Another Free Service, maybe

This is the spiel for the service:

"See how your business is listed at Google, Yahoo, and other top local search engines."

The website is at:

http://getlisted.org/

I went to the site and put in our business name and zip code and the results showed me I scored a rousing 8% out of a 100%. This site puts up a few of the search engines it visited to the immediate right of your score with comments from these engines.

What surprised me was google saying they experienced an error in finding us. I know we are in google as I check and I know we are in google places as I check that as well.

I'm wondering if anyone has used this site and if so your results. If it is truly accurate, it appears to be a great site for learning how your biz is listed. If it isn't, well free in this case merely means free and nothing more.

Love to hear of anyone else's experience with them.

Thanks,

Tom

[MMacGillivray]

Hi, Tom - sadly this doesn't work for the UK - it's a shame 'cos I would have found the information interesting.

Cheers
Margaret

Into All Sorts of Idea(s) & Brainstorming! Twists, Turns & Spins! ... “Walmart employees have Bad Breath ...

Posted about on SowPubs back-in 2010... Currently Living in the SowPub Archives... Posted below! {Awesome} Marketing Campaign definitely Worth Studying if you haven't already...

From Jan 2012... Still being Written about and Re-Created... Out-of-the-Box Marketing Story! ...

(Quick copy and paste)...

Out-of-the-Box Marketing

After eight years, Dr. Bob Wagstaff’s halitosis-curing invention seemed destined for the scrap heap. Nothing had worked to sell the Orabrush — a $50,000 infomercial brought only 100 orders — so Wagstaff took his idea to a Brigham Young University market research class.

One student, Jeff Harmon, built a team that included a coworker prone to ranting, a scriptwriter and a film major, and created content for a YouTube channel — Cure Bad Breath — that has more than 160,000 subscribers and generated more than 44 million views...

After some Utah Walmarts began carrying the product, Orabrush purchased magazine advertising and targeted key Walmart executives with a marketing campaign. But it took yet another outlandish idea to seal the deal.

Orabrush purchased Facebook ads targeting users in Northwest Arkansas, home of the retail giant. The ad read: “Walmart employees have bad breath ... Walmart needs to carry Orabrush! It will sell better than anything in your store.”

Within 48 hours, Walmart e-mailed; after a few more e-mails, Orabrush geared up production to meet the 735,000-unit order.

In two short years, Orabrush went from a failed idea to one that’s taking on bad breath one tongue at a time in nine countries — all because of a minor investment in a [Crazy] Marketing idea. — S.S.
http://www.stores.org/STORES%20Magaz...fXU018.twitter

Maybe... Not on the Same level(s)... But a clean Tongue! JV'ing etc., Specialized...
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Phil

Phil,

Thank you for the resources. I even created a newspaper snippet I'll post on at least one of my sites.

Tom