Comments on: Leapfish: Google Competitor or Flash In The Pan?

By: Ben Behrouzi Purchases VladZablotskyy.org

Ben Behrouzi Purchases VladZablotskyy.org — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:48:46 +0000

[...] Leapfish: Google Competitor or Flash In The Pan?- i think it is rather funny, or insane, to think that LeapFish can actually be viewed as Google’s competitor. But it sure makes a good headline. Well put article, a must read. [...]

By: Louise Shickle

Louise Shickle — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:18:33 +0000

Does anyone know if you unclick auto renew whether or not that will cause no renewal? ( Somehow I doubt it!) I of course do not want to renew at all…I fell victim to Leapfish’s hard sell tactics & of course do not want that to continue past the time already paid!

By: Anne Keefe

Anne Keefe — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:57:28 +0000

I have had 2 phone calls from these folks in the last week. How do you get off their call list? The sales people are very confrontational. Who would even use this search engine? I know I wouldn’t as a consumer.

By: Austin

Austin — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:49:24 +0000

Does anyone get any organic traffic from Leapfish? I checked my appx. 40k hits of data available and didn’t have a single click.

Presumably, there would be a few from people using the Google, Yahoo, and Bing organic search results which Leapfish presents.

I too am very skeptical about the viability of this search engine.

By: Penny

Penny — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:25:33 +0000

They are definitely a weird outfit. On top of their uber aggressive tactics, I learned from a former employee that they make promises they don’t keep to employees in terms of bonuses, etc. I believe what you say about the reps that seem to come off as desperate. It’s because they probably are! This Ben guy has several businesses that are operating marginally, at best. There is another one that, for 5 years now, I have seen positions advertised as working for a “pre-IPO” company. For pete’s sake give it up, it’s a company that provides car leads. There is no auto industry anymore! lol

I had the opportunity read this Ben’s blogs and see a short video he was in, and he really comes off as a whiny kid focusing on all the wrong things.

I interviewed for a job there, and really had to laugh at the supervisor’s comments about how all calls get handed off to them. The manager’s mouths hung open when I expressed concern about empowering their sales people to do their job. Why can’t your people close a sale and what purpose does it serve in the long run if you have to finish your employee’s job? Not an effective sales management strategy. It’s more like the individual supervisor stroking their own ego by claiming the call must go to the supervisor to be closed!

By: Waldo

Waldo — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:51:20 +0000

I guess they should call it Blow fish. Cause Leapfish Blows!

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:25:23 +0000

I talked to a rep today. She was actually very nice. But, if you take a look at how much (or little) traffic their site gets, then consider the likelihood of your keyword being typed in, click on and converted to a sale I don’t see how you would ever make your money back. I guess you are betting on the future but I think I would rather go to the horse track.

By: Renee Olson

Renee Olson — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:25:03 +0000

I love a good blog that gives me enough information about the topic I’m trying to research. In this case, I’m looking for information about Leapfish.

Wow! It’s the bad, bad and the oops(good) about Leapfish. It seems as thought there is more disenchantment with Leapfish the praise. I have been receiving calls from Leapfish and today I answered the called.

Just as many others have complained about the sales tactics, I received the same treatment; However, the guy also told me that I’m not in business to make money because I wasn’t interested in his stuff at the moment.

I guess my consolation is that I didn’t invest a lot of time into the conversation and I wasn’t parted from my money. Kudos to all of you authors and commentators for helping me make my decisions. Your input is as honest as it’s gets!

Thanks,

Renee Olson

By: Mari

Mari — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:12:44 +0000

The leapfish homepage is pretty good, but who knows if it will be what leapfish claims it will be. I checked their traffic and was not impressed.

I learned of it because one of their sales reps called me two days ago and Wow! I almost felt his life was on the line if he didn’t make the sale. The more he spoke, the more I got scared.

It doesn’t make sense. He wanted to sell me the 1st position for the word “glutathione” for almost $4,000.00 dollars. The exact same price they are selling the 1st position for the word “antioxidant”.

I KNOW antioxidant is a much more searched word than glutathione. Although the searches related to glutathione is growing it is nowhere near that of antioxidant related searches and yet leapfish wanted to charge me the same $4,000 price tag.

To top it all off, on the phone conversation when I searched for “glutathione” on leapfish my website showed up under “blog results” and “twitter results” as two different people had twitted a page from my site. Price tag: $0

So, this leapfish sales guy wanted to sell me $4,000 to show up on leapfish on top, when I was ALREADY showing up three times for $0!

Yeah, that makes sense! Besides, I know when I search for something I DO NOT just automatically click on the 1st paid ad. I look over the WHOLE page (and even the next few pages for hidden gems) and see which ones offer content relevant to what I am searching for. duh!

Then when this guy is finally getting it in his head that I am not going to throw away four thousand dollars he asks me for referrals. Yeah, like I want him calling my friends and family so he can torture them as well with his scary aggressive sales tactics. (And I don’t hate anyone enough to give those numbers away either. LOL!)

Then today, I got ANOTHER call from leapfish, different sales guy. Their sales tactics are a HUGE turn-off and will not work in the long-term.

By: Sonja

Sonja — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:04:40 +0000

Hi, I received a phone call from Leapfish and have to admit, I was very impressed by what they are offering. I think it’s a great idea to have all your results from different search engines right there on one place. As well as facebook comments, twitter and you tube. I think it is very interesting idea. I bought a 3rd place spot for my wedding photography, and it cost $535. I think it is worth the risk to get a stake in something like this, which I think overtime will be something great. If not, oh well. But if it does take off, not much money invested to be at the top!