Yo Ho Ho and some FAQs (Shiver me Numbers)

Avast ye marketing dogs!  

Working in the Client Specialist department, we are often the first to interact with our customers as they call to learn about our services. We receive hundreds of questions a day about every possible detail of our services. We noticed a trend, and found the five questions that prospective customers ask most often. (Click on the scrolls to jump to the answers!)

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The power of tracking phone traffic

As a Marketing Analyst my main job duty is to determine the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.

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Local Phone Numbers – A Must for the Shop-Local Movement

There’s a new movement in the market that is growing stronger each day - the shop-local movement.  Whether they’re shopping at local retailers on Small Business Saturday, or feasting on locally grown food at independent restaurants, American consumers’ interest in supporting local, independent businesses is on the rise. In a 2013 survey by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), 75 percent of business owners surveyed reported the buy local movement had a positive impact on their business and that the movement was growing. The Institute quotes figures like:  Independent local businesses “return” 382 percent more local dollars to the economy than those "evil" chain establishments, and local restaurants bring back 79 percent of the money they bring in, compared to 30 percent for the ones that are part of chains. Of course, neither figure takes into account the Internet, which often provides the cheapest route to quality merchandise. You can’t eat out online, but you can get just about anything else that way. And you can quickly find out which restaurant, locally owned or otherwise, offers the best food at the best price. And isn’t that really what commerce is all about?
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Top 3 Reasons Why Our Dynamic Number Replacement Technology Rocks!

If you are paying for online advertising, you should be using Dynamic Number Replacement, sometimes called Dynamic Number Insertion by other providers. Display a unique phone number on your website based on where the visitor clicks through from. For example, display a phone number on your website when a visitor arrives by clicking on a specific pay per click banner advertisement, and display a completely different phone number when a visitor arrives by searching on Google. This way, when someone dials the number on your website, you can trace that call back to the online ad that drove them to your site by looking at your call tracking data. By inserting a few lines of HTML code on your website, our Dynamic Number Replacement (DNR) allows you to set up rules that dictate what phone number displays based on how a visitor arrives at your website.

But not all DNR technology is created equal. Here is how ours is different:
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Top 5 Cloud Resources

(Image by Terry Fan. See more of his art here)

Some of the best cloud resources are free to us these days. How did the cloud get so lovable?

All of our services at Hosted Numbers are remotely supported, so they live in the cloud and require no storage on your end. We think our services are super and there's many more benefits than just the cloud based hosting. Besides us here are the top 5 resources I use regularly that are housed in the cloud:

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