Anyone still advertise in yellow pages and yell.com?

[Rye Oil Ltd]

We are spending close to £900 a month with this lot and I just don't see the benefIt. Does anyone use them and get good results.

Thanks jon.

[Mark Bolam]

Sack it Jon, they are truly awful.

That kind of money could buy you a lot of web presence and local advertising.

Previous threads on here to sift through as well.

 

When was the last time you used the Yellow Pages?

 

It's a shame really, I loved the ads they used to do, but when they started bare-faced lying to me I bailed.

 

'Yell.com is currently receiving 500 hits a day for tree work in Hamstreet.'

There aren't 500 houses in Hamstreet!

 

 

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[daltontrees]

I binned them 2 years ago, they were pretty inept, noever made the changes I asked for and if they did they got them wrong. I haven't paid them for 2 years and have cancelled my deal with them but I can't get them to remove my listing. It contains errors.

[NFG]

Hi,

 

Do I read this correct, over 10K a year ?

 

As Mark suggests you could get a lot of hosting with a nice web site for around £900 & spend the rest of something else

 

get rid ASAP

 

 

N

[Ian C]

I sacked them 4 yrs ago jon and lost no work! Says it all really.

 

Yell were on a hiding to know where when the Internet kicked off and as mark says they lie like dormant siphalus!

[Al Cormack]

I ditched them this year after using them for 10 years. Just didn't get anything like enough work through them anymore.

If I did get a call it was Mrs Muggins wanting her apple tree pruned. And then find out 5 others were quoting as well. No thanks.

[hamdogg]

What's the better advertising then??

[Mortimer Firewood]

Yell advertise my site free of charge don't no how some old boy just rang up and said i got your number off yell thought he was confused checked its on there:confused1:

[scraggs]

Yell advertise my site free of charge don't no how some old boy just rang up and said i got your number off yell thought he was confused checked its on there:confused1:

 

I was told today by Yell that your site will come up on yell if someone does a direct search for your name, you have a free listing.

I ditched them today after 31 years of advertising with them.

They made a fatal mistake of putting call counters on all of our adverts last year and it backfired on them

Yellow pages used to be our main source of work but times move on.

[Rye Oil Ltd]

Cheers guys, your answers pretty much sum up what I was feeling. It seems a ridiculous amount of cash to fork out, and there is no way we get that back in new customers. There may be a few old folk that still use yellow pages, so we may get a bit of business for the fuel deliveries that way, but no where near enough to justify the cost.

The bloke is coming round next week, so I think he is going to be sent packing