Should You Place a Phone Number on Your Website? | Ep. #760

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

In episode #760, Eric and Neil discuss putting a phone number on your website. Tune in to hear if this is a necessary tactic. TIME-STAMPED SHOW NOTES: [00:27] Today’s Topic: Should You Place a Phone Number on Your Website? [00:38] Eric gets 10-15 calls per day. [00:56] Neil thinks it’s a waste of time to field random calls. [01:15] Use chat services instead. [01:30] Most of the calls are junk. [01:45] Consider segmentation and only reveal your number to US visitors. [03:00] It’s easier to collect a lead and call them. [03:35] You can use Drift or Intercom to help segment your visitors and leads. [03:57] That’s all for today! [03:59] If you could take two minutes out of your day, we are trying to improve the listening experience for you, so go to Singlegrain.com/survey and help us gain some insight into what matters to our listeners. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school
0:14.5	with your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:19.4	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to rank higher on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
0:34.4	Google's core vital update, that makes it super, super important to optimize your
0:38.5	site for low time. And one easy way to do it is use the host that Eric and I use dream
0:44.5	host so just go to dream host or Google it find it check it out and it's a great way
0:49.7	to improve your low time. Welcome to another episode of marketing school.
0:55.0	I'm Eric Sue.
0:56.0	And I'm Neil Patel.
0:57.0	And today we're going to talk about if you should put a phone number on your website.
1:02.0	So do you have a phone number on your website. So do you have a phone number on your website? Top right?
1:05.4	Mm-hmm. How many calls do you get a day? Dude like 10 or 15? 10, 15 calls. But a lot of it's junk.
1:14.0	How much of it is junk?
1:15.0	The thing is, remember I mentioned a couple of episodes ago, we don't have someone manning
1:19.6	our phone that much.
1:20.9	So when we get a chance to analyze it it's probably like 95%
1:24.8	junk. Yeah and what we found is it's a waste of time so it's just better not
1:30.2	having a when you have a lot of traffic how many you have over a hundred
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