Other
Non-Magic Directories
Our Magic
Directory can incorporate the ClickCall function rendering
any directory, be it a private or public one, a world-wide accessible toll free business directory
over the Internet. Any business can be listed in any of our public
Magic Directories or create their own private Magic Directory on their web sites
or
on their Magic Information Cards to provide the convenience and
productivity value to their customers and to the business community
they would like to serve.
There are the traditional non-magic directories
which are the old fashion paper directories such as phone books and
yellow pages. 'Let the finger do the walking' (just to look up a
number) obviously can not compare with 'Let the mouse do the
calling' in
the magic Directory solution.
There are also other non-magic directories being put
online for people to use. Typically they require people to use a
search engine to find the phone number by inputting one or more
parameters. The parameters are typically: the category which the
business is listed under, the name of the business, the city and the
state the business is in. Naturally, this type of service is out of
date for the Internet world. First of all, one may not know the
exact category to select. Secondly, one may not know the name of the
business one is looking for. Thirdly, in a global economy today,
many businesses operate in many cities and states or they may be
practically virtual companies with no physical store fronts.
However, they could have a sophisticated phone system which can
follow them around as many phone companies now providing. Therefore,
these non-magic directories have very limited use. (Refer
to comparisons between MagicDirectory and others)
Some online directories do try to provide some value
by offering a call back system. The user after looking up a company
in the directory is offered a online form to fill out the user's
phone number; then the user would wait for the company to process
that form and get someone to call the user back. Naturally, this can
not be an instantaneous response. You also need to have a separate
phone line reserved for this call back. Sometimes, a user can wait
for long time and not getting a call back. Most troublesome to users
is that, most users would not be happy to give their phone numbers
out to just any unknown business or any unknown individual due to
concerns of privacy invasion and abusive telemarketers. Frankly,
even businesses themselves do not wish to give their phone numbers
out (Have you noticed that big companies especially telephone
companies do not give out many phone numbers on their Internet web
sites?) This
is the very reason, the Magic Directory would offer a feature to
permit the business to list its name and not the phone number. Our
Calling Software will make the correct call for the user without
having the number explicitly displayed. This not only avoids possible abuse
of any phone number by telemarketers or crank callers, but also
offers the convenience to businesses for dynamically changing the
receiving number on a real-time basis.
As stated in our comparison
study, some of the
traditional directories or non-magic directories may have one
advantage, that is they may have a large phone database in their
holding. Sometimes they guard them tightly (This is a possible reason
why online phone directory uses a clumsy search mode rather than simply publishes the directory like a
phone book). However, we believe with the superior features of Magic
Directory, businesses and users will in no time sign up and
build truly friendly global business directories. Magic Directory
can not be copied when listings are not explicit phone numbers and
Magic Directory need not be copied since it is easily accessed
everywhere online or off-line via a Magic Information Card. So
Sign up and grow with us
