What's in your diary

[SolarCity]

20,000 flyers? How did you distribute them?

 

[sedgy34]

20,000 flyers? How did you distribute them?

We had them put in papers that get distributed the cost was the same as paying a team to deliver by hand

 

[SolarCity]

You'll have to let us know how you get on with them. We've had very little luck from our leaflet drops.

 

[Gavin A]

we did about a thousand hand delivered in a quiet period in June, and got nowt back from it that I know about.

 

[Eco Deal]

Leaflets are very low hit rate , plus they have alreday had three or four about solar panels already.

Ad words used to work for me but nothing happing right now with that.

 

[sedgy34]

so far we have had 1 call from it (thats ridiculous)



ad words are good but expensive

 

[sambotc]

How much are you paying for adwords in your areas? I used them in July and each click was costing me about £7! Got a load of marketing nonsense from them and no solid enquiries...

I have found in the past that you get a better response just bumping into people or stopping to chat whilst out delivering leaflets than them actually going though people letter boxes.

 

[Somecamel]

How much are you paying for adwords in your areas? I used them in July and each click was costing me about £7! Got a load of marketing nonsense from them and no solid enquiries...

I have found in the past that you get a better response just bumping into people or stopping to chat whilst out delivering leaflets than them actually going though people letter boxes.

The amount I spend on Adwords is obscene, to be fair i have got lax with it recently- just checked- cost me £500 so far this month and **** from it, trouble is, all it takes is that one job and you have made your money ish.

 

[cbw]

Me too, obscene amounts on adwords, very similar to camels...

That said I have had a few conversions from it so seems to work for me????

 

[Gavin A]

I've just cancelled all our adwords.

we're now top of the natural listings for most of the search terms for Leeds, and first page for most places around us, so I don't see the point. Also we'd fallen for allowing another company to run them for us, which basically meant we had no control over them at all, which pretty much defeats the object of them.

 

[SRE]

I've never found that leaflets, television, radio or adwords worked for us. I can't afford adword prices and leaflets have always been a complete waste of time unless it's a sunny Sunday and people are in the garden willing to have a chat.

Face to face events always work better for us but we were at a country show yesterday with 6 other installers, 2 cheaper than us and had maybe 25 - 30 really solid conversations about solar but no booked surveys, which is a first for us. We're cutting prices for the next show and keeping our fingers crossed for surveys from the show yesterday.

There's a lot of interest but no urgency - I suspect this will be the case until mid Feb.

 

[sedgy34]

Don't think many will be in business to wait till then

 

[TedM]

There will be no urgency until mid-January. Everyone knows (or should) that the rate is set at 16p until the end of October and then 15.4p until the end of January. People will wait with the expectation that prices will fall lower while knowing that the rates are going to more or less stay the same.

The latest figures from DECC show 0-10 kW systems installed in the May-July quarter to be 147.5 MW and just 45 MW for 10-50 kW systems.

 

[Gavin A]

does that mean no cut for the 10-50 kW range? assuming those figures aren't revised upwards?

 

[TedM]

The lowest threshold for 10-50 kW systems in 50 MW so it is still just under that limit, meaning a 0% degression.