1-800-AWESOME

The benefits of toll free numbers for increasing advertising effectiveness through higher response rates, improved closing ratios and streamlining for higher profit margins are often shouted about. These advantages are indisputable and can have a major impact on your bottom line. However, this too often distracts entrepreneurs and businesses owners from some of the basic and most amazing ways that vanity numbers can rocket your enterprise.

Great toll free vanity numbers can be truly awesome marketing tools in their own right with incredible viral capabilities. A catchy 800 number can be used to attract masses of attention. Certainly you have seen many examples of vanity numbers that have made you laugh or have stuck in your head. People will even call a great toll free number just because it is catchy and it could just spike a viral YouTube campaign without you even having to lift a finger.

Consumers and other entrepreneurs truly love and respect a great vanity number and many may call or acquire your services just out of respect for your great choice in number. The thought process being that if you are that good at marketing to have such a successful vanity number you must have something great to offer. A great example of this is Chris Rugh’s new book ‘1-800-Awesome’. Once you see the title and tag line, this is a book everyone wants to get their hands on.

Other vanity numbers have been used to literally rocket companies to success in incredibly short periods of time like 1-800-Contacts. Without this winning toll free number it is unlikely anyone would have heard of this company or it would be anywhere near as profitable as it is today. So whether you are looking at starting a new venture or just a way to reinvent your brand and launch your company to real success, perhaps a good toll free number is the missing ingredient you have been looking for.

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