Thoughts on advertising with Yelp? Keep getting phone calls about signing up.
I used it. Paid $167 for 1 month with Yelp giving me $300 credit. Had 3 people contact me. Landed one $700 job.
What I didn’t like was the dishonest billing method. It wasn’t straight forward and they try super hard to tack on charges without being upfront about it.
The worst thing is Yelp uses a terrible algorithm that removes reviews unless a customer is an established yelper. I have 10 Yelp reviews and only one is visible.
So I have a Yelp profile but I won’t push it or spend money with Yelp. I know others have had success but they’re spending $700-800 a month.
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Its funny that you brought up the dishonest billing part. My buddy just told me that they charged his card 87 dollars for the initial setup after they told him its was going to be free to setup. That’s definitely shady. I think I am just going to go with Google. Thanks for the feedback and I love your truck setup!
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I got contacted by them and let them help me setup my page, my help call quickly turned into I’m getting you to signup for our ad service today call, not pleased with them and the ROI on the add is pretty bad as @TexasPressureWashing mentioned
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I have a basic advertisement with them and both reviews I got were taken away by them. Believe me I was pretty pissed off. I am however looking to get my name out there so I will use them as free advertising in the meantime. I am learning little by little on how it all works. I am happy to have experienced guys to chat with so that I can get my learn on.
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Skip it, too easy for people to leave fake bad reviews without recourse.
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Not a fan of Yelp, most business owners aren’t. For many reasons that I won’t even get into. I’ve tried it and all I ever got was trash Coustomer’s looking for the best company and service and trying to pay nothing. I was blacked mailed by coustomer’s into doing more work for free or they would post a bad review because a house wash should always include there driveway also!
Nope!
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When I think of Yelp, I think of a site for reviews/ratings on restaurants.
Spent nearly $400 with them in a month and got 2 leads… not worth it in my experience.
Yeah they tried selling me on 20 clicks for $450 a month. At that rate it would be cheaper to go with home advisor​:rofl:
I am definitely not interested in using them anymore. 
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Don’t use Yelp. They started a new policy this year that if a customer complains that you are racist, bias, discriminatory… they will put label on your business (business accused of racist behavior) for other potential customers to see. I could see customers blackmailing you easily. I notified them that I am permanently closed so they would hopefully remove my listing.
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pretty shady as per usual, like heath said dishonest billing, reviews are iffy. i had even got one review from a pretty established yelper, 300 something reviews she had but hers wouldn’t show on my profile. it wasn’t as bad as home advisor or angies list though, from my experience.
Run…
I have a Yelp & Angie’s list & Nextdoor account. I don’t pay for any of their pay-to-play guild fees because I simply cannot afford it. The Angie’s list rep uses some emotional & high pressure sales tactics like “I have been sorting so many leads for you, now if you just pay $500.00 per month, you can have all these leads I’ve set aside for you in your area.” When I refused, the rep then said,“oh, no. What did I do wrong? I am so sorry, but you see, I’m knew here and I was just working very hard to get you these leads.”
Now, the yelp person said something similar but said their monthly cost is $ 150.00.
you can also use yelp without the advertising, i tried one month with ads which yielded 2-3 leads. ditched the ads and next month got another 2-3 for free just from setting up my page well, which is why i said it was better than HA or angies list
Sounds like everyone in this forum is not a yelp fan. Glad I asked before I wasted my money
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I created the basic, free, account and was hounded for several months before I went off on someone about how I didn’t want to pay them any money. The lady on the other end kept stating that she wanted to help me but that it could only be done over the phone. I stated I wasn’t interested in speaking about it over the phone and to send me an email with all the details. She refused so I called her out for it - she so badly wanted to help me then do as I ask and email it to me and to please stop arguing with me, a potential client that she hadn’t yet landed. I ultimately never saw the email and really didn’t care to as I wasn’t budging on the idea of me not paying for leads as part-time as I am.
I lost hundreds of dollars to thumbtack when I started out, it put me in a bad spot since I was so new and broke, since then it’s been hard to trust any lead generation service, learn to do your own marketing and find what works best for you in your area you’ll see way better results
I appreciate your feedback. I have always ran with word of mouth and have been doing pretty well but I am looking to make it fulltime. I have a plan all set into place.
