I was a long time client with Patch…
I was a long time client with the team at Patch using their full suite of offerings (CRM build out, Google Ads Management, SEO Management) and my experience with them progressively got worse and worse over time.
I started with them early on in their development and, like with most marketing agencies, hit some snags along the way with bumpy onboarding and lack of consistent follow through on deliverables.
The reason for the 2 stars vs 1 star is because ~65% of what they were responsible for *was* managed decently well. But the way they have continued to build the business has become less and less about product quality and more and more about them locking clients down to ensure they have high monthly recurring revenue.
My experience was riddled with high turnover of account managers (4 to 5 different employees over the course of a 18-24 months). Lack of willingness to have their team dive in to problems with my account when KPI's had drastically shifted and failure to propose meaningful solutions. Failure to take accountability when being called on not following through on contracted, time-stamped deliverables. And then, a final piece that pushed me to write this review, was how the off boarding was handled.
From the beginning, I was told that "whatever we build out for you during your time with us is yours to keep". Towards then end of my tenure, an addendum to the contract was added stating that I would lose access to their 'proprietary landing pages' for any paid advertising they do. Not the end of the world, but also contrary to the messaging given at the start of their service.
During the off boarding, we obviously lost access to those pages. But what was NOT disclosed is that all of the routing for our ad account was routed to a dead URL resulting in the ad still pulling ad spend but the links that people would click on would go to a dead URL. I spent a large chunk of ad budget before noticing that our leads and conversions had tanked. After some digging, I had to discover that they had essentially left my ad account dead in the water. Still pulling ad budget because people would see the advertising, but when they would click on the ad it would go nowhere. Not even the home page of my website.
This was the instance that pushed me over the edge to write this out. I think the owners initially had a solid product. I sadly experienced a progressive degradation in quality over time. Unless things have notably changed, I don't think I would recommend them to people moving forward (despite doing so many times early on in my tenure with them).
