Leaflet drop

[sineadnorton]

Any leaflets we deliver, my husband goes with one team, and I go with another. We use this to promote our own business and so every one has to go through the door, the point is to gain customers.

As someone pointed out, some larger companies are not bothered about small quantities. We are the opposite, large quantites are not our business, we generally take 5000 leaflets maximum at a time.

Leaflet printing has become so expensive too, this used to be a cheap way of getting your point across. The fact that leaflets are more expensive means that dumping them would be an atrocity.

As I said before, we are in Mid Ulster. Anyone familiar with this area will be aware that there are no built up areas like Belfast or Antrim or even Coleraine. We cover all the wee villages like Coagh, Pomeroy, Moneymore, Desertmartin. Not many other companies do. We cover "every hole in the hedge" we go door to door, business to business, there is no other way. We put posters up and give out business cards if necessary. We also don't overload people, too many leaflets at a time is no good.

Thanks

Sinead

 

[superstardj]

HI Sinead,

Just to let you know we use kaizenprint.co.uk for our flyers as they are really cheap for small runs of flyers.

We just ordered 5000 A6s for £125.

The cheapest we were quoted elsewhere was £185. What???

Anyway if it helps they were very helpful as we hadn't a clue what we needed

 

[SmilePrint]

We just ordered 5000 A6s for £125.

The cheapest we were quoted elsewhere was £185. What???

So you weren't looking at www.smilecolourprinting.com then?

http://www.smilecolourprinting.com/...p7-Gloss-Leaflets,-A6,-170GSM-DOUBLE-SIDE.cfm

£129, but that includes delivery to Northern Ireland, which your £125 doesn't. (Good price all the same)

Regards

 

[superstardj]

Hey Brendan thats a great price from your company

Our flyers ordered were on 350gsm silk. Yours seem to be 170gsm. Can you match their price as we'd certainly have a chat with you down the line.

Delivery was also free with those guys btw. The guy from the company was able to deliver them in the evening as we were in work all day (and we were promoting our new venture and dont want the boss to know)

Cheers for the info. I compare your prices and bear your company in mind next time.

Thanks

DJ

 

[SmilePrint]

We just ordered 5000 A6s for £125.

Our flyers ordered were on 350gsm silk. Yours seem to be 170gsm.

Odd, as their site quotes £125 for 170gsm, and £145 for 350gsm?

And thats still without UK mainland delivery, never mind Northern Ireland Delivery, (which this thread refers to).

Yes DJ would love to talk if you're ordering this type of thing regular, (you'll find our webprice of £149 inc delivery fairly competitive for 300 or 350gsm)

I'd be able to do you one of our special deals on 250gsm gloss for under £100, including delivery, if you're really interested to do business.

Regards

 

[sineadnorton]

Hi there

what a pity that so many big companies like those mentioned already have given leaflet distributors a bad name, we have delivered about 38000 in the last month, just over a 1000 per day with my husband, family and some people who work with us.

We have sectioned it into different postcodes, business to business if customers want it, or just home to home, and have walked all areas keeping a record of all streets, never asked for a payment upfront and had no problem gettinig paid. We didn't plan on doing this as a full time job, but as a way of paying for our own leaflets to go out.

One customer rang to say he had a brilliant response in our area already, and I was so please after reading about the reputation of other companies much more dedicated than us. But as I said, we only used family and all went together in teams, and when we used staff, we were all in a team, e.g. I did one side of a street and she did the other - not rocket science!

Yes my legs ached, I have been chased by dogs, I hate low letterboxes, have learned how to hurdle over hedges and fences, been boiling hot with cold fingers at the same time, but it is a great way to exercise and get the message about our business across.

We had out flyers (very budget - we a cleaning business) printed £40 for 1000. We put out 5000 of our own inf the first week and doubled the turnover in one week. not hard though as we had been very slow for about a month. That is the good thing about leaflet drops- if it is done right, you can get instant success! Hence we had to deliver flyers at teatime for a few hours very day, but this was a great time too as people were alerted to the post box at an unusual time of day! And probably after a hard day's work and they couldn't be bothered cleaning!

So the basic message is that not every person is a conman.

Sinead

 

[MASSEY]

I've had some personal experience here.

If you want it done, done well, and every (within reason) letterbox delivered to - do it yourself.

If you want a glamorous looking company to fill you with confidence and talk about penetration rates, back checks, verification processes blah blah , and then take your money and run - open the yellow pages or go with the type of company mentioned here.

Sorry to be so cynical, but I 've paid for a 60 000 print run, then paid for a 60 000 letterboxmarketing delivery. About 20 000 items went out (that I can tell)

When I asked for verification I got a list of streets. When I checked the people I knew on these streets - nothing.

Its truly heartbreaking to put your hard earned cash into something to have companies take your money, deliver a large percentage of your materials to the recycling skip, and get paid for their trouble.

I've developed a system that today allows me to have letterbox items delivered thoroughly. It takes a little more work on my part, but the delivery is done.

I'll talk you through it if you like.

Regards

so rather than run your business you can afford to spare the time to post thousands of leaflets?

 

[sineadnorton]

On the basis that we were putting the time to put our own leaflets out, we asked local business if they also would appreciate this service. We asked them face to face and they knew where our laundry shop was so we were not some unknown.

During the month of November, our cleaning and ironing business is generally very slow, as people tend to keep their money for Xmas. This is a good time to plan a leaflet drop for December, as whenever people get into Xmas mode, they suddenly want the work done and so we knew we needed to capitalise on this. We also have very good and reliable staff to pay we look after them so they always do a great job. Our business is not one for the faint hearted, it can be very heavy going and keeping staff that are willing to do the work is very important. So I asked them if they would be willing to do some leafleting and they agreed.

We got a good response from local businesses about the leafleting and 1000 - 1500 per day between me, my husband, 3 teenage daughters after school, 1 brother and law and 2 full time members of staff doesn't take any more than a few hours at a time, and we could fit it in between bookings. Not that we are very busy (as our own drop brought plenty of business) we do it at dinnertime in the evening, which I think is even better!

I have 6 children, work 8-6 Monday to Friday, have been out delivering leaflets between 11 and 4 today and believe that being proactive is much better than sitting waiting on the business coming to you.

With wages, rent and rates, water rates, electricity etc etc to pay, providing this service for local businesses was a great way to raise the cash. When my business became busy again, I found it unethical to say that I couldn't complete the drop as I was too busy, hence we do it at night and weekends. We don't do this all the time, and we have 5000 left this week which are all business to business and once we complete this, we will have fulfilled our obligations and lined up enough work for ourselves for January. However, if business became quiet again, it would be definitely something I would consider doing again. I don't see anything wrong with it.

I have had the ironing and laundry business for over 5 years, I started it from home and 2 years ago was so busy I had to move it to a premises. However the economic climate is one that is very unpredicatable. We generally are busy from April to October but this sometimes is not enough.

 

[sineadnorton]

swift cleaning and ironing services
1c 5 Smith Street, Moneymore BT45 7PF

 

[SmilePrint]

so rather than run your business you can afford to spare the time to post thousands of leaflets?

You're a little sharp and presumptious MASSEY.

To answer your post - I find it a good use of some of my time to manage a system for delivering thousands of leaflets properly and not getting stiffed by a glamorous looking company.

 

[SmilePrint]

swift cleaning and ironing services
1c 5 Smith Street, Moneymore BT45 7PF

Well done Sinead! Good on you for taking the initiative.

I'll talk to you if I've any work in your area.

regards

Brendan

 

[sineadnorton]

Thanks Brendan

We appreciate the reason why businesses put out leaflets in the first place - to promote business, to bring in new customers etc. It does work, but only if they get put out!

Sinead

 

[Innovate Northern Ireland]

What about Royal Mail, are they trustworthy?

 

[LocalLawyerNI]

Hi,

NI Post are presently doing a flyer drop for us in the Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus areas: they are brilliant - we get updates by e-mail as they do each area and we know that they are being delivered because we're getting calls. They're also printing the flyers for us and the price for printing and delivering 30,000 flyers is absolutely fantastic - must be unbeatable for the service.

Hope this helps. As far as Royal Mail goes, they hardly seem to be able to deliver mail at times, much less flyers!

 

[Innovate Northern Ireland]

Hi,

NI Post are presently doing a flyer drop for us in the Newtownabbey and Carrickfergus areas: they are brilliant - we get updates by e-mail as they do each area and we know that they are being delivered because we're getting calls. They're also printing the flyers for us and the price for printing and delivering 30,000 flyers is absolutely fantastic - must be unbeatable for the service.

Hope this helps. As far as Royal Mail goes, they hardly seem to be able to deliver mail at times, much less flyers!

Thanks for the response, I've emailed them

Unfortunately their website wasn't very helpful - its under construction

As I'm waiting for their emailed response - Any ideas how much they would charge for delivery of 10,000 leaflets

 

[LocalLawyerNI]

Not sure since we opted for A6 colour postcards, but Contact details for Roisin Donnelly the owner are: NI Post Sales
36-37 Townsend Street Belfast
BT13 2ES

Business: 028 9024 6002
Mobile: 077 9121 0002

 

[SmilePrint]

Just heard the Belfast co. mentioned early in this thread has gone BUST.

Anyone hear similar?

They'll not be missed if their reputation was anything to go by.

 

[LocalLawyerNI]

Just heard the Belfast co. mentioned early in this thread has gone BUST.

Anyone hear similar?

They'll not be missed if their reputation was anything to go by.

I note the comments above. For the purposes of clarification to forum users, business seems fine at NI Post. I would be delighted to hear of the demise however of another company mentioned early on in the forum, since I used them five years ago and now believe that they never delivered a single item.

 

[SmilePrint]

Yes Philip,

no disparagment intended toward NI Post.

 

[Lencastle]

Hi folks,

I'm looking for a reliable company or individual in NI (Belfast particularly, though perhaps wider after a time) who organises leaflet drops?

Any tips?

AP

I know a local company that deliver all over Northern Ireland. It's a small company but very reliable as I have used them before.

Message me and I'll see if I can get the details for you.

 

[showtimeni]

hi

I was just reading the replies regarding letterboxmarketing. I had the same problems, I paid for over 45,000 items to be delivered, I then requested street maps of the drops and then i proceeded to check the areas myself. out of the 45 houses I asked only 3 said yes they recieved it.

I ended up taking them to small claims court, I had over 40 signed statements from people saying they never received them but they turned up with a hot shot solicitor and ended up getting off even after admitting in court not all the copies were delivered.

General tip - AVOID THEM.

 

[Howeybiz]

(Live in Belfast) Im looking for local post company to collect my 1,000 business cards and deliver them for me. few comments on here I send PM to heard nothing so far.

who can offer, email me or respone to this

what it propley name in phone book? Im hoping to find it cheaper then £500 royal mail that is way out of my price range!

Gillian

 

[SmilePrint]

Hello Gillian,

there are numerous leaflet delivery companies that do this, but few would be interested in taking on 1000.

For 1000 your best bet is to get a couple of friends and do it yourself, that way you'll be absolutely sure they are done. (One of the main issues with leaflet delivery companies!!).

I have a 10K drop going in Lisburn W/C 21st if thats of interest.

regards

 

[northern_printers]

Anyone in County Down, Armagh and parts of County Antrim that require leaflets distributed can visit northernprinters.co.uk

We are a new company operating in the Craigavon district and can guarantee your products will be delivered, as they are delivered by yours truely.

Visit our site, and get in touch via our direct marketing section for a discounted quote.

We can also provide you with high quality cheap flyers or other cheap printing products, and offer a graphic design service; if your not too sure on flyer DIY.

David.

 

[darrenpg]

Do it yourself!! I have used this company recently spending £375 for 5000 flyers and out of 30 follow up calls in the area no one received the leaflets. Of course I paid up front and got caught out - but will never use them again.

We always get more response when you do it yourself, get a team together and use friends and family people you can trust!

 

[northern_printers]

Do it yourself!! I have used this company recently spending £375 for 5000 flyers and out of 30 follow up calls in the area no one received the leaflets. Of course I paid up front and got caught out - but will never use them again.

We always get more response when you do it yourself, get a team together and use friends and family people you can trust!

£375?? Damn thats expensive.

 

[northern_printers]

Hi everyone,

We are conducting a leaflet drop in the Lisburn area in a couple of weeks time and are offering very cheap rates to any businesses looking to come on board.

There is also a special offer on 5000 High Quality A5 Flyers printed one side on 130 gloss paper at ONLY £65.00, and their distribution at £125.00.*

If you need help with your design, we can help for an extra charge, or we can provide you with a template.

If interested get in touch here or via our website.

All the best,
David.

*Distribution offer applies to Lisburn leaflet drop.

 

[swhitear]

Hello all

We will be delivering 5K leaflets in the south belfast area next week and are offering very cheap rates to any businesses wanting leaflets delivered in the same area.

Thank you for reading

PM me for more details

Swhitear

 

[DC Direct Couriers]

Hi Aaron

I would say that doing them yourself is the best bet too. Where in Belfast are you wanting to do? I was also thinking of doing some myself, I have did some locally and you would be surprised how quickly you can get 500 threw out.

 

[DC Direct Couriers]

Hi David

Is that for colour flyers or mono? I am not just ready for them at the minute but I will be in the very near future. Do you do Business cards too?
Do you use couriers at all?

 

[SCGNI]

I didn't see them mentioned here so I will throw their name into the ring, Positive Marketing NI based in Mallusk cover the whole of Northern Ireland and are reliable.

 

[canigroup]

Hi,

Am a local business within the B2B mobile phone business and am looking to leaflet drop in my area. Am looking for a company that can drop leaflets to business only.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[canigroup]

Hi,

Am a local business within the B2B mobile phone business and am looking to leaflet drop in my area. Am looking for a company that can drop leaflets to business only.

Can anyone help?

Thanks

 

[kerriewilson]

Hi All

We are a small primary school in south Belfast.

We would be interested in receiving a quote for leaflet distribution for our school open day.
There are around 20,000 leaflets to be distibuted in the first week in January 2012.
There are to be given to Bt9 Sector 7
Bt 10 Sector 0
Bt11 Sector 9
Bt12 Sector 5 and 6.

Please reply with details of arrangements, costing and contact details.

Thanks!

 

[A.McVitty]

Hi Kerrie,

I would like to offer you a quote for your leaflet delivery job. Do you have an email address where I can send you the relevant information and my company contact details. PM me.

Regards,

Aaron.

 

[ruspieter]

Hi,

I run a distribution company, most of the complaints on here or that the leaflets were not delivered thats why i started my company we guarantee that all leaflets will be delivered, The reason is all distributions are supervised by staff which their sole job is to supervise which means corners cannot be cut or leaflets disappearing.My service on shared costs £32 per thousand most people tend to use companys that charge less if you pay more it tends to be for a reason although i do know that this isnt always the case. Ask the company if you can see the delivery take place. I map out distributions and give the list to my clients which shows estimated delivery times on each street which allows my clients to come out whenever they please without them having to ask were the delivery's are taking place to give them more comfort that the job is being done,

My main areas are Manchester, Liverpool, Bolton, Wigan and surrounding areas. Although i do tend to get orders from across the UK which can be done but involves minimum orders or a couple of orders from that area.

If anyone wants to speak or want to know what to look for just PM me ill be happy to help.

Regards

 

[door2door]

Hi All

We are a small primary school in south Belfast.

We would be interested in receiving a quote for leaflet distribution for our school open day.
There are around 20,000 leaflets to be distibuted in the first week in January 2012.
There are to be given to Bt9 Sector 7
Bt 10 Sector 0
Bt11 Sector 9
Bt12 Sector 5 and 6.

Please reply with details of arrangements, costing and contact details.

Thanks!

hi kerrie
i am a self employed ex postman delivering leaflets across belfast and further afield. my normal price is £30 a thousand and would be glad to help you out. i can provide great client refs. and you are welcome to supervise all deliveries. 07909565436
thanks paul

 

[Leaflet Drop]

Feel i need to rply to this, will keep it short. Few points.

Sometimes the lack of response can be down to the Leaflet itself, the design and if it catches the eye.

back checks cannot be accurate, obviously if you check on random houses, how many of these people actually remember every leaflet that came through the door? a lot of them go straight into the bin

we have tracker systems which put our customers at ease, we also list every street they go to and the number of houses they go to in in each street.

We deliver over 80,000 per months for various companies across the North West. We have had only ever had 1 complaint. A local Italian restaurant complained that after 5 days , he only had one reply to his 5,000 drop? is that our fault that within those 5 days only one person wished to eat Italian food?, also they must take into account not every person who gets the leaflet will take it with them to the Restaurant.

As for the deliveries and prices, we charge £40 per 1,000 , if its solous of not, thats all the way through, it's easily possible to deliver 1,000 per day, i wouldnt ever tell a customer it would be anymore than that. If we get a job for 10,000 we would tell the customer 10 days, obviously bigger jobs we put more staff on them

As for Companies that charge £25 per 1,000, its just not possible. It wouldnt even match the minimum wage

 

[ob1]

Hi All

We are a small primary school in south Belfast.

We would be interested in receiving a quote for leaflet distribution for our school open day.
There are around 20,000 leaflets to be distibuted in the first week in January 2012.
There are to be given to Bt9 Sector 7
Bt 10 Sector 0
Bt11 Sector 9
Bt12 Sector 5 and 6.

Please reply with details of arrangements, costing and contact details.

Thanks!

Hi Kerrie, let me know if you want a quote for printing we specialise in printruns around 20K upto 1.5 million

 

[door2door]

hi kerrie
i am an ex postman delivering leaflets across belfast for the last 18 months. i have regular client who use me all year round and recomend me to their friends.i would be glad to deliver your leaflets for you at £30 per thousand. paul 07909565436