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Traffic Booster by StoreYa
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Aug. 5, 2020
Used for a few months. I have a completely untouched google shopping and search campaign set up and these both perform as well as StoreYa's campaigns. Their staff are great but this programme is a huge rip off and priced to compete with the very best in marketing agencies. This is okayish to get going but definitely use a marketing agency who will keep you informed every step of the way and actually show you the ads they set-up.
Thank you for your feedback. Upon reviewing your account I see that you've been with us for 4 months, upgraded twice, and received a ROAS of 13X. One of the advantages of working with us is that you can cancel at any time, so feel free to test your local marketing agency, and come back if you see a drop in sales. Good luck!
July 21, 2020
Storeya has become one of our most successful and reliable advertising channels and we haven't needed to create any of our own google ads since. Our ROAS is 10.7. The results are pretty self explanatory. I recommend relying on storeya for 30-50% of your marketing activity, and focusing your limited energy on the other tasks that you can't automate. Take advantage of this resource, just be specific about your budget and goals with your campaigns and they will listen.
June 27, 2023
All sorted out with the developer and I am happy now with the app as they went above and beyond for me.
Thank you for your review. We know that launching a new site and getting the first sales is hard. We have been helping people doing exactly that for the past 8 years building our reputation from the ground up. It would take more time and data for your site to succeed. Feel free to visit us in the future. Good luck!
March 14, 2020
Wasted marketing dollars. Do it yourself or get help from a Fiverr freelancer. You'll get far better results with a lot more transparency. Automated robots don't work. I used for 2.5 months. Enough time to prove themselves. Original charge was $120 a month. Then the next months went up to $180. During the last month, my campaign was cut 2 weeks short because they said it was too expensive to attract the target audience. So you need to pay them more before they turn it back on. If you are in business sales are what count. You won't get them from Storeya.
May 4, 2020
UPDATE! Don't download this app, their team is completely unethical. After leaving this review they threatened me telling me they will refund me my money if I remove the review. After downloading it you'll be prompted to pay extra hidden fees. really bad app, it will make you spend at least 300 dollars. 120 a month I just paid and then it asks me to upgrade to their deluxe plan and its just absolutely outrageous. If you are getting this app get ready to dump money all over the developer. Im asking shopify for a refund.
It's unfortunate that you decided to write a negative review before trying our app. We never recommend our clients to spend more money before they see a positive return on their ad spend. On the contrary, we lowered the entry bar to a minimum so that anyone can test us out and gradually extend the budget when the results are to his/her satisfaction. You are welcome to reply to the email we sent you.
Dec. 24, 2019
Horrible customer service. I chose the basic $120 plan to start and was charged $335. I was sent setup instructions hours after creating the account. I would not recommend them. Very unprofessional. And the so called positive reviews are from people who don't know anything about marketing and let these people get over on them.
You provided us with a site that was offline and online at times and had demo text and images in it and therefore couldn't be promoted. The site was registered 4 days period to signing up and was not indexed on Google yet. Your account was immediately canceled and fully refunded. We invite you to come back once the store is ready for paid traffic.
Dec. 7, 2019
I installed this app about 3 weeks ago after I read both good and not so good reviews, in that time it shows that the app has generated 63 visitors, some days the bounce rate was really good, and other days not so good. The one thing it hasn't done is get a conversion, I was hoping it would so I would have reason to continue. I think the app may be good for some markets, it just doesn't seem to yield anything for ours. Support was good in being responsive to questions. If someone decides to try the app, my only recommendation is don't be upset if it does nothing for you.
Thank you for your feedback, and the kind words about our support team. Since you started using the Traffic Booster on Nov. 21st., the bounce rate from our traffic is much lower than your other channels, which shows it is targeted traffic.We are still working on your account. It takes time and data to get a conversion, especially the first conversions.Feel free to contact us if you have any questions, we'll be happy to assist.
Dec. 5, 2019
**Dropped from a 2-star to a 1-star review as Storeya just bumped 4 positive reviews above mine.** I don't normally write app reviews, but I wanted to provide a detailed review of this app as it is a large investment for many small businesses and there are a couple of things I thought it was important for other stores to be aware of. I used Storeya's Traffic Booster for 2 months, the first month I was on the basic plan, the second month I upgraded to the standard plan. Results: 1st Month Paid $178AUD for basic plan. Storeya drove 152 visitors, resulting in 2 sales. 2nd Month Paid $730AUD for standard plan. Storeya drove 462 visitors, resulting in 9 sales. Pros: - Quick & Easy set-up - Responsive Email Customer Service - Reporting Dashboard Cons: - Delivered about half the traffic they advertise in their marketing (Storeya advertises that the basic plan will drive 250-500 visitors and standard plan will drive 700-1,400 visitors) - Lack of transparency around the ads they are running on your behalf as they run the campaigns in their own account. - High-bounce rate of traffic compared to other sources. General Comments: I have my suspicions that some of the claims made by storeya in their marketing activities are misleading. For instance they are currently running a video ad on instagram featuring 'Christine Jones' from Zodiacfanatic.com. Christine claims that she is seeing a return of 6.5X ROAS, then in the review posted from zodiac fanatic below they claim a ROI of 13X. Obviously extremely impressive results, but I was a little sceptical. I looked at zodiac fanatics website, which says it is located in New Jersey, USA. However their facebook pages shows that it is managed by 11 people from Israel, the same country that Storeya operates from. Seems unlikely that these are REAL results IMO. Final comment: Buyer Beware. If you are going to use this app start with small amounts, and don't expect the incredible results they advertise.
Thank you for your feedback. We think it is important to mention that: 1. We have gained the majority of your sales. 2. We have gained a conversion rate that was twice as high as your general store's conversion rate. You are welcome to use our free Benchmark Hero app in order to improve your store's conversion rate. As for ZodiacFanatic, they have no issue being a USA company and letting an Israeli company (with team members in Germany and USA) managing their ads and social activities. We do the same for merchants from 186 countries. Their Shopping ROAS was indeed 13X while their total ROAS was 6.5x, so we kept our ads intact accordingly.
Nov. 26, 2019
V bad value, V poor results, V Low quality traffic, keep saying budget exhausted, constant encouragement to upgrade, with no way to go back, overall it STINKS of rip off !
We are sorry to hear your feedback. We believe that you kept on extending your advertising budget with us for 8 months because we drove 33% of your sales. We encourage you to use our free Benchmark Hero app in order to improve your store's conversion rate. If you need any further assistance feel free to reach out at [email protected]
Nov. 17, 2019
Overall disappointing performance. Main issue is because StoreYa controls the campaigns inside THEIR Google AdWords accounts, you can't see what's going on. Understandable they don't want you to have the campaigns their system builds inside YOUR Google AdWords account, because you could cancel after the first month & keep the campaigns built. There are better solutions out there for Shopify stores out there, where YOU get to keep the campaigns inside your own Google account, and can see & adjust as needed. Hire a specialist on Upwork for a few hours and/or using AdNabu (app available on Shopify) would appear to be a better choice. That's where we're headed next.
Thank you for your feedback. We run Google Ads on accounts that we open and manage for our merchants so that we can have our technology optimizing them in real-time. That technology managed to get you a conversion rate twice as high as your store's overall conversion rate and 8x higher than your own Google Ads account. Our SAAS plans such as the one you used, allows a very low entry of $120 with no setup fee and no commitment and come with a dashboard showing all the stats on a daily basis. We also offer a traditional plan (like PPC agencies provide) for a much higher media spend and a time commitment - that plan comes with access to the Google Ads account.
Oct. 29, 2019
I tried this bullshit for $120, then I didn't know that it's a recurring charge and they took now $180! Fucking disgusting deceiving piece of crap!
1. You were charged according to the plan you signed up for. Recurring payments are meant to keep your account alive at all times which is very important for its performance. We publicly mentioned the recurring payments on 4 different places along the flow. 2. You were refunded immediately upon receiving your request for a refund. 3. We do not appreciate your language.
Aug. 23, 2019
Great app idea. It did not bring in the kind of return I expected. $30 in sales does not cover the cost of the tier 1 subscription. https://www.kinkytoy.store/
Hi There, Thank you for your review. 1. You paid us $120 and according to your store Google Analytics users segment, we have gained 2 sales for you for the total sum of $1,568 (we shared the screenshot via email). The users segment is the right way to track conversions since, by default, the source/medium report of the Google Analytics is only crediting for the last click, and so in your case for example, a person that we introduced your store to, made the purchase on his second visit through Google organic, but he wouldn't have known the store in the first place without being exposed to it by our ads. 2. Even by the default source/medium report, our conversion rate is higher than your own Google/cpc, excat numbers were shared via email. If you have further questions, feel free to reply my email at [email protected]
Aug. 16, 2019
This app is extremely deceiving. We started using the app in the middle of June and chose the second tier which estimates around 14-20 monthly sales. The first month with the app went great. However, the second month has not shown to be successful at all! So far this month the app has NOT brought any new traffic to our site and no sales and we paid $500 this month, since last month went so well. Another thing that is so deceiving is the weekly emails this app sends to get you to spend more money and keep using the app. Each week this app sends you an email summarizing "your week" but it actually is showing what you're sales/traffic has been since using the app. This weekly email is extremely deceiving and makes it seem like the app is bringing in sales and traffic but it is not.
Hi Amy, We are sorry to hear you are frustrated with our app. The first month was successful and in the 2nd month, we spent only 28% of the budget so far. I'll elaborate a bit more below. Regarding the number of visitors we've driven, we are in a stage of optimization that we are looking for what works best for you and do not want to waste the marketing budget on traffic that is not the highest of quality. Since your last payment, we have decreased the daily spend and so far from your last payment, we have only spent 28% of your marketing budget. We share the same goal of growing your business. When you generate more sales, we get to keep you happy for a longer period of time. Our business is built upon happy customers who use us for years. For this reason, we are optimizing your campaigns towards sales, even if that results in us driving less traffic for a couple of weeks until we learn what works best. Reviewing your store's performance we see that it is has a low conversion rate, we recommend on our free site audit offered by our Benchmark Hero app which will pinpoint where there is room for improvement. In the weekly email, we provide the total sales and traffic since sign up and the updated amount each week with the plus sign (similar to Google's reports). I'll be happy to further assist. Feel free to contact us at [email protected]
June 18, 2019
2 star for easy installation and OK interface]. On May 30th, signed up for the basic package [$120 that claims 250-500 visitors] to test this out and then determine what package we would increase to; as needed. It said to give it up to 90 days to run and gain traction, which we were prepared to do, but after running for about 18 days, it literally paused on its own with the below message requesting more money to continue. Results: No sales [except one visitor asking for free samples] and today we got the below message after it claims that it drove 160 Visitors driven (last 30 days) and 1.7 Ad avg. position (last 30 days) : "Your Campaigns Were Paused. Due to the nature of your target audience (demographic and geographic) required in order to convert a visitor into a paying customer, we had to drive traffic to your website which was more expensive and exhausted your marketing budget. Your campaigns will be reactivated upon your next recurring charge which is set for 30-Jun-2019 or if you'd push forward your next round of payment please contact us." ==== So basically it stopped itself from running and will only run again if we upgrade the plan now to $250 or above. Or until the next billing cycle comes around on June 30th, though it has only delivered 160 targeted traffic [much less than the 250-550 estimation for this plan]. Conclusion: Willing to try this again in the future and upgrade the rating...once we can figure out how this really works. But for now we will remove it; since the app took $120 for 30 days and then decided to pause itself after 18 days, is defeating the purpose of it adjusting/learning and building/ramping up traction and traffic [So it just ate $120 and looking to be fed more at our loss]. Thanks.
Thank you for your review. We have spent on your behalf on Google Ads more than you have paid us, you paid us $120 and we spent $127. We drove very targeted traffic to your store as reflected from the high CTR (Click Through Rate) we shared with you via email. Google Search traffic of potential customers seeking your products are the most targeted customers that can be driven, however, your store still needs to convert them into paying customers in terms of its flow, pricing, products, competitions - all factors that we cannot control from our end. Your store's conversion rate is very low and we highly recommend you to improve it. You are welcome to contact us and we'll create a free site audit for your business.
June 25, 2020
Normally ads company would tell you that it takes a few weeks to 3 months to optimize the campaign and see the ROI blablabla. But I got more return than I expected in the first 3 weeks I have been using Traffic Booster for 10 months. I am getting a ROAS of 33.09 for all time! The team and product are very helpful, they reply your email within a day and always remind you the campaign performance. This is Literally THE BEST APP I have ever used!!!! Strongly recommend to everyone especially if you are selling high price point products.
April 25, 2019
My plan was for $120 per month. Got one sale that cost me $120.00 The second month they billed me $180.00 DON'T WAST YOUR MONEY you can do it better your self.
We were happy to resolve this issue to your satisfaction. We wish you all the best with your business!
March 5, 2019
This app is working wonders for our eCommerce site. bdrocks.com has seen an impressive return on investment with StoreYa!
March 4, 2019
Used Storya during 4 month. 29 sales. I was hoping to make more sales. The app does not work miracles (at least for my store)
Feb. 18, 2019
The Traffic Booster is a MUST HAVE app!! Love It I played with Google AdWords and Bing in the past, but never managed to create a positive ROI. With the Traffic Booster I filled out a short set up form and was on my way. In 24 hours I started to get targeted traffic. Once you fill out the set up form you reach to the Traffic Booster dashboard, you'll then see red alerts, I highly recommend you to follow these alerts, one is to connect your Google Analytics account and the other one is to embed a Google code. Following these steps will help them to optimize your ad campaigns. It takes two minutes and will improve your campaign so do it. They handle everything for me, they manage and optimize my ad campaigns and I see a x6 ROI which is amazing. I already recommended it to all my friends that sell online, you have to give it a try. They are great people to work with and their product is just AMAZING!, I would give 10 stars if I could : ) Thanks!!!
Feb. 14, 2019
They charged me $335.00 for the app at a 33% discount from your monthly $500.00 rate for a promotion. As a result, they were able to get me: $142.27 in sales on 5 orders. Their average monthly orders during the sale process based on this rate of $500 is: 20-30. I have a very simple website with an easy checkout process. Then they stopped ads in the middle of the month because they stated, "It was too expensive." Not sure how a business can succeed under this model. Very disappointed. Wanted to make sure others were made aware of this. Also, there weren't a ton of abandoned carts or anything -- just 2.
Hi There, Thank you for sending your feedback. According to your Google Analytics all of the sales you've gained were generated by the Traffic Booster. We have driven almost 800 targeted shoppers to your store with a very high click-through rate of 2.42%, spending the entire budget you paid us ($335). The issue is with your store's conversion rate which is way lower than the average 2% an eCommerce store would have. Selling online is a challenging journey, it's our passion to help small business owners like yourself to grow their businesses. If you need any further assistance, feel free to contact us at [email protected] we'll be happy to further assist!