I have just started up in the Home Maintenance game and would appreciate some advice on Marketing myself eg Newspaper Ads etc .What works best .
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18 years ago
I have just started up in the Home Maintenance game and would appreciate some advice on Marketing myself eg Newspaper Ads etc .What works best .
Don't think I've ever got a tradesman from an ad or leaflet who was any good. Personal recommendation is the way I like - or by seeing good work.
I have found that advetising in my local parish newsletter to be the most beneficial, I get 50% of my enquiries from that,the remainder from ads in shop windows and word of mouth
Through local churces, particularly if you have connections. Try the local volunteer bureau - I was given paid work through ours - but make it clear that you need to be paid, publish rates if possible. Visit local sheltered housing complexes and talk to the manager (not necessarily the McCarthy and Stone type but collections of flats with wardens (look for Hanover Housing Association). You may get small jobs from the management or jobs for individual residents, but for the management you will need to prove Indemnity insurance (about £100 for £2 million cover as a minimum (a good ideaanyway in case you spill a [pot ofpaint on an expensive carpet!). These will all get you started, but word of mouth takes time. If you are working for older people, they do not necessarily want a complete job, but just enough (?bodge@0 to take them through a few yoare in case they have to move. Price is all important in this market - the lower the better.
Best of luck
Malcolm
And here's me thinking that you were looking for divine guidance with that typo in the Subject line...
Mungo :-)
Dsylexia is a disability, but then I suppose you would tkae the piss out of somebody in a wheelchair ..........
Rick
I would never do that, and I resent your presumption that I would. It just amused me that the minor typographical mistake made in the Subject line gave a different slant on the original post.
Mungo
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