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0800 Phone Numbers - The Benefits

For advertising response rates

To increase the number of sales enquiries, consider the benefits of 0800 phone numbers you can choose yourself.

Prospective customers will see your business as customer friendly because you are prepared to pay the cost of the call and are less likely to leave them hanging on the line.

Companies selling any products or service could benefit from a freephone service as industry statistics indicate that the use of 0800 numbers in marketing or advertising campaigns can increase response rates by up to 70%.

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0800 / 0808 Numbers Compared

0808 numbers are the new freephone number for business and operate identically to 0800 numbers. Some businesses prefer the traditional 0800 number while others like the benefit of the new number ranges opened up by the newer latest 0808 range.

08xx numbers are non geographic

Internet and national marketing campaigns target a national audience. An 0800 number allows your business to be called from anywhere in the UK at no cost to your prospective customer. This gives you national coverage and removes the twin barriers of call cost and perceived distance for enquirers.

As your business grows any re-location in coming years will be less disruptive as an 0800 number avoids the costs and confusion of having to change your main business telephone number when you re-locate especially to another std. code area.

Portable numbers, for Life

Portable numbers, for Life

If your 'real' fixed landline telephone number is changed in a 'Big Number Change' or by a business move, your 0800 number stays the same. So you can moves across the country simply mean targeting your free phone number it towards your new fixed landline. Your customers will always be able to contact you.

Your 0800 number will never change - so you can protect yourself from any 'Big Number Changes' that occur with the huge explosion in telephone, fax and Internet communications. This gives you the security of knowing your customers have just one easy number to remember for free easy access to your business.

Your can also purchase series or sets of business numbers (0800, 0808, 0845 and 0844) for easy to remember series to keep telephone and fax lines separate.

Additional services

TechAdvance offer additional services such as itemized billing, number redirects and call redistribution, which can be ordered, by contacting TechAdvance.

Itemised Billing

TechAdvance offer additional services such as itemized billing, number redirects and call redistribution, which can be ordered, by contacting Business marketing intelligence is available with all 0800 numbers. From the information provided by the itemised bills about the telephone calls you receive you gain important management and marketing response information about:

  1. Which days of the month did we receive the most calls?
  2. How many potential customers have tried to contact your business this month?
  3. How many of these customers hung up before you answered?
  4. How long did they wait before hanging up?
  5. What was your average answer time?

Monthly charge: £3

Flexible

Multi-site businesses use Free phone numbers to provide a single number for calls which can be directed to different office numbers based on the following criteria:

  1. Time of day
  2. Day of week
  3. Number calling
  4. Contact us about you other telecom needs
  5. % of calls. i.e. 25% of the calls to site and 75% of calls to site b

For flexible routing there is a single registration cost, from £10 for straight-forward time of day, to £200 for multi-site, multiple option setup

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