My name is Debra Pallotto Dobbs and I am a Realtor in Chicago, with 27 years of experience. I bought chicago-realtors.tel to help with the business as having a strong presence online is vital for me. Statistics show that more than 90 percent of buyers and sellers begin their housing research online, before contacting a real estate professional. My clients mainly contact me via Phone calls, text messages, email messages about timely news stories, personal notes, website, and Facebook. I heard about .tel through my brother as he specializes in this field and when he explained how .tel domains work I thought it was an exciting and progressive method of connecting with prospective clients. Michael's company is called Top Search (top-search.tel). Top Search specializes in building and optimizing .tels for realtors and other businesses. Top Search built and optimized several .tels for me and the response rate has been fantastic. They did such an incredible job they are now working with our marketing department at Koenig and Strey. I believe professionals working in the service sector, small business owners, anyone with a product or service to sell and especially those who cannot afford an expensive Search Engine Optimization program or are tired of wasting money on PPC campaigns can benefit from buying a .tel. Having used it for a while now I currently have 5 active clients that found me through the internet. As a real estate agent I am my own company and .tel provides me with a great internet branding opportunity. Top Search built my .tels specifically with my name in the title headline so Debra Dobbs (my brand) can be found all over Google and Bing for real estate based searches in Chicago. I also like the way .tel allows me to participate in the fast growing mobile search market without having to pay someone to build me a new mobile site. I get classic internet and mobile search all in one. .tel's are also search engine optimized and multi-use internet sites that allow the user to build their brand and acquire quality search traffic for very little cost. Consumers want instant information and with more and more people buying smart phones and tablet computers, generating traffic through mobile search will become a priority. This will be the way forward for .tel. Catching up with Kris Katchit My name is Chris Ehrenzeller, I am also known as Kris Katchit. As Chris, I run an entertainment agency (www.aurorascarnival.co.uk and www.circusperformers.co.uk) that provides entertainers such as jugglers, stilt walkers, acrobats, magicians etc. for companies and events all around Great Britain. This developed out of my being Kris Katchit, a self employed circus based entertainer (jester, juggler, stiltwalker etc). Being discoverable on the internet is extremely important to me as the vast majority of my new work comes from my various web sites. Most of my clients approach me via email, with a minority using the phone. I think I heard of .tel a couple of years ago, (not long after it launched) thought it was a brilliant idea and immediately bought my .tel domain. I believe that just about anyone can benefit from owning a .tel, but definitely any business, whatever their size. Currently I have a business card that only has my .tel details on it, so it cannot become redundant (as a card does if one changes address or telephone number etc). I must admit that I do have to explain what .tel means to most people I give it to. But I now have the page on my mobile 'phone, so that I can show it to people immediately. It is certainly worth having. It shows up in web searches on occasions and enables me to keep all my web site, phone numbers etc up to date and in one simple place. I have a couple of lead pages linked to email campaigns. These are promoted via my .tel, email footers and also Google Adwords. I am also listed in numerous directories, both local and national. I would describe .tel as a "business card" that is instantly updateable and contains all the information necessary to let people know about my business. It therefore grows with me and keeps all my information in one easy to find place. I think .tel will continue to grow and as more and more of the general public (as opposed to business people) discover it, they will realize that it can be of as much use to them as it is to business people already. |