Congratulations to the GlobalYP team and all the  writers from around the country who have helped make 2009 a great year for the GlobalYP Blog! 2009 was a great year, and 2010 is sure to be even bigger and better, especially for the blog! Starting a little under a year ago, the GlobalYP Blog has flourished and exceeded expectations! We reached a milestone of the 1000th blog released back in August 2009. Over the past four months we have managed to release an additional 2000 posts, publishing our 3000th on New Year’s Eve – a great way to ring in the New Year. 

Starting the New Year off with a bang, we are pleased to announce the 3000th blog, Three Rivers Market. Located in Knoxville, TN, Three Rivers Market is a small, community-owned cooperative grocery store. The market features a wide variety of organic and natural foods, as well as household goods, supplements and body care products. 

GlobalYP and the GlobalYP Blog is dedicated to small businesses. We understand what it is a small business wants because we ourselves are a small business. In the year 2010, we hope to publish twice as many blog posts and reach out to as many small businesses as we can! Again, congratulations to the GlobalYP.net team, and stayed tuned for an amazing year to come from GlobalYP.net!

The GlobalYP Blog has only been around since late February 2009 and now in August 2009 we just released our 1,000^th blog! Everyone on the GlobalYP teams has helped to make this great blog come to be and evolve into what it is today.

Sure, there are directories out there that are just interested in getting big companies paying for over glamorous featured listings. GlobalYP is about the small business. We’re a small business and we know how hard it is to compete with the big chain stores and service providers out there. Just because your business is small doesn’t mean that you aren’t a good business.

Congratulations to the entire GlobalYP.net team and special thanks to our writers from around the country who have helped us to get the word out about the great small businesses out there!

Stay tuned, The GlobalYP Blog has got some tricks up our sleeves!

In the upcoming months:

-Look for more great reviews of small businesses

-Look for more listings on our directory

-Contests giving away thousands of dollars worth of cash and prizes!

GPS navigation devices are mostly good at getting you to places that you want to go. But what if you don’t know exactly where you want to go, and need some advice? The truth is that most of today’s GPS devices fail to assist with business discovery and local search. While some premium models have business databases, you are advised to never rely on them. So if you are in an unknown area, or just looking for new types of place to go or eat, you can’t rely on your GPS.

The best way to learn about new businesses is still using the power of the Internet. A good yellow pages is no longer just for simple directory information. They can help you discover new businesses when you are looking for places to go nearby where you are located. Let’s look at a real life example. You are traveling and feel like visiting a good seafood restaurant. Enter “seafood” into your GPS device and good luck with whatever you get, if anything. If you spend a moment on your computer or other Internet enabled device, you can learn about a great place to go, and then leave it up to your GPS.

That is where a solid local search source like GlobalYP.net comes in. By typing in where you are and what you are looking for, you can utilize the power of a yellow pages to discover new places around you. No doubt, in the future, yellow page services like GlobalYP will be work directly with GPS devices to tell where to go, while you are going there, and how to get there. Until then, spend sometime with a local business search tool like GlobalYP.net to plan your next move before hitting the road.

Do you ever feel like information sites are designed for and by engineers? Complex questions, little boxes to type in, and odd results? Searching should be designed around you, for you. That is just what GlobalYP.net did with its homepage search bar. Using large comfortable text boxes, with equally easy to read font sizes, they are keying in on what makes searching easy and fun.

This is part of what is called user interface design, and it is all about making things easier. Leave functionality up to the engineers, but never forget that ease-of-use should be a strong component in any design. You’ll find that GlobalYP will spend the effort it takes to making searching simple, sound, and effective. Try it for yourself at GlobalYP.net.

When traditional yellow pages hit the Internet scene, it spelled death for the old static approach to local business directory searching. Immediate online searches provide up to date information on local businesses along with addresses and map information. Still missing is a view on what each business is all about. The GlobalYP.net blog seeks to use yellow page directory data as a lens to highlight favorite local businesses all over the world with stories, recommendations, travel accounts, and tips on how to find exactly what you are looking for (and maybe a few things you didn’t consider as well).

Join us frequently for easy reading on what lies behind the yellow page listing.

For all your Internet business search needs, there is GlobalYP.net