yellow pages

[swanman]

Just had the new yellow pages

And was shocked to see the tiling section had about 6 tilers ads and they were very small

Does any one advertise in the yellow pages

 

[Gazzer]

I had an advert a long time ago but never knowingly got work from it.

 

[swanman]

I think its dying out a little my yellow pages book is really thin

 

[Stewart]

Waste of money. 2 half page ads in 2 different books. Total call count for two years was 14 with one actual job converted. That was 5 or 6 years ago. Just did a job for a senior manager with them and he said to avoid their books and go with their seo online option.


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[Gazzer]

I take great interest in how clients get my name and number. I always ask and thats how I decide how to spend the following years advertising.
Mostly its word of mouth or repetitive work.
Website is closely next
Websearch is close too

 

[Gazzer]

Oh and details in your Tag line here help.

 

[Andy Allen]

i have a small add with them and to be fair i get quite a bit of work from it, my add cost £190 a year and i got arround 2 grands worth of work from it last year, but wouldn't put a large add in there,it cost to much, and it wouldn't use it as my only form of advertising...

 

[DHTiling]

IMO, it is waste of money.....

The internet is king now when it comes to advertising and peeps looking for trades etc...

 

[peteablard]

I had my number on yell.com last year and got 1 call from it. It's free to list on there so not too bothered. Wouldn't pay to go in the directory though, as Dave says most people turn to the internet now. I worked with a bloke who paid £3k :yikes:for a full page spread and never got a single call all year from it

 

[phil w]

will watch this thread with interest, just signed up for a year on yell.com starts 15th feb £250 that I could really do without spending at the moment, so depending on members views as to wether its a or still got time to cancel ?????

 

[nybor62]

i use to advertise with , waste of money,they kept ringing me at least once a week, to advertise with them saying there as been so many thousands searching for tilers ,this week if you were with us think of all the work you might have got , so i bit the bullet , every body in the country must have gone on hols for 6 months, not one call

 

[kilty55]

the current yellow pages is a quarter the size it used to be and i expect it to get smaller again

waste of money imo also

 

[advancetiling]

I had an advert a long time ago but never knowingly got work from it.

same here

 

[advancetiling]

just updated my online listing at yell.com,which is free.You can add photos,logo,link to facebook page/twitter etc,website link etc. Then there is an option to upgrade and pay for it.Dont know how much but cant fathom what you could add that isnt already on the free one.

 

[Kentish Gary]

I usually just have one line in there but have recently signed up for a free entry on yell.com where you can add all sorts of information and it's all free, entries in the paper version are all now chargeable.

 

[Kentish Gary]

I have an entry on yell.com and it was free

 

[garretridge]

dont waste your money i paid £990 for an add in 2010 not one call its a dying advertising route i put an add in my local shopper delivered by royal mail its colour and good size for £80 a month. And get loads of work from it and can change wording or offers every month or cancel if its not working .yellow pages your stuck with same add all year !

 

[Dan]

I have a few rules I follow with anything like this. I take all the free ads I can get (and I expect to get marketing calls that annoy me a bit - comes part and parcel though). And I only spend money on my online presence, all directing traffic to my own website(s) AND NOT A 'RATE MY TILER' TYPE LISTING.

I would NOT pay for a lead, I would NOT pay a % of the job price to any website for the job, and I would NOT pay for a listing on a website (or in the yellow pages).

I WOULD pay for a half decent website though, and then Google Adwords only really. I've been toying with Facebook ads for the last 6 months and it doesn't work anywhere near as good as Google Adwords does.

I'd pay for the local rag though and I'd keep that going. Just a small ad, but a permanent one. It can be handy for when people forget your number but always know you'll be in the rag again next week, sort of thing.

 

[London tilers]

Yellow pages is old hat now,I'm sure some people get something out of it but online is the way to go I've been told so I have someone working on a new site for me just now.
Word of mouth should always be top,but you need different ways to get new customers.

I always google anything I'm looking for.

I got roped into a touchlocal paid listing,never again £40 a month for nothing,12 month contract,was 2 years ago.

 

[Andy Allen]

sounds like its just me then :lol:....i agree yellow pages is dying a death, and the ternet is the way to go, but while im still getting work from it that exceeds my add cost , then i will continue.

last year i got a 20m2 trav bathroom from a builder, a 23m2 bathroom from a private punter that i did just before xmas, and a few other small jobs from my older clients that have never turn a computer on, they went with me because of the 30yrs experince that is stated in my add.

imo if you buy half a page then you are wasting your money, i have a small add that isn't expensive and pays for itself, and the day it dosn't is the day it will be binned.

and i wouldn't use it as my only form of advertising...

 

[Alan M]

im going to guess that the reason you get the calls is because of your name. i presume your at the top of the list. anytime i use the golden pages i start at the top of the listings and work down until i find what i want. so god help the people with names down the alphabet

 

[MTiler]

I used to have a yellow pages ad, I got the odd job from it usually little jobs. Discontinued it as it wasnt really worth it and they wouldnt reduce the cost. I have a free listing on Yell.com which I get the odd from.

 

[Brian the Tile]

we have a lot of older end people where i liv who dont have or want comuters my yellow pages add always works for me ,its twelve months advertising for little money

 

[tilebren]

internet,lnternet

 

[jwatson]

the boy on the advert wont be able to kiss the girl anymore at that rate :lol:

the current yellow pages is a quarter the size it used to be and i expect it to get smaller again

waste of money imo also

 

[swanman]

Sounds good i will give it a go

 

[faceman]

I purchased a heavyweight listing on Yell.com at the costly sum of £750 a year after being given all the talk. Nothing for months and then just time wasters asking for over the phone prices and would I re-grout their bathroom. After 4 months I got my first job which was a messy one. I was also bothered non-stop by their web team and hundreds of other companies. I don't have one good word to say about it. Just don't spend any money on it. Another tiler I know comes top in his area on trustatrader.com and he gets 80% of his work from there. For only £300 a year. This seems the way forward.

 

[sgd tiling]

Our new website designer worked for Yellow Pages and advises against as they show call rates etc and they are all just sales calls , folk trying to sell you other advertising mostly ...

they now focus on websites and again they charge a fortune for sites that rarely work. His experience whilst working there really helped though as our new site is really top notch.

he does recommend adding pictures and things to the free listing as we have also.

 

[Andy Allen]

Our new website designer worked for Yellow Pages and advises against as they show call rates etc and they are all just sales calls , folk trying to sell you other advertising mostly ...

they now focus on websites and again they charge a fortune for sites that rarely work. His experience whilst working there really helped though as our new site is really top notch

he does recommend adding pictures and things to the free listing as we have also.

i was told you could only do that if you paid for an add through yell.com..

 

[Yorkshire Tiling Services]

spend the money on your own website rather than wasting on Yellow Pages,