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Got my proof back for yellow pages. would love comments/critiques, etc, before i make this investment

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Ray,

Your ad looks great, however i haven't had a good turn around on Yellow Book advertising. I actually cancelled my subscription this year. I'm going to try to invest that money I save in online advertising. Good Luck though.

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Think it looks professional and colors look great. Maybe change color of satisfaction guarantee or put a font border around those letters. Either way, the ad looks great! Nice work

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Yellow book is good for certain clientele and branding. Just make sure you get the online (which you should) ad as well. There are alot of people that still use the book and yellow book online powers a lot of other advertising portal sites. The results are different for each business and territory. Good luck with it and if you can post some feedback during the year that would be great.

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Phone books are all different. It really depends on your area. What works here might not work somewhere else. What is the cost monthly? My automotive add cost me over $1,000 per month for two different books and it barely paid for itself.

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Here's my comment. The yellow pages are dead. I remember countless threads on this topic and the consensus was like 98% negative. I would hate to see you sign the contract to a dead medium of advertising.

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I lost 3 grand last year. Got 2 jobs. Both customers were over 70 years old. Nobody uses it.

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I put an ad in the yellow book for this up coming year. They gave me a different number that is forwarded to my cell phone. This way I can track the calls

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Ray,

I think the ad looks great. Will this be a full size ad? I think before and after pictures say more than any words would, but I see you mention going to your web site. Have you advertised in the yellow pages before?

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For everyone out there, you can get quite a few advertising companies to give you a special phone number that will track all of your calls. I use one that gives me all of the cusotmer's info when they call. I get an e-mail that contains a recording of the conversation that goes on with the customer, their address, phone number and any demographics that they have on that customer. It is great for follow ups.

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swee****erfish wrote:

Got my proof back for yellow pages. would love comments/critiques, etc, before i make this investment




 I wont tell you not to do it, i want to see the results.

The part that says "we clean everything" looks blury cause the size of the letters

How about adding FREE ROOF CLEANING DEMONSTRATIONS!!



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The service is great but be careful on which firm you use as recording conversations is illegal unless they are notified or for intent of illegal practices.

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I like it, but tried yellowpages before and got nothing.. If you hear that it works in your area, go for it!

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Notice how small that book has gotten?

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I should do the free demos blurb...great idea.

I know the biggest guy in the area has the biggest ad in the yp, and his phone rings! I'm going to try it for one year. I do get the comment " i didn't see you in the phone book" and that has cost me jobs over the past year.

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WDE wrote:

The service is great but be careful on which firm you use as recording conversations is illegal unless they are notified or for intent of illegal practices.



Daniel,
    I wouldn't worry too much about it being illegal. It is not you that is recording the conversation. It is the company that is providing you with the advertising. I can tell you that it is an invaluable tool. You can hear exactly how the person is handled on the phone and it really gives you a mirror to look into if you are the person that is answering the phone calls. The recorded call is usually completely different from how you remember the conversation going. ValPak is the company that I use. There are 3 other companies that I have looked into advertising with that offer the same service.

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great post! I just had a meeting with the yellow page add sales rep. I think for the add to run in two different areas of the phone book, like under  the gutter area and in the roofing area and a place in the back, with a website etc it was 119 bucks a month, I think it will pay off in this area because most of the clientel are older retired folks who don't use the internet much, oh it also puts me in the internet yellow page.


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Robert,
     Do yourself a favor and do a search for roof cleaning in your area and see if the yellow page internet add come up anywhere in the search results. I have been hammered lately by the yellow page people saying they can get me listed high in search results on the internet, but I never find yellow book or super pages anywhere in the first 3 or 4 pages. Don't let them feed you a line of BS. Check for yourself in your area.

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good idea I will thanks for the input

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I used the Valpak this whole year the results weren't that good. They never told me about this service.

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