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AD iQ is writing fake reviews and giving GOOGLE a bad name with their their SCAM. Dont trust these 5 star reviews. I previously wrote a poor review with my experience below (and now know many others experienced similar horrors)
I tried contacting them many times for a refund and was ignored. The only time they contacted me was to haggle me to take down my real review. So unprofessional and sketchy. Below is my experience and I will not remove it in hopes of helping others to not get scammed.

Dont use if your a small business owner! I got a call from a man named Colby with ad IQ. He told me all the "great" things being on Google would do for my business. I was promised atleast 18 potential clients monthly contacting me. He explained, I would choose key words for my google business page for clients searching in my area, and my google business page would pop up. I signed up with a 3 month contract (thankfully I didnt sign up for a longer contract).

Because of my success with my first advertising experience,(with a different company) I thought surely what he is saying is true also... I was WRONG. I thought I could always use more clients contacting me and I thought most businesses are on google so I should try it.

After all was set up on google all there was to do was to wait and see.
The first thing I noticed was that when I was all set up and my google business page was up, I could not find it when I would search my key words in my area on google. I had to literally type in the name of my business to even find it on google. Which was no help at all, being a new business, still trying to get my name out there. I called ad IQ with my concern of not being able to find my page by the key words and was told "it would take time for my business to pop up on the keyword search" Which was not what I was told when I set up.

I waited a little bit longer to see if I would get the 18 potential clients. The few times I got calls from the Ad IQ number, every time I would answer it would be someone from Yelp. I was not interested in signing up for yelp. And told the man many times I am not interested right now. Yelp would keep calling me and trying to talk me into joining yelp, to the point it was almost harassment. My husband had to answer the phone for me finally to tell them very sternly I am not interested. The calls stopped. Until recently they still are calling me.

I did NOT receive the 18 clients a month, I did not get 1 client from Google to be honest. I had maybe 2 actual clients reach out(in the 3 months), but I was already booked up on their wedding day, so it was no help.

I called to tell them all of this and was told the same thing "it takes time" and that "just because you arent getting clients directly from ad IQ doesnt mean its not working". I asked when can I cancel? And was able to cancel on August 23rd and did.
Dont get scammed like it did.