{"id":13939,"date":"2019-08-06T10:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=13939"},"modified":"2019-08-06T10:27:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-06T17:27:32","slug":"dont-rely-exclusively-on-web-for-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=13939","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Rely Exclusively on Web For Leads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Something we&#8217;ve noticed in calling around to businesses is that they&#8217;re leaving their phone numbers off their web sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This might be a US-only post, but we&#8217;d like to know what the situation is in other countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We know that it&#8217;s a pain to answer the phone at times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But, you never know who might call. Even the robocalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> You should think about how your customers and prospects might find you. It&#8217;s not about the big yellow book with phone numbers in it anymore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even direct mail is making a comeback&#8230;keep up those customer lists, write snappy headlines and relevant comments and so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We even have recommended trade shows on occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We still happen to like telemarketing for b2b applications, but we&#8217;re in the minority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For b2c, all of those social media sites can work, as can your website, but make sure that it&#8217;s all customer centric. Phone numbers, emails, lists of execs, so forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And you have to keep track of where the customers come from!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who said being a owner, CEO or marketing\/sales person was easy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something we&#8217;ve noticed in calling around to businesses is that they&#8217;re leaving their phone numbers off their web sites. This might be a US-only post, but we&#8217;d like to know what the situation is in other countries. We know that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/?p=13939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[108,742],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13940,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13939\/revisions\/13940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.theasoe.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}