All businesses should pay particular attention to the savings available on the cost of business promotional non geographic phone number services which contrary to the excessive monthly rental and call costs some companies make you pay, can either be provided free or with massive reductions on the usual monthly or annual cost.

With call charges up to 50% less, the savings amount to a substantial amount. Even if you currently have existing Non geographic promotional numbers, these can be transferred quite easily to a new service provider. This means that any existing marketing literature or advertising wont be affected.

The Options

Free-phone business phone numbers are ideal for:

• Businesses with a direct sales/order-taking department
• Businesses which offer customer care to high value customer groups
• Businesses who want to increase response to marketing campaigns
• Charity related help lines such as NSPCC, Child-line, etc.
   

The benefits are

• Massive differences in rental cost's through alternative suppliers
• Up to 25% cheaper call charges than dominant providers 
• Paying for your customer's calls can increase loyalty
• You can give your business a national image
• Increased response to marketing and lead generation campaigns
• Research suggests advertising responses increase by between 50% and 300%
• You can eliminate resistance to calling
• Your business can be available at all times by diverting the calls to a different location or answering service outside normal working hours

Local rate business phone numbers are ideal for:

• Businesses selling to other businesses where the cost of a call is not a deterrent

• Any business providing customer service, help, care or advice lines where the cost of call is not a deterrent

• Any organisation wanting to recruit members

The benefits are

• You can reduce the level of hoax or unwanted calls compared to free-phone numbers

• You can reduce resistance to calling because you are perceived to be outside the local area

• Massively reduced or even free monthly rental charges

• Reduced call charges compared to dominant providers

• You can add value to your business by establishing help lines, information lines and customer service lines.

National rate business phone numbers are ideal for:

• Any business wanting to establish a National presence on a single number.
• Any business wanting to fund telephone customer support (e. g. time table information or technical help desks) or customer fulfilment (e.g. Leaflet or CD ROM)·  
• Any business selling low margin products and services e. g. booking lines for travel, theatre and cinema, these numbers allow you to recoup some of the cost of advertising these numbers.

The benefits are:

• You can give your business a national image and reach many more customers without having to invest in local premises and staff in a given area.
• You can retain existing local customers and attract new  national customers.
• Massively reduced or even free monthly rental with the possibility of an actual return on the cost of the calls to your company makes these numbers attractive to even very small businesses.