So how do you go on going out quoting to say Otley,
an 80 mile round trip maybe for nothing.
Nearly 2 hours driving and 2 gallons of juice.
Re the freephone number.
Most people now use their mobile to make phone calls,
indeed some people don't have a landline now.
They get charged for freephone.
People like to see a local number and will be put off
by no local number, especially older people who associate
freephone and mobile numbers on adverts with gypos and the like.
I spend a lot of time in York at my static caravan at the w/ends.
This year I decided to advertise in their local papers for a month
see if I could get more work there and stay longer.
Poor response because, said the papers salesgirl, it's a freephone
and mobile number, the other 2 cc's in there had a local number
and had been advertising with them for a long time and were
getting the responses.
Not knocking you and I can see why you do it but....................
John