Big business Death of the YELLOW PAGES Means
Today 12 August 2008, I got an interesting email a subject of one that is close to my heart and that is the environment. Had the subject read something like the following I would not have even bothered looking.
"Easy Offline Riches", the maverick product which "sold out".
The email was from an aquaintence Todd Gross started out like.
Let me be clear. Not only are people now searching for local businesses through google and not Yellow Pages, but the Yellow Page delivery is being banned in some cities for environmental reasons (such as Albany, NY)
Why do you care?
Because by the millions, local restaurants, contractors, shops of all kinds are suddenly desperate to get a website done.
It however was not the actual subject but the subject line that was well crafted to catch readers attention. The subject line read "Death of the YELLOW PAGES Means Income for YOU!"
It is rather funny that recently we were discussing the environmental raping these types of companies such as the Yellow pages are doing and what could be done about it to fix the problem. We came up with some common sense useful ideas then decided not to advise the Yellow pages as they are to sensible especially for a company named Sensis.
In Australia the Yellow pages is run by our local phone company Telstra, most people who have had dealing with either business have some sort of complaint or another especially with the Yellow pages. This is possibly due to the size of the company though with around 95% of the dealings we have had with them they have just been plain ignorant. Due to this fact and the many problems with the Yellow pages, Telstra is trying to distance itself.
The reason we are so passionate about the Yellow pages is that have cost many people a lot of money in some cases such as ours cost us our lively hood. Each time we have advertised with the Yellow Pages except for once or twice they have gotten the ads wrong. The last straw was the last mistake Yellow Pages made costing us the loss of a business, a friendship and a 10 year contract and over half a million dollars.
We think it is time for the big businesses of the world to wake up and smell the roses. The fact that the more people you rip off the less people will use your product or service. This is highly evident when in Australia recently Penny Miller who used to be Betterware who is a division of Magnamail a trusted company was apparently shut down. Sources say the treatment Penny Miller gave their staff but mainly the contractors and deliverers was archaic, appalling and should be outlawed.
One example of abuse from Penny Miller was as quoted. In the beginning of June 2008 the Queensland state manager of Penny Miller, Donna Barridge was requested to go to the Gold coast to help sort out some problems the team was having with the Penny Miller system. And all that happened was that Donna Barridge just abused everyone. After the abuse from Donna Barridge happened secret discussion were held by the Gold coast team later that day and week in which it was decided to do a walk out on the Gold coast.
Sources say Donna Barridge is mind you a big person and probably thinking she was in a big enough position to get away with the abuse. Penny Miller claims you are on a contract but in reality you appear to be employed this type of verbal & emotional abuse that Donna Barridge did should not be happening to business nor employees. Now that the world knows about Donna Barridge and Penny Miller a division of Magnamail we may see some justice.
NOW TELL ME MY FRIENDS WOULD YOU FEEL PASSIONATE ABOUT LOSING A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS…OR MORE.
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