Comments on: Why Do They Call Me?

By: Mariana Wagner

Mariana Wagner — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:28:56 +0000

Matt – They would waste less time searching the keywords than making the phone calls. Definitely.

Sarah – Yeah. That has worked for me in thepast as well. Nice one!

Maureen – That is waht they are hoping for!

Melbourne FHFS – Ah! That is funny.

By: Mariana Wagner

Mariana Wagner — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:24:31 +0000

Howard – I have faced that same arguement…

Will – Wow. Interesting! You are right. It is almost a con.

Toby – “waste of time” as in the phone call yuo got? LOL.

Ginger- I tell them that I know more about the keywords I want/need to be placing for and they never believe me. Oh well.

By: Jacksonville Realtor

Jacksonville Realtor — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:25:34 +0000

I gave up on door knocking in Florida when I melted one summer…

I wonder if Realtors are like sellers and go with the first seo company that contacts them?

By: Melbourne Florida Homes For Sale

Melbourne Florida Homes For Sale — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:16:20 +0000

Can’t fix whats not broke right. Telemarketers gone wild your just another number they have to call. I still get calls offering me to refinace my house and I sold it years ago. They have a telephone number and thats all. My son is so bad he strings them along and sounds all interested and then backs out or ask them for there home phone number so he can call back at supper time and interrupt there family time. He’s to funny!

By: Maureen Francis

Maureen Francis — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:07:48 +0000

I think they get my phone number off my website in the first place. Perhaps they think I am stupid enough to buy their services.

By: Sarah Cooper

Sarah Cooper — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:30:34 +0000

What’s really fun is when you tell them that you have enough business already, thanks. That is just NOT in their scripts and you can hear them turning pages.

By: Matt Scoggins

Matt Scoggins — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:38:22 +0000

I wonder how much time these people waste calling agents who’s websites already rank well…I know they wasted a few hours on me over the years. It would take them all of 5 seconds to do a search for the keyword they are trying to “sell”.

By: Ginger Wilcox

Ginger Wilcox — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:35:26 +0000

I love it when they argue about your placement, or try to tell your your ranking for key words that you don’t find key. You are on page 46 for blah, blah, blah. Well good, I hope I stay there. That won’t help me anyway!

By: Toby & Saide

Toby & Saide — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 02:53:39 +0000

Funny, you bring this up today.

I had a “second” call from a guy who was “very dissapointed in me.” I had talked to him last fall and said I’d give him a call when we were going through the marketing budget. Of course, I promptly recycled the call-sheet with no intention to ever return the call.

Here I am in downtown Columbus, trying to take a beautiful photo with my phone and he calls me. I think I’ve got an easy way out “I’ve already set my marketing budget and we elected to remain consistent with our monies.”

“But Toby, don’t get me wrong, that is a fine way to do business, but don’t you actually want to make more money than you did last year? You have to try new marketing venues.”

I replied that I don’t like lead generators because of past experience, aww but “he isn’t a lead generator all of his clients are verified leads for me to follow-up on. And that I was throwing all lead generators into a basket like the public does to REALTORS® and how ironic was that.”

At this point, this bleepty-bleep is starting to get on my nerves. His next question? “How are you marketing now?”

Place Blogging

“What a waste of time,” he replies.
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By: Will

Will — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:15:10 +0000

I got a call from them and took down all their info… then I fired off a letter to Google to let them know about these scammers. The real Google Rep was none too pleased to hear their name invoked to sell adwords and were going to look into it. Several of my colleagues got rooked in by these con artists who prey on the less net savvy among us.