Posted by Patricia Koch on 8/8/11 1:40pm
Msg #393014

Notary Phone Book

Has anyone used this advertising and how would you rate?

Reply by MaggieMae_CA on 8/8/11 3:30pm
Msg #393046

Notary Phone Book

I think I signed up with the 5 or 6 years ago when I first started. Didn't get much business and when I did a zip code search hardly any other notaries turned up in my area. Maybe one other 3 miles away and the rest were over 12 miles away.

If you're going to pay for a service, I suggest only use the top ranking sites like this one. If you can get a free membership somewhere else, then sign up.

When I first started out I looked at (via Google and Yahoo searches) the most visible notaries in my area and started searching to see where they were listed. I listed myself on the same sites I saw them and I've done pretty well.

You'lll make mistakes and waste money (I drank the kool-aid a couple years back and purchased a lifetime membership on a site everyone was talking about it and the site no longer exists), but that's what happens when you get into the "everyone else is doing it mentality" and not thinking for yourself. I should have had a wait and see attitude on that one, but didn't. $120 shot to H-E-double sticks.

Reply by Stephanie Santiago on 8/8/11 4:47pm
Msg #393064

Re: Notary Phone Book....We've all had a taste of that kool-

aid here and there. To be successfull we have to try many avenues and sometimes it just doesn't work out.

Reply by MichiganAl on 8/8/11 5:20pm
Msg #393068

Piece of garbage spammers who never respond emails.

Won't stop spamming me, same email week after week after week for two years, won't remove me, won't reply to emails, don't provide a phone number. Freaking hate them.

Reply by HisHughness on 10/12/11 2:52pm
Msg #400264

This doesn't get you off their list...

...but it averts the necessity for you to have to kill out the spam.

Yahoo I know, and probably other services as well, provides filters. These are not to identify spam -- that's a different function -- but to filter incoming messages to send them to whatever folder you wish. I simply create a filter that sends such e/ms to trash. Never have to see them that way, and they get killed out when the trash folder is automatically emptied.

Reply by walthtz on 10/12/11 2:41pm
Msg #400262

I, like others have gotten several ads from the Notary Phone Book, but every time I have written them an E/M to take me off their list, I never get a reply.
After several months of their junk e/m, I put a complaint in with the BBB who after 2 months told me the NPB will not answer their E/M's.
The problem is that this is SPAM. Any site that does not let you opt out is considered Spam.
Some of the info they list on their site is wrong information & they will NOT fix the listings.
All this person is interested in is getting your money!
I looked up their Domain listing & found they are registered with Go Daddy.com
Info:
Registrant:
Shane Martin
9507 Burnet Ave.
North Hills, California 91343
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: NOTARYPHONEBOOK.COM
Created on: 28-Dec-05
Expires on: 28-Dec-16
Last Updated on: 23-Oct-07

Administrative Contact:
Martin, Shane [e-mail address]
9507 Burnet Ave.
North Hills, California 91343
United States
(818) 581-8631

Technical Contact:
Martin, Shane [e-mail address]
9507 Burnet Ave.
North Hills, California 91343
United States
(818) 581-8631

Domain servers in listed order:
NS11.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
NS12.DOMAINCONTROL.COM

Now, I have filled a compliant with Go Daddy on this site:
You can also:
go to Go Daddy, resources at the bottom & then to Legal.
If enough people file complaints, perhaps they will be taken down & the e/m's will stop.
Walter