How Many Use Yell.com

« **on:** February 14, 2011, 06:17:10 pm »

How many of you use Yell.com?
Or have you used them but dropped them (if so why?)
Or have you never considered it?

« **Reply #1 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:19:22 pm »

dropped em cos there a waste of time, i only got calls when they were plastered over the tele and that only lasts a couple of weeks, think it was the horse one when i enrolled, its the revamped J R hartley now, you'll get a few enquiries while thats on then everyone will forget about it and just google as usual.

« **Reply #2 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:31:51 pm »

Dropped out myself as didnt get many enquireys.

Your right derek with the cheesy add for dave e latley trance dance mix

« **Reply #3 on:** February 14, 2011, 06:52:10 pm »

Waste of time and very expensive. I dropped it.

« **Reply #4 on:** February 14, 2011, 07:11:16 pm »

Mmm, that's pretty much our experience of them.

Anyone happy with them?

Simon

« **Reply #5 on:** February 14, 2011, 07:15:38 pm »

Waste of money...advertised with them when we first started up and all we got was calls from other advertising agency..not one job
Got ours delivered a few weeks ago and its still in its bag.
They have had there day, even yell.com is not working

« **Reply #6 on:** February 14, 2011, 07:37:22 pm »

Honestly don't waste your money. Hard sell,lots of self boasting and Google adwords outperformed them by 20-1 when I was using it.
The yell group love themself, the rest of the business community lost that love a few years ago.

« **Reply #7 on:** February 14, 2011, 08:19:25 pm »

Last couple of years have been pants. Before that it ok doing ok, nothing special.

Since the first of December till now 2 calls, both price shoppers that didn't book.

« **Reply #8 on:** February 14, 2011, 08:22:34 pm »

Total waste of time, specially now that most people have phones with mobile internet access
Mark

« **Reply #9 on:** February 14, 2011, 09:03:34 pm »

Ditto, never had a call. Google out performs them ever time. YP still works though, not how it did but we are keeping the ad in, the more our competitors pull out the better it is for us.

« **Reply #10 on:** February 14, 2011, 09:08:35 pm »

I`m still getting around 16 calls a month thru yell, so I`ll give it another year.

« **Reply #11 on:** February 14, 2011, 09:09:07 pm »

We're on it but not for much longer.
Without checking I'm 99% sure we haven't recoup the cost and that was one of the top listings.
If you were searching for a tradesman would you first bring up google, then bring up Yell, then do the search. When if you just bring up any decent everyday search engine you can find what you want by missing out the 'yell' bit of the equation.
Something else I don't like about it, is that it contains 'non local' people who are cheating the system by using false addresses. Until they get that sorted it's never going to be beneficial to local trades.

« **Reply #12 on:** February 14, 2011, 09:22:30 pm »

I was searching for a joiner the other day for a quote on lining the back of my new van with ply board and got very poor results on google. So opted for the YP and there where tons.
I think it works better for some trades than others, but yell is poor and extremely expensive for what it does.

« **Reply #13 on:** February 14, 2011, 09:24:39 pm »

A very good point Neil. I just do a Google search and that's why Adwords works. For me Yell ripped too many people off for too long in the book as well as online. Huge profit margins based on not enough real competition.

« **Reply #14 on:** February 15, 2011, 10:26:23 am »

I do okay off Yell.com and get quite a bit of commercial work from it. Out of all my marketing, Yell.com gives me my highest average job ticket.

« **Reply #15 on:** February 15, 2011, 11:46:23 am »

I think it depends on your area! some are better than others! a friend of mine who lives in county durham does ok from them! I myself cant remember ever getting one phone call in the year i advertised with them! needless to say i havent advertised with them again!

« **Reply #16 on:** February 15, 2011, 01:04:42 pm »

:'(DOH...I just signed up for my first time with Yell...£400 for the year..DOH..!

So if not YELL...wheres best to advertise??..I get calls from Google searchers Im sure..But gets lots of sales calls from Yahoo...is anyone on with them??

Also..what/how do ADWORDS work???

« **Reply #17 on:** February 15, 2011, 03:23:13 pm »

I signed up to the book and yell.com in dec for the first time, decided i needed to try for myself.

Ive had endless sales calls where they've got my number from yell.com, ive had a few jobs from the book and .com, not a great deal but its only feb so the jurys still out.

My ad was done in a bit of a hurry as the book was going to print, as i figured the only people really using the book now were the older folk i tryed to gear it toward them- family business, caring and 10% discount.

Ive had them pesky swines from Thomson local on the phone a few times telling me x amount of searches done on just there site for my services last month.
When i said im sure more searches were done on google than thomson and his figures didnt really tally with what my adwords were telling me, well it turned out he was using a pretty wide search area.

« **Reply #18 on:** February 15, 2011, 03:28:13 pm »

dont wast your money,with yell or thomson..they will get more than you will..

« **Reply #19 on:** February 25, 2011, 08:24:38 am »

Our YP Rep came yesterday and wasn't very pleased that we cancelled our advertising after 30 years with them.

Simon

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