The Yellow Pages Association – who’s name became so tainted that the rebranded as the Local Search Association – is trying to convince us that phone books are green because they litter households with books made from recycled materials and wood chips rather than virgin forests: That seemed a little ridiculous to me, so I [...]
It’s interesting to watch how yellow pages directory supporters justify their industry’s incompetence. Here is a recent example from the comments of one of my videos on YouTube. As a refresher, here’s the video, followed by the most recent comments: Here’s the start of the latest exchange: Just another whacko? fighting the good fight. Do [...]
One common use of social media services by companies these days is to monitor their brands in search of complaints from customers. If done right, companies can engage engage those people and possibly turn a frustrated customer into a fan. And then their is Yellowbook USA’s strategy, which seems to be “insult the frustrated”. I [...]
Yesterday, I wrote about an employee from the Yellowbook print yellow pages spam company that has been harassing me on YouTube. I pointed out that, in addition to being a jerk, he has literally peed on a competitor’s office and left blatantly racist comments on a competing yellow pages directory company’s YouTube videos. After doing [...]
There are some really strange people on the internet. Among the strangest I’ve seen are employees of yellow pages directory spammer, Yellowbook. For example, I’ve recently been receiving harassing comments on a YouTube video I posted in July, 2009 titled “Yellowbook Yellow Pages Opt-Out FAIL” where I collected Yellowbooks that my neighbors hadn’t bothered to [...]
If you compare the carbon cost of print yellow pages spam to time spent using laptops for search, yellow pages appear to produce 9X more pollution than laptops. Here’s the lowdown: One of the stranger used by the Yellow Pages industry as a defense of their wasteful product is to claim that it’s less wasteful [...]
Stephanie Hobbs recently boasted on the Yellow Pages Association’s blog, InsideYP.org, about the fact that the term “yellow pages” is among the top-50 terms searched for on the web. Here is some more information about the popularity of the term “yellow pages” worth considering: According to Google Trends, the popularity of the term “yellow pages” [...]
Dick Larkin of YP Commando has an interesting list of “hillbilly logic” in his newsletter where he presents yellow pages industry positions on a lot of hot topics in the news these days. He starts out by insulting politicians who’ve attempted to respond to concerns from constituents regarding over delivery of yellow pages directories, then [...]
I unsubscribed from Yellowbook’s printed directory in 2008, but still received a directory from them in both 2009 and 2010, showing that the company is not capable of living up to its own promises. So, this year, I decided to take a different approach to dealing with Yellowbook: I invoiced them for littering on my [...]
Seattle is trying to recoup some of the costs of dealing with the printed yellow pages directories that are delivered to city residents without their permission. As I’ve mentioned here before, Yellow Pages disposal, whether recycled or trashed, puts a significant burden on municipalities. Seattle is attempting to address this by placing a reasonable “advanced [...]
