steve40 - 3:47 pm on Apr 3, 2009 (gmt 0)

Interesting comments , Over the last 3 months or so I have spoken to 5 small businesses just one to 5 employees who said the same thing , all 5 had looked into it 2 were scared off before even creating adds and 3 had actually tried to use to promote their businesses and I thought bid quite high but because of nuances required ( for ad creation to match landing page etc. etc. ) to know how to use and gain traffic could not seem to get ad to gain exposure and therefore no clicks , maybe Google should create something very simple targetted to those included in Maps that auto semi writes the add for them based around their listing in Google Maps

It is easy to tell them to get a professional but the amount these type of companies would spend would not justify that type of expense or commitment

steve