Unlimited google clicks???

[Connections_Media]

I have just recieved a sales call from a slightly over enthusiastic salesman, what he was offering me is a fixed price plan with them for £75 a month and what that would get me was unlimited clicks on google ads, I am slightly concerned at that as all they could do is set a limit at like £25 and then take the money. I have never heard of anything like this before if anyone has could you elaborate a little better as I smell fraud.

 

[MASSEY]

I have just recieved a sales call from a slightly over enthusiastic salesman, what he was offering me is a fixed price plan with them for £75 a month and what that would get me was unlimited clicks on google ads, I am slightly concerned at that as all they could do is set a limit at like £25 and then take the money. I have never heard of anything like this before if anyone has could you elaborate a little better as I smell fraud.

£75 usually gets you 300 clicks, it sounds weird to me, i wouldn't trust it myself.

 

[directmarketingadvice]

I have just recieved a sales call from a slightly over enthusiastic salesman, what he was offering me is a fixed price plan with them for £75 a month and what that would get me was unlimited clicks on google ads, I am slightly concerned at that as all they could do is set a limit at like £25 and then take the money. I have never heard of anything like this before if anyone has could you elaborate a little better as I smell fraud.

Trust your nose.

Steve

 

[OldWelshGuy]

Yep, the company are lying to get the sale

 

[termsandconditions]

What sounds too good to be true, usually is ..unless.. you are talking about my products of-course.

 

[popunder]

Unlimited clicks require an unlimited budget, so they're either very generous, complete con men, or they have an imaginative interpretation of what "unlimited clicks" actually means. Best to steer clear and either do your own PPC or approach a reputable agancy.

"Top of Google for £99 a month" seems to be an increasingly popular rip-off industry, I hear it all the time.

Last night I saw an ITV news item on a farm shop in Leicestershire finding their way onto the Internet, their web guy said to the client "Look, you're number one on Google" and pointed to an AdWords ad ... which was 2nd on the Sponsored Links list Just searched them now and they're not there at all!!

 

[Connections_Media]

To be honest it is an in-genius con which I can see alot of people being sucked into but I told the bloke please don't bull**** a bull****ter

 

[helenthemum]

#6 I saw that as well early this morning and couldn't believe it that a website designer didn't know the difference between organic links and sponsored links. I hope the farm shop people don't put their complete trust in him as far as adwords and google are concerned.

 

[helenthemum]

Sorry it wasn't the news it was a program about getting people to use the internet and how it is changing our lives,watched it this morning part is correct.

 

[Allan123]

Just had 1 onto me yesterday. So as always to get them off the phone i say send me an email, and i'll be in touch if it interests me. Genuine companies usually take the hint and wait for me to call after looking at the email, over eager money grabbers ring you the next day, as he did today.

So for £89 you get unlimited first page google postion he said. How do you like that?

To which i replied impossible! You can't possibly give me first page 24/7 1st page exposure. What terms are you offering? Keywords etc etc i said, to which he replied regional specific search terms. For me that would be 'dj equipment lancashire', plus 4 other phrases all with lancas/blackburn etc etc in the phrase. Now lets be honest, unless your SEO is non-existant your company is going to rank quite high naturally on google for your product/service & town/county in the search term.

So i said well go away and speak to your manager for the term 'dj equipment' national. He called back 10mins later with a price of £3995 a month! As if lol If i was going to spend £4k a month on adwords I'd be targetting more than 1 key phrase and taking a bit more interest in it that having some numpty for god knows where in the country running our adwords campaign.

 

[forget the hype]

If anybody phones you, then they want you to buy something. Only buy when you are doing the shopping.

 

[Connections_Media]

If anybody phones you, then they want you to buy something. Only buy when you are doing the shopping.

I disagree as I am one of those people that if the sales person isn't one of those overly happy sales people and doesn't start the conversation off like they know me from down the pub then I will listen to what they have got to say as sometimes they offer something I may need and actually be offering a good deal.

I do cold calling myself and know what it is like bashing the phones, so I give people 30 seconds to tell me what they do like I ask companies for when I call them and if I like what they are doing then I continue, if not just get them to send an email to me and it doesn't waste anyones time then.

 

[forget the hype]

That's your opinion and thats fine but anybody who phones you out of the blue with a sales pitch, wants your money. Full Stop. It's the way of the world.

 

[Connections_Media]

That's your opinion and thats fine but anybody who phones you out of the blue with a sales pitch, wants your money. Full Stop. It's the way of the world.

I'm sorry I am not sure what business you run whether it is a charity but I am in business to make profit. I make no attempt to tell people it isn't a sales call as it is but what I offer can save you money and I also don't bang on for hours like many sales people will.

A minority of sales people have created a bad name for a majority.

 

[forget the hype]

This isn't a personal dig at salespeople. All of us in business have to sell but I personally don't enjoy being called up in the evening by some snotty salesperson or an automated message when I am comfortably installed in front of the TV and the phone is on the other side of the room. Nuff said.

 

[Connections_Media]

Ah you see I am talking about B2B sales not B2C completely different, in my opinion it is the B2C market that has given sales people a bad name

 

[forget the hype]

Your not wrong there, Normally, B2B customers don't mind salesmen calling because they are getting paid to take the calls and they are spending other peoples money but joe public is getting pi$$ed off with companies use of hard sell tactics.

 

[Connections_Media]

Your not wrong there, Normally, B2B customers don't mind salesmen calling because they are getting paid to take the calls and they are spending other peoples money but joe public is getting pi$$ed off with companies use of hard sell tactics.

See I very much agree with you on that one as the hard sell will never get you anywhere, selling is an art form in a sense the best way to sell is to create a want within the person so they want your product instead of the usual lead them down a one way street and corner them by close close close tactics

 

[forget the hype]

Now we're on the same page I don't use pressure selling, my customers come to me by the way I get my services and products in front of my target audience. When I want something, it's because I need it and I know how to research to get the best deals. I know there are people who do not know what they want and these people are easy targets for pressure sellers.

I just want to let people know this is how people who cold call consumers B2C only want your money.

 

[Connections_Media]

See I use cold calling as it is very effective for myself and being only 21 I don't have a bank account brimming full of cash to plow into the very best marketing, but I found you become very creative with lack of money.

 

[nitish kunal]

All is fake. You need to understand these things, this can make harm to your sites as well...

 

[popunder]

website designer didn't know the difference between organic links and sponsored links

He didn't know the difference between 1st and 2nd either - he pointed to the 2nd link and said "Look, you're 1st on Google"!! LOL !!

Helenthemum you're right it wasn't a news item, that was just my shorthand for one of those early evening local current affirs-type programmes.

 

[groovyjon]

He pointed to the 2nd link and said "Look, you're 1st on Google"!! LOL !!

I saw that too. I assumed it had to be a bad bit of editing and he didn't actually speak those words at the time you saw his finger pointing to the second ad. I hope that was the case anyway. Surely no-one would possibly point to an ad second on the page and say you're number one.

 

[popunder]

a bad bit of editing

Yes maybe, never thought of that; made him look a bit of a pr@tt anyway!

Find it odd that when you search "farm shop leicestershire", which I think was the search they were doing, there's no PPC for that shop at all now, and no organics (not on P1 or P2 of the SERPS) just a Google Maps listing. Have they given up on it already?!