Advertising budgets

[Ponty Massive]

Was just wondering how much people spend each month on advertising. I spend aroung £60 a month. The last two months has gone a little quiet for me so was thinking of spending a bit more??

Where do you feel your money is best spent?

Cheers, Ponty.

 

[DurhamSparky]

local newspapers and flyers!!!!

 

[Newsome3]

Were you advertising at present?

 

[Ponty Massive]

We have a A5 size magazine full of adverts only, which is delivered to every house is the local area. Has been really good, but started to slow down a bit lately. Maybe it's the time of year? Problem is, less work, less money to spend so becomes catch 22.

 

[Newsome3]

Don't decrease advertising
I use local paper and ita a local magazine called on your doorstep little corner of a page sounds a bit like yours

 

[dim_bulb]

asking customers where they got your number from is useful, which im sure you do already.

I think decently signed van, spent £400 and it looks really good

 

[DurhamSparky]

any body used them flyer companies on ebay???

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thinking of using them for a trial run..??

 

[Newsome3]

any body used them flyer companies on ebay???

5000 A5 Full Colour 130gm 2 Sided gloss leaflets/flyers | eBay UK[/

thinking of using them for a trial run..??

I use something very similar got mine printed local though

 

[cbw]

Thats strange.....I today looked at my booked work and its slowing up for me also, I have 2 weeks of work ahead for the 3 of us at present, I am more used to 6 weeks!

So today I,

Doubled the size of my local papers weekly advert and added colour, now £40.00 per week instead of £20.00
Placed an advert in a second local publication/magazine £40.00 every other month. (The one I currently advertise in is £40.00 per month)
Organised another leaflet drop on a local estate £100.00 to have 5000 printed, delivery varies.

The last thing anyone should do is cut their advertising budget, I fine tuned mine last year and find the above things work best.

Hope this helps.

CBW

 

[Newsome3]

Are you paying for leaflet dropping too??

 

[alarm man]

i tend to take notice of this type,due to the amount of traffic jams on our roads..

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[Ponty Massive]

Don't decrease advertising
I use local paper and ita a local magazine called on your doorstep little corner of a page sounds a bit like yours

Yep, sounds like the same sort of thing. The company I use also advertise in other area's so I'll probably have a look into venturing further afield. I have a half page colour ad' at the moment!

 

[rocker]

Everything around here is a total rip off! the local rag is £65 plus the dreaded PER WEEK for a SQUARE INCH ad!

I do my own leaflets, I used to have a little design business so am pretty crafty with photoshop, I get knock off inks from hornsea and have a decent printer which I leave on for a run of 500 when I go to work, which I cut into 4 so 2000 leaflets cost me next to nothing. I find paying £100 crazy, for 5000 of something that 99.5% of people will chuck in the bin! I do the leaflets myself whenever I'm not working, I guess one day it'll be a job for some kid to do but for now, I'm not too proud! I can do 1500 in a day in an easy area if I push myself, and to be fair I do get a good response from them.

I do wish there was some other rag round here I could advertise in, our most popular one also runs the 'free' one that goes to everyone's house.

 

[Newsome3]

Everything around here is a total rip off! the local rag is £65 plus the dreaded PER WEEK for a SQUARE INCH ad!

I do my own leaflets, I used to have a little design business so am pretty crafty with photoshop, I get knock off inks from hornsea and have a decent printer which I leave on for a run of 500 when I go to work, which I cut into 4 so 2000 leaflets cost me next to nothing. I find paying £100 crazy, for 5000 of something that 99.5% of people will chuck in the bin! I do the leaflets myself whenever I'm not working, I guess one day it'll be a job for some kid to do but for now, I'm not too proud! I can do 1500 in a day in an easy area if I push myself, and to be fair I do get a good response from


I do wish there was some other rag round here I could advertise in, our most popular one also runs the 'free' one that goes to everyone's house.

You post 1500 yourself??

 

[BLBelfast]

I am in the mentioned catch 22. Have very littlework so simply cant afford advertising anymore.