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Add People - www.addpeople.co.uk
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''Add People are an internet marketing agency that deliver cost effective SEO services, affordable web design, pay per click management and more.''
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“Unethical and uneducated ”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Gibbszj81 on 29/09/2023

This company charges triple what others do and addresses nothing in google ads or merchant resulting in suspension and decimation of businesses. Their lack of morals and understanding is an embarrassment to the industry. DO NOT USE THEM for ANY GOOGLE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT or you will be left with nothing. They do not provide the services they claim to and will fail to even communicate.

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“cold spam callers”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Abernathy207 on 01/09/2023

call you up out of the blue. want to take up your valuable time giving you BS about how theyve done loads of research on your account yet they want to know all the nitty gritty of your website direct from your analytics. Like why the hell should i give you all my metrics you already know how to improve my account how about giving me some value and some actionable advice Sales people talk over you as well really annoyed me. looking at the reviews from others they are useless at their job so just want to hook you in with slick sales talk

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“Horrific service ruined my business emptied my account.”

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written by gcSpencer422 on 21/11/2022

Seriously stay away. Claimed I would be at the top of google. And sales would come flooding in. I went from a monthly turn over of £6000 with £500 of advertising per month. These lot wanted to up my budget by £100 per month up to £600 and promised loads more sales. They increased without my knowledge my advertising to nearly £2k per month with sales of a total of £2200 per month. This has set me back months and cost me thousands of pounds. Seriously don't let these lot anywhere near they do not know what they are doing and will ruin your business. I had to loan 20k just to stay in business. Luckily I now have a solicitor on board with all the recordings off our conversations and we will be suing this lot for everything they have.

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“Unethical - I would advise to look elsewhere”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Blakem163 on 08/09/2022

I am extremely disappointed with the service. I have been paying for 3 months, but little to no work has been completed. The idea that I was sold was that a) there would be changes made to the website and b) Google ranking would be improved as I would be listed on directories etc. However, the latter has not happened. I have been listed on less than 10 directories, and the information that has been inputted into these directories has been incorrect. This has actually hurt my Google rankings. I now appear lower on Google than I did before I joined the company. I am shocked and disappointed. This is an unethical company which I would stay well away from. I am very disappointed to write this as I was very excited to work with the company and was intending on staying with them longterm.

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“waste of time spend £2600 and have nothing back stay away”

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written by Norwood468 on 26/04/2022

waste of time spend £2600 and have nothing back stay away

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“The worst add company. Cheaters.”

★☆☆☆☆

written by phByrne216 on 12/04/2022

Cheats people and mismanage and waste their money. Don’t trust them what they say

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“Most unethical company I have ever worked with”

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written by Stam1000 on 29/03/2022

Add People is the 2nd ad agency I've enlisted in my three years of business. They have a really strong sales team. They convinced me that my previous google ad company was doing poorly and that I should switch to Add People. I switched over in October 2021 so that they can have time to set-up their campaigns and be ready for the busiest time of the year - Black Friday! Unfortunately, their promises were too good to be true. My ROAS dropped from 8x to 3x even though they had the advantage of the best selling period of the year. At one point in February, my ROAS was as low as 1x. I understand we were trying to scale my budget and ROAS is expected to drop a bit when this happens. But my account manager admitted to me that it shouldn't drop THAT much. She admitted that they probably made too many changes at the same time, and she proceeded to reverse all the changes in the hopes of reviving my account. When I asked her what the strategy is going forward, she said that they will "keep trying different things". To me, that sounds more like "trial and error" than actual strategy. I requested to cancel my contract before my 6 months was up but they claim that there was no evidence that my account was "mismanaged" and therefore, they will still be charging me for the remaining 2 months even though I will no longer be using them. I am sharing this because this company is one of the most unethical companies I have ever worked with. Unfortunately, I do not have in writing what my account manager shared with me and therefore, I could not prove that she admitted to me that the account was mismanaged.

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“Very knowledgeable staff that are always on hand when...”

★★★★★

written by EfrainArmstrong347 on 09/02/2022

Very knowledgeable staff that are always on hand when I don’t understand something. Once you see through the initial sales approach, which is quite forceful, you find a company that really knows their stuff. Their services wont work for everyone, but you shouldn’t expect that of digital marketing, it’s not an exact science, despite what some similar companies say.

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“bogus, poor, ghosts”

★☆☆☆☆

written by miahrana on 26/10/2021

This company is unbelievable! some staff are ok but some are just a waste of space! They dont pick up emails even when its about them taking payment but when theyre missing a payment then theyre on the phone right away! I have seen absolutley no difference at all! There is no complaints procedure either! after complaining to 3 different people nothing has happened and one guy turns around and says that no one will talk to me anymore because i have opted to not be a customer anymore. The whole reason i joined was because i was promised that this company knows about facebook pixels! 12 months in and absolutely nothing all and they blamed the API of the company and the company that i am networked with provides one of the largest management systems in the world and AddPeople say that its their fault? 12 months in and £1200 down, nothing has changed and im back to square one! Please contact me if you need any further information and the 1 star reviews on this platform is absolutley true and the 5 star is obviously the people who work for addpeople. STAY AWAY FROM THIS COMPANY!

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“AVOID ”

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written by Jameshorgan12 on 03/09/2018

Paid them 4,000 to design a website. They spent 7 months trying to push an absolutely terrible website on me causing a lot of stress, making me feel like i was being awkward and also costing me money hiring graphic designers to try to resolve some of the issues. Only for them to turn around on month 7 and say oh, sorry, we had you on the "wrong product" all along. Now I want nothing to do with this company and even though they provided TERRIBLE service they will not let me out of the contract stating they cannot find a justifiable reason, when, if anything , they owe ME money. I don't mind being in a contract with a company that can deliver but avoid any company that will use the contract as an excuse to not bother once they have you

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“Terrible website developers, i think they sub it out”

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written by JamesHorgan on 12/07/2018

Firstly, let me start by saying their adwords side of the service has been excellent. However upon commissioning them to build a website in December for £4,000 it has tainted my experience as, of 12th July, the website build is still ongoing. When requesting simple changes like moving a banner, resizing it etc I have been met with "this is outside the scope of work" and attempts at additional charges (one even being £3,000!?!?) meta tags not included, the list goes on. I can say for a fact that for 4k they will get a template, populate it with your information and mark it off as complete. the first iteration of the website they sent me for review was quite frankly offensive, blurry images, dead pages, etc. Save yourself the money, spend half hour learning how to use magento and do it yourself. their adwords team however I can recommend although its brining everything into question now I may take this elsewhere out of principle when out of contract.

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“A silver tongued salesman persuaded me to part with...”

★☆☆☆☆

written by ocO'Leary423 on 19/01/2018

A silver tongued salesman persuaded me to part with £250 to set up SEO optimisation. I stupidly paid before reading reviews.Once I read about them I cancelled within 30 mins.But they wouldn't refund my money.Turns out business transactions are not covered by 14 day cooling off period. Don't touch them with a bargepole.

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“Cold Callers”

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written by Ethen1962 on 13/10/2017

I recently placed an ad with Google for my business. Yesterday I received a cold call from these leeches claiming o be a Google partner. All they are doing is trolling the internet for people who are advertising and leeching onto their details knowing full well that people like me are advertising. My details were never passed to them by Google and they are not partners. Stay well clear of these parasites,

Clarkejoss's Comment

Written on: 16/10/2017

I had a call and got as far as giving them my customer ID, when they asked to get into my computer to take a look i then got suspicious and said no, so they didnt get any further. will any harm be done with them knowing my Customer ID ?

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“They know what they are doing”

★★★★★

written by Jaysonw253 on 25/11/2016

My business is pretty new and therefore getting people to know it now exists was vital to begin with. I know one of the best ways to do this was through social media but I didn't really know what I was doing. Add People told me what I could do to get people in my area familiar with my business. The local audience ad they put in place for me showed great results. It was worthwhile working with people that know exactly what is needed and how to do it. I will be using their social media services again for sure. Thank you.

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“Extremely charming to start. Once they get your money...”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Melanieh329 on 05/11/2016

Extremely charming to start. Once they get your money they continue to tell you lies and take more budget than you can afford with empty promises. They turn particularly nasty if you try to leave.

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“Money Sucking Leeches”

★☆☆☆☆

written by Blair231 on 26/09/2016

Keeping it short, they're money grabbers, not marketing specialists. Optimisation is done by a programme with little human analysis. Waste of space, silver tongued salespeople...

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“Had the nerve to ring up a rival SEO company for...”

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written by TopRank on 02/09/2016

What a bunch of amateurs, I myself own a web design and internet marketing company and these salesmen (that's all they are, not marketing experts) had the nerve to ring my company up asking for assistance adding tracking code to a site we had designed after they had cold called a client of ours, tied them into a 12 month contract and struggled with the sites bespoke code. We do actual organic marketing and website optimisation that requires skill and knowledge, there are just too many of these unskilled sales driven companies jumping on the bandwaggon offering to simply 'manage' people adwords accounts. If you want web site optimisation and a good organic ranking go to a proper SEO company, if you what to use PPC open an adwords account, to be honest you'll do a better job that these clowns

Scotwebdigital's Response to TopRank's Review

Written on: 04/01/2017

Lol they did something similar to one of my clients. My client who we explain our service in very simple terms received a call from these clowns and they talked him into a 12 month contract for a service I already provide.

I spoke to them and explained that my client didn't need the service as I already manage that for them. Their response "Well he's signed a contract with us so legally tied into it now".

These guys are terrible at what they offer and when you try to leave they are rude and unprofessional.

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“Be careful, they will lie to you on the phone to trick you”

★☆☆☆☆

written by on 22/08/2016

into their binding 12 month contract. I was doing better myself by paying google directly and having control over how much I spent. These clowns were full of promises on the phone but in reality did not deliver a single thing. The landing page was a poorly made template with a bad stock image that generated only enquiries from areas that were not within reach for my business. I was promised that I will have an account manager that will be in touch with me, she was trying to be nice and polite but that was not the point, for the amounts of money I was spending (and still am since I am stuck in a 12 month contract with them!) I got 0 leads. Not a single customer from the landing page that they have set up for my campaign. I don't know who is worse, them or yellow pages. Sometimes it seems like a joke. I was foolish enough to fall for this while I was tired and I got a marketing phone call, please be careful and learn from my mistake.

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“Not great really”

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written by PhilipBarton on 09/05/2016

Not great for SEO / Shopping campaigns Was a bit dubious about signing up with an ad agency but their sales guys gave a good pitch and convinced us it was right for our business. The initial set up took longer than expected, some 3 weeks in fact but I was told this because they would thoroughly research our industry and keywords and look at our competitors to ensure out ads were targeted correctly but I think we could have done better ourselves plus the first set of campaigns were riddled with spelling mistakes so had to be revised Overall results were poor and the small increase in traffic and sales wasn't enough to cover the google ad words campaigns and their fees. Overall the whole experience was a loss to our company of £500 To make matters worse they decided to take another months fee despite the fact I had already cancelled and given them the 30 days notice. If you want to leave make sure you CANCEL the direct debit. I did offer not to leave a review if they refunded our money but they chose not to so clearly don't value their business and customer service. Since leaving we have gone back to our basic ads and the traffic and conversion rates are now double what they were than when the Ad People ads were running. I would not recommend.

Addpeople's Response to PhilipBarton's Review

Written on: 11/05/2016

Dear Philip

Thanks for taking the time to provide feedback about your experience with Add People. We welcome all comments - good or bad - that can help us shape our services and we're really disappointed to learn that you feel your experience with us was a negative one. Your agreement with us was on a rolling basis and we had a relatively short period of time to try to make this campaign work for you, it is unfortunate that it did not yield the desired results within the short time frame.

We are always committed to delivering outstanding Google AdWords and Shopping campaigns for the businesses that we work with and we're really proud of the many positive reviews and testimonials from our clients.

We do also take on board any constructive criticism, this is crucial for us as a customer-focused provider which is why as a business we do not offer payment for reviews and could not accept your offer of a refund in exchange for not leaving your feedback online.

I can see that our Customer Relations team has tried to contact you on a number of occasions to discuss your additional final payment that was agreed and taken within your notice period however they have been unable to contact you to resolve this part of your complaint.

Please contact us on 0161 928 6999 should you wish to discuss this matter further.

Kind Regards

Danielle Jones
Marketing Communications

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“Breath of fresh air”

★★★★★

written by flTimmons306 on 20/02/2016

After my previous experience with a different firm working with add people was like a breath of fresh air. Great product knowledge, regular contact, homework provided, constant market research & a how can we help you more attitude. Hopefully we will be back working together in the future

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Asked by idcoull on 8th October 2014 Report this content
I run a small business that uses Google AdWords as it's main route to market. I have been approached by Add People who want to manage my pay per click AdWords campaign. They want to charge me an initial set-up fee of £199 +VAT and the £100 + VAT per month (based upon a maximum Google monthly spend of £250). Has anyone used them and are they any good? Many Thanks.

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Report this content Kyle.arcosales Written on: 09/10/2014
They dont do anything for your subscription fee, they do a small bit for your set up then lye back and watch the money role in, steer clear if i was you, get a local company to do your seo, one that you can trust
Report this content Kyle.arcosales Written on: 09/10/2014
I think all the good reviews are written by ad people themselves, that is only my opinion though
Report this content oswald99 Written on: 09/10/2014
I had a bad experience with this company. My opinion is that they are all PR and no action. They have a very good selling spiel but did nothing that I couldn't have done myself. They also did not do all that they had promised. TI was phoned up by them and given the hard sell. I managed to pull out of the contract after about five months but not before throwing £750 down the drain. They did not enforce the contract because I think they knew that they were in the wrong and had not done their job properly.
Report this content GS1702 Written on: 10/10/2014
Hi, I dont recall being charged a set up fee, but maybe, try and reduce that if you do pay it, they will want your business and there are plenty of companies who will do it without a set up fee.
Report this content petepurch Written on: 10/10/2014
I have personal experiences with this company that ended with me been £270.00 out of pocket, and received nothing but bad attitude and buck passing, i now manage my own SEO and can been found on page 1 of Google position 3. think twice before dealing with these people should have have anymore concerns or questions or free advice feel free to reply to me.
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