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cashndash

I wouldn't gamble £1000, perhaps where they went wrong?

Ian_-_Jane_Earl

Hi

Just to put the record straight on Jane Earl Estate Agents - mentioned at top of thread... of course all viewers have to register and they can do this online, but, that is just an option - they can always call and have their details taken over the telephone if they prefer - so the seller does not loose any potential viewers.

Regards

Ian

googler

From the hubpages quoted above

"Jane Earl cover England and Wales. What's different with this one is that they will run a Google Adwords campaign for two weeks when you join them, to target people to your advert"

I've used adwords, and what's important about it is not the duration of the adwords campaign, but the spend on the campaign, and the resultant click-through rate. How much do you spend on each campaign, and what extra traffic does it yield for you?

PasturesNew

googler wrote: »

From the hubpages quoted above

"Jane Earl cover England and Wales. What's different with this one is that they will run a Google Adwords campaign for two weeks when you join them, to target people to your advert"

I've used adwords, and what's important about it is not the duration of the adwords campaign, but the spend on the campaign, and the resultant click-through rate. How much do you spend on each campaign, and what extra traffic does it yield for you?

Yes, Google Adwords are only as effective as the targetting, the wording, the timing and the landing page.

It's no guarantee anybody will ever click it or be interested at all. But at least they're bothering ... although if they're not good at optimising these things they might as well just set fire to the money.

Ian_-_Jane_Earl

The Google AdWords campaigns we run at Jane Earl are highly optimised (after all we pay for then out of the up-front fee). They are designed to appear on page one for around 450 keyword combinations related to that property and location (we have a keyword generator program that does that for us). They are effective at getting around 15% more eyeballs on the advert. Every little helps and you only need one buyer.

Regards Ian

Ian_-_Jane_Earl

@PasturesNew

a typical property at our website will get around 150 visits at janeearl.co.uk in the first two weeks - of these around 20 or so will have come through the FREE two week Google campaign - so we do not spend a fortune on this (our total fee is just £295 after all) - but the buyer could just be one of the 20 or so extra viewer. If clients like this extra exposure they can commission an extension to their campaign. Hope this helps clarify?

Ian

Ian_-_Jane_Earl

and @google (sorry)

post above that is....

cymro

Tried HouseSimple thinking they would be better value than the high street cowboys. This is what I found:

• pre-contract communication - Excellent
• Cost of HIPs - Average - shop round elsewehere for better value
• post-contract communication - Poor - no updates on progress in marketing and having to send same information repeatedly
• speed of service - Slow getting property uploaded to website

It appears the Housesimple strategy is to sell houses as quickly as possible at any price. Almost daily I was haggling - not with would be buyers but Housesimple as they tried to get me to lower the price so they could make a quick profit. A few times I had to remind them they were MY agent. AVOID