magnet4web - 8:00 pm on May 11, 2004 (gmt 0)

Hehe!

This thread makes me laugh. "If I had a dollar" etc..

We get sent these emails from our customers all the time as well. It is only through a concerted effort on our part (all web marketing companies) to educate the masses that this sort of practice will stop.

For our part we guarantee page one Google listings for 3 phrases the client chooses (from a researched list), a min of 50% more visitors, increase in sales leads all within 90 days. Jeez - if they don't like my tone of voice or the colour of my tie they can get a full refund after 90-days. We can't say fairer than that and there's not really anything else we can do to convince them we know what we're talking about.

But saying all that - we still see people every day getting taken in by the "Top of 100,000 search engines for $99" brigade..

It will all settle in time, I have no doubt.. but it makes our sales job all that much harder but hey - none of us is working down a mine or in a steek mill are we?!

Mike Cheney
(magnet4web)

p.s. As my current favourite sales guru Jeff Gitomer says;

"You can't be a winner if you're a whiner, wiener"

Pure class..