Acquiring the first few customers

[directmarketingadvice]

Sorry, I'm not interested in arguing about PPC with you. I manage a team of PPC analysts and £100k a month of PPC spend at very technical and results focussed PPC agency in my current job. I don't think I'm being unreasonable saying that I know my stuff!

And you also felt the need to try to slag off the competition. What was that all about?

Sorry if you feel threatened

By you? I don't think so.

As people pointed out, you didn't even know how to get customers.

(one of us has built up a successful PPC business... and it's not you)

Sorry if I put your nose out of joint by showing that your "pay per performance" model could ...

(a) lead to you not getting paid if you do good work

(b) force clients to pay anyway even if you don't do good work

(c) is open to abuse by the PPC person and could result in clients being ripped off.

None of which, despite you "knowing your stuff", you were able to realise.

Nevermind.

Good luck with your telemarketing.

Steve

 

[pixelo]

Crikey... You're an angry man!

Thanks for the kind advice, but I'm going to pursue some kind of pay per performance model regardless.

And you also felt the need to try to slag off the competition. What was that all about?



By you? I don't think so.

As people pointed out, you didn't even know how to get customers.

(one of us has built up a successful PPC business... and it's not you)

Sorry if I put your nose out of joint by showing that your "pay per performance" model could ...

(a) lead to you not getting paid if you do good work

(b) force clients to pay anyway even if you don't do good work

(c) is open to abuse by the PPC person and could result in clients being ripped off.

None of which, despite you "knowing your stuff", you were able to realise.

Nevermind.

Good luck with your telemarketing.

Steve

 

[directmarketingadvice]

Crikey... You're an angry man!

Hopefully your marketing is better than your mind reading.

I'm going to pursue some kind of pay per performance model regardless.

Good luck to you. I'm glad you got what you wanted out of this thread.

And, hopefully, by listing 6 or 7 ways these "guarantees" can be used to scam customers, I've helped people understand how they can cause a conflict of interest between the PPC person and the customer.

Best wishes,

Steve

 

[Chris Ashdown]

Just thought I would report on Tom the OP of this post

We hired him in the middle of last month, with simple request to improve sales from adwords ppc without changing amount of money spent per day.

Glad to report today that it has been a great result, vast improvement in sales and much lower cost per click

I will be using him for all our sites and please note, he has no knowledge of me posting this reply

 

[pixelo]

Thanks Chris, I'm glad you're pleased with the results and look forward to carrying on working with you.

If any other small business owners are interested in my service do please get in touch.

Tom

Just thought I would report on Tom the OP of this post

We hired him in the middle of last month, with simple request to improve sales from adwords ppc without changing amount of money spent per day.

Glad to report today that it has been a great result, vast improvement in sales and much lower cost per click

I will be using him for all our sites and please note, he has no knowledge of me posting this reply