yellow pages how much are you paying

[Hodge]

i stopped advertising with them last year and i have been busier than ever, i just advertise in my local paper, it costs more than the yellow pages but gets me more work than the yellow pages.

[Pete Hart]

Without doubt.... the biggest waste of money in my arb business career so far.

I'm tied into spending £111 pounds a month until nov and will not be renewing under any circumstances.

Local ads work better

Don't waste your time or money... and don't be swayed by their sales pitch "we will generate such and such work and calls a week/month" and "you can't miss out, as all your competitors are in the YP"

 

I have recieved exactly ZERO calls from the yellow pages and really wish I hadn't bothered!

[detritus21]

I haven't bothered this year. They told me my advert last year was a waste of money down the phone and I needed to spend more money for a better advert. If my advert was a waste of money why did they sell it me in the first place and say it would be amazing.

[Hodge]

I haven't bothered this year. They told me my advert last year was a waste of money down the phone and I needed to spend more money for a better advert. If my advert was a waste of money why did they sell it me in the first place and say it would be amazing.

 

They really are are joke, what a thing to say, you should have asked for your money back:lol:

[greengrafter]

Theres a trend occuring here!

 

waste of time and money for me also!!!when I told them I wasn't bothering a few years ago, they hit me with all the stats.... 1000's of people looked at my web site this month.... blah blah blah.

 

Wow that's amazing all those people and not one phone call:thumbdown:

[Dts trees]

why they haven't gone under i don't know. Anyone who advertises in there is daft, waste of money, Google and local adverts is the way forward now and has been for a few years.

[Old Mill Tree Care]

I ask every enquiry where they got my number from and I monitor the conversion rate and trends.

I found that EVERY yellow pages punter wants the cheapest possible price, ask them, they even admit it, so I now respectfully decline from visiting.

I now spend my money on checkatrade (very successful) and my extra time on Arbtalk.

[Ian C]

i just got a grands worth of work last week from yell.com. still in 2 minds wether to stay with them for next year though.

[Ian C]

I ask every enquiry where they got my number from and I monitor the conversion rate and trends.

I found that EVERY yellow pages punter wants the cheapest possible price, ask them, they even admit it, so I now respectfully decline from visiting.

I now spend my money on checkatrade (very successful) and my extra time on Arbtalk.

 

Thats not just YP thats most punters full stop.

[Billy]

1200 a year double quarter column in black and yellow, two areas covered on yell.com too, seems to be working so far, rep was fit too