AT&T Advertising Solutions YP.com, YellowPages.com Big Promises Little Results Denver, Colorado

Our Sales Person, Peter Tandy at AT&T Advertising Solutions was excellent... at first.  He pushed very quickly to get the contract pushed through and the account setup, but soon thereafter things fell apart.  We had a weekly meeting in place and every week the same promises were make.  They would fix the improper keywords, they would bump up our SEM, but the results were always the same.

 We were paying $600 per month to AT&T for the "600 connection package" which included listings in all of their affiliate directories, a webpage that they would host, directing traffic to our main page and calls to our office via their tracked number.  And lastly it included the management of paid keywords and offers with various search engines.

 AT&T's claim was that we should see 11-20 calls and >45 clicks per month within the first 2 months.  We run a dental practice and we average 60 new patients per month. All of our marketing avenues were setup within 1 month of one another.  85% of our patients come through marketing, the remaining 15% comes through referrals or insurance, but after 6 months we had only received 2 calls from AT&T advertising.  

In 6 months AT&T producted a staggeringly craptastik 12 clicks through to our site while Yelp drives an average of 8 clicks per month completely free.  The bottom line is that we paid over $3000 to acquire 1 patient (1 of the 2 calls was a no-show).  I expressed my displeasure repeatedly over the course of several months to Peter who repeatedly assured me that he would "make it right," going so far as to promise a credit for 2 months of service, then Peter disappeared and moved to another territory in another state.  

I was then put in touch with his District Sales Manager, Charles Pankey.  Two emails outlining the history of our issues were sent to Charles.  Several calls were placed and still no response finally, at 9:15 am, after weeks of attempting to contact Charles, I caught him just as he was arriving at the office. 

I gave him the history of our issues and my request that he follow through with Peters promise for 2 months credit and I immediately got the feeling that he could care less about my concerns.  He promised to look into it and contact me on January 21st.  Today is the 27th and I have still yet to hear from anyone at AT&T willing to take this matter seriously and make this issue right.