Which phone book?

[lutonlagerlout]

There are so many builders in luton that i CBA to do the adwords
if you type our companies 3 letter acronym and builders in google you find us
and i know of 3 clients that have seen us working then done just that
would rather work on recommendation as too many time wasters used to come through yellow pages etc
LLL

[Dave_L]

I find Yellow Pages gives me a good % of enquiries.

At home we do not posses a Yellow Pages or Phone book, do it all online now.

[Kuts]

There are so many builders in luton that i CBA to do the adwords
if you type our companies 3 letter acronym and builders in google you find us
and i know of 3 clients that have seen us working then done just that
would rather work on recommendation as too many time wasters used to come through yellow pages etc
LLL

To be honest 99% of our work is through recommendation.
I get 2/3 leads a week from advertising an I can only recall getting 2 jobs out of it since Christmas.
I've stopped pricing the block paving as some idiot round here is doing it for £40sqm.


Dave

Do you pay for yell? If so does it pay?

[Dave_L]

Yell/Yellow Pages etc costs me about £1800/yr

I'd say the majority of our work is through recommendation and/or local knowledge of us - but we do get a fair few leads from Yell advertising - and I'm fairly successful in converting these quotes to jobs.

We are on the local Highways list of Approved Contractors for Streetworks etc - we get a few leads from there for the dropped kerb works, which in turn leads to the driveway work too.

We're also lucky enough to run some pretty eye-catching wagons which do get noticed around locally, many people say "Oh, I saw your lorries going though town the other day" - big name, phone number and web address on them is all you need.

[Kuts]

That the wagon on you're website? Looks good. That's what you need a good eye catcher.

What's it like on juice/repairs?

[Dave_L]

Yeah, the bonneted Scania - got a couple of other nice ones now....must take some pics. They're good advertising, we try and keep them as clean as possible. People do notice.

[lutonlagerlout]

There are so many builders in luton that i CBA to do the adwords
if you type our companies 3 letter acronym and builders in google you find us
and i know of 3 clients that have seen us working then done just that
would rather work on recommendation as too many time wasters used to come through yellow pages etc
LLL

To be honest 99% of our work is through recommendation.
I get 2/3 leads a week from advertising an I can only recall getting 2 jobs out of it since Christmas.
I've stopped pricing the block paving as some idiot round here is doing it for £40sqm.


Dave

Do you pay for yell? If so does it pay?

where is round here kuts?
£40 per metre seems like commercial suicide?
LLL

[local patios and driveway]

Lol at £40 a meter i couldnt even lay it on grass for that price, mental

[Carberry]

Must be standing beside the pallets of monoblocks and throwing them at the grass to do it for that price. Probably costs about £30 per m2 in materials, skip, digger hire etc alone.

[Kuts]

Leeds. That's for the driveline 50's

Tegulas seem to be from £60

I can think of 2 gangs who beat me every time. Both have foreign workers + the finished drive is always about 50mil high at street level:D

[lutonlagerlout]

so everyone pays around a tenner a metre for blocks, so they have £30 a metre to dig out,remove spoil,stone up ,wack,edgings,sand ,lay and cut?
impossible to do that legit
LLL

[Kuts]

One of em did a job opposite us.
Dug out about 5" fired a bit of stone in/sanded then blocked. Done in 3days.
Il get a pic next time I go past.