Increase Your Regional Prominence With Local Numbers

| Tuesday, November 27, 2012
By Edgar K. Franc


Businesses can benefit by obtaining a virtual phone system that uses local numbers as contact numbers for customer service, instead of toll free numbers. Local numbers can help expand your local presence in an area and help your customers to identify with and trust your business due to this increased local prominence.

All businesses need some kind of phone system to handle, manage and direct incoming calls from customers in order to provide great customer service. These business phone systems are called private exchange systems (PBX) and used to consist of a complicated set up of hardware, phone lines with extensions and cabling to connect to a traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN). Nowadays it is possible for businesses to choose a virtual private exchange system (virtual PBX) that operates over a high speed internet connection using voice over IP (VoIP) technology for just a fraction of the cost.

Virtual PBX systems have the capability to offer both toll free numbers and local numbers for your customers to reach you. A local number and a toll free number make it simple for customers to contact you and can be programmed to work as forwarding devices that route all incoming calls to a primary phone. However, toll free numbers are considered as local calls from anywhere in the country while a local number is only local to persons calling from that specific and limited local area.

Local numbers can make your business be perceived as a local company and can go a long way in getting customers to trust in your ability to provide quality customer service. Businesses will gain a greater presence in the local area resulting in more orders, customers and revenue. Customers largely prefer having the option to contact you directly with an easy local phone call instead of using a more impersonal method like email or fax. This sort of system is especially useful when you are a web-based company that offers products and services all over the country or even in other countries.

Virtual PBX providers offer the option of using a local number for any state or city as part of their hosted virtual PBX systems that come with convenient features like call forwarding, auto attendant etc. Local virtual numbers are a good way to easily become a local business anywhere in the nation or the world.




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