Happy Earth Day

Its April 22, 2011. Earth Day/ Lets all do our part to protect our environment. Learn more at many “green” organizations and companies. Call them today, toll free, and learn ways you can protect Mother Earth, and your health, by making a few small changes–use recyclable shopping bags, stop using plastic water bottles etc.

Toll Free Numbers in Tax Season

Tax season is in full swing and even though we have a couple of extra days this year to file our returns, time is short. The federal government and tax assistance businesses nationwide are using toll free phone numbers to help citizens prepare and file their tax returns. Just two weeks left!

Religious Communities Using Toll Free

Today is a holy holiday within the Catholic church..Ash Wednesday. And it reminds us how many religious organizations nationwide are now connecting with their parishioners through a toll free telephone number. In fact, churches of all denominations nationwide use toll free for information and resources and also for donations. The same goes for non-profits. While once primarily used for businesses, toll free service is now spreading to all types of religious communities and charities.

855 Benefits To Small Companies

Small businesses across the Untied States are discovering how beneficial the new 855 toll free telephone numbers can be. The 855 numbers, just released last fall, are plentiful and are easily matched for a perfect custom number, matching a domain name, or a business name. Small companies nationwide are learning the advantages of affordable toll free through 855 numbers.

1-800 Hollywood

There is a lot of buzz about actor Bill Murray’s interview on Sirius Satellite radio this morning. This could be the only celebrity-or one of very few–who has no publicist, no agent. Instead he has a 1-800 number for Hollywood insiders to contact him with scripts, information on acting parts, etc.

844 Toll Free Numbers

Still awaiting word on the release of the 844 toll free telephone area code series. These numbers are expected to be released on the heels of the 855 numbers, put forth last fall by the FCC. The 855 numbers have been so successful that there is no doubt that the 844 numbers will will coming along within the next year or so.

Did You See All The Toll Free in Ads During Last Night’s Game?

The 50 million viewers of the Super Bowl last night saw dozens of commercials featuring 1-800 numbers. The game is secondary to many viewers who enjoy watching the creative advertising. The lesson can be handed down from these giant corporations and their Madison Avenue ad executives–toll free phone service works and can be used in conjunction with all ads and promotions to increase business.

Rapid Growth of Toll Free in Small Business World

It’s interesting the rapid growth of toll free phone service in the small business community over the past decade. The use in the corporate world of toll free has remained active and steady, but the use of toll free for small home-based companies and local businesses has been on a steady, fasttrack consistently for years and does not appear to be slowing down. The popularity of the new 855 toll free numbers in the small and medium-ized business world is even more proof that toll free is still growing in use outside of just the corporate world.

FCC Crack Down

Illegally making the sale of a toll free number can cost you… BIG. By law, phone numbers cannot be sold or brokered. In 1997, the FCC made the sale of 800 numbers illegal. Because of the short supply of available numbers, complaints were pouring in at that time that price gouging for the popular numbers was becoming a common practice. The FCC acted quickly, prohibiting sales.

Read more here.

Toll Frees Get Sticky

Following the emergence of a black market for valuable toll free numbers, including catchy vanity numbers, sources say federal authorities are cracking down on the illegal sales of 800 numbers.
Learn more information to protect yourself here.