Free Phone Call Tracking For Your Local Business Website

Posted in: Local Search, Phone Call Tracking, Tools by Nifty Mike on August 17, 2009 | 1 Comment

The Problem

One of the hardest things for “brick and mortar” companies that advertise online is tracking “offline” sales that are made through  phone calls. Through google analytics, or other analytics services, you can see how many people are looking at your contact page, you can figure how many people are sending you emails through forms. But, unless you want to pay a monthly fee for a tracking phone number, there has been no way to monitor calls that came from your website.

For many small businesses, this a been a big problem.  When times get tough, the advertising budget is usually the first thing to go in the small business world,  and a lot of companies have cut funding to update, and advertise, their website simply because they don’t know if it is an effective advertising tool.

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