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Unfortunately the question isn’t whether we can get you the perfect number. You’re about 15 years too late to find the perfect number. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find a good number if you’re creative and thorough.
The biggest difference between us and anyone else is that you own whatever number you find with our site TollFreeNumbers.com with no strings. We’re not renting or leasing or playing any games at all. There are millions of numbers available for a one time fee of $49. We have a lot of things nobody else has including ’800′ numbers we’ve found for $79 and you own them and can take to any phone company you want for the ongoing service.
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We’re kind of like Match.com. We can help you find a lot of eligible people that match the criteria you’re looking for, and hook you up with them pretty easily. But we really can’t go out and recruit whatever specific person (or supermodel) you’ve gotten a picture of and fallen in love with. Our goal is to find you the best Possible number for your business. We can give you some information or advice about the ones that don’t appear possible but nobody really does that for you.
No other phone company can help you get disconnected numbers. They take more time and effort than numbes in the available pool but you’ll own them with no strings. Just looking it up in a lot of places can actually alert them that someone wants that number and to try to get it for themselves.
Being able to transfer your number is the ultimate guarantee that you’ll always have the best service and best price is what we’re all about We’re empowering you to get and OWN the best number possible for your business and the free market guarantees that you’ll get the best service by giving you the ability to transfer the number to whoever is the best for you at any time.
Most phone companies don’t want to forward toll free numbers to cell phones because they don’t get any outbound long distance, it costs them a little more and because they are usually small accounts. But you can point any number you find with our service to any number you want, including a cell phone.
A lot of people are tempted to start with or limit themselves to generic terms for their industry when they start looking for a toll free vanity number. But it usually doesn’t take them long to find out that those terms aren’t available, and even worse, that since they’re also the most common term in your competitors advertising, they’re also opposite of unique and memorable. The most important tip that I give people is to be more unique and creative, to think outside of the box and find something benefit oriented that ties into something unique to them that the rest of their advertising and their message.
There’s no one company that’s the best for everyone in this or any business, despite what the salesperson trying to sell you that service wants you to believe. That’s why we help you get a number that you can transfer to any toll free service provider, and even more imporantatly, you can always transfer it away too.
You don’t have to use, and often shouldn’t use, the same company that provides your local number, just like you have to take your car back to the car dealer your bought it from for service. Local phone companies usually cost more, are harder to work with, and more restrictive.
Not only do you not have to make a decision right now, but whatever decision you make isn’t final. When you get a number from another company, you’re probably stuck with it. Heck, just looking it up at most of the 800 number websites you’ll find on the internet can lock that number up without you even realizing.
Never use and print a local or toll free number that was given to you by a fax service. Get and transfer your own toll free number over to them so you can change services if you need to without having to change your number. Otherwise you’ll have to change your number if you need to leave that service.
Don’t use your main number as a fax number, even if you’re using a service that can detect faxes because they can make mistakes and send callers to fax tones and because then you may have a hard time using a regular service that goes straight to a live person.
Even if you already have a good toll free number, look for a separate toll free number to match your domain name so you can track the growth and results from the online side of your business.
If you want to find a 1-800 number with a good ring to it, SING the number out loud! Try them with various popular short simple melodies. It adds energy, and enthusiasm and make the viewer want to sing along with you.
Read more about how singing your number to a song the audience knows, to connect or associate your number to something they already remember.
If you have a short simple word, that’s 4 or 5 digits try adding 2010 at the end. What could be more memorable and current than the year. The year will change but that’s not a problem because by pushing the 0 off the end by putting it after a four digit word, the 0 is irrelevant. So you can simply use it as 2011 next year, and 2012 the year after that. So it’ll be good for 10 years. If you have a five digit word it’ll be good for the whole century! That’s just a small trick I heard today that I thought might be helpful to some people.
Murphy has a law for vanity number searches that says if you spell something wrong of course that’s the number that’s going to be available. A customer recently emailed me with this from their Keyword 800 Search. It’s easy to look at this quickly and get excited. If you stare at enough numbers you’ll get some version of this.
Remember if it’s too good to be true, make sure you spell check it or you’ll end up with your own version of 888-FINACING. Maybe this could be good and could generate a fair amount of misdials if that’s what you’re after. But if you’re not just looking for a few misdials make sure you double check things because close doesn’t count in phone numbers.
If you’re outside of the North American Numbering Plan (the US, Canada and a few small territories) and you need to get through on a US or Canadian toll free number, try Y!Messenger or Skype.
I’ve used this trick for several years. I found this in one of my old newsletters and wanted to pass it on again.
Anyone on the internet today knows how oppressive the onslaught of junk email is today. It feels like we’re all drowning in email most days. Anyone with a website knows that there are spiders out there crawling the internet just looking for your email address. They suck it up and sell it a hundred ways to Sunday before you can blink. And you get an avalanche of porn, viagra, get rich quick schemes and million other equally useless junk. There’s probably no way to really avoid it, but there are some simple things you can do to avoid it. I recently learned a new trick to hide from web crawling spiders that I wanted to share with you.
This simple trick will block most email harvesters!
You’d be surprised how many people seem to believe that there is an easy way to find just the best numbers, or that anyone will sell you their toll free number if you just offer them enough money. There isn’t any secret list or any easy way to find out if you could buy a great number and for how much. I often ask them if there was an easy way to see which of the very best possible toll free numbers were available or could be bought, do you think they would still be available? We have great tools but there is no secret list we keep hiding in the back or any way to show you just the numbers worth a hundred thousand dollars you could get or how much it would ultimately cost.
There's no short cut but we have TIPS
Global Crossing uses a lot of resellers and they have one of the best easiest to use systems to find the reseller for a specific toll free number. Call 1-800-466-4600 and just follow their prompts. Press, 1 followed by toll free number and have a pen ready. They will tell you the phone number of the reseller that they show the number with. The best thing is that the smaller resellers are usually not as worried about giving out any information as the bigger companies.
When a toll free number shows up on your caller id, it’s not there because the caller is calling you on a toll free number. Toll Free Numbers CAN’T make outbound calls. Think of them like remote call forwarded numbers that just forward callers to another local number. (more…)
I stumbled on a nice post about Customer Engagement at had 6 simple rules that I thought were helpful. Smile, Listen for contet, Ask Questions, Talk back, and Resolve eerything in 1 call. It related to 800 numbers so I thought I’d reference it for you.
See Danny Flamberg’s Marketing Maven
It’s natural for most marketers to try to give the customer what they want. That’s what marketing is all about. But there are definitely some exceptions. You’ve probably seen the “Head On” adds. Most people rate them among the most annoying commercials of all time. However their sales have skyrocketed by over 250% and turned them into one of the fastest growing products if not in their industry. (more…)
Some people think it’s helpful to put the local number in your advertsing as well as the toll free number. One down side of this is that you may not realize if your toll free number isn’t working. And that can cause an even bigger problem. Whatever you do, do NOT let your toll free number be disconnected for months. (more…)
This is a full list of all the rotating tips which rotate on the top of the Search Results, in case you have a question or can’t find that rotating tip again.
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Tip # 1: Most carriers use the signup process to lock you into their more expensive service. That’s how they make their money. I don’t do that. I help you get the bestnumber and then help you transfer it to the best service too. |
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Tip # 2 Every different company and toll free service has different strengths. You don’t need to decide what company to use to get a good # and then you can transfer it to any service you want. |
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Tip # 3: You can enter letters or *s in our lookup tool too. (You don’t have to translate it to numbers). |
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Tip # 4: Our lookup tool searches deeper and into more databases than any other lookup anywher and it does is faster and easier to use too! |
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Tip # 5: If you haven’t tried it already, make sure you use the Keyword Search. It will email you a list of all the numbers available and save you hours and hours of trying things one at a time. |
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Tip # 7: Use a * as a wildcard to increase your chances of finding something. |
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Tip # 8: If you find a good number, try to get the matching domain name, because that will give you a very powerful marketing combination and an almost instant brand name! |
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Tip # 9: Did you know that you can forward a toll free number almost anywhere in the world with international forwarding. They can’t call from anywhere, but you can forward calls almost anywhere. |
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Tip # 10: Do you need voicemail? You’ll get a whole section of Voicemail services in the Toll Free Manual after you activate your number. |
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Tip # 11: If you point your toll free number to your cell phone and get a lot of incoming calls, consider Sprint or Nextel because they have plans with free incoming calls. |
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Tip # 12: If you’re in a state with a high instate rates and most of your calls are instate, try one of the enhanced voicemail services to avoid the higher instate rates. |
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Tip # 13: You can get a RANDOM 800 # for as low as 2.85 cents per minute at 800Numbers.com. That’s the cheapest regular toll free service, but they can’t get you specific vanity numbers. |
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Tip # 14: A good vanity number can increase the response rate to all your advertising by 10-40% |
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Tip # 15: Make money from your toll free number by signing up for my affiliate program! |
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Tip # 16: It’s probably harder than you realized to find a good # but it’s also more valuable too. |
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Tip # 17: If you want to check to make sure the connection for my lookup is working, enter 7 *s. If it doesn’t find ten 866 numbers the SMS/800 connection isn’t working properly, which happens some times for short periods of time. |
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Tip # 18: The lookup can only return a maximum of 10 matches from the spare or Available pool but may come back with special number and numbers in disconnect too. |
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Tip # 19: The lookup doesn’t discriminate against ’800′ numbers. It just starts with 866, then 877, 888 and 800 numbers in that order. It does it in that order because it makes the searches go faster. |
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Tip # 20: If you can’t find the right vanity number we have some Premium numeric numbers available. They have repetitive digits and can be good for almost any product or service. |
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Tip # 21: If you use too many *s you’ll find the maximum of 10 results and since the system favors sequential numbers it usually shows 866 numbers since they’re more likely to be sequential. |
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Tip # 22: Try to incorporate your strongest or most attractive selling point right into your name and number! |
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Tip # 23: If you have a company name or product name that people may look for, list your name with directory assistance because people may be calling directory assistance 1-800 555-1212 to look for your product. |
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Tip # 24: If the number you want goes to a phone company ‘PIN’ system or to a sex line or a ‘talk’ line, it probably won’t ever be available. |
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Tip # 25: It may take a little effort to get a good toll free number but it’s a one time effort that will produce results for you for the life of your business. |
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Tip # 26: If you’re in an industry that has a high cost per lead look into Call Tracking Services that track your leads, give the callers the information or faxes they want, show the response of different ads and topics and more. |
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Tip # 27: Consumers prefer numeric numbers because they don’t have to work as hard, but Advertisers prefer vanity numbers because they increase the response rate which is ultimately more important to the advertiser. |
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Tip # 28: If you’re spending money on advertising and the incoming calls are revenue generating you should try to get a good vanity number that spells something related to your product or service. |
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Tip # 29: Many people think ‘nice’ numeric numbers are memorable. In reality, they’re easier to dial, but they’re not really easier to remember and they don’t increase your response rate. |
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Tip # 30: Easy to dial, ‘nice’ numeric numbers are helpful for elderly audiences, foreign language audiences, call centers, and repeat dialing situations, such as calling cards etc. |
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Tip # 31: If you’re not finding anything, try the Keyword Search. It will check thousands of things related to your words and email you a list of everything available in about 1 minute. |
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Tip # 32: You’ll get better results if you make a large list of all your possibilities and check them all before deciding on which one is best for you. |
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Tip # 33: This lookup will give you better results than you’ll get by calling your long distance carrier, plus it’s a heck of a lot faster and easier. |
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Tip # 34: Toll free numbers have a lot of special capabilities that local numbers don’t. |
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Tip # 35: A toll free number just rings to or forwards to a regular local number, or even a cell phone if you want it to and there’s no extra equipment necessary. |
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Tip # 36: A vanity number will increase the amount of word-of-mouth advertising you receive. |
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Tip # 37: Toll free #s are portable and you can change carriers or ring to numbers relatively easily. |
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Tip # 38: Toll free numbers make you look bigger and allow you to sell nationwide, but don’t have much fixed cost since their cost is variable based on the amount of calls they receive. |
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Tip # 39: A good vanity number becomes more important and more valuable in proportion to the amount of advertising you do. |
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Tip # 40: Vanity numbers make the biggest difference in broadcast (tv and radio) advertising and in display advertising, where you’re dialing from memory. |
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Tip # 41: A good number doesn’t cost any more per minute than a bad number does, but a bad number costs you in the bottom line because it get fewer calls. |
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Tip # 42: If you’re not spending money on advertising and the incoming calls aren’t revenue generating try 800Numbers.com for a cheap random number. |
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Tip # 43: We really will try to help you give you some more specific advice if you call us at 1-800 MARKETER. |
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Tip # 44: Misdials or wrong numbers can be a pain in the neck, but there are ways to minimize them and even make money with them. See our Misdial Section for more information. |
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Tip # 45: With a toll free number, you get a list of every number that called you each month plus when and how long each call was, even if they block caller ID. |
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Tip # 46: There isn’t really any good worldwide toll free system but you can forward US toll free calls over seas to almost anywhere. |
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Tip # 47: North American toll free numbers are usually only accessible from phones that can call the US without entering a country code. |
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Tip # 48: Vanity numbers aren’t as valuable in the rest of the world because of differences in advertising, cultures, market size and because our 800 numbers were introduced when long distance calls were expensive. |
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Tip # 49: If you really want or like a certain number you can always just pick up the phone and dial it. But remember that if it doesn’t go to an active customer, that does NOT mean that it’s available. |
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Tip # 50: Make sure you sign up for our free monitoring service to get a monthly email with the status and phone company of any number you’re interested in. |
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Tip # 51: Don’t just accept everything a phone company representative tells you without getting a second opinion. |
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Tip # 52: If you need to track down the owner of a toll free number that’s really hard to find, use our secure lookup to get the phone company responsible for it and call them (after reading this page). |
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Tip # 53: You’ll always make more money by building a successful business around a toll free number than you will by marketing a toll free number to someone else. |
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Tip # 54: Whenever you see your competition advertising an 877 or 866 number try to get the 800 version. But be careful your competition can’t do that to you too. |
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Tip # 55: A good "1-800" number will give you instant credibility and can make you seem like a solid customer service oriented, industry leading company. |
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Tip # 56: If you get a good vanity number be sure to invest in a trademark to protect it. |
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Tip # 57: Get a professional logo. |
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Tip # 58: For maximum benefit, make your 1-800 number your website, your phone number and your company name. |
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Tip # 59: Look for a good 4 or 5 digit core word and try our ‘Core Word’ system to come up with all the numbers available and all the words they could start. |
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Tip # 60: Does a good vanity number matter? Only if you make money from your incoming calls! |
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Tip # 61: Do your new customers come in to you over the phone? Your phone number is the front door to new business so make it appealing. |
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Tip # 62: Think about your benefits, strengths and selling points. Try to incorporate that right into your number/name like 1-800 GREAT RATE (a number that I got for someone which he later sold for over $100,000) |
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Tip # 63: If you’re just starting a new business you may have to take the best 866 or 877 # you can come up with. Sometimes you have to know what you want but take what you can get. |
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Tip # 64: If you had a problem with a toll free number and want to provide more feedback about it, leave a comment on 800notes.com |
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Tip # 65: If you like our site, bookmark it and tell a friend. |
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Tip # 66: Sign up for our free monitoring service and we’ll monitor your wish list for free to let you know if they change status and might become available. |
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Tip # 67: Beware of other services which retain ownership of the number, because your whole brand name and advertising can be held hostage if you don’t control your phone number. |
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Tip # 68: Don’t forget to try adding small words in front of the name you want. Try things like GET, FOR, TRY, CALL, DIAL, MY, GO, 800, USA, TO, etc… |
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Tip # 69: Don’t forget to add a free listing for your toll free number at GoTollFree.com |
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Tip # 70: Use our FAQs and the Search tool in the left column (below the Keyword Search) to find the pages relevant to your query quickly and easily. |
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Tip # 71: Numbers come and go from the pool. The best time to search for numbers is actually just after midnight EST, especially on Sunday nights or holidays when nobody else is searching. |
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Tip # 72: Just think of me as your toll free consultant and let me know if you have any other toll free related questions (remember 1-800 MARKETER). |
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Tip # 73: If you got a call with a toll free number listed in the caller ID, and want to find out more about it or leave information about it go to WhoCalled.us |
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Tip # 74: Before you take an 866 or 877 number call the 800 version to make sure it’s not going to a competitor. |
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Tip # 75: 1-800 is understood to be toll free, but if you advertise an 866 or 877 number always include the phrase ‘Toll Free’ prominently. |
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Tip # 76: Remember your biggest expense isn’t paying for the cost of the incoming call, it’s in generating those calls! |
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Tip # 77: I pick up where the website leaves off in terms of questions and information or for tracking down hard to find toll free vanity numbers! |
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Tip # 78: Don’t just use the lookup tool, explore the rest of our site a little… |
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Tip # 79: I really hope this is helpful for you! Please let me know what you think of this service. We’re not a big company and continually work to improve the system based on your input. |
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Tip # 80: We respect your privacy. We will NEVER abuse or sell your email or private information. The lookup doesn’t keep any of your information or searches, when you leave. |
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Tip # 81: If you get call forwarding on the local number you point your toll free number to all your calls (toll free or local) can be forwarded to your cell phone whenever you’re out. |
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Tip # 82: If you have multiple locations, some specialized routing services allow you to route calls to the nearest location automatically. |
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Tip # 83: Every phone company will give you a list of all the calls and their details on your phone bill but some specialized services make it easier to track your call volume and statistics in real time. |
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Tip # 84: We’re basically the "Go Daddy" of the toll free word. We’re not trying to sell you the on going service. We just want to help you find the best possible number. (more about us) |
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Tip # 85: All your local features such as Call Forwarding, Caller ID and any answering machine or system will work the same with your toll free number as they do when callers dial your local number. |
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Tip # 86: We can help you understand the 3 types of phone companies, Traditional Carriers, Shared Use/Squatters, and Enhanced Voicemail Services. |
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Tip # 87: My "Toll Free Guide" is designed to explain the basics about toll free service for anyone new to toll free service. |
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Tip # 88: We have have a list of private investigators that can track down the old owner’s name and address, even for a disconnected 800 number. |
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Tip # 89: Don’t limit yourself to 7 digits. You only need to enter the first 7 digits in the lookup tool, but you can use any extra digits you want in your advertising. <more> |
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Tip # 90: Anything after the first 7 digits is basically ignored. Take my number, 1-800 MARKETER for instance. The last R is basically only there to make it easier to remember and it doesn’t matter if you dial it or not. |
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Tip # 91: We have a whole section with Tips on getting the best #… |
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Tip # 92: If you’re getting frustrated, you can give us a call at 1-800 MARKETER and I’ll try to offer some additional suggestions, tips and help you any way I can! |
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Tip # 93: One way to check a really good number is to just dial it. We have a Consulting Section to teach you how to get a number that is already ‘In Use’. |
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Tip # 94: Many people tend to think they need to use the phone company that provides their local phone number, for their toll free number, but there there are several reasons that you may be better off using a separate company. |
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Tip # 95: There are no more ’800′ numbers in the pool at all, but we can still get you RANDOM ’1-800′ numbers if you can’t get them from your regular phone company. |
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Tip # 96: When phone company reps don’t know how to do something, they usually say it can’t be done. If they can’t find something in their computer they say it doesn’t exist. |
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Tip # 97: Let us know if you have a good vanity number you’d like us to list here for you. |
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Tip # 98: Even if you aren’t going to be using your number for a while you should set it up ahead of time and just hold it. There are services with no monthly fee. You basically only pay for the usage so it really doesn’t cost you anything. |
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Tip # 99: Are you in a hurry? We can activate any number that says ‘Currently Available’ for you in an hour or less, faster than anyone or any website. |
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Tip # 98: Even if you aren’t going to be using your number for a while you should set it up ahead of time and just hold it. There are services with no monthly fee. You basically only pay for the usage so it really doesn’t cost you anything. |
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Tip # 101: There’s a list of 2 & 3 digit words or prefixes to put in front of your keyword in my ebook. |
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Tip # 102: If your primary function is sales, take a look at some of the functions and capabilities of the enhanced voicemail services. They can make you look more professional, stay in touch better and bottom line–sell more. |
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Tip # 103: You can reserve any # available and hold it for 15 days for FREE with no obligation. |
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Tip # 104: Many people think ‘nice’ numeric numbers are memorable. Unfortunately they’re really not. They’re easier to dial, but if a # isn’t related to your product it won’t be remembered and won’t increase the response rate. |
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Tip # 105: People never decide to call or refrain from calling because a number is easier or harder to dial. But a more memorable vanity number that spells something connected to your business does increase the response rate. |
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Tip # 106: It’s easier to decide on the best number for your business when you’ve been thorough in researching all of your options. |
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Tip # 107: It’s a long shot but when a number shows ‘in use’ in the national database, you just might be able to get it if it’s not really in use and you call the phone company responsible for it. |
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Tip # 108: It’s cheaper and easier to get someone to give up a number that’s not actively being used than one that is. |
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Tip # 109: You can make a toll free number try you at multiple different numbers with enhanced toll free services. |
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Tip # 110: You can point multiple numbers to the same local number. |
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Tip # 111: Having multiple numbers can help you track the source of incoming calls much easier than trying to do it manually. Using different toll free numbers can do this for you automatically by just looking at your phone bill. |
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Tip # 112: You’ll probably have to be more creative to find anything. Use my BRAINSTORM section to come up with more ideas. |
Tip #113: Use the State Search feature in our Keyword Lookup to find multiple numbers for your term with different state initials.
Tip #114: You can use multiple 800 numbers with different state initials to make money and sell your existing marketing as a package with a similar toll free number and domain name.
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