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List of Business Directories in Qatar
- myqbd.com
- qataronlinedirectory.com
- qatpedia.com
- ezyqatar.com
- crunchbase.com/organization/qatar-online-directory
- yellowpages.qa/web
- qlisted.qa
- qatarliving.com/pages
- Qatar business directory
How Do Business Directory Listings Help To Develop Customer Trust?
Business directories have been around for ages but with the digital age, they may have become more important than ever. There are a lot of reasons that you want your business to be added to a business directory. One of the most important reasons is that it can help you to develop customer trust.
How does it develop this trust with your customers though?
Customer Reviews
The most obvious way that you probably develop customer trust with a business directory is the reviews that are hosted on these sites. Customers who have experience with your business can go to the online business directory and review their experience with your company. Good or bad.
Knowing what real people think about your business helps potential customers know that others trust you and they can to. Building up customer reviews is important, so don’t forget to ask customers to leave honest feedback about their experience.
One way to build up your reviews is to have a review campaign where you encourage your customers to leave feedback. Some businesses do this by leaving a link to the directory on receipts or including requests in their newsletter. It is just important that you don’t ask for people to lie about their experience. Honest feedback is the best.
It Is Expected
When someone is looking on a business directory they expect to find your business there. If they don’t find a listing for your business they will wonder if you are real or legitimate. It won’t do well if they can’t find your business and they will likely go to a different business that is listed.
Part of this expectation of being listed comes from the tradition of business directories. For ages business directories have helped people to find the businesses that they need.
The other part comes from customer’s expectations that all businesses that they are looking for should be listed in business directories. Whether it is true or not, they expect entries in the directory.
Information Makes Your Business Feel More Real
A business directory contains all of the information a person might need to know about your business. That means, the phone number, address, hours, and more for a business. It also includes customer reviews and often times a photo of the business.
The more information that is available on a business directory for a business, the more trustworthy that business will appear. This is because fake businesses won’t usually go to the lengths of creating so much information. It also shows that the owner cares enough to spend the time to input all of that information and keep it up to date.
Local Directories Are Local
That heading might be a little bit confusing at first but let’s take a second to expand on it. A local directory is a list of businesses in an area. By being listed in these directories you are showing that your business is a part of the local community.
Building up the fact that you are part of the local community, in any way that you can, will help build trust with customers. Local businesses are a big trend around the world right now and are shifting customers away from being interested in big box stores. They want to buy local.
With the ability to boost your trust with customers, why wouldn’t you want your business listed on an online business directory? The sooner you get your business listed, the sooner you can start building trust with customers. And as we all know, trust leads to an increase in sales.
Baloydi Lloydi is the content manager of Asknoypi.