March 9th, 2010
I just received a phone call from a company called Search Marketing Services. I work for a small business and they were calling to offer a free 30 day trial for our business to be a featured business on Yahoo, Google and Bing. I was a little apprehensive about this offer, because I’m not one to really believe in "free 30 day trials". I tried researching this company online to see what I could find, but haven’t located anything substantial. I asked the representative I was speaking to what the average ROI was for local businesses that used this 30 day free trial, and she went on to basically start from the beginning again from what I believe is a script she was given to use on the phone.
I was just wondering if anyone else had any further information about this company or if anyone else has received a similar call. I’m assuming it is similar to WebReach (Yellowpages), which I’m personally not a fan of the way Yellowpages does business.
Any information anyone possibly has, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks!
Likely it is a service that you can well do without. It does not sound familiar, and unless they have a very good SEO strategy, you will not be happy with their work. Since they cannot explain it, it sounds even more suspicious.
It will be extremely difficult to cancel after your "free" trial period. this is where their revenue comes in.
They will keep charging your company until you have to cancel the credit card account, or close down your bank account.
Most companies write off the couple months loss as a miscellaneous expense.
that is how they make money – skim a few hundreds from many companies.
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