Search With a Local Focus

The Local Search Revolution

From the first Yellow Pages advertisement to comprehensive local search marketing strategies, we’ve come a long way. In 1967, our agency was the first to recognize the lead generation potential of Yellow Pages advertising. From there it became an obsession.

TMP Company Timeline

  • Verizon, Dex, and at&t Phonebooks

    1967

    TMP is founded as a Yellow Pages CMR

  • Early 1980s

    $100 million in annual billings

  • Monster.com logo

    Mid 1980s

    $200 million in annual billings

  • Google logo

    1996

    TMP develops interactive advertising solutions

    Stuart McKelvey joins online marketing division of Monster.com

  • 1998

    Stuart McKelvey ascends to the role of CEO

  • 1999

    TMP aquires IN2, a leading search agency, along with “Click Maps” technology.

  • 2005

    TMP is bought from Monster by TMP’s own management team and a PE firm

  • Today

    TMP Directional Marketing is a leading provider of online, offline, and mobile search solutions

    YellowPages.com and 1-800-FREE-411 logos

We were the first to develop:

  • Strategic Marketing Plans in the 70’s,
  • Mapping services and technology in the 80’s,
  • and Internet capabilities in 1996 due to our affiliation with (a sibling division at the time) Monster.com.

Put simply, our internet and local search capabilities were started long before Internet Yellow Pages were developed and long before the first search agencies were even a thought in their CEO’s minds. In 1996 we built websites for our national clients and developed advertising strategies to drive traffic when most online marketing was, “can I have a link on your home page?”

As the millennium turned, we acquired NYC based IN2, a premier online search agency with proprietary “Click Maps” technology. More recently, we hired the team that developed SEO for the Monster network of properties and in 2005 spun out of Monster Worldwide to become an independent agency; the world’s largest local search agency.

Today we generate leads for nearly a thousand clients, all National Advertisers including 105 of the Fortune 500. We place these brands in front of local consumers through print and online Yellow Pages advertising and search-engine-based interactive marketing. With headquarters in New York City and more than 17 offices in the United States and Canada, we are able to combine the advantages of national scope and the personalization of local perspective to our solutions.

Over the years, we’ve built an industry understanding the ins and outs of local search marketing.