1. Improve Customer Satisfaction
   Fact: Having to call a company long distance for customer service was a top complaint from consumers in 2005.
   
   
2. Local and national businesses grow with a toll-free phone number.
   FACT: People are more likely to call an 800 number than a local number. Local businesses with a toll free number stand out from everyone else.
   
   
3. Enhance your company image
   Fact: An 800 number shows that you care for your business. You’ll look more professional, and callers will trust you.
   
   
4. Become a major corporation
   Fact: Every Fortune 500 company has a toll-free phone number.
   
   
5. Use a Vanity/Custom Phone number to be remembered.
   Example: 1-800-ABCDEFG or 1-800-FLOWERS
   
   
6. Allow free communication between you and your potential customers.
   Feature: Track all of your calls & Generate Leads
   
   
7. Establish Trust
   Fact: Research reveals that people are 30 times more likely to give out their personal information when they call an 800 number rather than any other number.
   
   
8. Do business from anywhere
   Example: Your 1-800 number can ring your cell phone, home, office, fax, and everywhere else. Now you can do business from any phone.
   
   
9. Don’t let the change of an area code affect your business
   FACT: Area codes may change and business can move locations; your 800 number will always be the same. Just imagine, never having to change your business cards again.
   
   

• An 800 phone number is easier to remember
• 1 800 Numbers are the most recognized phone numbers in the world.
• Toll-free phone numbers build businesses.

Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done

Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide

• Make sure you can OWN your number MAke sure there are no contracts