I'm feeling like someone just punched me in the stomach.
I found out this morning the cost of my "Citysearch" advertising will be increased 400% in 10 days.
I'm a tiny florist business, and this is devastating to me.
I can't help but wonder if it's a seismic ripple in reaction to the assumed death of net neutrality.
I've been advertising with "Citysearch" for several years, mainly because they were all I could afford, and I did get nominal results from them, which is more than I can say for some other forms of advertising I've tried.
The "citysearch man" I spoke to about the rate change
tried to tell me I'd be getting higher quality hits and
blah, blah, blah." I just keep saying: "That's 4 times as much per click. That's extortion!" Finally, his calm and friendly veneer went down, and he simply said:
"Hey, it's the prevailing rate." We're trying to model
ourselves after the yellow pages."
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