Re: FN-FORUM: Business Directory - Best Way to Publicise

date posted 1st March 2005 17:22

Darren,

The reason I started this directory, is for 2 reasons.

My current accountant is now getting well expensive, so I am in the
process of moving to a new one.

My new accountant, was reccomended by a friend who has a joinery
businesses. I looked on the net for this accountants details, and
although I could find him in several business directories, none of them
gave any more details than name plus phone/fax no.

I therefore thought a directory which was both free and provided a
comprehensive listing would be both useful and better placed to rank of
google etc than the basic listing which currently form the majority of
such sites.

The second reason, was that my lad (7 years old) goes to a school where
a lot of the parents own small businesses in the north west. I hear
plenty of stories about businesses not getting enough business, so I
thought such a site would enable this kind of small businessman to have
a listing and also to network in a kind of way with other parents from
the school.

Not sure whether I'm expecting such a site to fly or die but for the
cost of a domain it's worth a shot.

Cheers,


Chris.

FREE comprehensive business directory : http://www.createnorth.co.uk


Darren Seamark wrote:
> Isnt it becoming a bit over-saturated with these business listing websites?
> There's loads of them now and if people want a plumber or builder they
> either know someone or look in the yellow pages. So wheres the value in
> loads of smaller business listings on the internet?
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> I'm not critising your own listings just making general comment and wondered
> what you thought.
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> You will be amazed how sceptical people are with this I have had
> www.businessa2z.co.uk running for 2.5 years and there is no response. I
> even setup a cold call with free listing and people still refused!
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> 500 flyers went out to local businesses in one county and 3 people
> responded. How the fuck did yell.co.uk make 24m profit last year!
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