Does anyone have any experience of Raw Marketing?

[mjbarton]

so if someone puts a positive comment u assume im a staff...thats silly

to be honest couldnt care if you used them. At the end of the day i run 3 businesses and need to promote online. So saving me time which equals money, i nominated raw marketing to do the service and yer so far they have been good and you know what they have been in communication with me every step of the way...so please dont comment if you are just trying to be funny.

If you need to get on google they can provide a good package where you don't come off plus they aslo offer seo.

[Shandy]

Originally Posted by clefairy_5

Hi,

I was just wondering if anyone has any experience of Raw Marketing?
They are offering people to be on the front page of Google for £100 a month. Is this done through AdWords? Are they similar to MatchMaker Marketing?

Thanks for you help,

Zoe

YES. DON'T GO NEAR RAW MARKETING! Tell all your friends and colleagues and post as much bad press about them as possible. Just stolen £179 from me and posted an advert with the incorrect web address so nobody can click on it. It is not unlimited either and will quickly run out. Stick to Google Adwords. This company are crooks. I keep calling them but they will not return my calls and have refused to refund my money.

I have written to my credit card company who are looking in to it. I am also writing to Google to have them removed from the natural listings, Trading Standards and may speak to the Police regarding fraud.

As for MJ Barton his full name is Mathew Barton and is the salesman who sold me the advertising. (see his comments below) I think they tell you all you need to know about this company. Looking to post more bad press about Raw Marketing. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Shandy]

YES. DON'T GO NEAR RAW MARKETING! Tell all your friends and colleagues and post as much bad press about them as possible. Just stolen £179 from me and posted an advert with the incorrect web address so nobody can click on it. It is not unlimited either and will quickly run out. Stick to Google Adwords. This company are crooks. I keep calling them but they will not return my calls and have refused to refund my money.

I have written to my credit card company who are looking in to it. I am also writing to Google to have them removed from the natural listings, Trading Standards and may speak to the Police regarding fraud.

As for MJ Barton his full name is Mathew Barton and is the salesman who sold me the advertising. (see his comments below) I think they tell you all you need to know about this company. Looking to post more bad press about Raw Marketing. Does anyone have any ideas?

[Shandy]

Just so you are aware Matthew Barton is also head of sales at Madmatters (web marketing SEO etc) and his wife appears to be Director of Stylematters who are a furniture supply company.

I would give any of these companies a wide birth if they are as dishonest as Raw Marketing.

This is not about poor customer service but theft plain and simple.

[websitedesign]

100/month what a joke. The only way is through PPC or very long tail keywords

Any keywords that have any kind of traffic would cost multiple times more/month

[AngliaSolutions]

I get tons of these types of offers every week and I don't think any of them are much good. I for one am steering clear, although waiting patiently to climb up the rankings is a little frustrating! :o)

[Shandy]

Just so you know Raw Marketing have refunded my money and explained that the posting of the incorrect web address was a genuine mistake.
Their sales technique leave a lot to be desired but apologies to them if they are a genuine set up. MJ Bartons posting on this site was enough to make me suspicious of their set up.

I hope that the poor customer service they provided me is not a reflection on their other companies and this indeed may not be the case. Stylematters and Madmatters certainly look like good set ups so it's a shame that my experience with Raw has clouded my judgement.

[Shakatan]

Yes, and it is not a good one.
We signed up with Raw Marketing in the hope of promoting our web site.
The initial fee was £100.00 with cancellation within the first 30 days if we felt it was not working for us.
We didn't recieve any more hits on our site than we had already been getting prior to signing with Raw Marketing and so we cancelled our contract with them within the specified cancellation period.
Raw Marketing acknowledge the cancellation and we thought that was that.
Not to be - Having instructed my bank NOT to pay further fees to this company, Raw Marketing has still managed to secure two further payments AFTER we cancelled. I have now instructed my banks fraud department to deal with the matter
I WOULD NOT TOUCH RAW MARKETING WITH THE PROVERBIAL BARGE POLE.

[FlyingCards]

Either Matthew Barton works as a sales person for Raw marketing or he doesn't. If he doesn't fair enough, if he does .....?
If he does what does it tell you about the company he works for?

[Jazz Trio]

Raw Marketing contacted me this morning offering me an Adwords campaign for £100 per month for 5 keyword phrases, with no click charges. However, the salesman then spoilt it by telling me that they were able to get this deal from Google because Bing was nearly level with them in the search engine stakes. He even quoted figures to back this up! - If you're make stuff up at least try to make it believable!

The email he followed-up with states "Recent statistics show that over 70% of all internet enquiries go through Google". Not sure how that equates with Bing and Google being neck-and-neck.

Their online agreement promises "to generate no less than 5 first page adverts on google.co.uk everyday for one calendar month". Sounds good on the face of it. However, the agreement isn't exactly watertight: it doesn't specify all day everyday, and what does "5 first page adverts" mean: 5 impressions?

Be interested to hear from anyone else who has used their services (excluding employees of Raw Marketing!).