http://ypcommando.com/blog/2007/05/10/bill-gates-pronounces-print-yellow-pages-dead-again/ Local Online Marketing . . . Commando Style. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://ypcommando.com/blog/2007/05/10/bill-gates-pronounces-print-yellow-pages-dead-again/#comment-974 Tue, 15 May 2007 12:53:29 +0000 http://ypcommando.com/blog/2007/05/10/bill-gates-pronounces-print-yellow-pages-dead-again/#comment-974 It's funny how this conversation has come up over the last 15 years or so, but nobody really answers the hows & whys for their predictions.I have found that everyone who believes in this theory is normally an extreme webhead. I am an obvious user of the great internet but also a publisher of yellow page directories, when asked about this theory my answer never varies. I believe that the web is a fantastic place to get your news & research products & prices I use it for that very thing myself. The yellow pages is a service directory and by the way the most boring book in the world people do not just sit around reading their phonebook,(they grab it when they are ready to buy or need more information), but always keep it handy so that when they need something it's there.If you come home at the end of the day to find that it is not only 100 degrees outside but inside your home as well. Do you go over & turn on the computer enter your password let it boot up, then click on your search engine & type in air conditioning contractors for your local area. People are usually laughing by this point, because you'd grab your phone book & have made the call in this amount of time, and that's why there will always be your local phonebook, at least I hope so because people like me who type with 2 fingers searching for something local on the web is a challenge. Andy Baker It’s funny how this conversation has come up over the last 15 years or so, but nobody really answers the hows & whys for their predictions.I have found that everyone who believes in this theory is normally an extreme webhead. I am an obvious user of the great internet but also a publisher of yellow page directories, when asked about this theory my answer never varies. I believe that the web is a fantastic place to get your news & research products & prices I use it for that very thing myself. The yellow pages is a service directory and by the way the most boring book in the world people do not just sit around reading their phonebook,(they grab it when they are ready to buy or need more information), but always keep it handy so that when they need something it’s there.If you come home at the end of the day to find that it is not only 100 degrees outside but inside your home as well. Do you go over & turn on the computer enter your password let it boot up, then click on your search engine & type in air conditioning contractors for your local area. People are usually laughing by this point, because you’d grab your phone book & have made the call in this amount of time, and that’s why there will always be your local phonebook, at least I hope so because people like me who type with 2 fingers searching for something local on the web is a challenge.
Andy Baker

]]> http://ypcommando.com/blog/2007/05/10/bill-gates-pronounces-print-yellow-pages-dead-again/#comment-934 Fri, 11 May 2007 05:02:39 +0000 http://ypcommando.com/blog/2007/05/10/bill-gates-pronounces-print-yellow-pages-dead-again/#comment-934 Read his book,"The Road Ahead" (1995) to see how accurate his predictions are. While few would dispute that Gates is a genius, he is no better a forecaster of the future than the ordinary meterologist or economist is at predicting the weather or the economy years from now. Read his book,”The Road Ahead” (1995) to see how accurate his predictions are. While few would dispute that Gates is a genius, he is no better a forecaster of the future than the ordinary meterologist or economist is at predicting the weather or the economy years from now.

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