No work.....!

[BrhTiling]

Ok, so I have been advertising in the local paper, postcard sized card adverts in local shop windows, business cards in all the local tile shops / kitchen & bathroom shops.... All friends and family been given cards as well... Website up and running, Yell.com listing, yellow pages listing coming soon....

Not one single phone call....

Actually, tell a lie, several phone calls all cold callers wanting to sell me more advertising at only £*** per month!

hmmm.... now what?

 

[wivers]

Keep badgering everyone more and more. Tile shops, bathroom showrooms, kitchen show rooms, phone other tilers in yer erea and ask introduce yourself, also phone other traders e.g plumbers, builders, gigalo's ..... ohh no not the last one

 

[DHTiling]

gigalo's wivs mate have you PM your mobile number to him....lol

 

[enduro]

Try your local council, and see if they are doing any refurb work, and find out who is doing it. they are always looking for tilers, or just drive around council estates and see if any work is going on.worth a try

 

[DHTiling]

Ok, so I have been advertising in the local paper, postcard sized card adverts in local shop windows, business cards in all the local tile shops / kitchen & bathroom shops.... All friends and family been given cards as well... Website up and running, Yell.com listing, yellow pages listing coming soon....

Not one single phone call....

Actually, tell a lie, several phone calls all cold callers wanting to sell me more advertising at only £*** per month!

hmmm.... now what?

patience there mate, june/july usaully quiete months for domestics as people on or goin on holiday.. things will pick up....

 

[wivers]

.... can i have my leapod skin thong back please ?

 

[DHTiling]

gazzas got it. keeps it in his back pocket and sniffss now and again for comfort......

 

[BrhTiling]

Well, I really do hope that this is a quiet time of year or something....

Either that or I'm somehow in an area flooded with tilers or something... atlhough the local yellow pages / papers don't seem to suggest there are lots of newbies advertising...

 

[uug197h]

I've only done 8 days work on the last 5 weeks, i've been to loads of tile shops and plumbing supplyers and the amount of people that have said its quiet. hope there right

 

[grumpygrouter]

Ok, so I have been advertising in the local paper, postcard sized card adverts in local shop windows, business cards in all the local tile shops / kitchen & bathroom shops.... All friends and family been given cards as well... Website up and running, Yell.com listing, yellow pages listing coming soon....

Not one single phone call....

Actually, tell a lie, several phone calls all cold callers wanting to sell me more advertising at only £*** per month!

hmmm.... now what?

Did lots of leg work doing business card drops through letterboxes in my area and in 1 major car park in the town i put cards on the drivers doors, got some work to start me off from both sources! Mind numbingly boring but it has paid for itself.

 

[brian c]

Did lots of leg work doing business card drops through letterboxes in my area and in 1 major car park in the town i put cards on the drivers doors, got some work to start me off from both sources! Mind numbingly boring but it has paid for itself.

my hat goes off to you GG,getting off your butt and getting out there ,well done bud.:wink_smile: just to add it is quite everywhere at the moment tile shops are also feeling the pinch so keep pounding the streets and you WILL get your rewards GG.
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QUIET

 

[grumpygrouter]

Thanks for the encouragement Brian, I expected it to be slow to start so wasn't disheartend. Having done the initial work, I seem to be getting further interest from the same people to which is encouraging.

Grumpy

 

[Dan]

You only need one good tile shop counter guy to like you and he'll get you your work for you. Go back to the shops on a regular basis in your van on a busy day and be sure to meet the customers too.

Your website wants to rank for 'tiler in XXXXX' to get business from it and personally I found no great quantity of customers calling me when I've advertised in Yellow pages or on Yell.com

A letter to a couple of plumbers or related traders saying you'll pass them plumbing work if you get tiling work in return sometime can also help get your name about.

Try thinking outside the box a bit. If you're sitting in your home next to the phone waiting you're not doing everything you can do maybe?

I bet you there are Gypsy traders working today somewhere and I bet they don't have a chance of a single lead. I'm not saying knock on doors and cold call old ladies or anything but generally don't sit by the phone waiting for calls.

Adding a few more strings to your bow can help. If you can advertise yourself as a bathroom fitter or kitchen fitter you'd probably find a few more calls would come in. I think sometimes with a tiler being a finishng tradesmen you generally miss out on some of the work you COULD do but don't get offered due to you being advertised as just a tiler.

Yet knocking up stud-walls and doing other types of flooring is something only a step away from a good tiler.

 

[BrhTiling]

Well, I will keep trying then.... Just found out today that someone I know who works for an insurance company doing tiling has spent the last month doing everything BUT tiling........ Guess not many people want new tiles at the moment! lol

Getting my name about anyway... landed a painting job of all things... can't turn down work though!

 

[guy1976]

i know a tiler who also does wall paper removal for £30 a room recons it only takes a hour for a regular room plus low overheads £20 for wall paper steamer £5 for a couple of scrapers , i know its not great but its better than sitting in the house doing nowt