Archive for June 30th, 2008
Satellite TV Can Bring Profits To Businesses
There are many businesses that can benefit from having satellite TV where they would actually increase their customer base, they would have their name spread to new customers and this is called free advertising and that is always a plus.
The local bar is a given that should have a provider like DirecTV for their patrons, the local diner benefits from it, while no one expects business satellite TV service at a fancy restaurant when you stop for lunch or dinner in a relaxed restaurant there is usually a television and the local channels just don’t do it.
Then there are places that sitting and waiting for appointments can drive a sane person batty like the doctor and dentist, but what about the place you have tires put on the car they always have a seating area where you seem to sit with nothing to do but keep an eye on your watch. That gets tiring real fast and ensures that the person waiting has a large sigh of relief when they know their car is finally done. Then add to that the mechanic where your having oil changed or other upkeep and repairs that you wait while it is being done.
Then there is the hair salon, while this used to be a place that women frequented now men have their hair cut at the salon also and this can be a place that even with an appointment you can sit for longer than planned no matter what day of the week it is with magazines that hold little interest.
Another place that sitting and waiting seems to be a requirement is the hospital emergency room where you get to sit and think about your injury with everyone else who does not feel well or is injured. Pains when you have the time to think about nothing but the pain always hurts more than if you take your mind off it even for a few minutes at a time.
All of these places and more can benefit from satellite TV and make life and waiting a little better for their customers and one thing that has always been known is a happy customer makes sure their family and friends know about this place that waiting is not a dreaded chore that they put off until it has to be done. Free advertising has always been something that businesses strived for and still do today and adding a television with a provider like DirecTV will keep waiting customers more content with the wait.
Black Out Games No Longer!
Recently Direct TV Business Services announced that they have a solution for the sports fans that have had to deal with blackouts on some sporting events and this solution is a search engine. This search engine will enlighten sports fans what channel they can find the blacked out sporting event and it will also inform them when there is no channel that it will be televised. This will not only brighten the day of the sports fan at home, it will also make it a better day at the sports bar where before there might have been a sports channel on with a sports show talking about the blackout game and now it will be watching the game at the sports bar.
This has been a way that is used to protect the networks, the sports leagues and the teams that are the rights holders for these blacked out games. It has also been to the annoyance of sports fans that had to either search channels for the games and hope for the correct timing or else miss the game and hear about it later on sports news.
This new search engine can not be mistaken as it is named GameSearch and is designed to work when the DirecTV business subscriber that is a sports fan puts on a channel that is blacked out the GameSearch scans the other channels for the game they want to view. The search engine will give the fan the channel number that is not blacked out.
One great feature of this new search engine is when the fan cannot be in front of the television and they set the DVR to record the game if it is a blackout channel it will automatically record the game on the channel the search engine finds it on, meaning that there will not be a missed game even when your not there.
This new GameSearch will change sports and the way it is viewed and it will not be found elsewhere because this was developed especially for business DirecTv sports fans.