It seems like every marketing company takes your money and provides no results. Has anyone had any luck with a company that’s actually driven more business to your business.

I'm getting slammed with marketing companies that want my business right now. I took a meeting from one that proposes to do SEO for my Google My Business profile. Part of their offering is Map Citations, which they do by creating a custom map in Google My Maps, and adding pins all over my territory with links to my page, my profile, and descriptions of what I do, titled with targeted key words. They say google scans this information and builds authority. I've never heard of this. Is this a real thing?

We do have a company who does our Google Ads and Marketing Plan. They are amaing to work with true partners. Just got rid of the SEO as they were not delivering on the promises. This can not only be hard but costly too.

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Im not clearly understanding your position here. I wanted to reach a community to see if anyone has had any good experiences with a marketing company. As a business owner, You want to source and delete tasks from your to do list. With that being said, I do know what’s involved in marketing online. Do I want to complete those tasks and research a market? No, when there are already niche and qualified businesses who handle this matter.Also, I have other responsibilities within my business that keeps me moving and adding a whole other business model to improve another is not where I want to be. So that leads me to say, I run a home service business not a marketing agency and my desire to find a marketing agency who actually respects the platform and reputation I have built as a small business means a long term partnership. Especially if they have the skills i do not have in online marketing. I believe this is not due to lack of anything but finding and meeting the right partners.

Worked with a few, never had a good luck with it. Last one we tried for 6 months, ended up wasting a lot of money on ads, and only had bad leads, unfortunately.In my experience content creation works better to build a base. Now we do it all ourselves, we record content, pictures of jobs, and so on. And publish in all social using Metricool. I don't run ads no more.

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ColpaniConstruc
Contributor 2
5 months ago
I've been using Geo Hernandez with https://geografixx.com/ for my website www.colpaniconstruction.com and we have had more business than ever! He specializes in working with construction, restaurants, and real estate companies. He does my SEO, my website, marketing, etc.
OakwayMarketing
Contributor 2
3 months ago
We've found most people have to go through a few marketing agencies before they find one that works for them. You should ask the agency if they have a process or system that they use regularly (check for results against that). Also, be sure to check who will be working on your business specifically - you want to make sure you align with and trust them. Lastly, the best question we've gotten is for references from businesses that are not in our case studies or testimonials - it gives you an opportunity to talk to someone that had an average or regular experience with the agency.
Rewaste1
Contributor 2
3 months ago
I started to use Hibu https://g.co/kgs/Xi8UXmF They redid my website https://www.pipelinerooterplumbing.com/ and cleaned up all the search engines. Set up and helped with social sites. I'm in my second month and I'm started to get calls with real SEO's it takes time. I have had a lot better success then using Yelp. They respond fast. I'm a 2 truck shop and this is helping me get out of the ground up plumbing work and more service.

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