Re: FN-FORUM: Yell.com : any good for freelancers?

date posted 21st November 2007 12:00

I have tried them in the past as an agency and got absolutely nothing from
it. We do use Yell.com for our CD and DVD duplicating business though and
get tons of leads from that.

Yell.com and its like are more suited to understandable basics like
plumbing, electricians, copy shops, insurance and the like. But I would
suggest that any customer worth getting is likely to go with who they know
or ask for recommendations rather than pick a designer or programmer from
yell.com.

Ask yourself, if you needed someone like you where would you look?


On 21/11/07 11:39, "Colin Rainsforth" [EMAIL REMOVED] wrote:

>
> Hi All,
>
> I've had some sales calls from Yell trying to sell me an enhanced
> listing on their search engine.
>
> Being in the trade I asked the salesman to substantiate his claims
> relating to traffic numbers with more detailed data, as well as data
> on click-thru rates and user session tracking. He said he would email
> this over, but (unsurprisingly) he just sent through the same yarn he
> gave me on the phone.
>
> So, has anyone on the list sign-up to Yell advertising? And, if so,
> did you see any traffic from that source? And did any of it convert?
>
> ColinR