Newbies ask that question lots, but I haven't seen it asked for a while here, so . . .

I got a call today from a horse owner and she wondered If I could come out and do two horses.
I said "Sure"
So after I'm done and we were standing around some I asked how she got my number . . .
She said "A while back she tore off my number from the poster that I had on a bulletin board at . . ."
I said that "I hung that tear off poster when I first moved to the area three years ago".
She said "Yeup, that'd be how long I've been carrying that number in my purse for".

Well how about that, I guess my "New Guy To The Area Poster" worked after all . . .

. . . after all of three years. Fancy that.

I actualy got lots of calls on those posters that year . . .

I might just go put up a couple of "Been Here For A While" posters out.
I have a couple of spaces in my book that I could fill.

. . . Well back to the books . . .

I think the posters would do well! The bulletin boards around the area here are usually overflowing with such posters, and if they remain standing, they are usually covered up by free puppy posters. It is pretty cut-throat with many many starving shoers in the area, and I have had posters/business cards that I have put up taken down and/or thrown away.....

It is a rarity that I go to an establishment where I posted on a bulletin board and still see my things there. They are usually replaced by the cards of another shoer. It got expensive hanging up replacement cards at all the popular places just to have them discarded, so I just hand them out upon request anymore.

Glad to hear all is well up there Bradley!

Last year I went out and did some nags for a woman and when I got done I asked her who had given her my number. She said, "I got it off the bulletin board at the feed store in town." I told her she must be mistaken, but she insisted. A few days later I stopped in to see, and there was the most unprofessional looking peice of notebook paper with crayon colorings and magic marker advertising my name and number. I waited till no one was looking and took it down. Turns out a little 13 year old girl who's horse had foundered and I had worked on it, decided I needed more work and she was gonna help me out, lol. I never told her I took it down, hopefully she didn't put another one up.

LOL, as I was reading this thread I got a call from a guy that picked up my card at the feed store. I usually don't get too many calls off of posters and such though.

I'm a regular in there and the only real "farrier" in the area. Mine are on the counter next to the register. :cool: