Special offers

[Millsy 82]

Does anybody do special offers if so what do you do?

I am trying to get my name about a bit more and thought a nice little offer will help get me through the front door so to speak.

When I first set up I did a half price boiler servicing and got a few jobs off of it. But I keep hearing a local company offering cash back on boiler changes exactly like British gas, Now I dont charge as much as them anyway but I was thinking of doing something like a free magnaclean with every boiler as an example. (At the moment they have a nice offer on at plumb center duotec 24 flue and magnaclean for about £645+vat so I wouldnt lose out)

 

[rocketmanbkk]

Special offers are ok but you still gotta earn.

You can't go head to head with the big boys

It's a difficult one when there's people quoting & completing jobs for a tenner an hour here & £20 quid there.

Can you offer a free service after a boiler install? Free safety check after a certain time? What I wouldnt want to do if offer something that is time consuming as if you get busy you're going to be visiting for free & if you don't do what you say then you're unreliable!!

Not an easy one but I wouldn't go down the 'gimmick' path like say estate agents do & post a discount £100 voucher in your door as it just goes in their bill!

I'd be interested to know what works.

If you're thinking out of the box you could offer a meal for 2 at a restaurant to the value of £xx amount & strike a deal with a local place? Trips to Paris on each full install, loads of stuff you could do but what do people want? Id say to save money & get value for money

What are your ideas? Anything?

 

[hammers4spanner]

I offer cheap outside taps at 50 quid gets me I doors to do other bits .

As for boilers I have a magnacleanse that I push and most with a brain like the idea of using it . Boiler changes tho are a mare to be honest as always some tool that pushes for some cheap install.I always push that it's installed properly and the magna is used to help give a good clean to system .

 

[Plumbstar Tom]

Problem is, most customers won't know what a magna clean is, what it does and the value of it. I like the above one.

Paris trips and restaurants are just hassle in my eyes to keep on to top of. free service sounds good though

Especially as we are getting into the summer months where people would benefit them. do a good job there, leave a swing tag on the internal stopcock and leave them your business card.

 

[Scott_D]

A combi boiler swap with 7 years warranty from £@@@@
Based on the price of that boiler pack and your labour for a straight swap. When you go to quote condense, upgrading gas, new controls etc can be extra.

The only trouble is you will probbly get calls from all the people you want to avoid

 

[newcastle phill]

Try harder with plumbs.
I bought 2 last week and they were 593 + vat.
Come with Hoz flue kit. Adey magna and chemicals.
I know there was a price increase due but havent been in since.
Im trying to buy in some bargain basment vokeras from plumbs. Just waiting for a price back to see what i can advertise them at.
They do them as a pack too.
Works out alot less than the eco elites but they have just gone upto 5 years.
Some punters care some dont. They just want a boiler

 

[hammers4spanner]

A combi boiler swap with 7 years warranty from £@@@@
Based on the price of that boiler pack and your labour for a straight swap. When you go to quote condense, upgrading gas, new controls etc can be extra.

The only trouble is you will probbly get calls from all the people you want to avoid

exactly

 

[WaterTight]

I offer cheap outside taps at 50 quid gets me I doors to do other bits .

that's not particularly cheap even with the tap included!

but the outside tap is a good one, loads of people have said it before. it takes 5 mins and never goes wrong.

 

[WaterTight]

well, never say never. combing your hair could go wrong in this job.

 

[lame plumber]

I offered to repair an ecotec flashing f75 tonight against replacing it with a new boiler which the large companies techie suggested, when he couldnt id the fault. NB for once it wasnt BG, so arrived, turned on HW and it fired up, ch didnt work, cleaned the pressure sensor, popped it in and off the boiler went ( jammy I know, but didnt have a replacement in the van), customer v impressed, paid cash and off home I went. My offer cost me nothing and gained me an impressed new customer

 

[plumben]

If it was me i'd offer free magna clean or tf1 with every boiler over X amount and just buy it out of your mark up

 

[wattsie1987]

that's not particularly cheap even with the tap included!

but the outside tap is a good one, loads of people have said it before. it takes 5 mins and never goes wrong.

£50 is a bargain! Quality materials are about £20 picking the parts up fuel getting there. Takes at least half hour to fit all for about £22 after tax and ni...... Very cheap!

 

[Millsy 82]

Ive done the boiler from x amount and that worked well and I'm currently having leaflet printed up with exactly that, I found a lot of people knew that the boiler advertised would be carp and always listened to me when I recommended upgrading to a duotec or platinum.

What it is about is getting my name out and about, as people say the best form of advertising is reputation and I have a good reputation but I don't have the customer base for that reputation to build up into enough work, so an offer that will cost me a relatively small amount but will gain me that little bit more reputation is worth the loss that comes with it. (If that makes any sense whatsoever)

 

[Millsy 82]

Try harder with plumbs.
I bought 2 last week and they were 593 + vat.
Come with Hoz flue kit. Adey magna and chemicals.
I know there was a price increase due but havent been in since.
Im trying to buy in some bargain basment vokeras from plumbs. Just waiting for a price back to see what i can advertise them at.
They do them as a pack too.
Works out alot less than the eco elites but they have just gone upto 5 years.
Some punters care some dont. They just want a boiler

I do get them a bit cheaper than what I said but couldn't remember what the last price I got was as it's not very often I fit 24kw. But as I was saying I can advertise a free magnetic filter and not lose a penny and customer thinks they are getting a bargain.

 

[Millsy 82]

I offered to repair an ecotec flashing f75 tonight against replacing it with a new boiler which the large companies techie suggested, when he couldnt id the fault. NB for once it wasnt BG, so arrived, turned on HW and it fired up, ch didnt work, cleaned the pressure sensor, popped it in and off the boiler went ( jammy I know, but didnt have a replacement in the van), customer v impressed, paid cash and off home I went. My offer cost me nothing and gained me an impressed new customer

I get what your saying but you have the reputation built up over time and I am going against the likes of yourself when I have little reputation due to moving area before setting up.

In an ideal situation I wouldn't do the offering and if I didn't have to advertise then I wouldn't but it's just that thing to get my foot in the door.