Great Big Giant Enormous List of “Get Your 800 Number”
Posted by Justin Brooke on September 5, 2007If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. like everyone else has. So you don't miss anything...
The easiest way to increase conversions, brand trust, and credibility is to simply have an 800 number for your business instead of your cell number or landline number. Anytime you can make yourself look like the bigger corporations in the mind of your customer you increase the likliness of a sale. You’d never call AT&T through a normal landline number, nor Apple, and it looks to me like they know what they are doing in the sales game!
I think people still have the notion that it’s expensive to set yourself up with an 800 number. However, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. It used to be expensive back in the late 90’s, but hey we have DVD’s, DSL, and satellite radio now. Technology is different nowadays and so are prices for old technology. Here’s a list of places where you can go get your own 800 number setup today…Psst, pick the one I have a banner for 
- http://www.freedomvoice.com
- http://www.ringcentral.com
- http://www.phonepeople.com
- http://www.instant1800.com
- http://www.value800.com
- http://www.tollfreemax.com
- http://www.evoice.com
Some features you might want to look for are auto answer, recorded greetings, voicemail by email, multiple extensions, and call forwarding. These all play their part in making you appear to be a large corporation when you might still be just working out of your house.
Another great feature that you might want to look for and I’ll talk about these in upcoming blog posts are voice blasting and the ability to just have a pre-recorded sales pitch play for each caller. These two services can become great sales tools and pick up conversions that other mediums could never have touched. I recommend using either eVoice.com, Kall8.com or FreedomVoice.com to get these extra “conversion scraping” features.
Onwards and Upwards,
Justin Brooke