PAID Google Post vs FREE Google Post

[Carluminati]

So I have been using GOOGLE POSTS for a few weeks now, and I get there right from within my Google My Business Dashboard - they are free, and not tied to any website provider.

Look at the ad Dealer eProcess sent me about the same service, except it's not free from DEP, they charge $299 for something Google charges $0?

How could you sell a free service DEP? I would have just added it as a value added service.

 

[craigh]

How could you sell a free service DEP? I would have just added it as a value added service.

They're charging you to manage it on your behalf.
@yagoparamo posted about this earlier here: https://forum.dealerrefresh.com/threads/google-posts.5351/#post-46088

Same reason you pay someone to manage your AdWords on top of the AdWords spend itself.

 

[Carluminati]

$3,588 a year to manage posts the dealer should be doing? Really Craig. You'd pay that? Yago would like to see us pay for it of coarse, he get's a cut maybe. I want to teach dealers to be more self reliant, not abrogate their voice just because it's easy to do, and they think $299 is chump change. I just fired a company today because of high management fees. This adds up, pure profit for the website owner: 500 users X $299 = $149,500 monthly or $1.7 million annually. One or 2 persons max could handle the job for all 500 dealers - because many run similar ads, but for $1.7 million per year? That's where I am going.

 

[craigh]

$3,588 a year to manage posts the dealer should be doing? Really Craig. You'd pay that?

I didn't say that
But I don't hold it against another vendor when they find something dealers are willing to pay for

 

[Alexander Lau]

They're charging you to manage it on your behalf.
@yagoparamo posted about this earlier here: https://forum.dealerrefresh.com/threads/google-posts.5351/#post-46088

Same reason you pay someone to manage your AdWords on top of the AdWords spend itself.

Exactly