A highly revered man once said, "Advertising is the principal reason why the business man has come to inherit the earth." (James Randolph Adams, quoted in The International Dictionary of Thoughts).
In today’s fast-paced, high-tech world, small and large businesses alike must use advertising and marketing to stay on top of their competition. There are many techniques available for making prospects aware of your products and services, and in Part One of our three-part series, “How 360 Measures Up,” we address the benefits of using a lead referral service like 360MachineTools over traditional Yellow Pages advertising.
One way to reach your market is telephone book advertising; the Yellow Pages. This method of advertising has an advantage over other types of print advertising, and that is that by looking you up, potential customers have already expressed some interest in your products or services.
But in our fast-paced, high-tech world, as time passes and technology gains popularity, the disadvantages of using yellow pages advertising are becoming more obvious. For example, the expression “let your fingers do the walking,” now more commonly refers to typing on a keyboard and clicking a mouse instead of thumbing through a phone book, thereby missing all the ads.
Continue reading about other drawbacks to yellow pages advertising, and ways that 360MachineTools can bypass them and help your business grow.