wineo
Sat 3 December 2005, 09:50 am GMT +0200
I found this article very interesting... here is a quote from it...
Internet giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. are testing a new form of online advertising that encourages people to pick up the phone rather than click on a link, lending credibility to the "pay-per-call" ad model.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/TechNews/BizTech/2005/12/01/pf-1332313.html 
What else are they going to think of next? Would you use this service? I think that this would benefit larger companies...
Nikolas
Sat 3 December 2005, 01:16 pm GMT +0200
I am not sure if this is going to work.
After all the small advertisers (who are the main income of the advertising industry) will be unable to pay so much money for pey per call actions.
Also it is difficult to have real persons 24/7 waiting for calls in the company...
By the way this form of advertising has started by another small company this year. If I'll remember their name I will post it here.
xRealNinjuzx
Sat 3 December 2005, 01:38 pm GMT +0200
I would never pick up my phone and call a number like that.
If I wanted something so inconvenient, I would find a phone book.
Nikolas
Sat 3 December 2005, 01:41 pm GMT +0200
Hehe. You are right!
wineo
Sat 3 December 2005, 05:53 pm GMT +0200
You are right, I would rather email if I really needed something.
Qusta
Sat 3 December 2005, 06:00 pm GMT +0200
Of course there are many types of businesses that would benefit from this.
I say that because there are a lot of companies that use the same model in the television advertisments.
Nikolas
Sat 3 December 2005, 06:03 pm GMT +0200
That's right, but television is a whole different thing than internet.
The internet consumer wants results after 3 clicks. Telephone is very far beyond that...
PixelGoat
Sun 4 December 2005, 01:19 am GMT +0200
Good luck with this. Many internet users are still on 56k with only one phone line.
xRealNinjuzx
Sun 4 December 2005, 01:34 am GMT +0200
Good luck with this. Many internet users are still on 56k with only one phone line.
Correct. Even in so cal, I know a whole lot of people that would never consider using a service like this for just that reason.
yohan
Mon 12 December 2005, 06:00 pm GMT +0200
If I wanted to call somebody, I could use a classifieds paper.
I don't think that this will work
wineo
Mon 12 December 2005, 06:07 pm GMT +0200
*what's a phone*
lol
Nikolas
Mon 12 December 2005, 06:10 pm GMT +0200
*what's a phone*
lol
LoL. It seems that the 'digital age' has no interest in the tradditional tools of the past....
Maybe this pay per call thing will be fine for my grandma :)
wineo
Mon 12 December 2005, 06:19 pm GMT +0200
hahaha... that and morse code!
PixelGoat
Tue 13 December 2005, 12:08 am GMT +0200
I'll just use skype. :P