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Title: Yellow pages
Post by: Bob Robertson on June 18, 2008, 11:10:22 pm

 Seeing alot of them lying around in closes and houses unopened. Good for holding doors open 


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Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Straker Cleaning on June 19, 2008, 06:22:30 am

Plus they do go nicely with Eclipse in colour match  ;D

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: benny d on June 19, 2008, 11:27:07 am

No YP for me ever again.
Mybe just a tiddly little box, but thats all.

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Doug Holloway on June 19, 2008, 12:45:08 pm

Hi Guys

Just had a call about this years books, have to decide by 25th June.

They have actually put the price up even though usage/sales are falling.

I asked what deal they would offer me in respect of falling use, none was the answer.

They offered me a number to show me that sales were not really falling and that Spurs will win the treble next season.

Cheers

Doug

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: davep on June 19, 2008, 12:56:14 pm

Free one line ad is all you need, people scan through looking for a local number i find  :P

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: fenclean on June 19, 2008, 01:00:13 pm

My local BT book just came out. 152 pages of advertising less this year.

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Straker Cleaning on June 19, 2008, 01:09:12 pm

Not entered for past 3 years and never been busier ............. WWW the way to go  8)

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: clinton on June 19, 2008, 01:13:12 pm

I have droped out for the 1st time in 15 years,i also asked for a deal from the rep and was told they dont deals so i pulled the advert. and told him were to go ;D The revenue from the y pages has decreased for the last 5 years am geting far more work from my website and other avenues :) cheers clinton

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Doug Holloway on June 19, 2008, 03:46:33 pm

Hi Guys

I think it's a sign of YP's market position that they have this arrogance about doing deals.

The market has changed and all companies have to adapt to this.

Cheers

Doug

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on June 19, 2008, 04:05:51 pm

I spend £2400 on yp but at one stage I could get 3-4 call every day 7 days a week from it I now get that a month, going going gone!

Shaun

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Paul Redden Countryfresh on June 19, 2008, 04:09:13 pm

I must be lucky then, I refused to pay for artwork, and he also offered a deal on free colour  ;) sounded desperate to me, kept plugging the yell.com for £275 but I declined as never works for me.
This year has been diabolical out of the book, so I'm not holding my breath. ::)

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: spencer davies on June 19, 2008, 06:36:19 pm

Yellow Pages = Dinosaur in my humble opinion, extinct in five years  ;)


S

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Straker Cleaning on June 19, 2008, 06:45:25 pm

Think dinosaurs took longer than that, to become extinct  :P ;D

But you may be correct with YP prediction ............ Spencer is Doris Stokes reincarnated  ;)

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Shaun_Ashmore on June 19, 2008, 08:12:52 pm

I bet he saw that one coming  ;D

Thing is with YP it was working well upto 2-3 years ago then it just dive bombed as for the www it's not as reliable t'up north, may be in a couple of years.

Shaun

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: COLIN BRIGHT on June 19, 2008, 08:20:22 pm

still do ok from mine
maybe its my photo in the ad
we'll im am a handsome puppy ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Doctor Carpet (Ret'd) on June 19, 2008, 10:32:23 pm

Can all the carpet cleaners in my edition of YP drop out......then I'll be the only one left ;D ;D

Although i agree I'll still only  probably get the price shoppers and time wasters.

Oh well. back to the drawing board. ::)

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: spencer davies on June 19, 2008, 10:33:17 pm

Only on Friday nights  ;)


I predict that if Chris had advertising in the Brighton YP he would do very well :-*


S

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Neil Williams on June 19, 2008, 10:44:38 pm

Doesn't set the world alight but it pays for itself. Plus if you do a good job on the back on this then you can oick up further work via friends/neighbours/reatives etc.

Title: Re: Yellow pages
Post by: Doug Holloway on June 20, 2008, 08:12:02 am

Hi Guys

Whats hacked me off is increasing prices on a product which has decreasing value, they could at least have done a same as last year price offer.

The internet grows all the time and lots of people don't even bother opening the packet now.

However as people like me drop out then that must improve things for those that remain, a slimmed down book is still likely for a few years yet.

Cheers

Doug