What does winter mean for your business? For many, it means Christmas sales and a well needed seasonal boost. To others, the end of the year can be the quietest sales period depending upon the industry. In either instance, both can be an opportunity to maximise sales in your peak trading period or use the quieter time to implement changes to your business which will help you grow revenue in the coming year. Continue reading
Follow The Sun
We often get asked about a service called “Follow The Sun” – here is a beginners guide to what it is.
“Follow The Sun” is a specialist product that we get asked for when dealing with companies who have 24 hour call centres. All it means is that the phone number we provide to a business (usually a 0800 number or London Phone number) stays open and is answered by a human at all times of the day or night. Continue reading
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What Happens When 0800 Numbers Become Free from Mobiles?
You have probably heard already that 0800 numbers are likely to become free from mobile phones.
Sounds good doesn’t it? Here is what we think:-
Positives:- Making 0800 numbers free from mobiles will be positive because:-
- It will stop people being confused about the cost to call a 0800 number. It will just be free of charge (the way it should have been for years!). Continue reading
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Don’t Queue for Petrol, Get Audio Conferencing!
In this day and age having no petrol and petrol strikes is still an extremely worrying circumstance for many people, especially for business travel. However you shouldn’t have to worry about these events if you looked into alternatives for your business. Audio conferencing is a great solution for this as it’s been available for years and is an excellent solution for companies looking to save on travel costs, help reduce carbon footprint and you never have to worry about running out of petrol! Continue reading
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0800 Number to Mobile
0800 Numbers to mobile phones.
Having a 0800 number gives any kind of company legitimacy. Therefore if you advertise a 0800 number your company (however small) will be made to look larger than it actually is.
A common trend that we have noticed is smaller one man bands taking a 0800 number and pointing it to a mobile phone. This makes the small business look larger than what they are and much more professional. I mean who do you know that calls a tradesman with a mobile phone number in their advert? Continue reading
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The Olympics Phone Number 0845 2012 NOW SOLD
The Olympics will be here sooner than you think! Next month it’s Christmas, then New Year and before you know it the Olympic torch will be running the length of the country!
You may have already seen the BT adverts with their Olympic number which is 0800 2012 2012? Have a look at the advert here if you are interested – BT Advert
These phone numbers are very rare and there is only one number in each number range (i.e 0800, 0845, 0333). We are proud to announce that we have secured the below phone number which is now for sale:-
0845 2012xxx (This has now been sold)
This 0845 number is perfect for next summers global event and is ready for any business to connect.
We are selling this number for a one off fee of £2000 + a monthly rental of £5 and calls received to the number are free (if we point the number to a UK land line).
Please contact us if you are interested in buying this Olympic phone number for your business.
This number is no longer available as it has been sold! SORRY.
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Finding UK local numbers
We are constantly looking to improve on our site features and help our customers have a more fluid method in finding what they want and order easily. Some of the features in the past have been our simple main menu on the front page and our live chat, these have helped users of our site navigate easily and get all their questions asked efficiently.
Search for a UK local number easily
We have just updated our search function on the UK Virtual Number page. This search has been developed to improve our users interaction, giving them the ability to simply type in either the STD Code (e.g 0161) or the area name (e.g Manch or Manchester) and having the search function display all possible results for that phrase.
This has made finding a UK local number extremely easy, considering we offer over 400 UK numbers available for purchase. So check out the search function and see how easy it really is.
Local Number search making life easy!
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Verizon Business give notice to some resellers
Sometimes we feel like a dog sitting at the table waiting for scraps to be thrown off onto the floor. If you think about this, dog’s make a good living off these scraps and sometimes the scraps can be big chunks of meat!
Yesterday we learnt that Verizon were having a spring clean (in Autumn) of some of their lower spending accounts. The letter states that they are streamlining their wholesale channel and they are giving 3 months notice to some of their customers. We only know about this because one of their customers has requested to move all of their International Toll Free numbers from them to us.
If you are effected by this account clear out and need to keep your toll free numbers in service please call us on 08453 666 555 and speak to Craig or Rav. We will be able to migrate or port your numbers so that they remain in service.
Don’t panic 3 months is enough time to get your numbers moved across.
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Dialling local phone numbers in the future
Ofcom today announced that certain STD codes will have to dial the full phone number even if they are in the same STD. Bournemouth will be the 1st location where you will have to diall the full number (Bournemouth STD code is 01202).
So if you are currently in Bournemouth and dial 556677 for Bournemouth Taxis you will have to dial 01202 556677. Brighton will be the 1st to introduce this change with Brighton and Hove, Aberdeen, Milton Keynes, Cambridge and Bradford by also joining during 2016.
Imagine how long it would take you to phone someone in the future if you still had an old rotary phone!
Another impact of the change is that suppliers of UK Phone Numbers like us will have an additional cost of 10p per number per year to swallow for numbers that we have in stock. This change will discourage telcos from holding stock of thousands of numbers that are not connected.
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Phone scam alert
We have been alerted to a phone scam currently going around that we thought we would pass on to our followers to warn others about. Simply link Our URL from the address bar or re-tweet our Twitter/Facebook post. The more people that know about this the less likely it is to work.
What is the scam?
It involves getting a call from BT customer service’s (it isn’t them) asking for a demand in payment of your bill. Now this is initially quite a common scam, but it takes a twist in the fact that the caller is willing to provide proof of their BT credentials by ‘apparently’ disconnecting your phone.
The caller will ask you to try dialling out after you hang up your phone to them and tell you that you will not be able to as they will disconnect you. You try dialling out and are unable to, and after trying you will get a call back. The caller will call back telling you that you are re-connected and you should now pay your bill promptly. The scam is all about getting your card details and not the money.
How can they disconnect me?
What is in fact happening is the caller is not hanging up when you hang up. They will instead mute their call and stay on the line listening to you attempting to dial out, which of course you cannot do as you have reconnected back to the original call that is now muted.
This works by the fact that the caller has to hang up their call to terminate your existing call with them, if they don’t hang up you just end up reconnecting back to them. You are then not able to dial out, resulting in what appears to be a disconnected line, if you have been told that’s what it is.
We have had several reports of this, all with BT’s name being used as the caller. However there is no reason why they won’t use another carriers name.
Double check
Please note that if the caller gives you an 0800 number to call back, then double check that number on-line via the carriers website and dial the number from their website instead. Get names and ask them to give you your details instead of you giving them any details.
BE careful out there!
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