Reachlocal????

[Liam Seager]

A nice sales guy from Reach Local came and saw us last week.

They will manage your PPC campaign with Google - they are part of google and will show you how much they have spent with Google. They charge a 5% admin fee on top of the amount paid to google.

Once the campaign is running, they can allocate a phone number to the keyword which records the phone calls and helps moniter the campaign accurately.

This helps improve the conversion ratio as you can track exactly how many phone calls your ad campaign is creating and the relevance of the phone calls.

Has anyone heard of this service before and would they recommend it or give any tips on how to make the most of it?

Any advise is greatly appreciated?

 

[BusinessDeli]

Not heard about it so my only advice would be to watch the small print and see if your tied into any contracts

 

[UKcentric]

"They are part of Google"

It says on their web site that are a Google Premier SMB Partner, and they are using the logo for that. Not quite the same as being part of Google.

 

[Liam Seager]

But if they are not part of google - how did they know how much we had spent with Google?

It worries me that no one seems to know much about them - if they were that good everyone would be using/recommending them.

 

[Raw Rob]

They charge a 5% admin fee on top of the amount paid to google.

I wouldn't go for it based on that. It's a bit of a conflict of interest - you want to spend the lowest amount for the best results, but they are getting paid more for the more of your money they spend. I would have thought it was best to pay based on results, on the ROI.

 

[Liam Seager]

This is the article that they released explaining there relationship with Google.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/04/26/idUS236499+26-Apr-2011+BW20110426

I guess the only way to know for sure is to give them a trial and see how we get on.

 

[Anonymouse72]

thread on here from last year for info, & another

 

[Liam Seager]

Thanks for that. Not many glowing reviews apart from potential employees then.

 

[Anonymouse72]

Thanks for that. Not many glowing reviews apart from potential employees then.

i did find a few reviews on glassdoor from employees in the UK, seemed to be either great or worst company ever (i didn't carry on reading as they require you to sign in after a few mins).

i do believe it may be a 'bargepole' type company

 

[Liam Seager]

"bargepole" type company - i like that. There are too many of them around now with tempting sales pitches that deliver very little.