Five Ways to Use a Toll Free Number

November 12, 2007

There are virtually countless ways to use a toll free number for personal or business purposes.  Here we will give you five ways to use a toll free number that you may not have thought about before now!

1.    Give your college students a way to call home for free.  When your teenagers grow up and go away to college, the last thing you want to worry about is whether they have enough money in their pocket or a calling card available if they need to call home!  Setting up a toll free number that forwards to your home phone or cell phone will give your away from home students a no-cost way to call home whenever they need to, and it will save you considerable amounts of money over using collect calls.

2.    Measure results of advertising campaigns.  As a manager or owner of a business, you know how important it is to be able to measure how well your advertisements are performing in order to determine where your advertising dollars are well spent.  With toll free numbers, not only will your advertising results increase, but you can use a different toll free number for each of your advertising campaigns in order to monitor the number of responses you get from each campaign.

3.    Become a Fortune 500 Company!  I know that a toll free number doesn’t magically create a fortune 500 company, but I also know that every company on the list has a toll free number.  If you get a toll free number you will suddenly look more professional, and create the image of a large corporation in the minds of consumers.

4.    Become fully portable.  With a toll free number and forwarding service, you can have incoming calls find you wherever you are, whether you are a traveling sales person or a stay-at-home mom.  You simply set up your forwarding number to your cell phone or any other phone number you choose (and change it whenever you want) and your incoming calls will find you, in your house, in your car, or across the country.

5.    Control your long distance bills.  If you (or maybe your teenager?) has friends out of the local calling zone, you could be spending a fortune on your long distance bill.  Set up a toll free number with a prepaid service, and have the friends call you.  You’ll be in complete control over how much you spend on the calls and can make deposits at any time- but no more surprise bills showing up in your mailbox.

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