yellowpages.com

[Mikey P]

anyone having any luck with their ad?

They sent me this to try and get me to sign up..

here is my local competition...

http://sales.yellowpages.com/Santa-Cruz ... g-Cleaners

 

[Chris A]

30 Pages? How big's your market?

 

[Royal Man]

Insanity is paying to advertise with your competition.

 

[Ken Snow]

It is a better value for us than the print yellow pages. I'm doing 1k a month with them for yp.com

 

[Desk Jockey]

It's sucked for restoration in my market.

In 5-months I've had 28-calls, 111-clicks out of that only 2-jobs, both of which were existing customers.

We have not tried it for carpet cleaning so that maybe a different story, as a larger market might make a difference also.

I have another month under the trial, I plan to cancel. I have enough credit paid in to last the rest of the year if not longer.

 

[Brian R]

For carpet and tile cleaning it is pretty good. It takes a while to get going. They help get your website out there and then maybe you can cruise after that.
Has been a source of advertisement for me for about 5 years.

Like anything, it's not the end all to end all but if your ad and website are strong then it will work with your other stuff to help you make money.

 

[Wayne Miller]

We've been with yellowbook.com for almost a year and not a single call. Our rep says they're rated the best.

 

[Ken Snow]

Richard- I wouldn't think it would be good for restoration. 2 challenges with it~ 1 is that in an emergency a referral from agent/adjuster or friend is the likely first choice & 2 how someone looks it up on line is probably different from how we think of the industry.

 

[Desk Jockey]

You're right it hasn't worked out, I'll post the key words I used tomorrow.

 

[Ron Werner]

I had a $600 job come from Canpages.ca, the yp competitor.
Worth it to have a link on there.