Reviews by robs729

This review is for Inferno Promotions, Hobart TAS

verified email - 03 Sep 2015

Hi, I am Rob and I currently work for Australian Laser Charge. I have previously owned 2 businesses in the last ten years and David has in that time through Inferno promotion looked after all their advertising and promotion work. And this business was a retail store where we dealt with cartridges and second was an online store and now we deal with cartridges again and I look after all the advertising and promotion, and I am still with Inferno.

The thing that I like about Inferno and what's kept me with Inferno for the last ten years or more is the fact that they will always listen to what we need and they will tailor a solution that is really hopefully going to work for us. It's always reviewed after that David comes and sees is it working for you and invariably if it's not working then he will change it because he's genuinely concerned about whether the business is succeeding or not.

One other things I really like about Inferno Promotions is that when you come to them with the problem, they look at each individual advertising medium to see where the solution my best buy for you. Right from the very beginning when we were running our first retail store we actually started from scratch and we had little idea about the best form of advertising to really make the business work. David came to us with a number of different ideas encompassing TV, Radio and newsprint and when we looked at only alternatives we started with radio and we developed from there to the stage that we had a full-on 30-second TV commercial, that was about two years down the track.

The thing that really impressed me was that David looked at each individual market, he talked to us and worked out who our target market really was and then he looked to each individual radio station and TV station to see who was actually watching those programs and then he would advise us the best station, the best program and the best time slot to be on. And we found this an incredibly and effective way of advertising.

Since the days we owned our first retail store we have moved on quite a lot and I ran an online business for some years before moving into my present position. One of the things that's really impressed me during that time is Inferno’s website development. We had an experience in this business that I am presently in where we went to another supplier for some time and the website ended up in and absolute shambles. I call David into the rescue and we suddenly started getting excellent results on our website again with hits, follow-up, enquiries and web-based orders.

AdWords in particular was always a bit of a mystery to us how it actually worked and when we were with the other supplier, they took AdWords on for us and basically made a mess of it. David came and explained AdWords to us, how it worked and the fact that you actually need to have maintenance on your website, maintenance on AdWords all the time to maximize the hits on your website and to maximize the benefits.

Unlike some companies that do website maintenance and nothing really happens as a result. When we used inferno we found a big difference is that website maintenance and the result was a very measurable result. We could actually see the figures increasing and we could see the changes they were making actually bringing positive results.

When other people ask who do you use for advertising? I say without hesitation, Inferno Promotions. The next question invariably is would you use them again? And the answer very simply is, ‘yes.’ And then when the question why is asked, the answer is again simple. They have such a broad market understanding that encompasses basically events that are happening in the whole of Australia that affect the market. And with a finger on the pulse you know you're going to get positive results every time. I would definitely recommend Inferno, for small to medium business experts.