Ex-Business.com Advertisers Receive Free Listings

At work we’ve been looking into advertising with Business.com. I’ve been corresponding with them about their systems, ad serving technology, and giving them a hard time – like I always give ad sales reps. A colleague walked in on my phone call with them and was intrigued because he knew something about advertising with them that I didn’t know at the time.

He prompted me to put the call on speaker phone, so I did and muted it as the sales guy kept talking. My colleague, who had advertised with Business.com while in a different industry, told me to key in a couple keywords at Business.com. I keyed in the phrase and we started scrolling down through the results. We got about 2/3 of the way down the page and just like he had predicted there was his previous employer’s listing.

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