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Just Coach Hire is a coach hire booking agent that can help you get exactly the right coach, at the right place, at the right time.
They cater for weddings and corporate events and have access to thousands of coaches throughout the UK, so can help with everything from coach hire in London to minibus hire in Birmingham. One to try if you’re organising an event and need to sort out transport.
Have you just passed your driving test? A lot of car hire companies ask for a minimum of 1 year’s qualified driving experience before they’ll let you hire a car from them. The issue is, of course, insurance.
The word on the street, though (or should I say the Web?), is that some companies will accept older drivers who have just passed their tests. Ring around… you may be in luck. And if you find a company that will hire you a car, come back here and let us know!
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So maybe you’ve had a big party and your kind guests have made a mess. Or maybe that lovable pet of yours has had a little accident.
Whatever the reason, you have dirty carpets! Oh dear, stained carpets are not good. You want your lovely, clean carpets back but don’t want to fork out to hire a cleaning company. What do you do?
The answer: hire a carpet cleaning machine! These wonderful devices are straightforward to use and work wonders.
Prices to hire a carpet shampooing machine are around £20 for 24 hours.
To find out more, and get a few carpet cleaning tips, take a look at Rug Doctor
Are you under 21 and looking to hire a car in the UK? If so, I’m afraid you’re going to be out of luck. You could be 20 years old and have had your driving license for a couple of years already, but to a hire car company you’re still going to be considered a high risk. We’ve scoured the internet, but we could not find any companies prepared to hire their cars to a driver under 21 years old. If you somehow manage to find one, please let us know!
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Are you looking to hire a van for just a few hours? Most companies will only hire vans out for a minimum of a day. Here are two, though, that offer hourly van rental:
If you are looking for per hour van hire, you might also want to consider hiring a man with a van. The hourly rate may be more, but you may not need so long as you’ll be getting a helping hand with loading and unloading.
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Sam Harris, now 13, of Spalding, Lincolnshire was left badly brain-damaged after being kicked on a bouncy castle at a party. Today, at the High Court, he won his damages claim against the parents who hired out the bouncy castle. The judge said that they had not provided enough supervision. Timothy and Catherine Perry, who had hired out the bouncy castle for their triplets’ party are insured for the damages which could exceed £1 million.
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Trying to decide between hiring and buying? Here are 20 reasons why you should hire!
With blogs continuing to grow in popularity, more and more people are writing about their hire businesses. Writing a blog can be a great way to establish your authority online, attract search traffic to your site and, in the best cases, get some valuable feedback from your customers.
Here’s our round-up of the 5 best UK hire blogs out there today:
A fantastic example of finding great content based around what you might expect to be a dull subject. TopSkips cover plenty of relevant, often light-hearted skip-related stories and news items. Where do they get all their ideas from? A masterpiece in creativity.
An award-winning blog, written in a friendly, nicely non-corporate way. It’s full of relevant photos, video clips and polls. It has a really good mixture of material and engages its readers very well.
OK, so this one’s not strictly British. It’s based in France, but I’m going to include it anyway because of the great photos. Check out their post on Snailing in France for example!
This blog from a contract hire company uses a simple format. The posts are mostly describing their latest models and offers. High-quality photos of the cars in question make for an attractive blog.
A straightforward, matter-of-fact record of the jobs they’ve done, listing all the equipment they provided. Simple, but probably effective for bringing in search traffic.
My previous post listed the top 100 UK hire searches, but a lot of them were for self-drive car hire. It wasn’t so easy to see what was popular outside of that. Here’s a bit more hire industry research. It’s another list from Wordtracker; the same idea as before, but this time the top 100 UK searches including the term ‘hire’, but excluding searches that are obviously for self-drive car hire.
As before, don’t read too much into individual entries as automated scripts can sometimes be running lots of searches which can skew the results. But the list is certainly an interesting read. Where’s your favourite hire product on this list? Is it as popular as you thought?
Have you ever wondered what keywords people use when they’re searching for things to hire? Wordtracker provides data on such things and here’s what they have to say. Here are the most popular UK searches including the term ‘hire’:
Due to the nature of the data, there’s sure to be some noise in there, so surprising-looking entries should be taken with a large pinch of salt. That said, the list does give an idea of the kinds of things that are the most popular. Where does your favourite hire product appear? Is it as popular as you thought? Is it even in the top 100?
