Comments on: Is Yellow Pages’ whole market in decline? http://www.dpingram.com/2008/07/is-yellow-pages-whole-market-in-decline/ David P Ingram Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:14:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: jill http://www.dpingram.com/2008/07/is-yellow-pages-whole-market-in-decline/#comment-54 jill Tue, 29 Jul 2008 02:40:40 +0000 http://www.dpingram.com/?p=481#comment-54 honestly, where do you guys get this stuff. honestly, where do you guys get this stuff.

]]> By: admin http://www.dpingram.com/2008/07/is-yellow-pages-whole-market-in-decline/#comment-47 admin Wed, 02 Jul 2008 18:10:49 +0000 http://www.dpingram.com/?p=481#comment-47 Hi, and thanks for the comment, but you've provided the perfect illustration of the problem: I'm accused of blinkered thinking, yet you're pointing out typos! Sorry to say, but while you're correcting my spelling you're missing the bigger picture. D. Hi, and thanks for the comment, but you’ve provided the perfect illustration of the problem: I’m accused of blinkered thinking, yet you’re pointing out typos! Sorry to say, but while you’re correcting my spelling you’re missing the bigger picture. D.

]]> By: Lorraine Sison http://www.dpingram.com/2008/07/is-yellow-pages-whole-market-in-decline/#comment-46 Lorraine Sison Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:23:05 +0000 http://www.dpingram.com/?p=481#comment-46 It's as well it can be updated when you make the most basic of spelling mistakes. If today's modern world wants to spend their lives online rather than being able to conduct a verbal conversation then it's a sad sign of things to come for the next generation who will communicate (poorly) through technology. I'm 35 and would use the book all the time, especially as so many good companies have no website of any note and who admirably want to spend their time dealing with their customers and not just dealing with technical issues, many of which the net creates. There is a myth that everyone use the Internet - they quite clearly don't and don't be surprised if they don't all come across to your blinkered way of thinking. It frustrates me enormously when I continually read this self-fulfilled hype from those working for media companies who fail to see the 'whole' market and get caught up in their own little 'bubble'. It’s as well it can be updated when you make the most basic of spelling mistakes.

If today’s modern world wants to spend their lives online rather than being able to conduct a verbal conversation then it’s a sad sign of things to come for the next generation who will communicate (poorly) through technology.

I’m 35 and would use the book all the time, especially as so many good companies have no website of any note and who admirably want to spend their time dealing with their customers and not just dealing with technical issues, many of which the net creates.

There is a myth that everyone use the Internet - they quite clearly don’t and don’t be surprised if they don’t all come across to your blinkered way of thinking. It frustrates me enormously when I continually read this self-fulfilled hype from those working for media companies who fail to see the ‘whole’ market and get caught up in their own little ‘bubble’.

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