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I have signed up with their free service and like you get calls all the time. I am not interested in spending any money with them at this time as they aren't very big in our area and since I have only one review on there it isn't worth my money.

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Neither myself of any of the shop owners I've worked with have had first hand experience dealing directly with Angie's List.

 

Although I was told by one shop owner that he has 3 very positive reviews; he claimed some very nice work. I think the issue with Angie's List is that it's a paid subscription... so you don't get a bunch of 'goofy people' posting stuff. It just makes it a lot more believable.

 

But in reality.. it's just customer TESTIMONIALS. And this proves what I've been telling my subscribers... that 'Facts Tell - Testimonials SELL!'

 

So why don't auto repair shops have tons of testimonials on their website and customer waiting room walls? That waiting room should be your 'historic shrine!'. Also be sure to include copies of your Customer Newsletter - don't make it a library with newspapers, magazines and other 'entertaining' things. It should be about YOU!

 

I realize this wasn't exactly the answer you've been looking for, but thought I could help!

 

Matthew

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I found out that reviews drop off after 2 or 3 years. That seemed lame to me. I am sure if you spend money with them that is a different story. Just have a bad taste for that company. The salesman that calls is rude.

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My shop just opened about a month ago. The week we opened we signed up for free accounts on yelp, google+, angies list and yellow pages, and got a simple website thru godaddy.com.

We also delivered about 400 flyers to subdivisions around our shop. Had 1 repair from the flyers already, 1 repair from the google+ page, 1 great review on google, 1 great yelp review and 1 great angines list review. I try to talk to customers who seemed really pleased and computer savy to post a good review for us. My reasoning is, if its free and it gets your name out there one more time, why not?

 

My wife works for a window cleaning company. Some of their customers would not have even called if they did not have a presence on angies list. I think its part of the future of the service industry. Not saying its good or bad, but its here and growing.

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The issue I had with Angie's list is that they had very few subscribers in my market area. I believe if you go on their site you can get the number of paid subscribers in your area. They were looking for me to sign up, but it just didn't make sense for the number of members.

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