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Has anyone used yellowpages.com. I was contacted by them and met with them. They guarantee results. I’ve tried advertising on the net and didn’t like the results. Curious if anyone uses them and likes them. If it is as good as that claim it works better than phone books ads and is a tenth of the price for what I pay for my phone book ads.
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I’m in there because it is so cheap – I think I pay around $25 per month. So far, I am unaware of a single job from it. I’ve been in just over a year.
I try to ask my new customers where they heard about me, but I forget sometimes. I suppose I may have gotten a couple of jobs from it. It is definitely nothing spectacular.
For the record, I do well from my yellow pages ad in the book.
Mike
I’ve done well with my yellow page ad. The would give me a new phone number and track all the call that would come in and all the ones that went unanswered. I would be at the top spot. It’s $180 a month.
3yrs.in on yp.com. 195.00 month. we book 6 to 8 jobs a month.have had some months more.some less.usually steady.i recommend if can swing it.the higher placement is best though.
We were with them early on (2+ years ago) and they made promises to us (we would ALWAYS BE one of first 3 listed since we were a Gold member or something like that) and then it turned out that wasn’t the case. The guy that we dealt with was quitting and made us a lot of promises that he knew they couldn’t keep, but I guess just wanted to make the sale. Add to it that the company was merging with another company so everything was null and void that we previously agreed upon. Every time they contacted us we voiced our concern over this and they said they would have a supervisor call us or give us a free month, but it never happened and the next person that would call us would be just as clueless. They even called us once trying to get me to sign up with them and we were already using them. Talk about feeling like a valued customer. That did it for me and we dropped them. We ended with them in Jan ’06 and we totaled about $2000 in business, $1400 of which was one job. Spent about $3300 over the 15 mos we were with them. We were with them in their infancy and I do see some advertising for them now, so they may be better. I think their prices have dropped too.
I use them. They do make lofty statements, but you have to understand how they work. It’s based on a points system and the more bells and whistles you have on your ad(email link, web link, call button, etc.) the more points and the higher up in the listings you’ll be. For me it pays for itself each year, but it’s not a big earner. I use it mainly for more Internet presence.
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