[Daria Taylor]

hey everyone,

yeah it's me again, i bet some people are sic o me posting questions here.

But i will go for it anyways, as i know you all nice people here and always happy to help

My question is: what is best place to put an advert in? small local directories that will go to diferent areas covering may be 20000 homes, yellow pages, or local news paper.Any other suggestionswelcome. I mean i know it wouldbe best to put it in al of them, but i just wanted to see from which you guys get a better return. as personally dont like yelow pages, i prefer small directories that go round every month and so on, but my husband thinks yellow pages are better.

Thanks for taking your time to read this

[APPLEMAIDCLEANING]

hey everyone,

yeah it's me again, i bet some people are sic o me posting questions here.

But i will go for it anyways, as i know you all nice people here and always happy to help

My question is: what is best place to put an advert in? small local directories that will go to diferent areas covering may be 20000 homes, yellow pages, or local news paper.Any other suggestionswelcome. I mean i know it wouldbe best to put it in al of them, but i just wanted to see from which you guys get a better return. as personally dont like yelow pages, i prefer small directories that go round every month and so on, but my husband thinks yellow pages are better.

Thanks for taking your time to read this

Community Mags

We have a company in our area who publish 4, we pay £33 per month for 3 and £44 for 1 and each book hits 3,000 - 7,000 homes and business.

We get alot from this for domestic, and our partner who is an oven cleaner gets 70% from it.

[Daria Taylor]

Applemaid,

like aways you are always helping me out thanks for that. We dont have many in our area, but few in leeds etc so i think will definatelly get an advert in one of them now you said that.

[chrisjohn]

Ive only been trading for 2 weeks now.Ive advertised in yellow pages,done leaflet drops,posters in local shops,parish magazine(very cheap,full page spread for £45 full year),local East Leeds magazine with circulation of 16000 and finally local newspaper circulation 32000.Im sure you will have similar papers and mags in Donny!

[Daria Taylor]

Ive only been trading for 2 weeks now.Ive advertised in yellow pages,done leaflet drops,posters in local shops,parish magazine(very cheap,full page spread for £45 full year),local East Leeds magazine with circulation of 16000 and finally local newspaper circulation 32000.Im sure you will have similar papers and mags in Donny!

you getting good return? our site is now up and running, most of business comes from that. not had a great deal of time to do leaflet droppin yet, so not sure whats return like on them. thats why i'm asking.

[chrisjohn]

Ive posted about 1500 leaflets,and got 6 jobs from it,making me about £650,so i think it was just about worth it.Good thing for me was that my leaflets did not cost me anything(cousins a printer by trade).

[APPLEMAIDCLEANING]

Applemaid,

like aways you are always helping me out thanks for that. We dont have many in our area, but few in leeds etc so i think will definatelly get an advert in one of them now you said that.

No probs 

[APPLEMAIDCLEANING]

Applemaid,

like aways you are always helping me out thanks for that. We dont have many in our area, but few in leeds etc so i think will definatelly get an advert in one of them now you said that.

Yer go for it, we seen a high turn over from the 2nd publication 

[Simon Gerrard]

I think the thing to do if you're not sure what is going to work best for you is to try different things, but just in a small way so that you can gauge the response. What works in one place may not work as well in another.
You could ask each customer if they would give you the names of three relatives or friends that may need your services. You could also do the 5 around after, or during a job, that's either putting special written leaflets through the doors of the two neighbours either side and the three opposite explaining you've cleaned a neighbours that day. Instead of leafleting you could knock doors and hand out the leaflets and just introduce yourself, it often works far better than normal leafleting.

All these are basic things and I'm sure you have already thought of them so forgive me for being simplistic.

Simon

[JandS]

chrisjohn

You certainly pick your areas      East Leeds!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keep your machine on a lead and don't take your eyes
off it.

John

[chrisjohn]

JandS

East Leeds is a stunningly beautiful area,with such cultural hotspots as Seacroft,Gipton and Halton Moor.If i can make it there, I can make it anywhere!!!!!!

[Mike Halliday]

just to pick up on what Simon said about 5 around, we have a new postcard printed just for this but we are doing about 30 around, if the can see the van they get a postcard.

we are getting aprox 2 jobs a week from them but coincidently none of them them have been within 5 doors of the job. so '5' around is worth doing.

[suffolkclean]

Chrisjohn £45 for a full col spread for a year is amazingly cheap, my parish mag charges £30-£40 depending on the area its getting delivered to for a black & white ad slightly bigger than a bus.card. So to go in 3 or 4 areas we're paying over £100 per month!!

[wayne zabel]

Chrisjohn are you the bloke from Leeds that did the NCCA course in August?

If its you good to see your'e trading

[chrisjohn]

Wayne,

Yes i did the course in august,been trading for a few weeks now.Things going OK,done half a dozen jobs,and lots of free jobs for family and friends for practice.