Yellow Pages

Price shoppers

Yellow book locks you in for a year.  You get shoppers and can not change your ad.  They try to sell you saying that "we have to reup you in 8 months and if your not happy they wont be able to reup you, blah blah blah yada yada yada.  They take your cash and run and tell you about all these Fing local and big books.  WASTE OF MONEY.

when you say target do you mean a town or partial.  Any info on the best way to do direct mailing    or a company that does it with fair rates

Yellow page ads are for the lazy. All you have to do come with somthing once year. Unfortunatley you have to pay for it every month and your stuck with that ad all year. As stated above door hangers buy a mailing list most things that get good results require a little work and persistence.

Edited by fibro - 02/June/2006 at 7:46pm

AJust like in a hotel....when you put the " DO NOT DISTURB " sign on the otter doorknob........

 

                                                        Nightrider

Babs, with all respect to you and your family, education in any field come with a price tag.......learn by trial & error, pay for a marketing course, buy books on marketing or just make a whole lot of mistakes and when you learn that you learned nothing.........take the right steps to an education in the field of your choice.......in your case marketing of a service.

 

Don't think that everybody is in bed together, that's just a cop-out, learn how to get into the circle instead..........you have to offer the customer something more that the rest either on a personal level or business level.

 

Not every body is willing to hand down tried sucessful secrets to another FREE of charge just for the asking, because what you're asking is " Tell me what it cost you so much money & time to learn for FREE, so that I can be sucessful " That's a wrong approach. You have to learn to swim with the sharks or get out of the water.

 

                                               Nightrider

bABS, IF YOU'RE A ONE WOMAN SHOW......YOU ARE GOING TO DROWN........YOU CANNOT DO EVERYTHING YOURSELF.............JUST LIKE EVERY ARMY OR ORGANIZED CRIME FAMILY THERE ARE LEADERS OF LEADERS AND HEADS OF SOLDIERS.....TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE RANKING SYSTEM......TAKE YOUR STRONG POINTS AND CONCENTRATE ON THAT AND ONLY THAT.........LET THE CARPET CLEANERS CLEAN THE CARPETS, LET THE SALES PEOPLE SELL, AND LET THE MANAGEMENT MANAGE......YOUR MONEY ON ADVERTISING WAS PROBABLY POORLY SPENT WITH A POOR RESPONSE.  SEND ME A PRIVATE MESSAGE AND INCLUDE YOUR PHONE NUMBER, i'LL GIVE YOU A FAST CRASH COURSE IN AN HOUR. THEN SEND YOU INFO MY MAIL.