Hi Steven,

Thanks for your response...

> Classified are a good way to get leads but
> by not having a phone number, you will lose
> a lot of the possible contacts. There are
> many folks who do not have email addresses
> and many others who don't have the computer
> on so will do it later (yeah right!)

Very true...if the back-end product *requires* a computer with internet access however, my thinking is that this method might provide a bit of pre-qualification...

> It would be better if you have both the
> email address and phone number. You should
> use an 800 number if advertising outside of
> your local area.

True as well...I may test an ad with both telephone and e-mail address vs. one with e-mail address only...

> Don't assume that because you are on the web
> that all your potential customers are also
> on the web or really comfortable with it.

I didn't mean to sound as though I was assuming that...I should have mentioned the need to pre-qualify computers users, hence the idea of the autoresponder...

Thanks for the input!

Take care,

Richie