Anyone used door hangers to advertise their business?

[stephen4785]

Im thinking about having some nice 3.5 X 8.5 glossy door hangers printed and distributed but Im wondering what the return is on them. From what Iv read its 1.5% average.
Anyone used that type of advertising? What were the results?

[talisman]

Putting shit on my door is a good way to make sure I never use your business.

[momo]

if it aint a pizza coupon, it gets trashed.


mmm pizza, gonna go check the door for dinner now.

[Unicorn Jeff]

if it aint a pizza coupon, it gets trashed.


mmm pizza, gonna go check the door for dinner now.

FATTY!!!! jk.

[BlackSnake]

They don't do what they use to for some reason. We use to get great responses from door hangers, but over the past 4/5 years they have brought very little calls if any at all.

I hate to say it, but 90+ % of all our jobs comes from referrals or they are repeat customers. Cant imagine what it would take to start a new business.

[helosailor]

Putting shit on my door is a good way to make sure I never use your business.

This!

That no soliciting sign by the door means don't be putting shit on my door. Unfortunately, most of the people who pass those things out can't read, in any language.

[kobuzz]

Best advertising I have found is to go to one of the Star telegram warehouse zones that the papers are delivered from. Talk to a few carriers and pay them to put your fliers in the paper with their normal deliveries. You can target whatever side of town by what zone office you go to.

[SMKR]

x3 please dont hang stuff on my door

[Unicorn Jeff]

x3 please dont hang stuff on my door

x4, And I don't even look at the shit. Instant journey to the shredder or recycling bin.

[JP135]

“When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away.”
Mitch Hedberg

I feel the same way about papers under my windshield and on my front door. To me it says 'we can't afford real advertising so we hired some winos to pass these out'.

[SMKR]

x4, And I don't even look at the shit. Instant journey to the shredder or recycling bin.

I save em and hand em to the next guy that walks buy to hang something in my door, I give him 10 before he gets to my door

[Roscoe]

I was in need of a service and a guy just so happened to have one put on my front door, offering free estimates. I called, he came and gave me a (higher than others) proposal for the work. He was punctual and has earned my business.

I asked him how many others called after having those door hangers put in our neighborhood (only about 50 houses), he said I was his 3rd estimate that day and second to hire him.

I'd say they work...

(this was for fence staining/sealing)

[LS1Goat]

everything that gets hung on the door gets tossed in the trash. i would look at other means of advertisement.

[0 GT 2]

All these red blooded republicans and you can't support small business?

I passed out door hangers to get my business rolling with some mixed results. I found the extremely affluent and the bottom rung neighborhoods disregarded them the most but middle America took to them fine. I would get 2-3 customers on an average day and then I could leverage them for referrals.

[jakesford]

If it is a professionally printed, nice quality flyer, I notice that I will at least look at it before it goes into the recycle bin. Most of the crap I get on my door looks like it came of some POS copier, and it doesn't even get looked at.

That said I have never used any company based on that kind of advertising.