Bill Quimby, Founder and President
Bill quit his job in an office to pursue this business full time shortly after he started it in 1995, before the 888 numbers were coming out in January of 96. The business was very different and has evolved quite a bit since then as most small businesses do. Ironically he started this business mostly to do shared use, one of the things he warns people about today. 13 years later he has directly helped more people get vanity numbers than anyone else in the toll free world.
Bill pioneered the toll free consulting industry working for several years as the original Telenumeric Consultant obtaining great brand name numbers for large fortune 500 businesses that you see advertised every day. Many consultants to this day are essentially buying and selling toll free numbers but Bill was the only one that ever did the consulting for a flat fixed rate, that wasn’t based on the client’s size, amount of advertising or the value of the number they wanted.
Reinventing the toll free business
When he became a resporg in 2004 he quickly wound up filling a unique niche between the consultants and shared use companies that often charge an arm and a leg based on the value of the number, and phone companies that don’t charge anything and don’t do very much to help their customers get any really good toll free numbers.
Bill’s approach of charging a small fixed fee based on the time and effort required to retrieve numbers was and still is totally unique within the industry, as is their approach to pushing all of their customers away to other phone companies (http://www.tollfreenumbers.com/blogs/activations/getting-rid-of-our-customers.html) for the ongoing service.
Bill’s unique creativity, marketing and computer background have proven ideally suited to this business and he has demonstrated how one person with an entrepreneurial vision and passion can run rings around large companies, all from a laptop and cell phone from his kitchen table or backyard deck. He’s literally changing the toll free industry, so much so that now the representatives of nearly all major phone companies send customers to his website to use his unique look up tools to find numbers when their own companies fall short.
Our Team
Bill built the business for the first 10 years by himself. But one of the best things about it today is definitely the people that work with him today. Rita Thorn, one of his closest friends for 20 years joined Bill three years ago, and runs a good portion of the growing business from her home in Kentucky, along with the help of Gloria. There’s also Bud and his son Dan, in Minnesota who have built most of the custom databases and a slew of cutting edge servers necessary to crunch the enormous amounts of data needed for each search. It actually takes a lot more work than most people would realize to make this process so seamless and look so easy for the customer.
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