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I remember setting up a website back in the 90s for a construction equipment company. They had no way of easily tracking leads from the website versus people w
by ben1040 15y ago
I remember setting up a website back in the 90s for a construction equipment company. They had no way of easily tracking leads from the website versus people who just saw them in the yellow pages or something. So, their solution was to have a fake salesman's name on the website.
People would call and ask for him, and the caller would be told he was out of the office and someone else would be happy to help out. Meanwhile they'd know right off the bat how that customer got their number.
- MartinCron 15y agoThe first company I worked at would advertise with different extensions, such as (800)555-1212 x 123 in different publications, when we answered the phone and somebody asked for x123, we would just log what they requested and say "I can help you with that..."