| Once you have your trailer(s) ready for hire you | | | | advertising on their taxis. Same goes for local bus |
| need to let as many people as possible know. This | | | | companies. Visit your local skip hire business and |
| is the part of the business that is often either | | | | come to some arrangement to have your |
| overlooked or not pushed enough. No matter | | | | business advertise with them. This way anyone |
| whether it is a trailer hire business you are trying | | | | hiring a skip may also want a trailer to hire. |
| to make a go of or something like a restaurant, | | | | Next move to online possibilities. In this country |
| hotel, shop, or online website store; none of them | | | | just like America, there are yahoo groups. The |
| are going to make any money without customers! | | | | two groups you want to post messages |
| You could have the most wonderful trailer in the | | | | (adverts) on are - Freecycle and Cheapcycle. The |
| country, but unless people know about it and can | | | | first, Freecycle has allsorts of household and other |
| hire it easily, you are wasting your time. So you | | | | items available for people to collect from them, |
| need to market your trailer hire business | | | | for free. Some of these items are large, too large |
| effectively. So starting close to home look at | | | | for loading into a car. These people will be |
| your trailer and see where you can place an | | | | reluctant to pay removal firm fees. They want |
| advert advertising the fact it is available for hire. | | | | cheap transportation, as soon as possible. It is the |
| Get a weatherproof sign made and mounted on it. | | | | same with Cheapcycle, although these items cost |
| Next, let everyone you know that you now have | | | | their customers, they still want one off |
| a trailer for hire. Speak to them, phone them, | | | | transportation for hire. |
| text them, and email them. Either you or your | | | | Classified ads online such as Loot, Intergiant, |
| family go round your village, town or district with | | | | FreeUKClassified, Vivastreet, Classifieds, FreeAds, |
| fliers in their hands and post them through letter | | | | and Onlinexchange are all places you could |
| boxes. Arrange for teenagers to do it for you for | | | | advertise. There is also a website called Craigslist, |
| a small fee. Contact your local newsagent and ask | | | | which is very widespread in America and has the |
| them if their paper boy or girl will deliver the fliers | | | | same rising success over here. However, recently |
| at the same time as the newspapers. | | | | Craigslist has attracted 'time wasters and others |
| Contact your local newspaper and see if you can | | | | who want to spend their time 'messing people |
| arrange for your flier to be inserted in each | | | | about'. So by all means visit the website and |
| edition. Leave your fliers where people congregate | | | | judge for yourself. If you decide to place an |
| - taxi offices, takeaway shops and diy shops. | | | | advert. Make sure the person hiring your trailer is |
| Leave your flier or smaller card in every | | | | 'bona fide' (in good faith). |
| supermarket in your district - remember to call | | | | While thinking about online advertising and |
| back every 10 days to put up another one.Go to | | | | marketing you might consider having your own |
| your local libraries and put your advert on their | | | | website. Your own trailer hire website maybe |
| notice board. | | | | worthwhile. Setting up a website requires the |
| In local shops arrange for your advert to be put | | | | following- a Domain name, Hosting, a platform |
| in their window for a small fee per month. If you | | | | such as WordPress (free), a PayPal account and a |
| have more money to spend on marketing you | | | | Google AdSense account. This would be the |
| could arrange with your local taxi firm to have | | | | minimum necessary to have an online business. |