Flyers, Do They Work?

Green_Handyman · 01-29-2009, 03:33 AM

well? do they work or am i just littering?

George Z · 01-29-2009, 06:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Green_Handyman

well? do they work or am i just littering?

If by Green you mean environmentaly responsible,
flyers are junk mail and not a good idea.

I am not preaching, just pointing that out.
Most of the time they don't work.

rbsremodeling · 01-29-2009, 06:52 AM

only if you sell chinese food

ckppr76 · 01-29-2009, 07:26 AM

I get a lot of work from flyers. But there are some things you have to remember.

Make sure you don’t put them in or on the mailboxes (up to a $10,000 fine per box)
Make sure that who ever is doing the flyers is dressed nice, can answer simple questions if someone asks and stays off the grass.
Make sure that you have a flyer the is simple to understand and looks decent

I have found that it works out to 1 lead for every 100 flyers.

Green_Handyman · 01-29-2009, 06:04 PM

Yeah, i was wondering how effective fliers would be, 1 out of 100 is not a good average and not worth the use of all the paper and cost. Chinese food, is that a good market in this economy? maybe i will start selling chinese food. thanks guys.

ckppr76 · 01-29-2009, 07:17 PM

Well it costs me $50 to get 700 flyers printed and folded at Staples and about another 100 to have them handed out. That 1 in 100 is just the first round of calls. But I get calls up to one year after handing them out. Think about this when you get a Chinese menu most people put it up on the fridge or in a drawer and when you hungry for it you look at it. It happens a lot with us. We will get a call and they say "yea we got your flyer about 6 months to year ago and now we are looking to have some work done". There is the old saying that there is no bad advertising

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