YellowPages411 Partnership with Telus411 Directory Assistance – Value Proposition
YellowPages411 - voice-enabled mobile search partners with Telus 411 Directory Assistance to offer consumers a voice-enabled location-based mobile search to Telus411 & Rogers411 callers.
The Name of the Game: Grabbing Qualified Eyeballs – The New Game – Grabbing Ears Print, Online, Wireless >>> now Voice !
- World’s only fully automated enabled voice directory that is geo-location enabled
- Built with Wireless in mind… but also works on wire-line phones
The Conversion Challenge
- 42% are more interested in paying for customer leads via phone call versus clicks to their website (under 21%)
- 85% said they know their customer conversion rates from phone calls while not having the same clarity from traffic to their website
- 40% said they would allocate new advertising budget to fund pay per call advertising
- Small business in the USA indicate they value a phone call to be worth 10x a click to their website
Consumer/User Value Proposition
- Caller can search by Business Category
- Caller can locate merchants in a variety of places – by city, neighborhood, intersection, landmark
- Caller can browse/shop/choose merchants – from a geo-targeted personalized list of merchants
- Voice User Interface (VUI) is easy-to-use & hands-free (Nuance)
- Merchant data is enhanced beyond Name, Address and telephone number for many merchants
Value Proposition for the Carrier
Strategic Benefits
- Improved service scope: more competitive
- Improved 411 call handling capabilities
- Enhanced content, added Value in 411 services
- Automation of a segment of currently operator handled calls
- Reduce incidence of failed search…“Why can’t I search by category?”
- Overall customer satisfaction improvement
- Showcases “LBS” capabilities of the carrier
Cost Savings
- Call automation
- Reduced call handling time
Potential Increased Revenue
- Increase in 411 traffic based on enhanced content and localized search abilities
Advertiser Value Proposition
- YellowPages411 empowers retailers by connecting them to targeted, ready to spend customers… generating new revenue.
- All Merchants in Top Yellow Pages categories have a free basic listing
- Paying Merchants have Improved presentation ranking and enhanced content
- YellowPages411 Metrics demonstrate further measured ROI.
YPG Value Proposition
- Yellow Pages Brand Extension into Wireless Market & 411DA Market
- “Next Generation” Yellow Pages icebreaker
- Generate the critical mass required to create value for YPG advertisers.
- YPG gets reporting from Telus to demonstrate the value/ROI to its advertisers
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