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Old 12th February 2010, 02:18 PM
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Default Poll - Do you use the Yellow Pages?
Inspired by the thread regarding California proposed legislation on phone books, now I am curious....

On a PERSONAL level, how do you find information for a business (phone number, address, etc)?

Quite frankly, I have not used a Yellow Page book in several years. I do however agree that depending on your market, yellow pages are still strong.

Please answer the poll regarding your PERSONAL preference!!
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Great poll MC Gal.

This should be interesting.

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Old 12th February 2010, 02:52 PM
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We are greatly reducing our yellow page advertising this year. We will us the money saved in other advertising and marketing efforts.
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Old 12th February 2010, 04:22 PM
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Please KEEP Voting!! We are really trying to make a decision on our YP ad in Houston and I want to give the poll results to my owner!!

Thanks Y'all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old 12th February 2010, 05:39 PM
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Internet!!! It's faster than pulling out the book.
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Old 13th February 2010, 12:38 PM
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Default Got a customer this week from Yellow Pages
I was amazed as I had a gentleman call in yesterday, first thing, from the yellow pages. I got him to come by a reserve a unit. He said he'd looked online first, but then went to the yellow pages and called us from there.

Normally we get a lot more customers from the internet and drive by. Last week I got one from our Craigslist ad. Free is good!
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Internet, could not even tell you where the book is? I think I put it in the emergency case so that if the day comes that we dont have power, I can still get numbers
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I always use net, google knows more than my best friend(not about me)LOL
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I always use net, google knows more than my best friend(not about me)LOL
Frightening, very frightening, but also very true!
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