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Just got a survey call that was likely paid for by AT&T.  They were mostly asking questions about print directory usage with a couple of bones paid to online.  It seemed like the point of this survey was not so much about print directory usage, but more about people’s emotional attachment to their book.  We [...]

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Many moons ago in my Yellow Pages 3.0 post, I started preaching to the local search industry that owning the SMB website was going to be the best way to insure viability in search.  After all if you are Google where would you rather send someone, to a plumber’s website or to an IYP’s list [...]

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Just got a press release from Merchant Circle that they are launching a promotion where they will buy your next yellow pages ad if you are not satisfied with the MC experience (I haven’t read the fine print yet).  They are not so subtly tapping into the negative pr that exists out there in the [...]

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http://insideyp.org/ It’s nice to see the industry get on the blogging bandwagon.  I’ll keep an eye on this space for you and let you know when they come out with some good stuff, which will hopefully be often. Welcome to the wacky world of local search blogging YPA.

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According to TechCrunch, AT&T’s Yellowpages.com paid $3,850,000 for the YP.com domain when they purchased it from LiveDeal last month.  Here’s the SEC filing. So what does this mean for you?  My guess is there was not a lot to the YP.com domain other than its ability to rank for different searches around the term “yellow [...]

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I downloaded Yellowpages.com’s iPhone App this weekend and was psyched to give it a test run after hearing Frank Jules speak about it at Kelsey DMS last week.  The executive summary: not bad but needs work. It does its main function of allowing you to search for businesses fine.  And this may almost be enough [...]

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Just saw via Greg that DexKnows just launched some widgets so you can put a yellow pages search box on your blog, MySpace page, etc. Here’s what it looks like to a user:

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SMBs don’t want to buy web, mobile, print, etc. – they want to buy leads (although for many it’s hard to define what a lead is or how much they are willing to pay for one) While the big print yellow pages are aggressively growing their digital assets it seems like squeezing efficiencies out of [...]

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Charles Laughlin is presenting the results of consumer and industry surveys: Consumer Survey: They went through about a dozen IYPs and had people conduct local searches for pizza, pest control & chiropractor. Here are some excerpts from the results: Rating of IYP performance characteristics Usefulness of ratings & reviews: 6.4 Average relevance of the ads: 4.6 [...]

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I am late again, getting in the tail end of Briggs’ talk, so here’s the one data point I got – from their research it looks like about 8% of those surveyed used their mobile phones to do yellow pages type searches. Good quote: “None of the companies in this room have a dominant share [...]

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