I got a phone call from EMS after purchasing websites from SOL. I was told that they could assure me of getting 100 "qualified" visitors to my site each day and would promote and optimize my site so that I would have a good ranking with the search engines. They assured me that the sales I would be making from their promotion would easily pay the minimum payments on my charge accounts within 3 months and within 6-12 months I will have earned enough in sales to pay off my entire investment of $13,500 that I paid for their services.
In August I published my website. I was "assigned" a coach that called me once weekly and reiterated what the Stores Online tutorials had already told me. After 6 months of reading and applying all the strategies of the tutorials I was getting 100 visitors per MONTH. Then I joined a group of other website owners that help each other with site optimization to improve my rankings with the search engines. I did some link trading and directory submissions, all without the assistance of EMS.
I then called EMS and asked to speak with the marketing director, Matt Rashmussen. I told him that they had not delivered on the promises they had made me as I had not gotten the traffic or sales they had assured me I would get. He reviewed my account and informed me that the site promotion had not been implemented because I had never sent in the "promotion certificate" they had mailed me in my welcome packet from them. That was because I never received a "Welcome Packet" or certificate from them. He said he didn't believe I had not received one but that he would get the site promotion started.
I got a flurry of "emails", more tutorials about how to set up a newsletter, a blog, and how to set up a PayPerClick account, all of which was to drive traffic to my site. They sent me an email of all the directories and search engines that they had submitted my site to for inclusion. More than half of which I had already submitted my site to myself and was already listed with them. THAT is what I paid $13,500 for! In order to get 100 visitors a day to my site I would have to spend a minimum of $300 a month on payperclick ads for an indefinite amount of time.
After 10 months of fees for web hosting, credit card processing, not to mention the cost of the websites and the outrageous price of Electronic Marketing Services, I have nothing left to spend on PayPerClick Ads to drive POTENTIAL buying customers to my site. EMS implied THAT is what I was paying them to do. If I had NOT given them $13,500 for bogus services, I could have spent that money on promoting my site through payperclick and other means and possibly made it a productive site on my own. Now my finances are such that I had to close down my site due to lack of traffic and sales.
Bottomline, they are crooks. They take your money, do not deliver on their promises, and have little regard for the financial hardship they bring to their victims. I'm certain some people, especially the elderly on a fixed income, won't be able to financially recover from the damage they have been caused by EMS.
I intend on filing a complaint with the BBB of Utah as well. Hopefully, something can be done to save others from a fate possibly worse than mine.
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