[mizzy25]

remember ages ago I asked in here about working cleaning peoples houses etc ie how much to charge and such?

well im still working for an agency and until recently I had 3 customers of my own. Sadly one of them has died so I no longer have her. Then today another customers rang me and shes had her days cut to 3 days a week @ work so after next week she no longer needs me. I also packed in one of the customers from the agency as I was terrified id find her dead one day (I actually think she might be dead now)

anyway, so now im needing more customers to replace them and I want more anyway. Ive already delivered some leaflets, but im ordering some more and im going to do loads next week. Ive got a magnet thing for one side of my car and im going to order another one.

what im wanting now is any ideas on how I can get some new customers, other than leaflets and my banner on my car please?
Im thinking local shops advertise. I don't know about the local paper, anything else? any suggestions welcome.

[Vicky.]

Advertise yourself on gumtree?

Edit. http://www.gumtree.com/p/jobs/cleane...sap/1058101491 any good? Not sure if you want self employed or working for others..or if you have transport

[mizzy25]

yes I have transport thanks vicky il check it out.

[Jay.]

Gumtree's good! There's a website I tried to use for dog walking a couple of years ago, I can't find it but it was just as good as this one http://www.myoddjobs.co.uk/ - I searched 'cleaner' and there were a few! Good luck

[mizzy25]

thanks very much jay il take a look.

[Kazanne]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

thanks very much jay il take a look.

Cant really add to what Vicky and Jay have suggested Mizzy,only to say word of mouth goes a long way and good luck with it.

[Vanessa]

You could try the Jobcentre as well. They will have vacancies.

[Vicky.]

Honestly wouldnt bother with the jobcentre tbh...so many of their advertised jobs are fake :/

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

I also packed in one of the customers from the agency as I was terrified id find her dead one day

[mizzy25]

Originally Posted by Vanessa

You could try the Jobcentre as well. They will have vacancies.

I want to work for myself

[MTVN]

Can't go wrong with the good old yellow pages

[Vanessa]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

I want to work for myself

Ah, ok. You could try Loot and GumTree. And advertising in local shops.

[mizzy25]

Ok I know I want more work and needed more leaflets (ive got about 500 left from last time) so I ordered what I thought was 1000 last night, only somehow ive managed to order twice so im getting 2000 leaflets ffs lol Ive tried to cancel but I have no idea what the hell im doing so I think Il be getting the 2000 lol

[Cherie]

Do you do door to door leafleting Mizzy? have you put one on the notice board in the big supermarkets? also any big business near you that you could leave some for the staff, school staff rooms or hospital, I wish you were near me I would give you plenty work!! I hate housework.

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by mizzy25

Ok I know I want more work and needed more leaflets (ive got about 500 left from last time) so I ordered what I thought was 1000 last night, only somehow ive managed to order twice so im getting 2000 leaflets ffs lol Ive tried to cancel but I have no idea what the hell im doing so I think Il be getting the 2000 lol

lol you will be overrun with enquiries..

[Vanessa]

I hate cleaning as well.

[mizzy25]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Do you do door to door leafleting Mizzy? have you put one on the notice board in the big supermarkets? also any big business near you that you could leave some for the staff, school staff rooms or hospital, I wish you were near me I would give you plenty work!! I hate housework.

yes door to door leaflets, there is an asda near me il have to see about putting up a leaflet, theres also a morrisons and im sure they have a notice board. a friend of mine works in a building society in town and she said if I sent her one she wud out it up on the notice board @ her work, but I forgot to send her one lol will do it today. I wish I lived near u too Cherie. I get ridiculously distracted when I doing my own house but when I do someone elses its very satisfying when its all done.

[mizzy25]

Originally Posted by Cherie

lol you will be overrun with enquiries..

I certainly hope so lol

[Kizzy]

Set up a FB page for your business with all the info on and ask folk on your FB to share it?
What about you dog track buddies? Dogs are messy.. well mine is haha!
those free advertising boards they have in supermarkets or B&Q maybe too.

[mizzy25]

Well we did some leaflets on mon and tues and ive had a phone call today for a quote, its only to deep clean a kitchen but if I get it im hoping for more regular work off her, quoting on wed.
ive been doing a bootcamp for about a year and I happened to say I was tired on thurs, the guy who does the bootcamp asked me if I worked? I said yes and told him what I did. He said I could b just what hes looking for, then the class started and he had another straight after so we never sorted anything, so on tues I will give him one of my leaflets and il take it from there. so fingers crossed I get both and then they say it comes in threes so another one would b ideal too lol

[mizzy25]

things seem to be looking up. a friend of mine from the dogs has just sent me an e mail asking if we do one off spring cleans. of course we do so im going to give her a quote next mon a full one off clean will take a few hours for 2 of us to do though so it wont b cheap, but then again were not greedy either.

[mizzy25]

oh and she works in a school too so il ask her if she can maybe put a leaflet up there for us.

[Vicky.]

I'm actually quite tempted to hire a cleaner as a one off at the moment..the house is just ridiculous, I feel too crap to sort it and gavs ****ed his shoulder and back.

I think I would be embarrassed though, with someone seeing the state of it

[mizzy25]

believe me I see all sorts lol

[LeatherTrumpet]

what about an ad on your local radio station?