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BlueSky where are you located?I only pay $80.00 per month for a nice business card size phone book ad and one bold heading. $900.00 seems outrageous to me. Is that the norm? For less than $900.00 a month you can get a billboard for a month here. I would think for that much money per month you could really make more of your advertising dollar. How big of an ad is it? Do you track your calls from the yellow pages? What is the competition like in the phonebook? I also run a business card ad in a monthly newsletter targeting realtors and rental properties. Only costs $50.00 a year. Check out if you have anything like that. Worth a shot. Run your own exclusive placemats. A lot less than you might think. Some legwork involved though. Any local nurseries you can do a "free seminars" at? Especially if they don't offer landscaping or hardscaping. They get a patio or landscape done with free labor , you get your name out! My husband just put out for bid a landscape job for one of their banks. I did the design for it to be bid out on since I cannot ethically be offered the job. Only one person returned a bid and only because I told him he should bid. $10,000.00 isn't bad work for November around here. I have stopped at construction sites and left my cards only to receive for example a $20,000.00 hotel job because no else bothered. I stopped at another that ended up being only( I say only, but I would take those kind of jobs any day of the week!) $6,000.00 but it began a long term relationship with a building company. I get all their work.These people at these construction sites don't usually have a local landscaper at their fingertips. Hustle , hustle, hustle and the jobs WILL come in.
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Julie
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