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Backorder Sale Ends Today!
07/23/2008
Today is the last day of our Backorder SALE! If you see a disconnected number, backorder it by midnight today to save $50 off the backorder fee.When Phone Companies Compete YOU WIN
07/23/2008
You’ve probably heard Lending Tree’s slogan, “When banks compete you win.” Well we have a different version. When phone companies compete YOU win. That’s nothing amazing or new though. We’ve had the ability to select phone companies since the breakup of AT&T in 1984 and toll free numbers have available from competitive phone companies since the early 90s. But there’s something else, even more important.
You don’t want them to stop competing do you? How they perform AFTER you select them is actually a lot more important than how you think they will ahead of time. You don’t just want to be able to pick the best company for your needs right now. Even more important than being able to pick phone companies is being able to change 800 providers in the future if the one you pick doesn’t turn out to be as good as you thought or changes.
Why there’s a higher turnover in Disconnected 800 Numbers.
07/22/2008
There’s a much higher turnover rate in disconnected 800 numbers than most people realize because most vanity numbers are invisible since they’re usually referred to by the digits. That’s why we redo the 800 Watch research for visitors using our Keyword Lookup, because good numbers related to the terms you’re looking for get disconnected.
The 800 Watch can help you be in the right place at the right time, to turn someone else’s garbage into a brand name number for your business. We have essentially a four month crystal ball that sees a couple months into the future for the numbers coming out.
We also allow the first customer requesting it to backorder a number. We’ll do the research to calculate the exact date it comes out and we’ll try to grab it for you that first second it comes out. We can only take the first customer that backorders a disconnected number and anyone else has to be turned away. So if you like a number make sure you backorder it right away.
What to do when a phone company “Locks Up” the 800 number you wanted
07/21/2008
“Locking Up” a number is the term we use when you do searches on the wrong website and a number that was previously available is suddenly reserved by them without a specific request to do so.
We’ve written several posts about companies that do this such as The Dark Side of Shared Use, and we’ve put up some warnings about searching for toll free numbers on other websites too, such as Searcher Be Ware. But this still happens to a lot of people.
Some of the worst offenders
Unfortunately slimy companies like CustomTollFree.com, CallSource, Dial800, OneBox, TollFreeNumber.org and GotVMail.com don’t post any warnings and most look very legitimate, but they’re Fake Pone Companies and as soon as you search for an 800 number there, the number you wanted gets sucked up and suddenly isn’t available anywhere else. In some cases if you talk to them they will even reserve other neighboring numbers as well to make sure you can’t get anything else either.
We want to help you get your toll free vanity number back if it gets Locked Up!
TollFreeNumber.ORG hacked our website!
07/20/2008
That’s right Tollfreenumber.ORG clearly hacked our website to hide the links internally to the posts we’ve written about them. It was very cleverly hidden in the Google Analytics plugin file, googleanalytics.php and it left the links to an article about Hidden Fees the article that showed Tollfreenumber.ORG clearly backdated the age of their organization by several years and second article about Tollfreenumber.ORG making up fake statistics all underlined but with no link. It only affected these posts about TollFreeNumber.Org and it even blocked View Source from working in IE.
Do you have a personal preference for numeric easy-to-dial 800 numbers?
07/17/2008
Some people confuse what they personally like or what their friends or customers say they like for the things that get the best results. If you had a car dealership you might prefer softer more professional advertising, over the loud in your face banners and balloons. Your friends and neighbors may all say that like the quieter approach, but in the end, car dealers all find that loud in your face promotion sells more cars.
You may not personally like having to think about translating the letters when you dial. You may think it’s easier to just enter the digits. But your goal isn’t really to make it easier. Your goal is to maximize the results and for results vanity numbers beat numeric numbers every time (with only a few exceptions).
Backorders ON SALE this WEEK only!
07/16/2008
We don’t usually put backorders on sale very often because we have less room to play with them than we do regular activations or premium numbers, and no other phone company can even see those, let along help you get them. But we’re cutting the price of backorders by $50.
This is only for backorders placed during the next week from 7/16 to 7/23. We’ve also cut the backorder request fee from $4.95 to $1.95 this week as well. So if you’ve ever thought about backordering a number, this is definitely the week to do it.
If it’s an 866 number, it’s $145 instead of $195 if we’re able to get it for you, 877 numbers are $345 instead of $399, 888 numbers are $545 instead of $595 and 800 numbers are $745 instead of $795. This only applies to numbers that are requested during this week, no matter when they come out of disconnect and cannot be applied to number already backordered.
This is a great sale but don’t wait, because we’re sending updated 800 watch email reports out today to over 30 thousand people who search for vanity numbers too. And the good numbers go extremely fast and in some cases get requested repeatedly.
1 and 0 NOT Valid
07/16/2008
When you see that in the Search Results of the lookup tool, that generally means you entered a 1 or a 0 for the first digit of the phone number which isn’t valid in North America. If you stop to think about it, it probably doesn’t look quite right either
So if you entered 123-LOAN or something like that try 321-LOAN or better yet, try just entering this shorter term like LOAN and let the computer put things before or after it or look for any version that ends a LOAN or whatever your word is.
Could your phone company steal YOUR toll free number?
07/15/2008
That may sound ridiculous but a lot of people don’t even realize that if they got their toll free number directly from their phone company, some phone companies might claim that it’s THEIR number NOT YOURS and refuse to release it or in some cases even yank it back even after it’s taken away.
That’s exactly what happened to LaRick Calhoun recently. He got an 800 number from Onebox (J2 Global (NASDAQ: JCOM), also the parent company of Efax) and used and has advertised it since October 2007. When he decided he wanted to transfer it away however, he was suddenly surprised by the fine print at Onebox.
The ZERO misdial
07/14/2008
How big of a misdial problem is associated with the ZERO instead of the letter “O”?
That isn’t usually much of a factor except in very high volume, easily monetized commercial situations. In other words, unless you get a huge number of calls for something that people can easily make money from, it really doesn’t matter much. The best example of it being a problem is 1-800 FLOWERS. It’s easy for any florist to take orders and just send them via FTD to anywhere, so with their high volume of calls, that was an issue.
However, for 99.8% of the customers getting toll free numbers, with O’s it’s not a problem or concern at all. The bottom line is NOT to bypass or even worry about using a vanity number with an O in it. I would only try to get the misdial zero option if it were a high volume of calls and something that a competitor could easily make money from. On the other hand, don’t forget to check the misdial versions of your competitors or if you’re a distributor of a product check the main company’s number for misdials. Many people make a lot more money than you would suspect almost invisibly on wrong numbers.
July update: NEW Numbers are Online 7/16
07/13/2008
There are a lot of new numbers to process this month! The July update went online on Wednesday 7/16 and we’ll send out 35,000 updated 800 Watch reports Wednesday and Thursday.