Let’s go into detail about some of the benefits of Pay For Calls marketing. Foremost for local businesses is the fact that Pay For Calls advertising offers geo-targeting. There is no need to “go after” large segments of the population which would never need to employ your services or buy from your catalog. Instead, Pay For Calls ads groom and prep customers before you ever get on the phone with them.
What’s more, you can shape your geo and keyword targeting tactics based on changes you make to your catalog, changes in the strategies of your competitors, and seasonal economical variations. If you sell holiday supplies, you can emphasize seasonally based keywords and target locations to save money.
For example, let’s say you run a local farm that reaches at best 30,000 customers within a Tri-City Area near the fictional town of Springfield. In the fall, you sell pumpkins (for Halloween), and in the winter, you sell Christmas trees. When you opt for traditional means of advertising your goods, you have to pay for ads in local circulars and fliers, TV spots, radio blitzes, and billboards. These ads may not be timed to precisely to generate the best traffic for your business.
With Pay For Calls ads on your site, however, you can figure out precisely when to put money into your ads. You can time when to buy “Halloween pumpkins in Springfield” keywords, for instance, as well as when to switch to “Christmas trees in Springfield” keywords. Timing is everything in online retail. Even if you only improve your geo/seasonal targeting by just a few days, you will gain tremendous insights into the shopping habits of the people in your area. You can even adjust your non-Pay For Calls marketing strategies accordingly.
Pay For Calls campaigns are superior to traditional Pay Per Click campaigns, in that they don’t require businesses to purchase URLs and maintain dedicated web sites. For instance, in our farm example, the business owner need not spend $30 to $40 a month maintaining a small local web site. After all, few people shop for pumpkins or Christmas tress in online catalogs. Thus a PPC approach will not yield good results here. A PFC (Pay For Calls) approach, on the other hand, should yield practically immediate benefits.
Finally, the mere fact that your business can maintain an online presence (even only through its Pay For Calls ads) gives you brand recognition, which you can translate into sales months or years down the line.
If your business uses the phone to generate sales, then Pay For Calls is right for you. Get your share of the online audience and drive them to your business phone with pay per call advertising.
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