lealfet  looks good but I don't think it would bring in the same results as a bigger basic leaflet with more info

Mike

[carpetworx]

Mike show me what you mean.

[Mike Halliday]

there's a couple here that show  A5 leaflets with more info

http://www.cheapleaflets.net/sample1.pdf

[Bennie25]

What peoples opinion on repeat delivery times, every 3 mths?

[garyj]

I had one hand delivered back to me yesterday, shame I wasn't in. The moron even wrote URGENT on the envelope.
Hope he comes back.
Anyone else had this happen to them 

Bennie, I was thinking 3 months as well, any more than that I think people will get cheesed off.

[Bennie25]

What a sad git bringing it back, he must be a busy man! lol!

I did have a woman come out screwing it up and threw it in the bin, looking at me wanting me to see sort of thing, I just laughed, its funny people getting so stressed over such a silly thing.

[dan roberts]

I got to admit, I am disappointed to hear I will only get 10 responses for 10,000 leaflets, thats pretty sh#t to say the least!! Yeah I know it can lead on to other customers and future work, but its still alot of effort for relatively naff all.
I was going to deliver myself, Ipod on listening to Gomez and Foo Fighters with a glass or two of red wine in me belly, but now im not so sure id not rather be back at home knockin me missus about for an hour or two instead 

Thanks for all responses, Its been an interesting read, I just hope the one in one hundred response is true as above.......

Thanks again

Dan

[Ian Gourlay]

Dan,

At the end of the day you have to test leaflets yourself.

For example 1 in a thousand brings in average sale of £120

Printing costs £10  distribution through leaflet distributor £25

Total cost  £35 

Gross Profit  £85   time ten =£850 easy money


On the other hand average sale £60  same costs £25 gross profit.

time 10 = £250 gross profit

Lot of risk and work for little reward

Unless you are good at referals

so there is always hope


Thats the secret keep smiling


And quitters never win