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- Koopsy
Just wondering if anyone here has ever taken an ad/listing in LeBook. If you have done...
- what prompted you to do so?
- What results did it bring you?
- Did you repeat your listing the next year?
- Did you pay full price for your listing?
- Any other info/feedback worth adding?
- thumb_screws0
- Seems like the done thing to do, nearly everyone has a copy of it.
- Not the right ones, I think it might of had something to do with the way we advertised in it. Most of the people who hit us up for work through lebook had quite small budgets, or wanted work for next to nothing.
- For some reason, YesPros'
It's a good means of getting your work out to an international audience.Con's
Get the impression that its used more as resource for creatives to check up on each other, especially agencies.Not sure if we will List in it again.
Hope this helps?
- Thanks, very helpful. I did it once, vowed not to do so again, but now feel tempted to give them another go.Koopsy
- PromotionalUseOnly0
When I owned Engage, they wouldn't leave us alone... constantly ringing up about it
- if I call you everyday for the next 3 years will you get me a job?Georges
- Koopsy0
Haha yes... they do that to me too. I agreed to go into the London edition for 2007. They had cold-called me into a stupor - don't even know where they got me from - and in the end I was swayed by the fact that you get 1000 contact addresses as part of the deal. That was really all I wanted so I hammered the cost down and made them agree to give me a right hand page.
I got a left hand page and even worse they put me in Art Directors!, so my listing - as an illustrator - was almost entirely useless.
I complained about it and they did a really annoying thing of offering me "a huge discount on next years listing" on condition I signed up to it and paid there and then! as though it was possible to turn their fuck up to their own advantage!
So out of beligerence I didn't bother this year. They just spammed me with a generic last minute offer email though so I was half tempted to giv ethem another go.
- marcassanti0
I own my own digital retouching company in Paris and I have been in contact with Le Book for the past 5 years. In my opinion, it’s the only resource that matters in the creative industry. It has helped my company gain visibility amongst my competitors - I have found it works really well. My only advice would be don’t just do it as a once off only. It takes a while to gain recognition in your market and to establish a strong customer base.
Ah ha, yes its true - sometimes they can be a bit pushy ..but at the end of the day, its for our own benefit.
I hope my comment helps.
Marc.
- SkyPoo0
Hello marc, Strange, but you don;t show up in any searches for Paris based retouchers. Have you just joined QBN? Your profile shows only a google email address and no website.
Welcome, hope you find lots more threads to contribute to here!
= )
- SkyPoo0
While this thread is back in the premier league though... after a few more emails it transpired that the speical price they were offering for a last minute booking was significantly more than the price I paid for a page in 2007... so not so special then.
So I wont be taking them up on their offer this year, but thanks for your very pursuasive words Marc. You should do some sales work for LeBook, you sound just like them!!
- d_rek0
Kill the infidel.
- SkyPoo0
Say, Marc...
The strangest thing, I can't find you via Google, OR via LeBook's online directory. Could you maybe post up your company url here? or email it to me if you would prefer to be discreet? It may well help to pursuade me to take that page in Le Book after all!
- SkyPoo0
Wow, what a guy.
Drops in, no previous posting history, no website, no email address, BAM, delivers a frankly compelling message PLUS some ROCK SOLID advice about making sure you keep on booking those pages every year, and then just like that...
*pop* Gone.
Some people are so crazybusy these days they just don't have time for hi-speed internet access chats.
God Speed My Friend, I hope you digitally retouch your way to Valhalla and glory at the top table.