ContactHawk.com Launched in Chicago - Aims to Change Online Yellow Pages

Online, May 28, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Last month, there was over 1.8 million searches for "yellow pages," according to Google Adwords. The demand for yellow pages and connecting with local businesses is bigger than ever. Yellow page websites have not changed much since the 1990s. A visitor looks up a business in a location by category and gets their phone number or link to their website. Then visitors have to call during business hours and can only contact businesses one at a time. A visitor would have to make multiple phone calls or go to different websites to reach different businesses. This is what makes ContactHawk.com different.

ContactHawk.com is both a yellow pages directory and a messaging platform. Visitors can search for a local business by category and location, send a message to up to 5 businesses at a time and receive replies to these messages. Businesses that reply in a timely manner will generate more ContactHawk.com leads and sales. Businesses can reply to these leads on the ContactHawk.com platform and build a new sales channel. Both visitors and businesses can use the ContactHawk.com message platform like email to connect with one another.

ContactHawk.com is currently available in the greater Chicagoland area with plans to expand outside the pilot. Andrew Ziola, Founder of ContactHawk.com said, "I never understood how yellow pages didn't advance into a modern, digital format. Visitors have the same experience using traditional print or online yellow pages."

It can be frustrating having to pick up the phone and call businesses one by one during their business hours. Mr. Ziola continued, "I was recently in the market for landscaping services and found it to be a painful process calling many different landscapers with the same question, and then playing phone tag." This will all be just a memory with the launch of ContactHawk.com.

According to AT&T Small Business Technology Poll 2013, 50% of local searches do not occur on search engines, but on directories and apps. Small businesses need an improved platform to reach visitors. ContactHawk.com provides visitors with huge time savings while providing an invigorated sales leads channel for local businesses.

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For more information, visit ContactHawk.com, call (630) 387-9130 or email info@contacthawk.com.