What phone book do you keep?

[John]

As many of you may have noticed, we have many phone directories that are published for our SoWal area. How does a small business owner decide which one(s) to advertise with? To cover all bases, a business would need to sign up for about eight books. There is Embarq (big and small), AT&T (big and small), the "talking" book, the SoWal directory (the one with Gordie Hines' painting on the cover), etc. Then we must decide Destin vs. PCBeach directories. To go with all is too expensive to be practical.

What phone directory do you use and why? Which do you recommend that we advertise with?

Thanks in advance,

 

[seacrestkristi]

Definitely get in the little 30-A one.

 

[NotDeadYet]

I use the little 30A book all the time. That and the Embarq big books for Ft Walton and Panama City. I throw away all the rest, especially the "talking" phone book which has never, and I do mean literally never, contained a number I was looking for. But I live here and you probably are more interested in reaching tourists, who won't know all that. Maybe you should ask the rental agencies which books they have in their rental units?

 

[JUL]

As many of you may have noticed, we have many phone directories that are published for our SoWal area. How does a small business owner decide which one(s) to advertise with? To cover all bases, a business would need to sign up for about eight books. There is Embarq (big and small), AT&T (big and small), the "talking" book, the SoWal directory (the one with Gordie Hines' painting on the cover), etc. Then we must decide Destin vs. PCBeach directories. To go with all is too expensive to be practical.

What phone directory do you use and why? Which do you recommend that we advertise with?

Thanks in advance,

I keep a copy of the SoWal one at home in Indiana so when I need to make plans for my stays there I have all the info at hand and don't need to go search and when I am there I always grab it as well...SoWal

 

[scooterbug44]

I just use the little book, the rest are just for cockroach extermination.

 

[SGB]

We also throw away the talking phone books. We keep and use the Embarq one for FWB/Destin and the BellSouth (it's 2006, so it might be called something else now) one for PC. Usually i use the Embarq book for stuff around SoWal. We keep the smaller versions of each of these in our car (along with a set of reading glasses)! We also use the small 30A one.

 

[Smiling JOe]

I always first, go to the small 30A phone book, with the Gordie painting. There are now two other small 30A phone books. I keep the Destin and the PC phone books, too, just in case I cannot find a number in the other books. I keep some of the others too, and have a few in the car as well as the house. However, when I need to find a number, these days, I usually go online and google the business. Having a rental biz, I'd be trying to focus on learning what they use in rentals. Do the rental companies have recommendation for a particular phone book? Your question is a really good one. We have too many phone books for such a small area.

 

[yippie]

I always first, go to the small 30A phone book, with the Gordie painting. There are now two other small 30A phone books. I keep the Destin and the PC phone books, too, just in case I cannot find a number in the other books. I keep some of the others too, and have a few in the car as well as the house. However, when I need to find a number, these days, I usually go online and google the business. Having a rental biz, I'd be trying to focus on learning what they use in rentals. Do the rental companies have recommendation for a particular phone book? Your question is a really good one. We have too many phone books for such a small area.

There are two more little 30-A books? No one seems to be able to locate one for 2007-08 for Embarq and I have never seen another one. Where have you seen it?

 

[Matt J]

Working in the rental industry I can tell you that we receive probably 20-30 phone books per unit over the course of a year. Our units only get the little 30A book and the Embarq book, everything else goes to the recycling heap.

 

[Beach Runner]

I hate the big FWB/Destin and PCB phone books. It's too time-consuming to sort through what's close and what's not in their yellow pages.

Love the little 30-A one. But they get stolen by renters. And the last one we got disappeared after the cleaning service came after we were there fall break. It's just impossible to keep one around, so we now keep ours in the owners closet.