The social benefits of a business directory

The introduction of online business directories in the market has made our lives very easy. Today, when you are hungry and are too tired to cook anything, you pick up your phone and check out the list of restaurants in the business directories. Again, when you want to try new cuisines, the business directories help you find the exotic restaurants in the town. When you want a car on rent, the first thing that comes to your mind is the business directory, for it is where you would find the complete list of the car rental service agencies in the city.

If you are a businessman, there is nothing more helpful than the business directories for collecting contacts. A businessman requires a large number of contacts for the growth of his business. Earlier, the process of collection of contacts of suppliers as well as partner businesses was a very tiresome job. Business enterprises used to maintain multiple level workforce for the job. The online business directories have totally changed the game. Today, whatever information you want regarding any business enterprise in the market, the business directories come into rescue. Using the business directories is also extremely easy. You just need to enter the relevant keyword for your search, and results are displayed in almost no time. Besides helping the business enterprises, the business directories are playing a positive role in the social arena too. The business directories maintain database of non-commercial institutions too. Here are three such non-commercial institutions, the inclusion of which in the business directories, is making the society a happier and safer one.

1.      Public security

The business directories maintain the contact numbers of all the police stations of the city along with the commercial security companies in Dubai. So, whenever a person feels the need of security, he can contact the police using the information from the business directory. A few business directories have also started including a panic button in their mobile applications, which when pressed, sends a distress call to the nearest police station.

2.      Medical emergency

Probably the best thing these online business directories have done is collecting the contacts of all the hospitals in the city and sorting them according to the proximity to the user. This has helped thousands of people during medical emergencies. If you witness an accident on the street, you can lend your help to the needy by calling an ambulance to the spot. All you have to do is contact an ambulance from the list of hospitals in Dubai.

3.      Social service

A business directory has contains the segment in which it maintains the contact numbers of all the institutions which work for social service, so, that a person can easily find the contact of an orphanage or a drug rehabilitation centre.