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View Poll Results: What is your companies advertising budget a month ?
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I work by referrals only
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100 or less a month
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$200 - $500 a month
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04-30-2012, 06:16 PM
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Phosphate Coated as of 05
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Location: California
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Advertisment Budget
For those with their own business, what's your companies advertising budget ?
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04-30-2012, 06:21 PM
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Senior Member
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Location: Ft. Worth, TX
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after 10 years... $0 in "direct" advertising.. now we do spend a few grand a year on promo items (hats, knives, pens, coffee mugs etc...)
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04-30-2012, 06:26 PM
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Phosphate Coated as of 05
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Yeah, I've been a referral business for years. I spend only maintenance fees for my website. Use to advertise in the Yellow Pages before the internet took over.
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04-30-2012, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by dronai
Yeah, I've been a referral business for years. I spend only maintenance fees for my website. Use to advertise in the Yellow Pages before the internet took over.
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Maybe that's why you don't make the big bucks.... 
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04-30-2012, 07:43 PM
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Maybe that's why you don't make the big bucks.... |
What are these "big bucks" you speak of..   
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04-30-2012, 07:45 PM
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Only contractors who shine their boots and drive ratty old vans make big bucks. 
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04-30-2012, 07:46 PM
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Ask McClary. 
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04-30-2012, 07:47 PM
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Only contractors who shine their boots and drive ratty old vans make big bucks. |
Cletis makes big bucks.
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04-30-2012, 07:48 PM
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Cletis makes big bucks.
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So I make big bucks?
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04-30-2012, 07:48 PM
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Phosphate Coated as of 05
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter D
Only contractors who shine their boots and drive ratty old vans make big bucks. |
You mean like
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04-30-2012, 07:49 PM
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So I make big bucks? |
If your Cletus, sure.
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04-30-2012, 09:45 PM
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Our marketing budget is 10% of revenue. By the end of las year it was close to 12% which is VERY aggressive because we added more programs. Now it is 8% of ytd revenue and I hope to keep it there and work harder on the bottom line.
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04-30-2012, 09:59 PM
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Resi Service Electrician
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$800 or so but we dabble in a lot getting rid of what does not produce so this number goes up and down a lot. Is just an average since a bunch of the ads are prepaid.
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04-30-2012, 10:03 PM
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Phosphate Coated as of 05
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Quote:
Originally Posted by yrman
Our marketing budget is 10% of revenue. By the end of las year it was close to 12% which is VERY aggressive because we added more programs. Now it is 8% of ytd revenue and I hope to keep it there and work harder on the bottom line.
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Originally Posted by electrictim510
$800 or so but we dabble in a lot getting rid of what does not produce so this number goes up and down a lot. Is just an average since a bunch of the ads are prepaid.
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Yrman,you are a 4 man shop ?
How many in your shop Tim ?
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04-30-2012, 10:07 PM
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Resi Service Electrician
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3-4 service guys. A couple apprentices. Currently 3 service guys and 2 apprentices. We are looking to hire another service guy by June or so to make it 4 again.
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04-30-2012, 10:14 PM
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Resi Service Electrician
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Did I say $800...  I left off a 0 try $7000-$8000.
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04-30-2012, 10:16 PM
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At the moment we have 3 jmen, 2 apprentices and Jim who still runs some calls and jobs. We are tracking to do about 1.2m this year if we survive (kidding). We just added the 3rd jman because we are doing a 4 story hotel rewire that will tie us up for awhile and other work is backing up ( a good thing sort of).
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04-30-2012, 10:18 PM
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Phosphate Coated as of 05
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Quote:
Originally Posted by electrictim510
Did I say $800... I left off a 0 try $7000-$8000. |
No joke ?
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04-30-2012, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by electrictim510
Did I say $800... I left off a 0 try $7000-$8000. |
Wow, glad you said that. I turned 3 shades of green with envy. We spend about somewhere about 7k too.
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04-30-2012, 10:25 PM
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Resi Service Electrician
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Quote:
Originally Posted by dronai
No joke ?
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No joke. We are 99% service though.
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