A few additional items
Know what you want but take what you can get.
If you haven’t found a decent number (notice I didn’t say the “Perfect” number) keep looking. Don’t expect to find the perfect number. If you do great, but don’t beat yourself up if you don’t get your dream number. You probably don’t drive your dream car, but that doesn’t mean it won’t get you where you need to go.
After you’re more successful, you can always pursue your dream number when you’ve got more resources and have proven your business. When you start out a new business you don’t usually expect to have everything perfect. You probably can’t afford to get all of the equipment you might want, the perfect employees or the perfect office. I always say it’s great to know what want, but you also have to take what you can get sometimes too.
If you didn’t find a decent vanity number we have some lists of nice numeric numbers available too. They are repeaters, hundred or thousand numbers in different combinations. They’re more than numbers from the spare pool because they’re harder to get and in many ways they’re not as valuable in many circumstances. They may be a good backup though if you can’t find anything that really works in terms of a vanity number but you still want a good number.
A section about digging deeper
I’ll show you some more of the secrets to getting something that’s not available in my Consulting Section, but before you go digging deeper you really need to get a backup because there’s at least a reasonable chance that you won’t get that perfect number. I know more than anyone, how incredibly valuable a great number can be and it doesn’t hurt too much to try, but I also know how hard it is and how often it doesn’t work too. You can have more than one number too, so even if you do get that great number, your backup number will still be very valuable for tracking special projects too. (See Tracking Services in the Providers Section)
If you did find a number you like, check it in the Instant 800 Lookup and it’ll show you the status and give you the options to activate or reserve it if it’s available, or to backorder it if it’s disconnected. There’s more information about activations, reservations, and backorders, but to summarize it for you briefly, we not only do a better job of helping you find the best number, but we also activate it faster than anyone else, give you better proof of ownership than anyone else, give you free temporary service and finally we release your number to any company you want faster than anyone else too, all for only $49!
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REID SEDIK says:
April 2, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Can I order specific 860 or 203 numbers through your service?
Reid
Bill Quimby (201 comments.) says:
April 2, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Reid,
No, I’m sorry. We really can’t help with local vanity numbers. We will try to add some of them to our look up tool in the future, but that won’t be available for some time. There is no good solution for local numbers, which is also why I think they actually hold so much potential. There are more vanity local numbers available than anybody realizes but there’s no good way to find them. So many things to do and so little time!
.Bill Quimby.
Tory Teunis says:
April 4, 2008 at 11:22 am
Is there a way to find out who owns # and solicit them to sell it to you?
Bill Quimby (201 comments.) says:
April 4, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Troy,
The answer is Yes and No. No because there’s no whois database or short cut to find that information. But we have tried to write up some information about how to do it in the Consulting section
Bill Quimby