I rarely use the hand held telephone book anymore, in fact I believe the last one I got delivered to my house I threw away!
I google everything!
If you do not have a website I am probably not going to call you. Even if you were referred to me. The advantage to me as a consumer, to be able to google you first is; I get a chance to know you and your company a bit to see if you offer the services I am looking for.
If you have a current blog up and running I get to know YOU a bit better before calling.
On a personal note, I know how hard I work to keep up my on line appearance, so I respect and give credit to others that do the same.
So when I go to call a Real Estate service provider (or any other service provider) and google them to find contact info and can not find it, it discourages me, and most times move on to the next person.
So you say you have a website with all your info, so you are good.......... well, what about your blogs? Unless you have GREAT SEO on your website, what I am finding is Active Rain, Facebook, Linked In ......etc, have way more google juice (SEO) then most websites.
I know if you google my name, active rain comes up 1st! So, I really keep my profile up to date here, with all of my contact information. Facebook seems to be 2nd when searching my name........
It surprises me how many do not have a phone number on the FB profile. I have Realtors tell me this is for security reasons, but do you not hand out your card to everyone you meet with your phone number? Do you not advertise in the paper with CALL ME"? I am pretty sure at least your companies phone number is going to be on their website, so at least use that one.
So google your name, what sites come up first? Is all your contact info on there and easily found?
Come on, I really do want to call you, I just can not find your phone number!
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