yell.com

[ARCLtd]

Who uses yell.com ?

I took an advert out last summer for window cleaning in my area at a price of £1080 Inc vat , was a bit of a gamble but within about 8 weeks I made it back so was just wondering if anyone else has had any success from yell.com ?

example

yell.com landed me a £150 gutter clean a neighbour saw me so landed that 1 for £200 gutters / small conny , did that today , another neighbour saw me doing that today landed them , another £200 job , another neighbour saw me next door landed a £120 gutter clean plus her mom's house plus her patio clean .

so has anyone else advertised with yell.com ?

 

[Neil]

Wouldn't pay for yell or Thompson I use the free ad space on both and get enough work through that rather than paying [emoji108]

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[peter rogers]

its on the plans when i get my website up and going is that for the 1st spot mate ?

 

[peter rogers]

u shud try google adwords ive seen the great results tht brings

 

[ARCLtd]

its on the plans when i get my website up and going is that for the 1st spot mate ?

yes top spot

but I think the price depends on area covered .

u shud try google adwords ive seen the great results tht brings

I am trying it lol

 

[ARCLtd]

not bad Neil .

I tried the free ads too had work from them but fancied taking top spot and getting even more work .

 

[Smurf]

Depends what you want to spend your marketing budget on I guess.

Price wise yell.com seems a bit of a rip off to me but if it's working for you and you are happy spending that sort of money just for a 12 month advert then fare enough.

You will know after the 12 months is up how much extra work yell has actually generated for you in one-off's and recurring business. That is if you monitor where the leads are coming from properly. Then you can decide it's worth doing again or not next time.

On a side note I'm sure there is an x yell telesales chap on here that would throw some light on how they operate.

 

[Simply Business]

Good to hear it's working for you @ARCLtd! How are you getting on with google adwords?

 

[Graeme Broome]

yell.com is excellent for me, I'm no.1 spot for gutter cleaning in my area, think it costs me £260 a year, this is my 2nd year and I get loads of calls. 1st year I took it out my 3rd call was a medical practice that got me £325

 

[ARCLtd]

pleased to hear someone else is having a good return from yell.com

I'm inundated with work from yell .

this week alone I've done £450 in gutter cleans from yell .

 

[marc cooke]

Who uses yell.com ?
I took an advert out last summer for window cleaning in my area at a price of £1080 Inc vat , was a bit of a gamble but within about 8 weeks I made it back so was just wondering if anyone else has had any success from yell.com ?

example

yell.com landed me a £150 gutter clean a neighbour saw me so landed that 1 for £200 gutters / small conny , did that today , another neighbour saw me doing that today landed them , another £200 job , another neighbour saw me next door landed a £120 gutter clean plus her mom's house plus her patio clean .

so has anyone else advertised with yell.com ?

Yeah I'm top from my area cost me 1000 +vat best thing I've done I have a canvassing full time and yell very good

 

[DMD]

Yeah I'm top from my area cost me 1000 +vat best thing I've done I have a canvassing full time and yell very good

Marc, your canvassing team, do they get basic + commission or commission only/through the payroll etc?

 

[peter rogers]

wud u nt have a canvasser as self employed and claim it as advertising expenses ???

 

[marc cooke]

Commission only I pay the head 1 125% for all the work he get but the others work for me but he pays them 100% of what they get. So he earns extra 25% but he keeps he's eye on they becuse then earn him money. Then all I get at the end of the week is work from him and I pay him the pays the others

 

[marc cooke]

Yeah he's self employed

 

[DMD]

does he have any sort of contract with you, i.e. you **** him off & he takes work off of you?

The only reason i ask, is we are going to be looking into getting a "business development" manager set up, but he will be contracted so that he cannot approach any work for 2 years if he is to leave/told to be left to safeguard our company. (we aren't predominantly window cleaners by the way, its business to business)

does he bring you in decent work? 125% isn't too bad

 

[marc cooke]

No contract he would not try to take work it's all resdential. £500-800 a week but I can't afford it all so I sell half to a cleaner I know for 200% so I make 75% for passing it on but I guarantee the work I sell for 2 month so I proble earn 35% profit of what I sell.

 

[adamangler]

Good hustle marc, thinking outside the box.

 

[boarcity]

im wary of yell.com after a bad experience years ago where a slick salesman had me sign up a lot of money,luckily i was able to cancel tho not easily and he hounded me and scared me i was a naive kid .

i also know a window cleaner who has 3 vans and a bunch of lads who last yr used yell for a website,the step up to more lucrative work was the idea -but the hidden costs of yells website almost dragged him under! and altho he broke free , they kept the domain name ,he now works without a website .

 

[marc cooke]

Yeah yell charge £60 for hosting the web site. I had me mine made by someone else who makes u pick your name on 123 reg cost £12.99 so it's yours 4 ever. So I just pay £102 a month for being top for window cleaning, gutters cleaning and con roofs

 

[boarcity]

Yeah yell charge £60 for hosting the web site. I had me mine made by someone else who makes u pick your name on 123 reg cost £12.99 so it's yours 4 ever. So I just pay £102 a month for being top for window cleaning, gutters cleaning and con roofs

is that 60 quid a month?? that wouldnt surprise me with yell