some lady called me today and asked me if i wanted to get into a booklet(flyer or something like that) from Remax for new home buyers.

does this work?its about 550.00 bucks for the year.couldnt i just call a realestate office and ask them to tell people about me.doubt they would do it though.any advice???

JCOOPER wrote: some lady called me today and asked me if i wanted to get into a booklet(flyer or something like that) from Remax for new home buyers. does this work?its about 550.00 bucks for the year.couldnt i just call a realestate office and ask them to tell people about me.doubt they would do it though.any advice???

I tried this. It didn't work for me.

thanks.

are you in the phone book?did it work?

At $5.95 a room you would have to clean just over 10,000 , but you'll get ALL the price shoppers. At15 a room, 4000 rooms. At .25 a square, that's 240,000 sf to pay for your ad. EVEN if you upsold all of the .25's to .50 that's still a lot of cleaning just for the YP mafia.Than factor in your  taxes, vehicle for gas,insurane, maitanence and repairs, chems, compensation, labour , liability insurance, and on and on.on that.

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My ad costs 275.00/month. It's 2.5 high x 1 column.

look at how many janitors and cc have full page in the GTA man it is not that expensive any more. less than $900/month you have to bargain with your YP sales rep.

my name is Tucker not Sucker

I had an ad running in 1985, 2 1/4 x 4 /14 colour, Montreal phone book only $ 330.00 French $330.00 English =$660.00/Month  Money generated by Yellow Pages =enough to pay them only.......I worked for free basically to support Yellow Pages.

                              Nightrider

cmaster he would of made a killing but you can't hold down a wild Mustang.

Yellow page ads are a waste of money. As long as your name is in there.....that's all you need....I spent about 4000-5000 per year in yellow page ads over the last number of years........I also track where our sales come from and It's not from yellow pages. We had one call from our 350 per month ad last year. When I was flipping thru old customer lists I found this customer on the old list.....she called on a saturday for a water damage job........I phoned her and asked her about the call and she responded......I only looked in the yellow pages to find the number faster and if you had not been in there i would have went to the white pages. I was sick!!!!

I thought my investment had paid off since it was a very substantial job....but I found out different,

If you are spending any of your hard earned dollars on advertising...make sure you do a little research to see what is actually working....Don't make the same mistake I did and assume it's working....you might only be fooling yourself.

I only pay $85 a month on my wee lil YP ad.

even it barely pays for itself

yet I have more than enough work to keep one van busy

referrals are much cheaper

as for the realtor book,I tried it last year and it paid for itself,but the coupons for 10% off that I give to Century 21 every month for all new buyers are much cheaper and generate more phone calls

I never had much luck with realtors. Too cheap

MR. STEAMER wrote: I don't think you've found the right ones.... I work with a few and they are great

I have a few good ones too, but most are looking for a deal. A way cheap deal.

nice.thanks magic rick

so screw them.how do you advertise?

That big yellow book.... no one uses it anymore just to hold up the couch...lol

people only turn to the yellow pages as a last resort when they can't find anyone or get a referral from someone

magic rick you rock.

got the phones set up.would like to try direct mail.to much right now.

good idea, put flyers where i just was.doing flyer at home right now.

thank again rick.

I have tried the real estate referal service too.  It didn't work at all.  I say stay away from that one.  I do like the realtors though but I agree that you have to be able to say no or you can get taken advantaqe of.

As for yellow pages, I do very well with it in Calgary.  I have 3 ads in 1 in Maid Service 1 in house cleaning and 1 in Carpet Cleaning.  My bill right now is $3000 / month.  60% of carpet calls come from YP and 80% of maid service calls come from YP.  I do feel that you have to be fairly large before it pays off.

As for other advertising door hangers are great but you need to hit the same areas a few times before they really start to pay.  There are local flyer distribution companies that will hang them for around
$0.08 per house.  I spend about $1000 every quarter on this and it works well.  But, what is really important is that you hang these yourself on the neighbours of the houses you clean.  A good rule of thumb is one house on either side and the three across the street.  This seems to bring in business because they have seen your truck in the neighborhood.