We feel like TalkLocal has a lot to offer, not just for the average consumer, but also for service professionals and businesses. The idea for the website started because GP was frustrated with the lack of return on his advertising costs with his computer repair company Geeks-on-Site. He spent lots of money on ads and he had no clue how much money the ads were giving him. There was no way to advertise with a high ROI (Return on Investment). He assumed that many other SMB’s and service professionals shared his frustrations, so he decided that lots of them would be interested in using a website which reliably brought them customers for a small fee.

And thus the idea for TalkLocal was born. With TalkLocal, business only pay when they TALK to a consumer. Before deciding whether they want to talk to the customer, they can hear the location, problem, and time the customer wants to be service. It is only then when they decide if they want to talk to the customer and pay a fee. Best of all, they decide the fee that they pay. Looking at it from a Geeks-on-Site perspective, TalkLocal is a great deal for GP. He converts a very high percentage of his connections into sales, and he gets to decide the fee he pays.  If GP isn’t getting phone calls, he isn’t paying money. This is a big difference from his Cost per Click ads on Google, where he pays whenever a customer clicks on the ad, even if they don’t ever end up calling.

TalkLocal is a system that benefits consumers and service professionals. We are simply paving a dirt road. Customers waste time trying to find the right service provider, and service providers waste money trying to find customers. TalkLocal eliminates that waste and benefits everyone!

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