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You can see where every call came from

Half of all enquiries arrive by voice, while reports show forms only. We set up call tracking: the phone gets a source too — the ad, the page, the search.

What you get
  • →The numberstays yours
  • →The service subscriptionyour own direct contract
  • →First measurementhow many calls there are today
The exact scope and timing are fixed after the diagnostic — before that nobody has an honest picture.
Outcome

What stays with you afterwards

A call gets a source

You can see that the person came from this ad and this page — exactly as you have long been able to see for a form.

Missed calls stop being invisible

Calls nobody answered land in the same list as enquiries. You can ring them back instead of never knowing about them.

Ad decisions rest on a number

A campaign that brings calls stops looking unprofitable and does not get switched off by mistake.

Who it fits

When people come to us with this

When this work comes before the rest.

People phone rather than write

The service is urgent or expensive and the customer wants a voice. The website form is nearly empty — and it looks as if the site does not work.

Advertising looks unprofitable

The campaign brings calls, but they are absent from the report: only forms are counted. The campaign gets switched off and enquiries drop.

Several numbers, all your own

One on the business cards, another on maps, a third in the ads. Which of them works is anybody’s guess.

Half the calls never connect

Engaged, nobody picked up, rang out of hours. How many of those there are has never been counted.

How the work goes

A clear order, no surprises

1 · A conversation and a count

Half an hour about your work: where enquiries come from today, how many there are, who answers them and what counts as a good customer. No access to your systems is needed at this step.

2 · A picture, and one channel

We show what happens to enquiries today and pick where to start: one channel and one way of counting. The picture stays with you either way.

3 · Switch on and count

We turn the channel on, set up intake and source tags, and then look at the numbers with you every week: what works, what we switch off, where the money moves.

The figure is named in a quote for your task, once it is clear which channels we switch on, how many enquiries you get today and who answers them. There is no price list here on purpose: every niche has its own cost per enquiry and its own deal size, and an "average price" means averaged work.

Straight talk

What we do ourselves and what we do with partners

We do this ourselves

We set up call tracking on your site, in your ads and on your listings; we join the call to its source and bring it into the same list where enquiries live.

We count missed calls and answer times — we do exactly this on our own flow of enquiries, with the same tools.

We build this out for you

The link to your telephony and your CRM is what gets built out case by case: some run everything on a mobile, others have a phone system.

We run this with a partner

The call tracking service and the numbers you take from the operator directly, on your own contract. We do not resell the subscription and put no margin on it: our work is the setup and the reading of the numbers.

Where a partner does the work, we stay your single point of contact: we pick the contractor, set the task, watch the timing and answer to you for the result. The contract names the contractor honestly — no "we do everything in-house".

Questions

What people usually ask

What is call tracking in plain words?
It is a way of counting calls that links the phone to a source: a visitor is shown a particular number depending on where they came from, and afterwards the number tells you which ad or page brought them to call.
Do we have to change our number?
No. Your main number stays where it is — on cards, in listings and in contracts. Extra numbers are needed only where we are measuring the source.
What if we get few calls — is it worth it at all?
Often it is not, and we will say so plainly. First we count at the diagnostic how many calls there are today: if it is a handful a month, tracking gives a pretty picture and no benefit.
Do you record conversations?
Only if you want it and the caller is told — that is what the law requires. We set up what you decided, and we do not switch recording on "by default".
Enquiry

Let us look at your task

Half an hour about where your customers come from — no access to your systems and no commitments.

We call back during working hours. Company details are optional — if you give them, we read the open registries first and come to the conversation prepared.