Advertising that works for you

[chrisgilltreesurgery]

Due to an awfuly quiet April/May i am exploring new advertising avenues, has any body advertised on local radio?

 

Is there an easy way to locate a list of recently sold property?

 

What forms of advertising do you do and what works well?

[Mortimer Firewood]

Word of mouth. Never fails.

[Tom Wilding]

Look into demographics for your area, then advertise accordingly, no point wasting all that money print flyers to have nobody reply

[Pedroski]

We've gone without advertising for about 15 years. Word of mouth is good, BUT a lot of our older customers are dying off, and others are moving away, at the same time more and more firms are starting up or coming in from further afield and working in our area. There is only so much that word of mouth can do. So, recently we put ads in a local mag, which has already paid off. My daughter delivered leaflets in another area, and we got a call the following day with a big clearance job and more work to follow, so that's paid off. And we've just gone to Check-a-trade. This is something we swore we'd never do.... BUT that looks like it's just about to pay for itself in ONE week with a couple of jobs in already!

[Pedroski]

Forgot to say - for recently sold properties, go to Rightmove.co.uk and you can search for sold properties by checking the "Sold STC" box. Quite handy it is.

[pward]

I had a advert on the radio( didn't pay for it out my own pocket) got one job that came to the sum of £80 it's a very expensive for a add and well depends othe station and the people who lissns to it, to be honest I wouldn't bother going down that route

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

Word of mouth. Never fails.

 

Word of mouth?? As in walk around and tell everyone he is a tree surgeon...surely must be better ways that that.

[Mark Cattell]

Twitter... apparantley... seach for people tweeting about tree surgery and problem trees ect. also facebook, google plus and linked-in... web page and an up to date blog on recent events... also recent storms have created a bit of fear so mail out to all the local schools hotels housing assosiactions ect always a good start,

Get a working relationship with a local tree consultant/y and network...

Offer your services as a sub contractor to bigger companies (feather and suffering season upon us) big up what your good at and any specialist kit or skills your team may have...

 

Good luck

 

Hope this helps

[Czlowiek Drzewo]

if you have a sign written truck then go park it in a nice area on busy street.

 

Guarantee you get calls from it...just move it around when you are not busy.

 

I park my van outside my flat and get several calls a week from it because its a busy road.

 

Far better than radion station.

[Jesse]

Due to an awfuly quiet April/May i am exploring new advertising avenues, has any body advertised on local radio?

 

Is there an easy way to locate a list of recently sold property?

 

What forms of advertising do you do and what works well?

 

Being outspoken and telling it how it is. word of mouth for me and cyberspace