my business if fine at the mo mate thanks
Post of the week award (I think it's a mug) :RpS_thumbsup:Hi Jamie,
Like the lads have already said here the fundamentals are crucial, do a good job every time, be professional clean tidy punctual etc hopefuly you are doing that already and have faith it will pay off in time. Good work follows good work.
A couple of pointers I hope will help.
.Networking: view everyone and anyone as a potential business lead, get used to talking to strangers and keep those business cards flowing.
Our business has changed in the past few years, there is more competition (good and bad) and people have more access to advertising; its not just yellow pages anymore, social media is swamped with people pushing their firms. You still have to be a part of this. Get @Danny to build you a website and work at it. Once you have a site there are dozens of things you can do online to get noticed. Ive talked about this on another thread but will quickly recap for you. Danny built me a site and advised that I get on twitter and other social media sources and get it noticed, I have a touch of OCD so I took it a bit far, I went on Twitter and spent hours everynight looking for people in my area and followed them on twitter or liked business pages through facebook via mine. Ive been doing this for a couple of weeks and had an awesome response, believe me do it right and its well worth doing.
I understand its a lot of money to fork out (although Danny gives a great deal at £350) so here is the old school route that got me started.
When I started out for myself I put a card in a corner shop window and a week later I got a little job out of it, after that I drove around looking for newsagents, shops anywhere that displayed cards. That was 13 years ago and even though Im established I still keep those shop window cards going. I got a call from one to plaster a porch for an elderly lady, she told her neighbour who was a qs for a large building firm that ended up spending a lot of money with us.
Get on a site like vista-print and make an order soon. Flyers, postcards and a mini-portfolio will not cost you much for a small order. If your not working get out and stick flyers through letterboxes. Get a shoe box and keep all of this under driver seat of your van, when your packing up stick a flyer through half a dozen houses nearby.
Just popped out to van and got my shoe box out
Sorry @Marshy My Tpf mug got in the shot
I am stacked out with work right now but I still put a flyer through the adjacent houses to where I worked today, old habits. Best of luck bud, hope this helps
Hi Jamie,
Like the lads have already said here the fundamentals are crucial, do a good job every time, be professional clean tidy punctual etc hopefuly you are doing that already and have faith it will pay off in time. Good work follows good work.
A couple of pointers I hope will help.
.Networking: view everyone and anyone as a potential business lead, get used to talking to strangers and keep those business cards flowing.
Our business has changed in the past few years, there is more competition (good and bad) and people have more access to advertising; its not just yellow pages anymore, social media is swamped with people pushing their firms. You still have to be a part of this. Get @Danny to build you a website and work at it. Once you have a site there are dozens of things you can do online to get noticed. Ive talked about this on another thread but will quickly recap for you. Danny built me a site and advised that I get on twitter and other social media sources and get it noticed, I have a touch of OCD so I took it a bit far, I went on Twitter and spent hours everynight looking for people in my area and followed them on twitter or liked business pages through facebook via mine. Ive been doing this for a couple of weeks and had an awesome response, believe me do it right and its well worth doing.
I understand its a lot of money to fork out (although Danny gives a great deal at £350) so here is the old school route that got me started.
When I started out for myself I put a card in a corner shop window and a week later I got a little job out of it, after that I drove around looking for newsagents, shops anywhere that displayed cards. That was 13 years ago and even though Im established I still keep those shop window cards going. I got a call from one to plaster a porch for an elderly lady, she told her neighbour who was a qs for a large building firm that ended up spending a lot of money with us.
Get on a site like vista-print and make an order soon. Flyers, postcards and a mini-portfolio will not cost you much for a small order. If your not working get out and stick flyers through letterboxes. Get a shoe box and keep all of this under driver seat of your van, when your packing up stick a flyer through half a dozen houses nearby.
Just popped out to van and got my shoe box out
Sorry @Marshy My Tpf mug got in the shot
I am stacked out with work right now but I still put a flyer through the adjacent houses to where I worked today, old habits. Best of luck bud, hope this helps
100% I have maintained this practice even when I have had long runs of work. I ordered a website off Danny knowing I was booked up for most of the summer
nice one oli, and all the other lads who gave good advice,, its nice to see experienced spreads willing to help the newer spreads and to spend the time writing posts like @Olican,, i have only just seen the post jamie so theres not much i can add other than to wish you all the best for the future,, good luck jamie, hope all goes well and once again nice one oliHi Jamie,
Like the lads have already said here the fundamentals are crucial, do a good job every time, be professional clean tidy punctual etc hopefuly you are doing that already and have faith it will pay off in time. Good work follows good work.
A couple of pointers I hope will help.
.Networking: view everyone and anyone as a potential business lead, get used to talking to strangers and keep those business cards flowing.
Our business has changed in the past few years, there is more competition (good and bad) and people have more access to advertising; its not just yellow pages anymore, social media is swamped with people pushing their firms. You still have to be a part of this. Get @Danny to build you a website and work at it. Once you have a site there are dozens of things you can do online to get noticed. Ive talked about this on another thread but will quickly recap for you. Danny built me a site and advised that I get on twitter and other social media sources and get it noticed, I have a touch of OCD so I took it a bit far, I went on Twitter and spent hours everynight looking for people in my area and followed them on twitter or liked business pages through facebook via mine. Ive been doing this for a couple of weeks and had an awesome response, believe me do it right and its well worth doing.
I understand its a lot of money to fork out (although Danny gives a great deal at £350) so here is the old school route that got me started.
When I started out for myself I put a card in a corner shop window and a week later I got a little job out of it, after that I drove around looking for newsagents, shops anywhere that displayed cards. That was 13 years ago and even though Im established I still keep those shop window cards going. I got a call from one to plaster a porch for an elderly lady, she told her neighbour who was a qs for a large building firm that ended up spending a lot of money with us.
Get on a site like vista-print and make an order soon. Flyers, postcards and a mini-portfolio will not cost you much for a small order. If your not working get out and stick flyers through letterboxes. Get a shoe box and keep all of this under driver seat of your van, when your packing up stick a flyer through half a dozen houses nearby.
Just popped out to van and got my shoe box out
Sorry @Marshy My Tpf mug got in the shot
I am stacked out with work right now but I still put a flyer through the adjacent houses to where I worked today, old habits. Best of luck bud, hope this helps
maybe you could take yours with you to the BG day out and maybe if marshy behaves himself you could let him hold it ( i would make sure you are both in a locked room or i could see him trying to do a runner with it ) :RpS_drool:
Are you still talking about mugs? :RpS_blushing:
:RpS_blushing:: :RpS_lol:
