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  Craig Downey April 25, 2012 at 9:33pm

  i go on yell.com, i find i get a bit of work through that, i only do my very local area so it only cost £100 per year, easily pays for itself, i never bother with goolge ranking or paying for it

   
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  Matt - Allscape SW April 26, 2012 at 12:13am

  I use Yellow Pages as my only advertising medium, this year I think it cost me around £2200 for the year.  Good size directory advert and position 1 sponsored listing on yell.com for landscaper in cornwall.

  Last year it generated somewhere in the region of £80k worth of business for me on the landscaping side so more than paid for itself....

  I do agree that they can be a bit of a pain once you have signed up though.
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  Geoffrey King June 2, 2012 at 9:22am

  We have been hassled recently by the new rep, an expert in Garden & Landscapers businesses.

  He just would not stop talking......

  Anyway found this online, thought some of you might be interested. LOL

  http://yellscam.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/mis-sold-yell-advertising/

  Been advertising in Yellow Pages for about 25 years.Had face to face meeting with yell rep in February, booked and received receipts for next years advertising.
  Received an email from Yell, “Order Confirmation”, for Yell Search Marketing Service at a cost of £45.83 a month. Didn’t even know what this was !
  Rang to query,said I’d never discussed or wanted this order.
  Told not to worry would be sorted out,a mistake somewhere.
  Next Yell.Com get my bank account details from Yellow Pages and set up a direct debit and start raiding my bank account.
  Ring to sort it out.Told I made a verbal agreement with the rep.for this order which is an absolute lie.Told the phone call I made when I was assured it would be sorted out never happened.
  As I am obviously suffering from auditory hallucinations and short term memory loss had to ask the Yell.Com manager if I had also made a verbal agreement for them to **** ** **** ** *** ****.
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  Phil Voice June 2, 2012 at 9:56am

  Yell are in severe trouble now. They made a £1.4 billion loss last year and are over £2 billion in debt. Yell are now capitalised at just a mere £38 million. Whilst digital revenues grew they just cannot fill the gap the loss from their traditional printed media have left.

  They have until 2014 the renegotiate their debt with their lenders but a lot can happen in business in two years.
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  Geoffrey King June 2, 2012 at 10:12am

  Thanks Phil, now that did make me laugh

  lets see we've got one of the most recognisable names on the planet

  so lets change it to HIBU, hibu, what's that? dear me that is truly awful

  TheBoggart

  05/23/2012 07:32 AM

  There's a website that gives you the astrological meaning of names.
  Apparently HIBU "can frustrate happiness,
  contentment, and success, as well as cause health weaknesses in the
  liver, bloodstream, and elimination system"

  http://www.kabalarians.com/Fem...
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  Lawncare-4u.co.uk June 4, 2012 at 2:09am

  i suspected so phil.  thanks .

  i just got my cheque refund for £19.20p last week, -    they tried to say some bullshit excuse   for RESETTING UP 2 X DIRECT-DEBIT FROM 1X I HAD CANCELED ONLINE !!  (FRAUD)?- i wasnt listening.  again just happy to get my £19.20p  back as they are desperate liars.    (happy to get it as id probably wasted half an hour, (luckily only that emailing & receiving a call, banking chq and £0.85p charges) and a mini-headache.

  Yell.com   'free listings' work great for me elsewhere.   :)    

  
  
  Phil Voice said:

  Yell are in severe trouble now. They made a £1.4 billion loss last year and are over £2 billion in debt. Yell and are now capitalised at just a mere £38 million. Whilst digital revenues grew they just cannot fill the gap the loss from their traditional printed media have left.

  They have until 2014 the renegotiate their debt with their lenders but a lot can happen in business in two years.
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  Austin Powell-Allen June 19, 2012 at 12:39pm

  It makes me chuckle when i get that call, they say the same yet i set up my own site and on googling Great Dunmow Gardener I am Number 1 or 2 so offer me something that I have not done yet. I think they are a bit behind the times as most web designers will do you a website with links to google etc for a few hundred pounds. If Yell submit your details to google they have to do it the sameway as I do so there is no guarantees your be first. I find it funny when companies are emailing me ideas for improvements and then asking me if i want a quote no thanks i have just done what you sugested and saved my self the money.
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  Fenlandphil June 19, 2012 at 1:40pm

  Yell are the victims of their own arrogance.

  Some years ago customers like me tried to tell them that they needed to change but they were having none of it, probably to late in the day for them now to turn things round.
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  Thermo June 19, 2012 at 7:06pm

  gave up with them about 5 years ago. found them over priced and very very pushy. had a sales rep turn up where we were working trying to get me to sign there and then. i virtually threw him off the site. The other thing that used to annoy me was they would say that they dont do discounts and every body pays the same, which i know for a fcat is untrue, as i know of others who were offered discounts. Got teh same from the friday-ad who we used to advertise with a lot. It worked well, but then the calls started going down. they tried to put prices up and tried to blame it on the vat increase. Told them where to stick it. Do all our advertising in local glossy mags. Much more effective and profitable.