![]() ![]() Donnelley, established the first classified telephone directory advertising and laid the foundation for the Yellow Pages industry. In the 1880s the commercial printing firm RR Donnelley formed the Chicago Directory Company to print the Chicago telephone directory, and its founder's son, Reuben H. According to lore, in 1883 a telephone directory printer ran out of white paper and substituted yellow rather than wait for a shipment. In the early years telephone companies treated directories as a necessary evil -and expense -and thus were published irregularly. Instead, the 11 residential customers were lumped together haphazardly, followed by three physicians, two dentists, 20 "Store, Factories, etc." four meat and fish markets, a pair of hack and boarding stables, and another eight telephones ascribed to "Miscellaneous" customers, including the police and post office. It was a crude one-page listing of 47 subscribers and that at the very least separated business from residential customers, although the names were not listed alphabetically, nor were the phone numbers included. The first directory been produced in 1878 in Connecticut by the New Haven District Telephone Company just two years after the telephone was invented. Neither was the selling of advertising in them. In 1909 he traveled to Marion, Indiana, to sell timetable ads and was asked by the manager of The United Telephone Company in Marion (Berry's uncle, according to the New York Times ) if he could sell advertising for his upcoming telephone directory, a task another man had recently abandoned after putting in little effort and achieving no success. In his business function Berry learned the basics of selling advertising space, which he would put to good use after graduation by starting a business, the Ohio Guide Company, to sell advertising in the timetables published by the electric interurban rail lines serving Midwestern cities. He also served as the business manager for both the paper and the school annual. He became familiar with newspaper work during his high school years working as a reporter for the Wabash Plain Dealer and writing for his school's monthly paper. When he was just 8 years old he made and sold horseradish door to door as well as maintaining Saturday Evening Post and laundry routes. His father died when he was just four years of age, and he quickly learned the value of hard work as he began to help his mother who struggled to support the family through sewing and work as a maternity nurse. Berry Sales and Marketing Solutions offers domestic and international clients a wide range of sales and marketing consulting services, including sales strategy, sales force recruitment and readiness, sales manager development, marketing strategies, and product development. In addition, Berry Network, Inc., is a business-to-business company that offers Yellow Pages marketing services such as research, media planning, and ad design, plus interactive media services. Through The Berry Company unit, the Dayton, Ohio-based operation serves more then 100 telephone systems, approximately 1 million advertisers, and more than 100 million telephone customers in over 700 markets, distributing 28 million telephone directories. Berry and Company is the largest Yellow Pages advertising sales agency in the United States. NAIC: 541870 Advertising Material Distribution Services.Ī subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation, L. Her team came in and moved everything conducted themselves in a professional manner and left a floor that we could be proud of with a quality difference that we could see at first glance.Wholly Owned Subsidiary of BellSouth Corporation We found Renece to be clear and concise about what we could expect from her in terms of what we needed. The fact that she was an African American female business owner in a field dominated by men further impressed me and led me to encourage our church to hire her company for the work. Renece's Quality Cleaning Services was the only business to return my call which immediately made an impression. ![]() ![]() When our pastor instructed me to find a company to strip and buff the floors of the kitchen and fellowship hall.an area of more than 2200 square feet.I went online and left messages with three different flooring companies. "We purchased our church in 2017 unsure how long it had sat without maintenance. ![]()
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