dantheman

Law requires that if you are sending something for promotional services, you're required that the customer opts in themselves. So no sending a text message without consent. We're probably going to move away from customer link soon. Their postcards were useless, and their review system stays..on their review system. Its nice to have all the reviews, but they aren't in the most effective place - like they would be on bing and google (I'm looking at going with overdrive strategies maybe, for reputation stuff. they were recommended to me by a friend). But i've moved our email marketing off, over to just mail chimp, I think the demographic photos are a bit cheesy, and I doubt their effectiveness. Looks cool from shop owners perspective, but that may be the extent. Looking into replacing all they do to save $300.

Got caught up with things and just making it back to the forums. Plan on sticking around a bit more often now - thanks for your response. Yup. We were using customer link but weren't really seeing a ROI from post cards. I feel people get blinded just like with email. Need a new form of marketing. Text message is where it's at I think, but getting the initial opt in seems to be a hurdle unfortunately.

Hey I have some feedback about your ranking/site. Want to make sure you'll notice if I post though. WIll you?

Do you use a company or do you do all the postcards yourself? We just signed up with customer link to do our emailing and post cards. they have a pretty good program I think. Going to be able to evaluate a lot better after 2-3 months (about a month and a half in right now) Have you considered signing up with them or someone similar?

1k can be steep for sure. Interesting about mainstreethub. they look like they do some good things. Have you noticed any real business coming from their "HubTargeter" ? If you do strike it on your own and you still want to keep track of your reputation there's http://www.reviewtrackers.com and http://www.reviewpush.com/ at least, both are two relatively cheap ways to stay on top of it how'd the presentation go?