[richy27]

my geographical position sucks as i live in alittle town/village with my two main centres of business either side of me in the two bigger towns  (where my advertising is centered) . I find i get a good response in these two towns but i am forever being asked where abouts are you based due to my area code. would it be worth me buying a couple of numbers one for each town to use in the adverts i use there do you think this would increase interest as the perception of being local.

if yes what sort of good deals are out there for numbers

regards

richard

[Joe H]

Personally I think having a local number SHOULD get you more enquiries.
I find people want to use local businesses for different reasons ie support the local community, peace of mind if things go wrong etc.

www.tamartelecommunications.co.uk
www.smart-numbers.net

I have one number with the latter and two with the former - no problem with either so far, just like trying different ones.

[daysdeepclean]

I know there's a guy in the North East who has 5 sets of different local phone numbers from different parts of the region.... It's something to look into Rich....

[Aquakleen Restoration Services]

Or maybe try an 0800 number. Might be cheaper depending on your circumstances.

[clinton]

Supose it does mater what area your in richard..

[Shaun_Ashmore]

Do your homework first.

I have 3 x 0800's but I would swap them for local numbers only if I could chose the right numbers, people like local STD numbers AND they also check the first 2 numbers of the telephone number to see where in the area they come from.

Shaun

[richy27]

done bit of home work on it my work has been centred in these two towns as where i live the std code covers a huge area and i am just on he outskirts of the code i want to be in. and being a county of the older more old fashioned generation they like local. i dont feel i would be misleading because it takes me 15 min to drive to the centre where i want the std and it takes me 35 min to drive to the centre of where my std code covers.

[richy27]

Personally I think having a local number SHOULD get you more enquiries.
I find people want to use local businesses for different reasons ie support the local community, peace of mind if things go wrong etc.

www.tamartelecommunications.co.uk
www.smart-numbers.net

I have one number with the latter and two with the former - no problem with either so far, just like trying different ones.

thanks for that joe

[Kinver_Clean]

I use Daisy Comms for my 0800 number and it goes straight to my mobile. Costs around 14p a min (cost 18p just to transfer from BT as well as 6p for previous supplier.)

Trevor