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Ifbyphone recently announced the Ifbyphone Store Locator, yet another business solution in our suite of instant phone applications. Store Locator routes incoming calls to a business phone number to the location nearest to the caller. For example, a franchise can advertise one number nationally. If I call that number from Chicago, my phone call will be routed to their nearest store in Chicago.

As Irv Shapiro, CEO, stated in our press release:

“Store Locators aren’t new but they often require a lot of programming. What differentiates Ifbyphone’s Store Locator is that it’s easy and instant,” he said. “Ifbyphone customers don’t have to wait weeks and weeks for programmers to build them apps or for their IT groups to approve and install them. “With Ifbyphone’s Store Locator, businesses can be up and running in minutes instead of days or weeks.”

Here are a couple of screen shots showing how quick & easy it is to setup the Ifbyphone Store Locator:

Read more about Store Locator here.

In a new post, mobile advertising guru Andrew Grill highlights U.K.-based Yell.com’s new mobile map-based “yellow pages” services.  The free-to-use (ad supported) service takes advantage of both browser and phone capabilities to offer a true Web 2.0/Voice 2.0 experience — for example, every number is click-to-call, and you can add contact info automatically to address books and send it to someone else as a text message.  Unfortunately for North Americans, Yell Group’s U.S. service — Yellowbook.com — doesn’t yet offer the service.

“Who you gonna call?” World & Web Marketing called ifbyphone to rescue Papa Dean’s Popcorn from drowning in its own success.

The ifbyphone virtual receptionist success story was featured today in the San Antonio Express-News. Below is an excerpt:

Staglik had gone to San Antonio-based World & Web to revamp their Web site. Between the walk-in traffic and the Internet orders, Papa Dean’s suddenly was too successful.

“I called up Garth Dennis,” Staglik said, referring to World & Web’s founder. “I said, ‘We’re drowning here. What can you do for us?’.”

That same day, Dennis patched the Web site into Ifbyphone, a Skokie, Ill.-based phone applications service.

“It’s like having a virtual receptionist that is collecting information from your customers,” explained Ifbyphone CEO Irv Shapiro. “So when you get to them, you have additional information and you can handle their order more effectively.”

Staglik said the service rescued the shop’s holiday season. And it gave Papa Dean’s much more information on clients than staff could have acquired under such rush circumstances.

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