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the last few weeks have been “steadyish” this week monday and tuesday ok but now its just died I hope its just the holidays.
going to test the phone now!!!!!!!!!!wilf
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I’ve been very busy in the past few weeks but this week has been dead, the punters are all on holiday, lucky sods!
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Worse week in 14 years here.
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Charge work up mind!Re: Worst Week Ever
In the last month, first two weeks just eight calls and getting a bit concerned but since the rains came a steady 4-6 calls a day, trouble is I ain’t used to it and these 5 hour days are killing me 😉
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Things have picked up for me over the last couple of weeks but I have just completed my books for the first 4 months of the year and I am 20{e5d1b7155a01ef1f3b9c9968eaba33524ee81600d00d4be2b4d93ac2e58cec2d} down on this time last year 😥
Graham
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As there hasn’t been a post here for two whole weeks does it mean the “mini recession” is over (til the next time anyway)?
I allowed my ad contract in the local paper to expire at the end of July. Haven’t noticed a drop off yet. Maybe I can fly without them. Saves me a tenner a week anyway.
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leavemetogetonwithit wrote:As there hasn’t been a post here for two whole weeks does it mean the “mini recession” is over (til the next time anyway)?
I allowed my ad contract in the local paper to expire at the end of July. Haven’t noticed a drop off yet. Maybe I can fly without them. Saves me a tenner a week anyway.
Mike.£10 a week!
Do you get much from it?
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I guess it would bring in one new customer a week which compounds over time….drip,drip.. and served as a reference for old customers who had lost my number. It was only a linage ad about 30 words in the local weekly. There’s no really local daily here except the one serving the whole West Country. I’d renewed the contract annually for eight or nine years. It was only a fiver a week at the beginning of that period but has crept up. I can always re-start it if I feel like I need more work.
Mike.Re: Worst Week Ever
I post in a daily paper 6 days a week, Its £184.40 a month BUT it’s bringing in NOW atleast 8 calls a day and its definetely paying for itself, 19000 Business cards delivered through customers doors so far using a gateshead company who are awsomely proffesional at it and that has generated a hell of a lot of calls, another 21000 houses to get done in my area using the company then i gonna get them to start distributing a little further afield.
they charge £25 + VAT per 1000 but they are defo paying for themselves.I really do like this idea of getting the cards posted as people should hopefully hold onto them for future work.
I know there is many engineers/companies here that have been in their area for many years and have probably got themselves a great reputation and lots of customers on their books but i cannot stress enough just how vital it is to STILL get some advertising out there even if its just a bit, I’m certain it will bring new custom to you with new people moving into your area on a daily basis ( believe me it really is happening like this ) as iv’e had many calls from customers that have not even heard or didn’t know of the others ( my competition) because my competition seem to think that everyone must know they are there as they never seem to advertise ( apart from 1 who does 3 days advertising per week in the local daily paper.
Advertising wether its daily/weekly/monthly or yearly is vital for new custom it really is.
Speculate to accumulate is a must.
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Got to agree with you there, LJ. When you’re new in an area, you’ve got to get the message out. But that means a bit of investment which doesn’t always pay for itself, although it probably will in the long term. Depends too on how content or otherwise your potential customers are with people already established locally.
I’ve got to the stage where I’m content to work just enough to pay the bills, no ambition to become one of the super rich like Martin or Iadom 😆 and certainly not interested in working all the hours under the sun when there’s other things to do in life.
Mike.Re: Worst Week Ever
Yes, same here, Mike. I tend not to answer the phone in the evenings as I find it hard to be cheerful and respectful to customers who ring at 10 oclock at night. No doubt I lose business but I work to live rather than the other way round.
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leavemetogetonwithit wrote: no ambition to become one of the super rich like Martin or Iadom 😆 .
Huh, I wish, nice and steady suits me at this late stage in my career, all the bills still get paid on time, after 30 years can’t say fairer than that.
If my labour charges were like Martin’s I could have retired years ago, having said that if I tried to charge what he does round here I wouldn’t get any work at all. 😆
Cannot possibly justify Lees £3000+ per annum advertising costs for my situation, thats nearly half the price of a decent cruise. 😀
My £150 a year sponsorship of a local squash competition in aid of cancer charity and a £25 per year for a monthly slot in the local church mag does me nicely. 8)
Poor Jim. 🙂
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