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[vince]

Hi Everone

Just started at beggining of the year, not going as well as expected, learning all the time, posted a couple of questions today, hope for some replys.

Regards Vince.

 

[tiling1]

Hi vince welcome to the forum.

 

[postie]

Hi Vince
Whats not going very well Vince?

 

[vince]

Not much work at all

Vince

 

[Varley]

Hi Vince, welcome to the forums :icon7:

 

[DHTiling]

Hi Everone

Just started at beggining of the year, not going as well as expected, learning all the time, posted a couple of questions today, hope for some replys.

Regards Vince.

WELCOME VINCE TO FORUMS.

 

[wivers]

Hello vince mate. Dont get down hearted me old mate. You wait u will have a week or so soon when about 6 jobs come in all at once and you'll be having to turn them down. Just ask TJ about this. He had nout then was rushing around like a madman chasing the $$$$.

Where are u based maybe i can push some your way if yer near?

 

[vince]

I live near Chipping Norton in Oxfordshire, thanks for the thought.

 

[Dan]

Hiya vince, welcome to the forums.

 

[wivers]

Ahh sorry mate thats a bit too far for me

 

[GazTech]

Hey Vince chin up old chap,the true English way fart and carry on,like Wivs said jobs are really like the proverbial bus.Patience is the tilers forte,it is the best attribute youv'e got if you want to suceed ( hope you feel a bit better now) GAZZER

ps welcome to the forum m8

 

[tjsmiler]

Hi mate Wivers is right.... I had been totally busy since last october then suddenly i hit a quiet patch where the phone didn't even ring for about 10 days or so, then Wivers phones me up to pass a job my way and on that same day when i went to do that quote i had 5 phone calls, went and done the quotes straight away and suddenly my diary was packed until mid June... i now have someone work with me most of the time because i can't do it all on my own..

I had one job 2 weeks ago that i passed on to my mate, all i did was quote it and work a saturday morning on it grouting up what my mate had done and got paid £400 for it, my mate got £700. was all natural stone, looked superb too.

Keep your chin up mate, keep busy and take this quiet time to learn and open new doors, it will come mate

TJ

 

[Leatherface]

Hi mate
welcome and good luck

how do you market your business and youself ??

I have been fully self employed for 2 years and have only had a few quite weeks.
Keep trying - call in to every kitchen and bathroom shop in a 10 mile radius.
Phone plumbers out of the phone book and yellow pages.
Put your business cards under peoples windscreen wipers outside tile shops and B & Q. Print up some flyers and post through letterboxes on housing estates.
Do a good job for every customer and leave them a few of your cards.
Chat to every single tradesman you meet - plumbers, electricians, plasterers, joiners - ask for one of their cards - they may ask for one of yours. Pass the work around.
Speak to ane of the lads at your local tile shop - get on speaking terms, slip him £20 and tell him there will be more back handers if he hands your cards out and gets you some work.

Advertising in the paper should be a last resort - costly with little return. Same for Yellow pages. There is plenty of work out there - you've got to make the effort to find it - it won't always find you. All you need is a handfull of good contacts, they will be your bread and butter.

 

[DHTiling]

well said leather face couldn't agree more hard sell brings it rewards.

 

[DevonR]

Welcome and enjoy the forums.
Hope things pick up soon.