Dynamic Phone Numbers Demystified

Just the name sounds complicated. But the truth is it’s quite simple. At its basis, dynamic phone number replacement is just a few lines of html code that replaces the static phone number on your website with the ability to show a unique phone number based on where the visitor clicked through from.

Let’s take a historical view to put it in context. Businesses often have a main phone number customers dial to reach them.  Many businesses advertise this same phone number in all their ads. The burden was placed on whomever answered the phone to ask how the caller learned about the company and document their answer appropriately. As advertisers became more focused on tracking their return on investment for their ad dollars, purchasing multiple phone numbers for use in their ads became a common practice. These phone numbers forwarded calls to the same main number but are tracked separately. So let’s say you are pretty progressive and you have a unique phone number on your website.  That way when someone calls the number on your website, you know they are calling because they have visited your website (because that is the only place you market that unique phone number). Now you can track not only visitors to your site, but calls that resulted from visits to your site.


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Take Control with APIs

First off, what is an API?

Simply put, an API is a mechanism for providing web-based, programmatic access to data and functions that would otherwise be inaccessible. For example, say you wanted to download your Hosted Numbers call data each night and import it into an in-house CRM package. Without an API, there would be no way to access the call data

without logging in to your my.hostednumbers.com, downloading your call data to a CSV file, and importing it manually – over and over, every day. With an API, you could write a program to do all this for you automatically.

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We want to hear from you!

At HostedNumbers, we strive to be a customer-focused company, and in the past year, have taken significant steps to expand the avenues we have available to communicate with you. Your feedback is one of the key drivers behind changes to our products and development of new services, and we hope that you’ll consider voicing your feedback on anything that is of importance to you.

• If you have a problem with your service or how something was handled on your account, we want to hear from you so we can correct the situation.
• If you’re looking for functionality that we don’t currently have, or if you think that one of our services would be more useful if modified in some way, we’d love to hear your ideas so we can assess whether it’s something we can put our development team to work on.
• If you couldn’t live without one of our features and just love it to death, we want to hear about that, too, so we can keep up the great work.

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Hosted Numbers… Beyond Just Phone Numbers

Yes, we sell phone numbers. You can purchase a local number for pretty much anywhere in the USA or Canada and toll-free phone numbers. It is what we provide beyond the phone number that makes our business unique. Once you have the phone number, you can:

Track Ads:
Advertising drives clicks AND calls. Clicks are easily tracked through web analytics. But what if a customer calls? Are you dependent on asking where they heard of you, them accurately recalling, and it being recorded appropriately? Take the guesswork out of it by using a unique phone number. Forward that new phone number to your business and use that unique number on certain advertisements to track the return on your investment back to that advertising campaign.

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Expanded Inventory – 855 Toll-Free Numbers Now In-Stock

Custom toll free numbers have become as hard to get as good domain names. The new 855 toll free area code means businesses have another chance get the easy-to-remember “phoneword” they want. The online process for ordering your 855 phone number is easy and fast. Whether you are looking for a toll-free or vanity phone numbers, Hosted Numbers has over 1 million numbers to choose from.

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