Roof Cleaning Postcard Direct Mail Service

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onarooftop

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Hi, we collected 250 addresses of homes with roof stains
on them. Nice neighborhoods. We would like to send
post card mailers to the houses with a direct mail service.
Is there a service that does this without going through a
huge process of designing the card with a designer etc.

Thanks,
Onarooftop


www.erieroofcleaning.com
Our Website
 
Dude, Google away. Theres probably someone right in your neighborhood. 250 is hardly enough to make worth anyones while. Suck it up and get 5000 postcards made. Go through the "huge process" of getting a card professionaly designed. You can probably deliver the cards yourself in one or 2 days. Something tells me you got the time to see this through. Then sit back, have a beer and wait or the phone to ring. Good luck brother!
 
We have multiple websites.
The www.erieroofcleaning.com website isn't complete.
I agree with in investing in advertising.
We have a full page yellow page ad etc.
Just seeing if anyone had advice on the postcards.

Thanks for the warm welcome
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www.erieroofcleaning.com
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www.erieroofingestimates.com
www.erieparoofrepairs.com
www.stoproofleak.com
www.rooferie.com
www.erieparoofingcontractors.com
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Wow, using a pressure washer's pressure on a roof to clean it.

I hope your insurance company knows you are blasting granules off of the customer's roof shingles and potentially causing leaks due to the harder-than-rain-pressure you are applying on their roof.

Anything harder than garden hose pressure is too much for the roof, even with a pitch witch or modified surface cleaner blasting away on those poor shingles.

You need to read the roof shingle manufacturer's recommendations for cleaning roofs.

I hope customers wanting roof cleaned in Pennsylvania don't see that you are cleaning roofs with pressure and I hope that the customers you have cleaned roofs in Pennsylvania with pressure on their roofs don't get leaks soon as your insurance company will probably deny the claim.

I don't think that any insurance company will let you use pressure to clean a roof when they know pressure will blast the granules off the roof, it is against what the manufacturers recommend to clean roofs and it is against plain old common sense.

You should learn how to clean roofs without pressure so you are providing your customers a good service and stop blasting granules off roofs with the pressure washer.

I would never let someone up on my roof knowing that they are using pressure on the roof shingles which is against what the roofing manufacturer recommends.
 
Christopher,

So far no one has answered a pretty basic question.
I figured someone would share a good direct mail postcard service.
I have gotten nothing but rude remarks from everyone in this forum.
You have no idea what pressure or process we use when cleaning our
shingles.
I was excited to see there was a roof cleaning forum and expected
to discuss business. Very little value to this forum so far.

Christopher is going to make his first post slandering me and my company?

Not very professional.

Ask me what pressure I am using. Ask me whatever questions you want, just don't
assume, and don't be unproffessional.
Act like adults. Snide comments are for children, seriously.

Does anybody have information on post cards. That was the question. Thanks
 
I use UPS store for most everything. I'm sure you can find cheaper online, but I prefer a local contact & accountability if errors occur. The usps will deliver for you.
 
USPS EDDM and Post Card Mania is all I know. Again, great tarping job and I meant that. Biggest tarp I ever seen.
 
For a company to design and mobilze for a 250 count is not a good idea. You can expect 1% to 5% return. Do the math at 250, Not Good. Direct mail services are unlikely to accept your list of addresses unless you want to pay way more than you should. Direct mail services tend to deal with mailings in the thousands like whole zip codes. 250 isnt exactly big time and if that amount is important to you I would say to buy a label machine, a bunch of stamps, and write a personalized letter to print 250 times. I dont see whats the huge process to get a pro design that tells customers that you're a professional. Again, suck it up and get a professional design. Thats what most of the professionals here do. It sounds like your thinking small. Just sayin.
 
Ed,
Thanks for the response. We are collecting specific addresses of houses with
roof stains on them. There are times that there are only 3 or 4 houses on a block
that are bad. We plan on gathering thousands. We got the 250 addresses in about
5 hrs. of driving. I know the percentage is low on direct mail. That is the main reason
that I don't want to mail 5,000 to a zip code when only a few hundred in that neighborhood
have roof stains. This should increase the response rate and save money. I plan on spending
some time on design / testing different pieces / tracking etc. I wanted to know if there was
a basic service that had a very basic roof cleaning post card that I can plug in the addresses to
get the ball rolling.
 
Fill out your signature, forum rules.

There is great info in the marketing section if you are in a hurry, go and search and read as not everyone visits the site 24/7 and it might be days or weeks for a response you are looking for, much faster to use the search box if you are in a hurry.

Hahahahaha OK, I will bite. How much pressure are you using from your pressure washer to clean the roofs?

Is that pressure checked with a gauge at the pump the gun or at the nozzle?

How much psi is your pump putting out?

How many feet of hose?

What diameter hose?

What size nozzle on the wand?

How many nozzles on the roof device that looks like a modified surface cleaner?
 
When you look at the big picture, what is your time worth?

The fuel for driving around?

Did you have someone with you? If so, what is their time worth?

When you do the math, it might be more cost effective to mass mail using EDDM from the post office. No address labels, just tell them what neighborhoods you want it to go out to. Sure you will be hitting a lot of houses that don't need the roof cleaning services but they might need other services and it might get their attention and possibly save the card for later use. At 14.5 cents per card, that is not a bad price because I was spending about $0.29 to about $0.35 per postcard with addresses printed on them from the printing company, I would just tell them the neighborhoods I wanted to target.

The only mailing company here has a minimum of 500 pieces or a minimum job price which turns out to be about the same money, your area might be the same.

Have you contacted any mailing companies and talked to them, found out how they operate? How they want the cards setup? What their minimum is?

Some like the local place I have used want the bottom 2" blank without gloss because that is where they spray the address barcode, some will print labels, some will print label and barcode, different places do different things.
 
Got print .com has the cheapest post cards on the web. I mail over 50,000 a year and I have done the homework. Clearly you must have offended a couple of folks. There is a protocol for new members that they like followed. Introduce yourself, tell everyone what you do,etc, then ask your questions. I'm pretty new and have seen how it works and have seen new comers get roasted. This is a forum that most of these guys have been on for a long time and just want things done a certain way. Once you are in, you will find this to be the most valuable resource you could ever find for learning about and growing your business. Some of these guys are the biggest names in the business and will bend over backwards to give you a hand. Hang in there
 
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