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Comment on The Future of the Yellow Pages: Wanna See it? by cookie

cookie — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 13:27:10 +0000

Sorry for the late post here, but I just found this on the web, Matt. I work for a YP publisher and I could not agree with you more. Trading analog dollars for digital dimes is exactly what’s happening. The plot thickens though when the print YP publishers are now alleged SEM experts and sell packages on Google and Yahoo. When you lose $5000 on an account in the print phone book, the company looses the entire $5000. When they try to make it up by selling $5000 in SEM, the only money they really earn is the amount they charge for the campaign management fee because the bulk of the click cost goes to the search engine itself. Not to mention that in most smaller markets, it’s easy for a business to cancel $5000 in print YP ads but hard to get $5000 worth of business on the search engines, unless you’re in a medium to large sized market. So the digital dime that the YP publishers are using to offset the analog dollar, isn’t even a dime in terms of real monies earned by the print YP company. This makes no “cents” to me!

Comment on The Future of the Yellow Pages: Wanna See it? by Patrick Stähler

Patrick Stähler — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:27:27 +0000

Hoi matt, liked your summary, that there is potential for a next generation lead gen platform. Do you have any ideas how it will look? Thanks in advance.

Comment on Advertising in the Yellow Pages: Should SMBs Fish or Cut Bait? by Beverly Kington

Beverly Kington — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 01:14:59 +0000

Thanks to all of you for taking the time to discuss this topic. Tonight, I’ve forwarded it on to a group of small business owners like myself via LinkedIn.

My question to them – are they going to advertise in their print yellow pages directories when it is time to renew.

Thanks!

Comment on Facebook Acquires FreindFeed: Why Small Businesses Should Care! by Andrew Brooks

Andrew Brooks — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:19:22 +0000

Natural, Local and Social – all of them increasingly ‘real time’. All 3 places a business needs to be fishing (and be discovered) to successfully be found online.

http://brooks.cloudprofile.com/2283/2009/08/11/here-comes-real-time-search—.html

Comment on Four Years At SMBLive: A Lesson Learned In Time by matt

matt — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 14:14:18 +0000

Thanks Peter!

When you get a few minutes — please check out http://www.cloudprofile.com and create yourself a profile. I think you’ll be impressed at how far the software has come. It’s not perfect yet. But it is innovative. And it’s getting better and better!

Comment on Four Years At SMBLive: A Lesson Learned In Time by Peter Krasilovsky

Peter Krasilovsky — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:01:21 +0000

You guys keep pushing the envelope! Congratulations on the first 4…

Comment on Get Paid to Help SMBs Become Better Online Marketers by Andrew Brooks

Andrew Brooks — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:26:08 +0000

Warning: This comment is from Andrew Brooks, the referenced colleague, so you KNOW I’m biased. That said, I also sit in an office with a very small insurance company, and I use that company as a test case for why CloudProfile is right for small businesses. Here are 5 reasons:

1. Stephanie, the company admin, is ‘old school’ when it comes to technology. She faxes a lot of things and loves using white-out. Good news is she does use email, and CloudProfile lets her just email in updates. So she doesn’t have to know a THING about ‘the web’ to be successful managing a presence for the business on the web.

2. Mike, the company owner, wears shorts to work a lot. And not because it’s hot in the office. Most days he’s actually out hiking with his twins, a privilege he’s earned. But he still doesn’t want to miss customer opportunities. So he gets notifications of customer interest delivered to his cell phone via text message (SMS) and can reply from the woods without every worrying about pants.

3. Spam. They hate it. Including face-to-face Spam – meaning walk-in solicitors. So CloudProfile lets them keep whatever information they want private, including email addresses, phone numbers and their physical address, but still allow customers to contact them via any of those paths.

Visit me at http://brooks.cloudprofile.com to talk more, about CloudProfile, pants or spam.

Comment on What do President Obama and SMBLive Have in Common? by matt

matt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:51:51 +0000

Ken:

Point taken. To be clear, I am not a policy maker and not pretending to be. And i don’t know if the Obama plan(s) will or will not work.

With, or without Obama — I believe it’s important to deliver simple and inexpensive tools to help SMBs market themselves online in world that is rapidly changing.

That’s where I am focused. http://www.cloudprofile.com

Comment on What do President Obama and SMBLive Have in Common? by kenc

kenc — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:47:50 +0000

you are kidding, right?? President Obama is committed to helping SMB’s???

I am a SMB and I haven’t seen a single thing that would help me as an SMB. Instead, exactly the opposite. Not a single dime has been made available to local businesses. Have you tried to get a loan lately??

What’s coming down the road is even worse. The Cap & Trade fiasco he is pushing is going to significantly up my energy costs, forcing me into some kind of health care coverage will result in my cutting (not hiring) more people, and all of the other legislation he and his Dem cronies are putting together are anti-business.

You need to get your head out of your broadband connection. this is classic big government socialistic bureaucrat that will tell you whatever you want to hear and do something totally different..

Comment on The Future of the Yellow Pages: Wanna See it? by matt

matt — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:18:48 +0000

Happy to chat. Feel free to drop me a line at matt.howard@smblive.com