Comments on: Google Shoots Local Business – Lost Their Head? http://kbhayes.com/blog/2010/03/18/google-shoots-local-business-lost-their-head/ Surviving Internet advertising, e-learning and new technology Sat, 14 Apr 2012 07:02:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Ken Hayes http://kbhayes.com/blog/2010/03/18/google-shoots-local-business-lost-their-head/comment-page-1/#comment-71 Ken Hayes Thu, 06 May 2010 16:11:07 +0000 http://kbhayes.com/blog/?p=90#comment-71 Update: Visiting my barber yesterday, she showed me an envelope and brochure from Google - an offer to establish an AdWords account and get a $100 credit. Is this connected to the photos taken above? Note that the barber shop does not have a website or even an e-mail account (!), so buying Adwords to drive traffic to a website would be a waste of money. Would've been better to send her an offer from Google Local to upgrade her listing. Update: Visiting my barber yesterday, she showed me an envelope and brochure from Google – an offer to establish an AdWords account and get a $100 credit. Is this connected to the photos taken above? Note that the barber shop does not have a website or even an e-mail account (!), so buying Adwords to drive traffic to a website would be a waste of money. Would’ve been better to send her an offer from Google Local to upgrade her listing.

]]> By: jack wolfson http://kbhayes.com/blog/2010/03/18/google-shoots-local-business-lost-their-head/comment-page-1/#comment-70 jack wolfson Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:31:38 +0000 http://kbhayes.com/blog/?p=90#comment-70 I agree with Ken about businesses wasting their hard earned dollars on "EXTINCT" Phone Directories. I sold merchants ads in the phone book from 09/01 until 09/09. I told them in August 2009 that I was doing them a disservice by putting them in a medium that had gone the way of the dinosaurs. TODAY - Direct Mail, Smart Phones, Internet, Electronic Billboards, Radio, TV, Newspapers make MUCH More Sense. The Smithsonian Museum is where "Your Fingers do the Walking" belongs I agree with Ken about businesses wasting their hard earned dollars on “EXTINCT” Phone Directories. I sold merchants ads in the phone book from 09/01 until 09/09. I told them in August 2009 that I was doing them a disservice by putting them in a medium that had gone the way of the dinosaurs.
TODAY – Direct Mail, Smart Phones, Internet, Electronic Billboards, Radio, TV, Newspapers make MUCH More Sense.
The Smithsonian Museum is where “Your Fingers do the Walking” belongs

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