0800 numbers are freephone numbers, which you can use at a reasonable rate so that your customers and potential customers can call your business for free. It's great for your business because it assures the caller that they can contact you at no cost to them, giving an added bonus to subscribing to your service. Having an 0800 number translates to having a low-cost, easy and effective marketing device – they're easy to remember and the customers are relieved from spending on a phone call to contract business with you.
Sales reports have shown that businesses with 0800 and similar freephone numbers have shown an increase in customer response to advertising, ranging from 50% to even a whopping 300%. Freephone numbers also give your business a more professional front, that if you spend extra to offer a free call-in service to your customers, you extend equally high quality work. What's more, the service is free whether your customer calls from their standard BT landline during peak hours, in the evenings or on the weekend. 0800 freephone numbers are also able to receive international calls.
Other freephone numbers that you can use are 0808 and 0845, with each number group coming in different planner packages. The Standard package is set at a monthly line rental of £4.95, with the connection fee waived and an additional 500 free minutes per month. There are also Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum package planners, whose monthly rental and connection fees become more expensive respectively, but so do their free minutes. Also, the numbers with easier recall can be found in the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum planner packages. Although 0808 numbers are not as popular and easy to memorize as 0800 numbers, the 0808 numbers compensate by waiving the connection fee for all packages.
0844 are not freephone lines, charging your customers lower rates whilst your monthly rentals are free after paying the connection fee (for Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum packages). What happens is the telecom provides you a phone line that other people - your customers - will pay for.
0870, 0871 are not free numbers either, and like 0844 and 0845 numbers, they charge your customers lower rates at no cost to you on monthly rental charges. The revenue you generate from your customers will also make you some money as well, as the telecom pays you up to 2p, for 0870 numbers, and up to 6p, for 0971 numbers, for each call you make. You'll actually be making money from your phone line. 0871 numbers pay 5p per minute for customers using up to 200,000 minutes per month, and 6p per minute for up to 300,000 minutes. Your customers pay lower rates to call your business, and the telecom shares a percentage of the revenue with you - everyone should be quite pleased.
07077 numbers work like 0844 numbers except the 07077 numbers have a special function called the "Follow Me Service," which allows you to control and redirect your calls to your home, mobile or another phone line by remote. You can change the destination of your calls wherever you may be for free when signed up to the standard package, and for only the cost of the connection fee for the other more sophisticated packages.
Whichever numbers you use, you'll find your business benefiting a great deal.
About The Author
Derek Rogers is a freelance writer who represents a number of UK businesses. For telephone services, he recommends Telecoms World, one of the UK's leading suppliers of 0800 numbers: http://www.telecomsworldplc.co.uk/0800-numbers.asp
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