What to Do if a Vanity Toll Free Number is Unavailable in a Vanity Look Up

You’ve decided on the perfect vanity toll free number for your business, and done a search for it, beginning the process of getting it for your own – and you find that someone else has already taken it. Your perfect number is not available!
Don’t despair. There are several ways you can still get a vanity number that’s right for your business. You may even be able to use the one that your vanity look up told you (at first glance) that you can’t!
First, let’s consider how that can work. (After all, you put some effort and energy into finding the very best, absolutely perfect vanity toll free number for your business, so let’s not give up on it just yet). Ask yourself this: is your customer base nationwide, or is it more local? Are you doing business throughout the U.S. and Canada, or are you marketing primarily to the Northeast, the Midwest, California, or some other limited region?
If your business is more local than national (and many businesses are, especially those that offer in-person services or products to be shipped), then you may be able to use that perfect number by sharing it with another company whose business is strictly in areas you don’t serve! You can use the Reverse Look up Tool (one of many vanity look up tools available) to find out who has that number and what their situation is.
If your business is nationwide, or if the current owner’s business is, then sharing the number is out, but you may still be able to come close. Try using Numspell to see what word combinations can be built with the toll free number you have now, or with another number that may be available. Another thought: have you checked the availability of your perfect number with another toll free area code, 855?
Here’s the bottom line on what to do when your vanity look up gives you a disappointing answer: don’t give up!