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How Toll Free Numbers Increase
Business
Inexpensive toll free
service can pay for itself with even a single additional customer
who will make the call because it's free to them.
 Does your business use toll free numbers?
If not, why not?
"Oh sure," you say,
"those things are fine for big companies with lots of money
who need the prestige. Perhaps they're necessary if you are in
the catalog sales business and customers automatically expect
the company to pay for the call. But what will having a toll
free number add to the bottom line of the typical small and medium
business?"
Why Local & Regional Businesses
Need a Toll Free Number
Say you have a "local" business such as an antiques
store or insurance office. You might think that your customers
will all be walk-ins or close enough to make a local phone call.
In reality, the local phone call area is pretty small. People
from nearby towns or rural areas or even different suburbs in
a large metro area can't call you at local rates. They'll be
charged local long distance or Intralata rates, perhaps even
long distance rates from other area codes.
How about a business where you
sell your art work at shows and exhibitions all over the state
or within a regional area? Some of your best prospects could
be more inclined to call to inquire about your art or even place
an order IF you made it painless for them by offering a toll
free number. In fact, artists, crafters, skilled tradespeople,
consultants and other individuals in business for themselves
may have the most to gain by encouraging potential customers
to call them toll free.
Low Cost & Easy to Set
Up
But isn't toll free service expensive and a pain to set up? Only
if you don't know where to look. Kall8, an online company that
specializes in low cost toll free service makes it completely
painless. Here's how you can have your own toll free number in
a matter of minutes. Visit our Kall8 website and select from
one of the ready-to-go 800, 866, 877 or 888 numbers. Yes, all
of those prefixes are toll free. The least expensive 866, 877
and 888 numbers are just $2 to activate and then $2 a month.
When somebody calls, you pay 6.9 cents a minute for calls from
mostly anywhere in the US or Canada. The exceptions are Alaska,
Hawaii and the lesser populated areas of Canada.
That's it. $2 to activate, $2
a month for service and 6.9 cents a minute for the calls you
take. That's less than some people are paying for their long
distance minutes. If you want an 800 number, they're available
for $5 each and $5 a month. Vanity numbers cost more, but can
be easier to remember.
Available Instantly
Now, here's what I think makes the Kall8 service exceptional.
If you pick from one of the available numbers, your toll free
number will ring to the phone you designate as soon as you are
done with the online ordering process. You can have it ring to
your home phone, office phone or cell phone. You can change which
phone it rings to anytime you like by logging into your Kall8
account. That way, you'll never have to worry about missing an
important customer or supplier call.
Extras Included With Kall8
Toll Free Numbers
Plus, if you have multiple locations, you can have your toll
free number ring to the closest location to the caller. Block
calls from areas that you don't want to serve. Each account comes
with conferencing capability, voice mail and inbound fax service.
If someone sends you a fax, you'll get it via email. If someone
leaves a voice message, you'll get a notification in your email
with a sound file of the message attached. That's very handy
when you're on the road with your laptop computer. You can also
add extended features such as an automated attendant or call
recording service for extra fees.
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