Using Business Numbers To Create A Local Presence

If you’re looking to expand your business into new geographical regions, it’s often difficult to arrange business phone numbers with the right area code to attract customers. If you try and use your existing phone arrangement, most will take one look, see that the business number is out of their area, and assume they are better off going with a local company, even if yours also services their town.

Consider the following example. A locksmithing company that operates a 24 hour call out service has its main office in Bristol, with normal business phone lines that have a Bristol area code. However, one of the locksmiths lives in Bath. There is an opportunity to offer an out of hours locksmithing service in Bath as well, but no customers in Bath are going to call a Bristol business when they’ve just accidentally locked the keys in the car at 3am, because they assume they’ll have to pay extra and it will take longer to get the locksmith to arrive. However, if the Bristol company have Bath business numbers as well, it’s clear they have a local presence and they are much more likely to get the call and the subsequent business.

The same utility is available to a small car dealership based outside a major city where space is much cheaper. Without a phone number with the geographical area code of the city itself, customers will probably be lost because they never even see those particular business numbers listed, even if the dealership is only a few miles away.

You don’t have to set up a second office to get a second business number with a different area code. We can arrange for calls from the secondary line to be rerouted straight to your primary business lines.