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UK Floor Cleaning Forum => Carpet Cleaning Forum => Topic started by: john rees on January 26, 2015, 09:29:00 am

Title: Hibu websites
Post by: john rees on January 26, 2015, 09:29:00 am

Any thoughts?got the rep coming this week, Seems cheap but what's the catch?
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Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: stuart_clark on January 26, 2015, 02:37:53 pm

How cheap ?

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: M.Acorn on January 26, 2015, 03:05:19 pm

Think they are currently doing an offer, they are around £200 + £49 a month, gave me all the blurb recently when I had the rep round.

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: derek west on January 26, 2015, 04:55:04 pm

My Advice, don't open the door. you have been warned.

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: stuart_clark on January 26, 2015, 05:09:45 pm

You would be better going to someone like Mark at DP Print and design


Stuart

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: Tom Molloy on January 26, 2015, 08:38:18 pm

There is the catch. £49 per month.
They are part of Yellow Pages. Yellow Pages has had it's day.

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: stuart_clark on January 26, 2015, 10:17:05 pm

I do well from yellow pages still , at least £10,000 profit a year anyway

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: peter maybury on January 26, 2015, 10:26:30 pm

I have several websites and normally do most of my own i.t. Most of my sites look very similar as I have constructed them myself. Last October we signed up to hibu to do us a website as we thought that it would be nice to put up something that is done by " professionals", and it is difficult for me to devote the time myself.
It has been an absolute nightmare and is taking a lot more time that if I had done it myself. They are constructed offshore and the people making the site do not seem to have a great command of the English language. We have put in the instructions "show a picture of" and that statement will actually end up within the text. It is difficult to get over to somebody who is unfamiliar with your business exactly what you want when they do speak the same language as you.
Unfortunately the rep will lead you to think that they can provide a faultless service but this is not the case. We have probably another 2 or 3 hours of work to put together the changes that we want made but from the last list of changes that we sent them, think that this will add to a lot more work again.
I would look at using somebody who has experience within our field, even if you pay a bit more it will save you a lot of time and aggro.

Peter

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: tim handley on January 27, 2015, 08:59:06 am

i have hibu website and yes it gets me work, i considered very worthwhile until i joined carpet cleaners network..........

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: garry22 on January 27, 2015, 12:28:31 pm

...or even professional Adwords companies  ;D

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: M.Acorn on January 28, 2015, 11:27:54 am

There isn't much hope, they can't even get my current advertising right, adding categories to my yell.com advertising for services I don't even offer !!

Title: Re: Hibu websites
Post by: Paul Redden Countryfresh on January 28, 2015, 07:14:12 pm

I got one of their basic 4 page sites at £24 a month, but they want to upgrade me to a mobile
friendly site at £362 + vat  and £50 - £60 a month!

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