Lot of businesses and entrepreneurs are still hesitant to embrace the technology of the Internet, probably due to lack of information or misunderstanding the internet. Some entrepreneurs, specially those small business owners, are afraid of technology and change because they are cautious and conservative.
But there is no reason to be afraid, and every reason why businesses should take advantage of the Internet
Why do we want to be listed in Internet directories?
Why use Philippine Business Directory?
Why list at Philippine Business Directory?
But we already have a web site. Why should we list at Philippine Business Directory?
Will I get rich by listing my business at Philippine Business Directory?
Why do we want to be listed in Internet directories?
1. The Internet population in the Philippines is fast growing.
There were 24,000,000 Internet users in the Philippines as of June 2009, up 71 percent from 14,000,000 users in 2008. The Internet is accessible to a staggering 24 percent of the Philippine population in 2009, from a mere 2 percent in year 2000. We expect the growth to accelerate.
Anybody who thinks they can delay worrying about the Internet risk is being left behind.
We should let this base of 24,000,000 find you and your business.
Source: http://www.internetworldstats.com/asia/ph.htm
2. Internet Directory listings are pervasive.
Paper-based Yellow pages listings are NOT enough. If you do not have a web site, or if your web site is not listed in online directories, you are actually shutting out at least half of your new customers, or the 24 million Filipino users who will try to find you online.
A few thousand copies of Yellow pages directories are printed every year and only few people read them. Fewer and fewer people today are looking for your alphabetical listing on paper-yellow pages.
Internet directories make you visible to the vast Internet audience (24,000,000 in the Philippines and bilions worldwide), and to search engines like Google. More and more people are looking for you on the Internet via desktop PCs, PDAs and cellphones, using internet directories and search engines.
3. Internet directories can help potential customers find you and your products even before they go to your location.
- Tourists will compare resorts and lodging options, restaurant and dining options in advance
- Travellers will scout for "pasalubong" stops, or gas stations, or bank ATM locations along their route
- Potential customers in neighboring towns will try to find goods and services in nearby locations
- Wholesale buyers from distant places will scout for potential suppliers in target areas.
- Patients looking for specialists-doctors will try to find doctors in locations convenient for them to frequently go to
- Out-patients looking for clinics/labs/drugstore will try to find you in locations near their home or offices
4. Internet directories help potential vendors and partners find you
- Vendors/suppliers of your existing products can find you and perhaps offer you lower prices
- Vendors/suppliers of new, related products can find you and offer you opportunities to enhance your product offering
- Partners can find you and offer ways to cross-promote, or jointly offer buying opportunities to your customer base, or offer exchange deals.
- "Pasalubong" manufacturers might include your brochure with their products, if you volunteer to sell their products
- Hospitals might refer their "overflow" customer to your drugstore if you give them discounts on other products.
- "Pasalubong" manufacturers might include your brochure with their products, if you volunteer to sell their products
5. Internet directories help your present customers contact you in various ways. Foot traffic customers probably know your store as "yung tindahan sa kanto", or "the store beside the gas station". Listings tell them how to contact you.
- Let them call you on your landline or text you on your cellphone
- Let them send you orders by FAX
- Let them email inquiries even at night, to your email address
- Let them view your brochure and product description 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at your website
6. Internet Directory listings build trust
Businesses which are in Internet directory listings are generally considered more trustworthy than those which are not listed. If you want people to find you, and information about you, then you are not hiding. Businesses in hiding are normally perceived to offer dubious services or poor products, or have reasons not to be visible or searchable.
Would you buy from businesses which can be easily contacted, or from businesses in hiding?
Why use Philippine Business Directory?
- Philippine Business Directory has extensive listings of tens of thousands of businesses and locations, from all over the Philippines.
- Bank branches
- Fastfood outlets
- Store and branches
- Gas stations
- Internet cafes
- Restaurants
- Hotels and resorts
- Philippine Business Directory has comprehensive listings.
We have 18 main categories and 84 subcategories, covering all directory listings
We will grow the category/subcategory trees as we grow the directory.
- Philippine Business Directory provides focused search of businesses, and individuals, by category and by location ( in zip code ).
If you are interested in San Pablo City, Laguna then search only listings in San Pablo City
If you are interested in the Ortigas Center, Pasig ( zip code 1605 ), then search only listings in zip code 1605
If you are interested in banks, then search banks and financial institutions category
If you are interested in banks in San Pablo City, then search banks and financial institutions, specifying San Pablo City location.
Why list at Philippine Business Directory?
- Philippine Business Directory has a very wide reach.
- The Philippine business directory is part of a network of websites with at least 300,000 unique visitors per month, mainly from the United States and the Philippines, but also from all over the world.
- Philippine Business Directory has flexible options
- Simple Listing – company contact details
- Featured Listing – with link to URL
- Premium Listing – with link to URL and company logo
- Philippine Business Directory is an inexpensive way to Internet presence
- Listing options can be as low as P1,000 per year per listing. Compare this to P2,000 per month for listing in printed ads) and publication of brochures ( tens of thousands of pesos )
- Philippine Business Directory is simple, totally uncomplicated. For simple listings, just fill out the form ( name, address, contact details, description) , and pay.
- Philippine Business Directory is reliable, trustworthy.
- Philippine Business Directory listings are pervasive and have greater reach.
- Shared relevant directory listings will be made available to other web sites FREE of CHARGE
No frills, no fuss, no difficult questions!
Supported by VYP-MSC IT and Business Solutions of the MSC group of companies, the trusted Internet pioneer in the Philippine countryside since 1996. Partner network includes the pioneer Internet Filipino store KabayanCentral.com 1998
Philippine Business Directory listings can be shared with other websites. The Philippine business directory can be dynamically shared with other websites by enabling them to list a relevant portion of the Philippine Business Directory.
Shared directory listings will be published in the following:
-- filipino.biz.ph
-- www.philippine-tourism.biz
-- www.filipina-beauty.biz
-- www.brewsoft.com
-- www.msc.edu.ph
For example, a site about Liliw, Laguna will be allowed to publish a shared directory listing of entries related to Liliw, Laguna.
For example, a site about hotels, will be allowed to publish a shared directory listing of entries related to hotels.
But we already have a web site. Why should we list at Philippine Business Directory?
- Wide reach
- Search-engine friendly.
The Philippine business directory is part of a network of websites with at least 300,000 unique visitors per month (Dec 2009) This is potentially 30,000 who could click on your listing and to your website!
Our network of websites have numerous "authority sites" with high Google page rank for several diverse topics from Philippine history, to tourism, to Philippine products, to beauty products. They are generally well written, with very few broken links and thus very search-engine-friendly. Google regularly spiders hundreds of pages in this network everyday
Will I get rich by listing my business at Philippine Business Directory?
Well, maybe. Listing in the Philippine Business Directory is only the first part.
It will probably bring customers to your business. It will definitely tell people how to find your business, and if you have a website, it will definitely tell people what you present in the site.
But the rest is up to you.
