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I recommend finding a local SEO/Google Maps optimization company that is reputable.

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Stan K - found your blog among several regarding LAL. I met a rep yesterday, and LAL sounded enticing. I always do "due diligence", and I am glad you guys have been so thorough. The LAL website is decrepit. No way I will dump money in this. Now - for micro-biz owners tryign to market on a slim budget, what do you recommend for internet advertising?

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The software is worthless, but companies who have poor analysts learn expensive lessons. Better directory development software could be purchased for $120. You have to hand it to the Local Ad Link/Beyond Commerce financiers, their smoke and mirrors yields a lot of investors/buyers. In that regard, they succeeded.

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I could not understand what OmniReliant Holdings was thinking when it bought the LocalAdLink "software" for $4 million. I assume OmniReliant believed the baseless hype like so many Brand Builders did. LocalAdLink never had any technology that could automatically feed local ads to the top of Google and hundreds of thousands of Web sites. For that to happen, you need to have business relationships involving payments for the ads. Just like LocalAdLink/Beyond Commerce, OmniReliant could buy ads on Google AdWords and its Content Network. But you don't need special software to do that. You need money to pay for the ads. Software is not necessary. Only cash is needed. $4 million could buy as many as 40 million more clicks than LocalAdLink "software" will ever deliver.I wonder if the owners at OmniReliant ever figured that out.

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Yes, what I'm saying that Local Ad Link is not an asset and is not real service or product so there is literally nothing to change or build on. Local Ad Link is a valueless service and its very name is not only valueless, but it's a liability. The reputation of this "service" is now well known as is its worthless and potentially fraudulent in nature. So, how can Zurvita somehow make it better? I don't know. I'm forced to use the Enron example again. If Zurvita bought the rights to sell using Enron branding and assets, how could they improve upon it? Enron has a well known bad name. That's all it is. That's all Local Ad Link is. If Zurvita wants to sell a service related to marketing, they are far better of launching a new product that is real - without the huge liability of carrying the Local Ad Link name. So, what I am saying is that there is no product that is real and available for Local Ad Link. It is and always was a smoke and mirror scam. I've proven that repeatedly in the blog. There is no product to build on, period. There is nothing of value. The only thing that exists is an exposed, valueless scam. So, does it really matter who is the captain of the Titanic. Here's another example:What if I wanted to create a cruise ship. Would it be easier to dredge up the Titanic, or build a new one? I daresay it would be far easier to build a new one. Yet another clear analogy that Local Ad Link is not an asset of any kind, it's only a liability to anyone involved in that name.

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So what you are saying is that there is no way that Zurvita and Omni can make this a useful product? It just seems that because of what LAL was supposed to be, and what it failed to do, is the reason that you make this strong statement of the product being junk. What i don't understand is that if the product was a mess and useless before, what makes you think that these 2 companies cannot make this product perform the way it was meant. They have been working on this product to make it something people want to purchase and find value in, because it performs as expected. Saying it is a useless asset like enron is way off base. Lets think for a minute, you are saying it is useless without even admitting that this product could be gone through and made to work and perform as expected??? Maybe microsoft vista is crap, does that mean that microsoft 7 is also?? I guess cause one version of a product that a company sold is junk, could never be fixed and made into a good product by a totally different company thats sole purpose is to better the product to perform as expected. Is it really that you dont want it to, or you just don't want to admit that it could happen? Omni is a major investor in Zurvita, and they are working closely with Zurvita to change this product for the better. Maybe beyond commerce didnt have a clue, but they have left the building.

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Corey, having the licensing rights to sell something useless, which Local Ad Link is, does not make it valuable to anyone. For example, if I bought the trademark rights to operate under the name Enron, would I have much success? You see Enron, like Local Ad Link, is worthless. It contains no value to businesses, advertisers, or people who want to start a business. It only serves to damage people. So, what good is it to Zurvita? None. Zurvita put money into a worthless "asset".

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I was watching this blog for sometime and now I see they have come to my area. http://richmond.craigslist.org/med/1510756882.html I am not sure how many business owners will buy into this but Richmond is hard hit right now. I hope no one else has to suffer from scams like this.

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Stan, i am not here to stick up for any of the problems or shortfalls of Beyond Commerce/Local AdLink. But i do see that your last post was 9 days ago, and beyond commerce does not own local ad link anymore. Your info is most likely correct about beyond commerce though. Omni reliant, which is the largest infomercial company in the world, and the first to ever make infomercials is the owner of LAL. Zurvita has the licensing rights. I think we should all give the benefit of the doubt that this product, can be turned into a viable entity that can offer customers a quality and value that was not present with their previous owners. All i am saying is that anyone who really believes that this product would be released without a substantial overhaul is delusional at best, why don't we wait and see what this product develops into, and what zurvita turns out as the final product.

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I am so thankful I found this post!

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Update on Beyond Commerce/Local Ad Link:Excerpt from: http://biz.yahoo.com/e/091116/byoc.ob10-q.htmlAs shown in the accompanying consolidated financial statements, we incurred a loss of $17,114,906 and $8,535,345 for the nine and three month periods ended September 30, 2009, respectively, as compared to $8,987,304 and $4,032,056 for the same periods ended September 30, 2008, respectively. Our current liabilities exceeded our current assets by $15,273,221 at September 30, 2009 and negative cash flow from operating activities for the nine months ended September 30, 2009 was $6,200,151. Included in current liabilities is deferred revenue of $1,809,130, derivative liability of $3,451,215 and notes payable of $8,239,384. These factors, and our inability to meet our obligations from current operations, and the need to raise additional capital to accomplish our objectives, create considerable doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.We currently do not have sufficient funds on hand to fund our current obligations until we reach our projected break-even level of operations. We do not have any bank credit lines. Accordingly, we will have to obtain additional funding in the near future in order to continue our operations until our revenues are sufficient to fund our operating expenses. Although we have again re-commenced our on-line e-commerce business and now are generating revenues from our e-commerce business, we do not anticipate that we will generate sufficient cash from operations to fund our working capital needs for at least another three months. Accordingly, we intend to continue to seek additional financing from various sources, including from the sale of debt or equity securities. We have not yet identified, and cannot be sure that we will be able to obtain any additional funding from either of these sources, or that the terms under which we may be able to obtain such funding will be beneficial to us. If we do not obtain sufficient additional funds in the near future, we will have to suspend some of our operations, further scale down our current and proposed future operations or, if those actions are not sufficient, terminate our operations.Stock price is at 4 cents today.

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Well put. Local Ad Link only serves to dupe business owners and would be entrepreneurs into wasting money on a zero value advertising service.

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Bottom line, the local adlink program does not work. Speaking from personal experience, ads may briefly and sporadically appear in the sponsored links but disappear to never return again. And forget about seeing your ad in organic links. The ads may show up if you are searching on localadlink.com but not on 3rd party search engines. As a former "Brand Builder" I've had clients prepay for a year in advance, and clients who paidon a month to month basis and they are unable to get refunds when the product does not deliver. There is woefully non-existent customer support and their slow response time is a business killer. Its tough to sell ads when they don't appear and there is no confidence in their crappy product. Good luck trying to get any money back or any responses from customer dis-service. I'd advise anyone involved to cut your losses and run as fast as you can from this sinking ship. LAL is a POS, and you can't polish a turd.

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Looks like LAL are on the move again - into India. See: http://www.videostreamaustralia.com/fastlocaladlin

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TO MANY CHIEFS, AND NOT ENOUGH INDIANS!