Yellow Pages to be killed off

[nick channer]

abouttime it was got rid of along with the thompson local !!!! waste of money IMO

 

i refuse to go in YP since they put wrong phone no in and still made me pay for advert but the thompson is diff story... i've had over 80 grands worth of work through them since jan this yr..i guess it depends what area your in...

[Lorry thompson]

I reckon it depends on area too Nick I may give Thompson a go vie got YP just for back up or a just incase something big comes from it but up to now it's hardly been worth it.

[Billy]

i've got a small add inthe book and a few areas on the web £1200 ish its paid for itself and a bit more+ lots of word of mouth follow ons from YP jobs, which themselves rarely pay well due to nearly all YP customers getting a good ten quotes in! However, the following word of mouth invariably does. Thats after only 3 months, so can't be too bad

[Johny Walker]

i've got a small add inthe book and a few areas on the web £1200 ish its paid for itself and a bit more+ lots of word of mouth follow ons from YP jobs, which themselves rarely pay well due to nearly all YP customers getting a good ten quotes in! However, the following word of mouth invariably does. Thats after only 3 months, so can't be too bad

 

are you the only 1, in your area

Edited July 15, 2011 by Johny Walker

[wildwood-dwt]

This has been coming for a while now, the internet is the way forward!

[treesnatcher]

Good riddance to bad (yellow) rubbish!!!!

[zeroluke]

Getting rid of the book is fair enough for me. But yell.com can be handy for finding phone numbers of what you're after. I've never advertised in there, so I can't comment on that

[likeitorlumpit]

Be interesting to know if yellow pages does actually 'pay for itself'

Remember they charge a lot (say £500) for a small advert. You don't justify this with one job worth £500

I would want to see at least £5000 worth of work for £500 advert- maybe even £10000 as I can't justify 10% of my revenue going to advertisers.

Currently we don't advertise at all other than web site there just so people can sus you out. Best advert is word of mouth- we all know that:thumbup1:

[Ian C]

i refuse to go in YP since they put wrong phone no in and still made me pay for advert but the thompson is diff story... i've had over 80 grands worth of work through them since jan this yr..i guess it depends what area your in...

 

I have got quite a bit of work this year from YP as for Thomson.......just sacked them as there both useless and rude on the phone.

[Highland Forestry]

good! about time too!