Yellow pages??

[hamdogg]

What's everyone's views on advertising in the yellow pages? A lot if people say it's outdated but at the same time everybody seems to still advertise in there!

[Andrew Gale]

I stopped advertising with them yonks ago and have never looked back.

 

In my opinion a good web page, a good general advert for local village magazines (that kind of thing) and a well sign written truck, plus company livery for your team is all that is needed. Get your name around as one that produces good quality tree work and the calls will come flooding.

[White Noise]

I stopped 12 months ago as there book is getting smaller and smaller whilst there bill is going up all the time . The new owners are billions in debt aka Hibu ? Y PAGES is only good for oap and people who do not have a computer . I put all my advertising into local mags and the like and have been busier than ever

[Shane]

'Everybody still advertising in YP'?

Not anyone with any sense. Unbelievable waste of money. From my experience years ago they were absolute scoundrels.

 

Ask yourself who/how many use YP nowadays.

 

Web site - don't bother with these 'get you to the top of the searches' goons either.

[Mark Bolam]

+1 on all of the above Shane.

 

 

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[hamdogg]

'Everybody still advertising in YP'?

Not anyone with any sense. Unbelievable waste of money. From my experience years ago they were absolute scoundrels.

 

Ask yourself who/how many use YP nowadays.

 

Web site - don't bother with these 'get you to the top of the searches' goons either.

 

 

I must get two "top of google" e mails a day

[Burgess]

'Everybody still advertising in YP'?

Not anyone with any sense. Unbelievable waste of money. From my experience years ago they were absolute scoundrels.

 

Ask yourself who/how many use YP nowadays.

 

Web site - don't bother with these 'get you to the top of the searches' goons either.

 

Well you could go for being the top ranked on the google search for your area. But any of any worth doing so isn't going to cold call you when they get your number out of a magazine or whatever. When I advertised on gumtree I used to get loads of of these idiots calling. One guy would ring every week claiming to 'manage the top page of google for my area' despite having a thick Manc accent and no such position existing.

[benedmonds]

. One guy would ring every week claiming to 'manage the top page of google for my area' despite having a thick Manc accent and no such position existing.

 

I have had a company from Manchester repeatedly calling me of late, started by saying no thanks, end up hanging up on him when he got rude. He or someone else from Manchester then calls up again, to which I hang up, I then got a couple of calls where he doesn't speak. Rings each week. Bloody annoying...

[Ian C]

I binned yp and yell 2 yrs ago, never again, I still get the odd bill from them for a Web site I don't have! There lying scum bags.

[padman]

In the good old days you could run a business off YP - Thompsons and the BT I think ran it then.

 

I had a carpet cleaning business and it was all you needed. The good old days haha before the bleedin internet and effin mobile phones.