This is a complaint filed by an ex-employee who was terminated for performance reasons. This employee has been blogging us with multiple alias’s since he was terminated in March of 2009. There are many blogs on the Internet similar to this one.
This ex-employee is uneducated and only has a high school diploma, so the argument above is somewhat incoherent. He is confusing the issue between an Adwords Qualified Individual and an Adwords Qualified Company. There is a big difference here. There are no constraints on Adwords Qualified Individuals, just passing the test. On the other hand an Adwords Qualified Company has to have several employees who have passed Google testing, but must be in good standings with Google, including paying Google $100,000 per quarter. Please click the link below and then the O-Z tab and you’ll see the required payments for the United States.
https://adwords.google.com/support/select/professionals/bin/answer.py?answer=59030
This ex-employee is also making up the story that “he was called by our sales force”, not likely. We don’t call the homeless, just legitimate businesses. We are a multi-million dollar company and we take a great deal of care that our sales reps are properly trained. We have no need to identify ourselves as Google. Very few companies are Adwords Qualified, this is enough.
Google recently shut down its phone support to end-users enhancing our value to small businesses. This is a difficult task for a small business to set up properly and maintain. If Google campaigns are not properly developed, this can result in massive differences in the price paid per click. Google rates every keyword in their system with a Quality Score. Companies with low quality scores can pay as much as ten times or more than companies with high quality scores. There is no fallacy that a well set up Google campaign will cost a fraction of a poorly set up campaign.
This ex-employee states that we have multiple company names and that we “changed their name almost constantly”. A simple whois lookup will show that these names have been registered quite some time ago. This ex-employee is aware of all of these domain names and why we have them. We are a very transparent company. Many of these and why are outlined in the About Us on our site at www.performancemediaplacement.com. For reference, we’ve outlined the URLs sited in this blog.
premiumlocallistings.com – we market using this URL on Google, as a neutral URL so the resellers don’t have to sell under our URL. This is spelled out on our site in the About Us under www.performancemediaplacement.com
pll411.com – this is a shortcut to www.premiumlocallistings.com.
performancelocallistings.com – This is an old URL which we used to use to market our company. pl411.com – this is a shortcut to www.performancelocallistings.com.
performancemediaplacement.com – This is our primary domain. Please note that we’re very clear about who we are see the About Us on this site.
g2411.com – this is a shortcut to www.performancemediaplacement.com. This makes it easier and quicker for our sales reps to take customers to our site.
Reseller Sites
pll-orange.com – this site was developed for a reseller in Orange, CA.
premierlocallistings.com – this site was developed for a reseller in Austin, TX.
nw411.com – this is the URL to a reseller from almost nearly 2 years ago, who is no longer with us. Only this ex-employee would know this old URL.
Why file a report here? Ripoff Report is a permanent record! Other complaint sites copy our content then remove reports for money.
