Directories

Overhead view of a printed business directory listing template half-filled in pencil with a 30-minute kitchen timer beside it

Your directory listing is probably a skeleton – here is how...

We recently analysed every one of the 14,362 listings in our directory and published the results in five detailed studies. One finding stood out,...
Curators lifting a white cloth off a glass display case revealing five labelled directory study folders around a representative listing card

What we learned from analysing all 14,362 listings in our directory

Most business directories ask you to trust them. They tell you they are well organised, that their listings are good, that being listed with...
Press editor's midnight desk with four directory research reports stacked, a synthesis volume open on top, and a listing card to the side

The state of business listings in 2026: a synthesis of four...

Author. Gombos Atila Robert, PhD — Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Jasmine Business Directory (D-U-N-S 10-276-4189), Valley Cottage, New York. ORCID: 0000-0001-6468-2811. Correspondence through...
Seventeen yearly business directory volumes racked along a cellar shelf, from dusty oldest to crisp newest, lit from below

Seventeen years of a curated business directory: how 14,362 listings accumulated...

Author. Gombos Atila Robert, PhD — Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Jasmine Business Directory (D-U-N-S 10-276-4189), Valley Cottage, New York. ORCID: 0000-0001-6468-2811. Correspondence through...
Large printed regional map covered with directory listing cards pinned with brass pins, dense clusters in Europe and the US east coast

The geography of a curated business directory: where 14,362 listings are...

Author. Gombos Atila Robert, PhD — Owner and Chief Executive Officer, Jasmine Business Directory (D-U-N-S 10-276-4189), Valley Cottage, New York. ORCID: 0000-0001-6468-2811. Correspondence through...