Fire Alarm
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- I'm From California
I've got 2 half page ads that come out this month in Los Angeles. I have no prior experience with this form of advertising. What are your thoughts?
electricmanscott said:My second would be since I don't know what it is I guess I have no thoughts on it.
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It will become important for you to now start to religiously track where your new leads come from. Ask each and every new prospect. Otherwise, at the end of your 2-year contract, you might renew for another 5 or 6 hundred without knowing if the first 500 provided any benefit, for sure.Fire Alarm said:It's a 2 year contract and I'm paying $540 a month.
mdshunk said:It will become important for you to now start to religiously track where your new leads come from. Ask each and every new prospect. Otherwise, at the end of your 2-year contract, you might renew for another 5 or 6 hundred without knowing if the first 500 provided any benefit, for sure.
That's a good idea. If you have that line set up as one of your rollover lines, and the other lines are full, you should take notice of that and ask during those times.Fire Alarm said:That's good advice. I have a separate phone number that I use only for the blue book so I should be able to track the source of leads easily.
Exactly. The only time I know for sure that I got work from the the free line ad in The Blue Book was a one time job for an out of state contractor. He was building Auto Zone stores. I did the one local to me, but didn't care to go "on the road" with him like he wanted. Apparently, no other EC's over the years wanted to either.ishium 80439 said:...He said his company uses it a bunch when working out of state where they don't know any local subs.
Fire Alarm said:I have an ad under "Alarm Services" for Fire Alarm contracting and and ad under "Cabling Contractors" for data cabling, cctv and other low voltage stuff.
It's a 2 year contract and I'm paying $540 a month.
electricmanscott said:Holy sweet fried chicken.
That's $12,960 dollars. Good luck with that.
Guess where I will not be advertising.
I hope it works for that kind of money.
Fire Alarm said:My monthly Ad budget is $2000. This is just a small element of it. :smile:
celtic said:54% is "just a small element"?