Resource Of The Week: Google's Call Me Widget

Today's resource of the week is Google's Call Me Widget. This is a free tool from Google that can take your "Contact Me" page to a whole new level. In a nutshell, this tool allows you to place a widget on your website or blog (or Facebook page- see video below), that allows your visitors to call your cell phone or voice mail box without having to show your phone number on your site.

In order to use this widget, you'll have to sign up for a free Google Voice phone number. Once you do, you can place the Call Me widget on your site. Visitors can then click on it, enter their phone number, and the widget will either forward the call to the phone number you have associated with your Google Voice account or you can have the call go directly to your voice mail. You can even have a special greeting for your website visitors.

For example, you can set up your Call Me widget to go directly to voice mail with this personal message from you: "This is Tony. Thanks for visiting my blog, Marketing Tips For Authors. I'm really interested in your questions and comments, so please let me know what's on your mind and a way for me to contact you. Have a wonderful day."

I think you can see the marketing potential for this nifty, free tool from Google. One idea: Have readers leave testimonials about your site or your book. You can then embed the audio testimonials for your visitors to listen to.

And for those who wish you could have this on Facebook, Paul DeCarlo has created a Facebook app to do just that. Here's the walk-through video he created to show you how it works on Facebook.

 

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MobiPocket Ebook Creator
YouTube's Creator's Corner
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 -------- Tony Eldridge is the author of The Samson Effect, an action/adventure novel that Clive Cussler calls a "first rate thriller brimming with intrigue and adventure." He is also the author of the Twitter marketing book, Conducting Effective Twitter Contests.