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Development of Telpages.com Obsolescent |
Promotion of TelPages.com There needs to be more promotion of TelPages.com - visitors to http://Telnic.org are not made aware of its existence - Nadya was very receptive to comments made by myself and Mark re this matter at http://telnic.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1981 so hopefully there will be more visibilty to TelPages.com soon. Mike Seaton |
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I agree, TelPages.com is not the product it needs to be to get accepted today. The directory concept is, but like the .tel page itself, it's simply not there yet. I have been the loudest advocate that the "one place for all .tel's" is as critical as the "one place for all your addresses", but neither has the quality necessary yet, even after two years+. The roadmap shows the right direction, but we've seen the "right direction" since late 2008 when Telnic advertised .tel to begin with. The first two points of .TEL and .TEL Global Directory got many to bite, but after that and the disclosure of the actual product, well, "enough said" there. This still doesn't mean it's not just as good as the promotion in concept, it's just not there yet ! If you pick up a Phonebook, .TEL is a better listing, but TelPages is not a better directory. .TEL is only a better listing today, as hiv-testing.tel and van.tel shows this. But, PeoplePlace.tel is a better directory than TelPages.com is just on the "WhitePages" side, so we need more there. PeoplePlace of course is not a replacement for anything, just an actual directory of greater value than TelPages at this point. TelPages needs more, .TEL needs more, the right direction is conveyed and followed through enough to keep you strung along, but does it end with success, or too little too late ? :confused:[/size] |
I think TelPages would have a chance of becoming popular if owners included the search function in their .tel sites, or at least a reference to it. |
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And then there's Facebook, spent nearly nothing, but had a clue how to put it together well. ;)[/size] |
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That was taking a successful page and directory and making it a bigger, better one. Bing was about coming out with a bigger, better one than Google to start. .TEL and TelPages is different, so it has the ability to be small success, then bigger, like Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg and his friends spent nearly nothing to be a small success, then went big. .TEL and TelPages had/has the ability to do the same. They don't have to be like Bing is all, they can be like Facebook first. ****clarification**** If a scale of 1 to 10 - 1 lowest, 10 highest: Google is level 9, then Bing talks like level 10 and spends big money to try and be 10 Facebook is level 1, then talks level 2, people convince them and give them money to try and be a 10 .TEL and TelPages is unknown level, talks like level 10 over Yellow/WhitePages, comes out at level zero, now at level 1-2 Should've went with Facebook approach ![/size] |
Since there are waay to few .teldomains developed there is no need to focus on .telpages more other than fixing the major issues, better indexing. Maybe add an image next to each search result. People will not search when there is nothing to find compared to the billions of other sites. |
Actually, just like Facebook, it doesn't matter how many Pages exist for a directory to be browsed and successful. If I am just looking at other Pages to determine my interest in having my own, it doesn't take many at all. I can have just a few thousand TelPages showing interesting People and Businesses, and then it grows as more People want one, just like with PeoplePlace.tel and Van.tel You still have a Directory and thousands of Pages involved, it doesn't have to be a Google or YellowPages, and it doesn't have to functional for a specific purpose. In other words, PeoplePlace.tel is just like Facebook's directory was, and is. If "I love my .tel" I can have a great Directory without being Google or YellowPages, but what I would NEVER do is just leave it out there by itself, scattered among Billions of Websites for comparison. Imagine if Facebook had tried to launch itself as a page that is competition to Websites as a web presence, and NO directory for browsing in a sea of websites on Google .... DISASTER ! It should be a "I love my facebook page" and viewable among other examples in the "Facebook directory". this is why PeoplePlace.tel is so much better than TelPages until a "1 or 2" becomes more ! |
