Hey whisker, hold in there. My first year in bus was just the same as you are saying. ( 3 calls from my yp ad all year)I finally turned things around by never sitting around ( not saying you are ). I got up every morning and put togethor a plan for who I was going to talk to, ie. business, apartments, schools you name it. I made letters and flyers and cards and everything in between, I live in a valley of 110,000 population. I can honestly tell you I hit every single apartment complex in the whole valley with a nice letter I personally delivered. I never took no for an answer and most importantly, I always talked with the owners or main managment. If the owners were not there I found out who they were and called and called unitl I got ahold of them. I personally got ahold of or talked with over 175 business in town to try and get there business ( still have them in the computer). I did alot of shitty jobs for cheap just to bring money in. Can't tell you how many times we had abosolutley no food in the fridge or cabinets. ( had to even go to the church one week for food) But things finally started to change, if you are motivated and always looking for work you will find it. Offer to do some aprtments for free, talk with realestate agents and clean their houses for free. Go to the owners of property management companies and clean their houses for free. Carpet store owners, clean thier houses for free and offer them 10 percent back on referalls, just keep being more creative than the next guy and it will come in.
It's been 2.5 years since we started and we bring in good money almost every day now, put almost 750 hours on my machine in the last 8.5 months. almost always busy to and there is always food in the fridge. JUST DON"T GIVE UP!! P.S. You may want to alter you yp ad to.