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		<title>Phone number for e-commerce site?</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[Rusman,
Many of our clients are]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Rusman,
Many of our clients are in the same situation as you.&#160; They have day jobs but are concerned about loosing customers because they are unavailable to answer the phone while at work.&#160; Our virtual office solutions will allow the ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  I am debating this question ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  I am debating this question now as well.&#160; I think I am going to skip on the 800-number up front and get my web business established, then worry about the intracacies of adding an 800#.&#160; 
  &#160;
  Anyone else wit]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  A contact form would be your]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  A contact form would be your best bet. I never called an e-commerce site, Although, it would be nice to have a phone number just incase someone orders and needs to return something. Most people feel comfortable when they see a phone number anywher]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Nikole`s suggestion for listing ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Nikole`s suggestion for listing the reasons why I think I
need a phone number pretty much boiled down to thinking I might lose
business for someone who wanted to call to get more info, but didn`t
have a number and give up.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[What we did for our e-commerce s]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[What we did for our e-commerce site, was to have a "contact us" page with an inquiry form that can be filled out and sent directly from the website.&#160; Our copy encourages people to include their phone number for a return call if they would like to spea[...]]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  Thanks all. My fear is I mig]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  Thanks all. My fear is I might lose business if someone wanted to call and couldn`t. But I guess most of us are all `anti-social` in the fact that an email will work fine.
  &#160;
  Nikole`s suggestion for listing the reas]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[I think e-mail contacts should b]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I think e-mail contacts should be fine ... make them a nice form to contact you.
If you sat down and tried to think of all the reasons why they would contact you, are any of them urgent enough to require a phone call?
I`ve never f]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[We seem to do just fine with ema]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[We seem to do just fine with email only, and it helps put a bit of a buffer between us and "weird" customers. :-)&nbsp;
]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  This might be in the wrong f]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  This might be in the wrong forum, but thought I`d try it here.
  &#160;
  I`ll be launching an ecommerce site in the next few months. I currently have a day job and cannot afford to answer phone calls for my startup. I don`]]></description>
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