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MrsTinks

Hamilton Forbes... has it not occured to anyone else that this is the name of Penelope Keiths character in "To the Manor born"? Mrs Hamilton-Forbes

Anyway I'd be more tempted to say NO and instead look into local advertising... like the school magazines, local village newsletters (ours is really quite good I have to admit! it's almost a proper little paper) and even leaflet dropping around where you are. We had one through recently from a local lady offering a really good deal but for the next evening only and sadly I was out that night or I'd have thought of taking her up on it!

dinkylou

Personally, I wouldnt bother with this and I work in marketing.

If you dont know exactly who it will be reaching/if its your target audience etc, then dont waste your money.

Also as others have already suggested, there are cheaper/faster ways to get your message out there.

Email is fine as long as you have permission to use the email addresses for your purpose and not to sell/send on to a third party. Also, make it as personal as possible and this will go down better. ie. not a forward as such

Also worth just adding a note on the bottom that if they dont want anymore emails from you, send an unsubscribe message back to you - that should cover you for data protection (very difficult to enforce)

Word of mouth is always strongest for your kind of business so i think your referral idea is good.

If there is anything I can help you with or you want to bounce a few promotional/advertising ideas just PM me.

LJD1_2

Thankyou all so much for your ideas! You've given me loads to be getting on with! I'm definitely finding the best way is word of mouth but i'm just impatient to pay of those debts!

Thanks again for all your ideas.