Wednesday, September 25, 2013

The Advantages To 800#s For Home Businesses

By Amy Rivington


A big part of getting noticed as a small business is establishing a professional image. Having a profile that demonstrates that you are a dependable, credible company will help you acquire clients and increase sales.

Obviously, you need to demonstrate that you provide useful products or a beneficial service, however, first you have to get consumers to take note of you. When you are a brand-new business and you are working out of your home, this can be challenging to accomplish.



An additional obstacle is money. A lot of start-ups are working with a tight budget. Paying ad ad service or employing personnel is not an option when a business is just starting. Using automated tools that can do tasks for you at a fraction of the cost of a live person can help a start-up survive.

What People Think

Many times, individuals do not take home-based companies seriously. They think that they cannot do as well a job as the larger established organizations do. Even if you don't have the big corporate address, advertising budget and large staff, there are still ways to demonstrate that you are dependable and can compete successfully against big companies.

It Costs less than I Assumed

One of these techniques is using an 800 telephone number. I did not know this until after I purchased one myself, but they are really inexpensive and easy to obtain. For less than $20 dollars a month, anyone can secure an 800# phone number and have it forward to any phone line they already have - even a cellular phone.

Showing Off Your Number

A big part of having a toll-free phone number is having the ability to display it. List on your business cards, include it in your company site, include it in your telephone directory listing. Not only does it make your business look bigger and more established, it likewise makes you stand apart from the competitors.

Take it With You

Another fantastic aspect of an 800 contact number is its forwarding abilities. Because you can point it to a different telephone number, you can keep the same number if your business moves. You do not have to change numbers and risk losing a bunch of customers.

Use it for Advertising and Marketing Campaigns

Another cool feature about 800 numbers is that you can set them up to direct to a voicemail rather than your phone line. If you are utilizing the number specifically for marketing tasks where potential customers call and leave their contact information, this service is perfect for that. In fact, since the cost is so economical (pennies per minute), star-ups can pay for to obtain a couple of phone numbers and operate several different projects at once.

With all of the talk about online marketing these days, many individuals forget the telephone, and how it can be a fantastic customer-getting device. Because they are so easy to program and cost effective to use, it makes sense to add a telephone number in you marketing arsenal to diversify your marketing efforts and increase your ability to reach even more clients.




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