What do you think? Business question.

[Oakes]

Ok, so I have really started to pick up on detailing side work outside of my real job. Now, I've created a brochure for would-be customers just to give them some background and describe the services. Nothing super serial, just a simple brochure.

Now my question is, would you as a potential customer prefer a brochure or would a business card suffice? I've already handed some of the brochures out to some of the neighbors and they seemed to have been received well, just want to get a general consensus to the best route of easily attracting more customers.

Not that I am in desperate need for customers, just about all of them return which helps alot, so i guess just to create a solid base.

[Scapegoat]

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brochures are nice to get an idea of all the services, but they're "big" and tend to get thrown out. A business card gets stuck on the fridge or put in a wallet.

Oh, you need a website >_>

then you can put the brochure on the website and just hand out business cards... lemme know if you're interested ;)

[lownslow95]

My neighbor has his own detailing buisness and he just has buisness cards and it seems to be working for him.

[Oakes]

Originally Posted by Scapegoat

both

brochures are nice to get an idea of all the services, but they're "big" and tend to get thrown out. A business card gets stuck on the fridge or put in a wallet.

Oh, you need a website >_>

then you can put the brochure on the website and just hand out business cards... lemme know if you're interested ;)

Correct me if im wrong, but there is a fee/cost to own or open a website? Care to clue me in on the details of that. My brother also does this, if we get this off the ground well enough we may just combine our customer base. Who knows but thats stuff for down the road.

[crazyukrainian]

+1 on website

as for costs, well, depends on who you go to and how good friends you are with them

[jdm free]

Originally Posted by Nick'06

Correct me if im wrong, but there is a fee/cost to own or open a website? Care to clue me in on the details of that. My brother also does this, if we get this off the ground well enough we may just combine our customer base. Who knows but thats stuff for down the road.

its fairly cheap nowadays. you could just make a blog and register a domain for it and there u go...super cheap website thatll get the job done

[Scapegoat]

the blog is another option... i've built three typepad.com hosted blogs for the company i work for... three big name ecommerce site's blogs

I like those, i can usually get them done in under 20 hours now... so a weekend really with tweaks spanning 5-10 hours after that to get a basic running blog up.

[Oakes]

Thanks for the input on the website guys, appreciate it.

Im gonna take this one step at a time, i have a few consistent customers as it is, but like i said i would like to build that now that i have more focus towards it. Feel free to become one haha.

[Oakes]

So it looks like i will get business cards made asap, already have brochures to disburse.

Anyone want one?

[ITSTOCK]

Business card with website. Make it a good website though.

The brochures just get crumbled up and thrown out, but it wouldn't hurt to have some brochures ready for bigger customers (i.e. if you are going after small auto lots).