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Seems all my “posts” are “just curious”. Anyway – I’m just curious what you guys do in the marketing of your business. Seems 95% of my work is word of mouth, but it also seems there are times I could be busier – so then – I start thinking marketing – but am never confident about any of the forms of marketing I come up with, – newspapers, radio, flyers, – maybe if I ran in bigger circles – you know – to meet more people – become better known………What do you guys do?……Anything?
Buz
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I would have to say that probably 90% of my work comes from referals by customers that I've done previous work for. I also occasionally have times I would like to be busier. I've tried the local newspaper, but it seemed that I got alot of calls from people that were just price shopping, and I spent more time running around, and designing and drawing that what it was worth. I've tried some local computer advertising just this last month and at least it has curtailed alot of the lost time I encountered with newspaper ads. Presently, I stay busy on the average of about 10 months out of the year. I have only been in business for myself going on 4 yrs, and each year seems to get better. All I can say is hang in there by doing good quality work, and treat your customers fairly and you can't get any better advertising than that. Mad Dog M.
*Buz:If you were truly curious you would use the Breaktime i search function and find that this has been discussed here before. Here is one thread I found, I'll let you look up the others. Or, to quote a fellow Breaktime: "Try the search function on the main page of Fine Homebusting ya lazy slut!!" (thanks PM)"Still smiling",Matt