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Recently signed up to next door as a business , Its free to sign up , not sure exactly how it works yet ,but they offer free promotions which suggests there could be a charge somewhere along the line .
Will be interesting to see how it develops , and learn from others on here the best way to use next door ,Totally agree ( interesting idea ) and potentially useful if you can get your head around it .
Signed up to look once when I moved into a new area, but then de-registered. A letter appeared through the door about my local area from the co-ordinator a few streets away.
I did once receive some work via an adhoc customer who passed my details to someone else who had asked for reccommendations for some turf work following the chafer grubs. The only problem was she put a typo in the email address when suggesting they contact myself. One lady got in touch via another method after no success via email but dont know how many others were missed and gave up waiting for my reply. I did eventually clarify the correct email address to the adhoc lady who was giving out the wrong one! I know some window cleaners who get loads of work via Nextdoor
It would be useful to know exactly how this works. Their website is not the best. Could someone in the know could give us the details and mention any costs that may be involved.
As I see it, basically someone in the local area (post code based) would make a post saying can anyone recommend a plumber, gardener, window cleaner. People in their area who also look on next door would see their post, and May reply with yes and give the details. There are also many of the other usual Facebook type posts i.e. lost cats, noisy fireworks, postman queries etc.
I believe you can only post questions in your area that you join (again based on your postcode) and see those questions as well so you can only recommend yourself around your local streets/town. If there is a particular area you want garden work you will need to find someone in that area (postcode based) to be recommending you to get work from people asking for suggestions.
I live in Wilton nr Salisbury and 2 years ago moved not far from Harnham in Salisbury so lost all the viewing of Harnham opportunities that people were asking recommendations about, and if I signed up again I would only see the local chatter of questions based around where I now live. There is nothing to say someone miles away won't recommend you, if they know of you, you just don't see the requests based away from a local area where your account is registered to when setting up.
I went on there for a bit. Wasn't for me, I live in the centre of my town so mostly small gardens, I'd rather work 10mins trip out of town where the big garden's are and better money to be made.
In 5 years I've got two ad hock pieces of work from it. Here it seems to go like this:
Someone posts, saying they need a Gardener
Loads of people recommend loads of Gardeners
Some of us reply ... then a local OAP says they will do it for free as a neighbourly act.
I prefer Bark a million times over
Haha my experience as well Adam. I don't really use social media as a form of advising I find a couple of adverts in some local parish magazines is sufficient. Costs about £100 a year.
Hi Adam, tried bark for our cleaning business a few yeards ago and didnt get much, might be at the time i didnt follow up in time, but just seemed to spend a lot for leads that didnt go anywhere, thinking of maybe using it for our gardening division which is now up and running (litrally had the website go live yesterday gesgardeningservices.co.uk
We have a local business page on there. The only issue I have with it is as a business you can't see the main "forum" chat. So, I have to log out and log back in with my personal profile. Nextdoor took over from Streetlife which was very similar but better. We've had one job from Nextdoor which has led to three jobs for the same people but I rarely contribute. But it doesn't cost anything so it's worth having if you are looking for work. In a nutshell, it's a bit like Facbook except they are specific local neighbourhoods. You can expand your reach when putting up a business post so it doesn't just have to be your immediate neighbours ;-)
I've had 3 jobs from next door in 4 months which led to 2 more jobs
You get 2 free posts a month and these are what I use
Well worth registration
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