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Can anyone explain Gxxgle to me? (As a business person) I have figured out that they have eliminated the Yellow Pages, so we'd better have some presence there. But I get calls regularly about my Gxxgle listing. Its not right and they want to help me fix it. So I listened to the presentation by the Gxxgle expert and we corrected the wrong address and phone and he said everything was fine. Now I'm still getting calls that its wrong again. The expert said that I should visit myself several times a month to assure everything is working. (Whhaaattttt?) Should I be paying Gxxgle for an ad? Is that what they want? What should I be doing for advertising anyway?
Confused Jer in Turlock
-------------------- Gerald Barlow Artworx Turlock, CA
95380 artworx@bigvalley.net Posts: 222 | From: Turlock, CA 95380, USA | Registered: Dec 2002
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Not sure if this is the right answer, but I have heard if you pay Google some of your hard earned money, they will display your company name when people do a google search for services of which you may offer. Signs,,,,Artworkx Banners,,,,,Artworx Truck Lettering,,,,,Artworx Verbal Abuse,,,,,Artworx,,,,,,,Ha ha ha!!!
-------------------- Signs by Alicia Jennings (Mudflap Girl) Tacoma, WA Since 1987 Have Lipstick, will travel. Posts: 3895 | From: Tacoma, WA. U.S.A. | Registered: Dec 1999
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I'll flush my money down the toilet before I'll give it to Google. A few years back I spent $1200 on Google ads over 3 months and got nothing. Google reps told me to keep spending, it takes time. No thanks. If they were smart they would give us a free month or two to show it works, and then we start paying. I know some people swear by it. Customers find me on Google without me paying.
-------------------- Chuck Peterson Designs San Diego, CA Posts: 1063 | From: San Diego, CA USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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The more you pay them the more they promote you. I don't have a couple hundred bucks a month for an advertising budget. They call me every couple days. If I set a time for one of their people to call me they go through a list of things to set and correct. They have a very patient way of setting the hook before they get me to ask how much, they keep playing the fish and I again ask "how much ?" Finally they give an outrageous price and I say goodbye.
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I'm not seeing anything like the answer I expected. Gxxgle has replaced yellowpages, so what do you do?
On another note, I googled myself (shop):pinstriping in Turlock...and I got an article published by the Sentinel (CSUS paper). The article said there was no one in the valley except this Mexican kid in Fresno that striped and he had learned the secret tricks of the masters. Great. I live about six blocks from the school and do work for them all the time and I even taught there. The "reporter" developed the story by using (you guessed it), Gxxgle.
-------------------- Gerald Barlow Artworx Turlock, CA
95380 artworx@bigvalley.net Posts: 222 | From: Turlock, CA 95380, USA | Registered: Dec 2002
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You use Google to find your website. It's not hard to do, plenty of "how to's" on the web. The ads are only necessary if you live in a large market where you might get buried without one.
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