Final Say on Reach Local

[Brian R]

End of the last month of the contract
Paid $500.00
Made $495.00

2 Jobs

worthless

Done

I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Bruce Humphrey]

Did you only try this for one month? you almost broke even. Are you sure you don't want to give it another month?

Were those 2 jobs new customers ? That would be worth it to me to break even if I was gaining new customers.

 

[Brian R]

4 month contract...that was just the last month.

After all expenses, I pretty much broke even.
Yes, the customer retention part is a plus. It was just too much attention and work compared to better ads to justify staying on.

I have a pretty good web presence without them.

Same thing went for Service Magic.

 

[Royal Man]

After overhead you likely would have
to bring in almost double that just to break even.

Better just to flush it down the toilet.

It's a lot easier than all the work and sweat that has to be done to clean carpet and still loose money on every job.

Dave Yoakum-

 

[Brian R]

The last month I lost my ass

The other months I broke even...maybe

 

[Royal Man]

Loose money on every job and make it up in volume.

 

[BUSY BEE]

The last month I lost my ass

The other months I broke even...maybe

That sucks, it worked for me in the past 4 weeks. I was in the carpet, tile and stone searches and I did this:
Slate Strip and Seal $825
Travertine Clean and Seal $650
Travetine Clean Only $425
Carpet Clean $100 Real Estate Agent future work
Carpet Clean $150
Total $2,150
Minus $340 Blue Raptor/Reach local fee
$1,810.00 Not bad for my only advertising cost, they're already hounding me to come back, I think I will.

 

[Chris Muetterties]

How do they advertise ? I have never heard of this till this thread. TV, Radio, Print Ads ?

 

[BUSY BEE]

How do they advertise ? I have never heard of this till this thread. TV, Radio, Print Ads ?

I'm not sure how they advertise. I found my rep in an article in Cleanfax when he was with Reach Local, now I think he owns Blue Raptor which is an extension of Reach Local. When he was with RL it did ok, when he brought in Blue Raptor it did 2-4 times better, I don't know why. If anyone wants his # PM me.

 

[Brian R]

They advertise on the internet.
They get high in the listings with your website and "reach local" thing after the .com



I can get pretty high on my own now. I believe Dave Yoakum said that.