Printing my flyers (saving money, spending some time)

[Masons]

Ok guys, last week I went out and bought the Kodak CS-315 Printer, Ink, 500 sheets of paper and I am borrowing my mothers paper trimmer(thanks mom).

Now, all this came to the price of £97.

Meaning I could have bought 5,000 leaflets online for over £100, yet I am able to print 1,000 and have the capabilities to print more or anything else, and change my designs in a split second, for less in money, as long as I spend some time on it.

Now, I know you guys will say time=money, so paying for leaflets is better, but no. I generally don't earn money in my evenings so I see it working out if I sacrifice an evening.

And I know buying another 2,000 a4 paper and buying ink will cost more ontop of this price, but Kodak sell the cheapest ink, so it shouldn't be much more, AND I get a printer in the end. hehe

Now, All is set up. I've already printer a hundred or so, and am doing the rest now as i have finished work early as a) it's raining and /emoticons/wink.png I felt like it.

I'll commence printing, show you the pile I have later. And will answer questions about how good the printer is or how easy this process is to anyone who asks questions.

I will however, be explaining in detail how I go about the process of canvassing efficiently and approaching customers in the VIP Business chat section, so those who help contribute to the site financially get a few extra bits of info on how I go about my business.

It's not maybe the way most do but if someone learns from how I go about my job then I'm happy.

I'll be letting you all know how I do ratio-wise with picking jobs up, I'm hoping for at least 1 from every 100, so I should get 50 jobs.

I know most of you will say the ratio will be higher, and I hope so, but i'm keeping targets low, as I do not know what to expect, and also because I don'y want to be disappointed by putting up massive approximates of work.

If this totals more than £500 ppm then I'll be happy, as it'll pay for the costs and time incurred from printing these leaflets.

I hope I can help some of you and if you have questions just ask.

Masons.


p.s it takes 3:20 to print 20, an mine are in colour.

I write this now so as to not forget later. and also so you can comment on it maybe?lol

 

[neil_09]

Hi mate cheers for the info. Best part of making your own is you dont have to wait for postage lol.

If you wouldnt mind id like to see your leaflet?

I dont mind doing a you show me yours ill show you mine lol. Cheers

 

[Masons]

I'll see what I can do neil.

It took me about 80/90 mins to print and cut 260 leaflets on 130 pieces of paper.

It used up most of the sample inks that came with the printer, I am yet to put a full cartridge.

I did also print off a fair few testers and such to test the printers abilities and qualities, all of which I am happy with. hehe

I have decided this week to spend about 15hours printing and cutting around 2,500 leaflets. I figure I may get more done with a system of working. Also I can be doing other chores while they're all printing.

I'm very happy with the results.

 

[Belfastcleaning]

Then you have to deliver them all!! I got 5000 printed about a year ago and still have about 2000!! I sort of gave up as I never had much calls, but good luck with yours!

 

[Masons]

Thanks, I used a relatives printer and printed off about 50?

I delivered them and picked up 5 new jobs; 4 from introducing myself on the door and chatting, 1 from ringing me back and asking for a clean.

I have plenty of area to cover so I'm looking forward to the challenge.

I love canvassing more than window cleaning, it's great assessing jobs. lol

 

[All Round Cleaning]

I think you would have benefited financially if you had of purchased an epson printer with a cis system

( continuous ink system ) as you get a separate ink tank and they last hell of a lot longer than ink cartridges .

I have one of those and an epson printer .

 

[Masons]

I looked around at various options and never came across this.

Either way I'm happy with the costs I have took on and can pay them quite easily.

I won't lose out on much.

But please post details on other printing options, anything to help the websites members. /emoticons/smile.png

 

[Belfastcleaning]

Thanks, I used a relatives printer and printed off about 50?

I delivered them and picked up 5 new jobs; 4 from introducing myself on the door and chatting, 1 from ringing me back and asking for a clean.

I have plenty of area to cover so I'm looking forward to the challenge.

I love canvassing more than window cleaning, it's great assessing jobs. lol

I love canvassing too, it's money for the taking. I have separate flyers for gutter cleaning and would do drops with them, but for the window flyers i just rap each do unless their windows are sparkling already.

I also done out lists of each street in an area, was over 900 houses, had odd numbers and even numbers in separate books for each street and when calling I was able to mark if they said no, yes, or no answer and then I would know each house I have to call back to. I had the 2 books hoping to get help but been on my own and have done great so far

 

[Masons]

Ok, so I printed some maps off google maps and started one of the streets today.

I've distributed 91 leaflets, only spoke to about 5 people though, not many people in during the day on this road it seems.

I gave 2 quotes and both very happy with them. 1 job seems certain, the other is highly possible.

So I'm very happy.

 

[Ryan]

will be interested to see where you are at the end of the flyers fella

are you dropping them anywhere in that area or specific streets ?

 

[Masons]

I have area's where I know houses will be worth doing. I print off different territories and then mark roads off as I do them.

I have on map 1 approx 350 houses, 90 done.

I am starting on the bigger houses in the 4 area's.

The houses I covered today were all £10's but all on a long road which makes them nice targets.