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		<title>Can adding a phone number to website increase sales?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[Hello,Not only does putting your]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Hello,Not only does putting your # help customers call incase of any problems, it also gives you a lot more credibility. I managed a pretty decent size ecommerce company and we had our landline phone # on the website and we switched to 800# and rec]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  I currently don&#8217;t have]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  I currently don&#8217;t have a toll free number on my website. Right now, I just use my regular office number.&#160; Most people email me so far.&#160; I haven&#8217;t received any calls (my business i]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I believe that having a phone nu]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I believe that having a phone number and mailing address on your website is absolutely required.&#160; Whether it is an 800 number or not probably depends on your business, but I decided that I didn`t need an 800 number because of the free]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Not an 800 number necessarily. &]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Not an 800 number necessarily. &#160;A physical mailing address and
a order/support number ad tremendous credibility to web businesses.An 800 number can encourage weird callers but it can be a goodinvestment sin]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  I would definitely recommend]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  I would definitely recommend it.&#160; A lot of people are still new to ecommerce or wary of it, so being able to talk to someone over the phone is extremely important.&#160; 
  Plus, if there is ever an error where the website won`t let the]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Having a phone number is very va]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Having a phone number is very valuable to any ecommerce site
I`d also recommend&#160; having an organized about us/contact us page
The more input there the better chance you get on finishing the sale on whoever`s still contemplating
Ho]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I just have my cell phone on my ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I just have my cell phone on my website.
I rarely get calls directly maybe 3-4 per month, but I find when someone calls; they buy. they just need the voice contact, they like phones. Just got one today, she spent about 450.00 dollars, she would not ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I started my e-commerce business]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I started my e-commerce business in April last year and we have a toll free number on our site.&#160; I would recommend it.&#160; We don`t get very many calls on it, but it is a wonderful option for people when their computer is acting up, they want to ord[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Hi Matt,
  &#160;
  Thanks]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Hi Matt,
  &#160;
  Thanks for your response....I do have a regular office phone number, but I signed up with GotVMail last week.&#160; So I now have a toll free number.&#160; I found it embarassing to leave a regular phone]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I think it would be a great idea]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I think it would be a great idea to do. Worst case scenario is that it doesn`t do anything and in that case, you can just cancel the service. 
Just test the idea and see if it works. Would you consider using a regular phone number before purch]]></description>
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