10,000 times every day people view a listing in Telli Marin. There are over 22,000 listings in Telli Marin and many of them are not retail.

Generally speaking, businesses and professionals with only a listing in Telli Marin, and no website link, receive an average of only 2 - 4 visits per month. Those listings with website links receive an average of only 4 - 8 visits per month.

However, listings on the Telli Promotional Platform with a TelliPage receive anywhere from 80 - 500 views per month depending on the category. Almost all businesses with TelliPages are professionals, retailers or service establishments. Please see the following graph.

A couple of years ago, a few Subscribers told us that they were not getting any customers or clients from their Telli Marin Listings. When we checked with them to see if they asked their customers where they heard about them, they told us that they constantly ask people and the greatest response was that they found them on Google.

As a result, we conducted an extensive survey to determine why very few people claimed that they heard about businesses or professionals from Telli Marin…

Google and the other major search engines access Telli Marin over 500,000 times a month to copy Telli Marin listings and place them as links on their website.

What we found was that many people were going to Google to find something in Marin and then clicking on the Telli link to view a specific listing or category. As a result, when asked where they learned about the business or professional, people responded that they found it on Google; when in fact, they were sent to Telli and actually found the listing on Telli Marin.

We asked these businesses to pursue the issue further next time they were told by their customers or clients that they found them on Google and of course, they leaned people actually found their information on Telli Marin. Some people were not even aware that they had gone from Google to Telli Marin. Some thought that Telli Marin was a Google site.

One business that was getting over 300 visits per month to its Telli Marin listing challenged our survey and cancelled its Telli subscription. The business's visits to its listing dropped substantially. The business owner renewed her subscription two months later and phoned us to report that we were indeed correct and told us that her business went down considerably during the period her subscription was cancelled but was now coming back up again.

Now, here is the bad news about TelliPages.

As you can see from the graph above, Telli Marin Users really like TelliPages. People are not clicking on website links as much as they use to because they find that visiting websites is a time consuming process.

A TelliPage represents a summary of the business or professional that is quick to review and they like that.

If I was looking for a good restaurant, I just wouldn't have the time to visit all their websites.

Hence, a TelliPage can provide a person with a quick and simple way to assess a business or professional and decide whether or not they want to call or visit the business.

Therefore, if a TelliPage does not excite the viewer, they are out of there quickly and off to check other information on Telli Marin; they don't even bother to click on the businesses website link for further information.

Thus, a poorly designed TelliPage can actually discourage potential business.

For your reference, here are a few links to the TelliPages of businesses that have generated a significant amount of business from their TelliPages while being on the Telli Marin Promotional Platform. Some have websites and some do not.

www.telli.com/marin/listings/B44763

www.telli.com/marin/listings/B38567

www.telli.com/marin/listings/B47712

www.telli.com/marin/listings/B44900

www.telli.com/marin/listings/B45740

Compare the above TelliPages with yours and let me know what you think.

If you need any further information or assistance, please give me a call.

Lawrence Guinness
Telli Marin
Tiburon, CA 94920
(415) 435-1280

customerservice@telli.com