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IBM : We charge $1,500 / hour for SEO consulting

January 22, 2009

IBM has announced a new $1,500 / hour SEO consulting service. Where IBM (a company that does not own a search engine) will bill you $1,500 / hour to teach your firm SEO. Great advertising strategy during a recession.

Think we’re kidding? Enjoy their Search engine optimization page on IBM.Com, from their sales page:

Get started today at a 70% savings over the regular rate. Your rate of US$1500 includes a one hour personalized consultation with a search engine optimization expert who will perform a complete analysis of your Web site.

Got a buck or $1,500 of them? IBM is appearing to want to become the Holding Company for SEO firms, complete with the fees. That’s great stuff. There is a point where it doesn’t make sense, this has exceeded that limit.

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Written by TheFounder · Filed Under Advertising Agency News 


Comments

  • Edw3rd

    The problem with many bloggers and journalists is their distortion of statements in order to blog inflammatory headlines and propositions that make them look or feel good.

    IBM are clearly selling a packaged program, which includes one hour of personalized one-on-one. That does not mean that each hour you might want or need is billed at $1500. A responsible editor would verify actual billing rates before publishing such a headline.

    Not that it matters, but if a $1500 investment could teach your team SEO strategies that they could redeploy repeatedly for clients at, even $100/hr, it would not take a week of engagements to recover the investment.

    Why trash this and not the SEO/Blogger/SM “experts” flogging their consulting services via $1500 on-site seminars and webinars?

  • Edw3rd

    The problem with many bloggers and journalists is their distortion of statements in order to blog inflammatory headlines and propositions that make them look or feel good.

    IBM are clearly selling a packaged program, which includes one hour of personalized one-on-one. That does not mean that each hour you might want or need is billed at $1500. A responsible editor would verify actual billing rates before publishing such a headline.

    Not that it matters, but if a $1500 investment could teach your team SEO strategies that they could redeploy repeatedly for clients at, even $100/hr, it would not take a week of engagements to recover the investment.

    Why trash this and not the SEO/Blogger/SM “experts” flogging their consulting services via $1500 on-site seminars and webinars?

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