Advertising in Thomson local

[Ultimate Tiling]

Hi UT,

£940 seems a lot to be spending at the start of your carreer. Have you persued all free options first ie business cards, flyers and sign written van, I know there is an initial outlay for this but I would make sure I had done all this first before parting with that kind of money in the early days.

£78 pm seeems a lot mate considering it would need to bring you 1-2 enquieres pm to be worth while.

Do you get many enquieres from your add mate?

It is expensive but that includes a pro website which they are going to build and all the google credits ect.
I am also doing the free stuff as i get time.
That should cover most of my online advertising because of google and thompson.co.uk

I'll keep records of where my enquirys come from and review it next year.

The salesman also said if it doesn't work I get gthe same amount of moneys worth to spend next year with thompson as well.

 

[robbo]

As Grumpy pointed out speaking to other trades sparkies, plumbers and general builders etc) and getting your name about like that can be really valuable, i get a lot of work through other trades recommending me and i do likewise for them..

 

[CLAYS TILES]

well for what i wanted originally the salesman quoted £1500-£1600. But after a bit of choping and changeing he said £750.

ru sure he was from thompson local??
the new book is out this month so be careful!
i've paid £200 for my advert,i'm sure the dearest was £495!
ru sure you've not been conned or was it yellow pages?? that can cost upto £1500 for the year:huh2:

 

[ad tiling]

if you have a free ad with yell.com you should get a free line in the book
when the next copy is due for print they will phone and phone and phone again to make your ad bigger for a price, then wait, haggle (150 in the bag)

 

[cjones]

My name is already out there with other trades and i get a constant flow of work through word of mouth,

however i would like to be doing whole bathroom refits and the only way of doing this is to get directly in contact with customers and to do this I think advertising is essential.

Thanks for your comments

 

[White Room]

Was in the thompson many years had a advert quite a big box, Never had a single call in a year did,nt bother after that

 

[ryanmc0305]

mate why dont you just make your own website ! and theres loads of sites that allows free advertising ! i made a website in like five minutes ! have a look RMC Tiling LTD | No job to big or small you can then submit your site name to google and haypresto your on google search page ( takes 14 days tho ) . thats all they do when they charge you for it ! i made mine on Freewebs.com - Free website, free hosting, free webpage - Make a web site with photo albums, blogs, videos, forums and more! !

Damn maybe i should of charged you for that info lol !!!!!!

 

[Dan]

JESUS! What an outlay for a business for just an advert!

The Sun can do you a better deal and hits more locals I'm sure!

I recommend you always use the free listings - as customers will look at those too whilst they're on the page - but I'd recommend investing that cash in advertising more uniquely personally.

 

[Dan]

you can then submit your site name to google and haypresto your on google search page ( takes 14 days tho )

Doesn't work quite like that. And it doesn't take 14 days. It can be quite quickly - just a few days - or ages - months.

You're best getting a couple of links from already indexed websites. And you don't need to submit to google or any search engine to list in google or any search engine. You just need links to your website.

Are you actually ranking for "Tiler in yourlocalarea" with that website then?

 

[ryanmc0305]

Thanks for my first thanks dan the man !!!!