What sort of area do you live / work in?

[Jake]

Bud ,around my area there are a lot of estate cars with ladders on the roof ... In one local town there is a bmw with ladders on top ......

Yeah threres a young ish lad with an Audi TT with his ladders on and bucket in the boot in my area!

 

[Jake]

Try to get a sign written van , I've nearly doubled my round since I got one . Used to work out of an estate with ladders on top :thumbsup: ( not a bmw) .... I think people in rural areas trust something that is recognisable .

Interesting that, I've not seen many returns on my sign written van.. I've had one person ring me after seeing the van!

The website however, different story!

 

[Alien Human]

Interesting that, I've not seen many returns on my sign written van.. I've had one person ring me after seeing the van!
The website however, different story!

The two might be linked mate if you've got the website details on the van - just a thought /emoticons/smile.png

 

[luc]

I live in the sticks with three large towns with loads of windys but haven't had any trouble building up my round it took two months to get 160 customers it wasn't easy and I'm still canvassing but the weathers been really good and that's helped.

Can't wait to hit my goal and have a breather from canvassing.

 

[Jake]

The two might be linked mate if you've got the website details on the van - just a thought /emoticons/smile.png

You may be right, but most new customers say they found me via a Google search...

I try to ask where people found me, so I know which marketing tool works best...

 

[Smurf]

Well done @luc ...onwards and upwards as they say :thumbsup:

I live in the sticks with three large towns with loads of windys but haven't had any trouble building up my round it took two months to get 160 customers it wasn't easy and I'm still canvassing but the weathers been really good and that's helped.Can't wait to hit my goal and have a breather from canvassing.

 

[luc]

Thx Smurf

 

[Dave B]

I couldn't do all that rural travelling between jobs

Get me in a built up town and let me at em

Smash em out

Some have loads of low priced jobs in towns so work hard to make their money

I like loads of well priced jobs in town so i work hard but make extremely good money..that's my take on it anyway

 

[luc]

Agree 100% Dave I'm the same super compact work roll up in the morning and stay in one area all day I might do 5 to 10 miles driving in a day.

 

[cheapncheerful]

once you get to the stage where you cant get a holiday without some one phoning emailing or texting...its time to sort out the wheat from the chaff...

I had a real hard time today as one of my old custys moved out on friday and I had to get my card through the door but....should it be £12 or £15...

so I bottled it this time and went for the £!2 but not so sure in the future...

strange I just couldnt imagine £13 or 14 though..dont know why..

but the new guy is only moving from about thirteen miles away so may bring his own windy ...its amazing how far people travel to get where I live...

another on the same estate I put in at a tenner ..it had always been nine but the guy always gave me ten...

didnt get it and think the windy had an a class merc so price doesnt always get the job..

now if I had more on that estate...but in all the years I have been there not picked any up.../emoticons/biggrin.png

 

[SolarPanelCleaning]

Agree 100% Dave I'm the same super compact work roll up in the morning and stay in one area all day I might do 5 to 10 miles driving in a day.

I'll do 30 miles a day on average. I actually take the long route around the town rather than drive through it. I just don't understand why people choose to live in towns? Guess we all appreciate different things. Everything's greening up out here now, I'd rather look at fields and forests all day than Tarmac and concrete.

 

[Dave B]

I am a hood rat born and bred

I don't want to have to drive just to get milk or bread or more importantly a beer

But i do appreciate the countryside and that way of life too

Have an allotment and fish and shoot

Best of both worlds

 

[luc]

I just don't understand why people choose to live in towns?

I was brought up on the streets of Newcastle so town life doesn't bother me but saying that Cornwall towns are a bit different (picture from the front window of a customer I picked up last week).

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[boarcity]

prefer working in towns as its easier pickings. when it gets really hot in the summer ,on the big estates theres a foul stink builds up in the sewer pipes thats really unpleasant you cant avoid it its wafting .doesnt affect me iv almost no sense of smell, but my workers have and boy do they tell me

 

[SolarPanelCleaning]

Cornwall doesn't count!

suicide rates are higher rurally, can't get a take away delivered, drive anyone crazy.

 

[Jake]

Agree 100% Dave I'm the same super compact work roll up in the morning and stay in one area all day I might do 5 to 10 miles driving in a day.

Yeah me too, compact days and less driving is the way I like it!

 

[simon]

jamiesmack, parish magazines mate old villagers love them, i've got most of my out of town work from them

 

[Dave B]

I live in a Hertfordshire town nowadays since leaving London

It is the best of both worlds here

Built up town but not as built up as london

Easy to do a days work without doing more than a couple of miles

Only 12 miles to circumnavigate the town

Also have some good jobs in the nearby villages but i do them if possible 1 in a day along with my town work rather than be in the sticks all day driving

 

[luc]

Suppose at the end of the day it doesn't matter as long as the money's coming in.

 

[Tuffers]

I was brought up on the streets of Newcastle so town life doesn't bother me but saying that Cornwall towns are a bit different (picture from the front window of a customer I picked up last week).

Nice pic luc. I might pop down to Marazion in the summer for a few days. If I get bored when I'm there I'll come and give you a hand for a day :thumbsup:

 

[cheapncheerful]

yes but there are downsides to the country side...

like the big **** trucks farmers hog the lanes with and spread all over the roads..

like waiting for the cows to cross the lane.zzzz

like the horses around every corner...

and the 4x4 that dont slow down and try to ram you off the road.

in town we used to go on a pub crawl...some nine or ten pubs within easy walking distance

here we have one and you have to wait twenty minutes to get served..its quicker from the fridge..

and you get held to ransom for petrol as its very hard to shop around your lucky to get petrol ...

and yes...I was in yorkshire on holiday and it cost me thirty miles round trip just to get some milk for my tea....

but its very pretty..and me liked the two bunnys crossing the lane this morning..

not so bothered about the stupid birds that just stroll right across in front of you...but suppose...if I got hungry../emoticons/biggrin.png