Chris F
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Registered: 26th Dec 05
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Need to get my name about and need some Free Advertising
Tryed a listing at Yell and Google but they dont seam to have worked?
Carpentry & Joinery btw 
So is there places anyone know of that is good for builders?
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Doug
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If I was looking for one I would google "Carpenter + Location"
Get a good website and get to the top of search results in your area imo
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Chris F
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How i go about that?
I wouldnt know where to start to make a website tbh 
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AndyKent
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Registered: 3rd Sep 05
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Don't waste your time. Word of mouth and paid advertising in local householder magazines would be far better.
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Doug
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Look around on Google for a decent company. I know that Whittie on here does a fair few websites, make your own mind up about him
Expect to pay a few hundred pounds for a good site that is kept to the top of Google. It's not cheap but IMO it is the best way to get more business. I could very easily be proved wrong though, I have no experience of that market place!
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AndyKent
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Don't bother with a site, no-one will visit it, they never do for tradesmen.
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BluKoo
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You could advertise on Gumtree for free.
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by AndyKent
Don't bother with a site, no-one will visit it, they never do for tradesmen.
100% agree with Andy, I've done around 8-9 tradesman's websites, every single one of them have terrible traffic stats (not due to poor SEO either!). Complete waste of time and money for them to have a website.
You need a quarter page advert in the paper, will cost you £80-100, but 1 job will more than cover it....
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Ben J
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Registered: 31st Jan 05
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Maybe do some flyer drops locally?
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DannyB
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Facebook tbh
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pow
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Advertising a business on facebook is asking for trouble IMO
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DannyB
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Why is it? hundreds of thousands of pages advertising local businesses, and they do very well. You then post your page on other local pages, word then spreads.
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smcGSI16V
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Registered: 26th May 03
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Have you registered on Check a trade.
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Rich H
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Are you not better of getting approved by Check-A-Trade for that sort of thing?
Also, local church magazines.
Free advertising (in general) doesn't work. Learn SEO for your website though to get it showing on Google better 
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fazza
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Registered: 7th Feb 08
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
Advertising a business on facebook is asking for trouble IMO
why?
I advertise my phone shop on facebook and it works wonders
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Bonney
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Registered: 14th Nov 04
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Get a van and get it signwritten. Also word of mouth does better than any advert in a paper.
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Ben G
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Registered: 12th Jan 07
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Facebook.
Not the same but my bro and his missus set up a photography page, done a couple of free jobs to get their name out there and they are doing really well now.
They do mostly wedding photography and are really good and well priced.
[Edited on 20-09-2011 by Ben G]
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Sam
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When we were looking for someone to change the roof on our new house we went online and my other half registered with a website where she could post up a job and a selection of local tradesmen reply introducing themselves and either giving an estimate or asking for more information etc.
The website is http://www.mybuilder.com - it's free for customers to use but if you're a tradesman I think you have to pay a subscription plus a percentage of the job price.
I'd get on sites like that TBH, build up good feedback and build on the word of mouth.
I think having a website is OK if you're a tradesman but I wouldn't rely on it for all your marketing, just nice to have as an add-on to your marketing efforts.
Edit - forgot to say, newspaper adverts hardly ever work - probably get a 1% ROI if that. 
[Edited on 20-09-2011 by Sam]
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