Bring It On Yellow Pages
June 27, 2008
When Henry Ford launched the Model T there was the railroad. When Sam Walton launched Wal-Mart there was K-Mart and its blinking blue light. When Edison invented the light bulb there was, well, I guess a bunch of messy candles and smoky kerosene lamps. The point I’m trying to make is great ideas often start as really big underdogs in the face of current behemoths.
And so it is with ClickBricks. (Haha, ok so I feel a little silly for equating it with the above examples, but you get the point.) I’ve wanted to try to compete with blow Yellow Pages out of the water for 3 years and the time has finally come to fire my first (deliberate) shot. Hopefully, with much more blood (ok not literally), sweat and tears, this little pea shooter will prove to be a worthwhile business endeavor and allow me to recoup the time, energy, legal fees, programming fees, emotional strain and brain cell consumption that has gone into it and ultimately provide the unique excitement, satisfaction and societal benefit that only entrepreneurial adventures can bring.
In the words of Tiger Woods (sort of) “I feel good, the site looks good, I like my chances.” (If you know where that comes from I’ll give you a cookie.)
Thanks to (in no particular order) Mike Skaggs - Economic Development Director for the State of Nevada, Doug Thomas - Assistant Dean at Anderson School of Management and Tom Carroll - president and founder of Carroll Strategies for sitting on the Advisory Board. Your input has been valuable thus far and I look forward to your continued involvement.
And if you know business owners that advertise online be sure to tell them about ClickBricks - I’d greatly appreciate it!
John Murphy
June 27th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
The site looks great man! I’ll definitely put the word out here. If you ever get to the point that you need it, I’m a born salesman and I’ll help any way I can.
Brandon
June 27th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Sweet man I appreciate it. I’ve got to get Tampa jamming and hopefully other cities will follow suit. Did you see all the top seeds getting bounced from Wimbledon? Pretty weird.
John Murphy
June 29th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Wimbledon has been pretty sick this year, and I’m loving it!!!!
dovya
June 30th, 2008 at 9:52 am
This looks great, Brandon! Great job! I’ll be letting people know about it - how are you marketing it?
dave ingram
July 1st, 2008 at 1:02 pm
Heya, Nice site.
Did you see The Brownbook yet (http://www.brownbook.net). We’re just launching in the US with 26,000,000 businesses listed. Old school ways say we’d be competitors, but new-school ways tell me to look for alliances. Hit me back if you wanna chat. WE ARE LOOKING FOR A US COUNTRY MANAGER to spearhead us into the US. dave[at]brownbook.net. Nice site. D.
Britt
July 1st, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Hey Brandon, nice to see the site coming together again. Good luck.
Brandon
July 2nd, 2008 at 7:40 am
Hey Britt, thanks for stopping by. How are you? Hope things are well.
Jake
July 7th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
wow. this looks like a brilliant idea. ramp up might be a little slow, I’d imagine, but once it hits the tipping point, it should all be down hill from there. good work, sir!