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Has anyone heard of this company or used them? Sounds like a direct mail company that sends brochures to specific demographics. I asked them if they could give me the names of other HB owners that they have worked with in the past, but they eluded the question. I have been called by them several times before, but they keep calling. Starting to wonder if they are desparate for clients. Any feed back would be appreciated.
I try to avoid any marketing companies that do business just over the phone. Avoiding answering your questions would be a reg flag to me. Here’s how I’d handle it . . . “Take me off your call list!”
A little different subject but I have a concern that I wanted to throw out there.
I have a market expansion line for an additional area of mine. My concern is the sales and telemarketer calls I receive come into my caller ID as my phone # from my expansion line. Why does this happen? Anyone know?That is a good question for your phone company.
“And why am I paying extra for a service that isn’t working properly? And what can you do to fix it?”
Gordon,
That is exactly why we have no personal land line…we have our business line that forwards all calls to my cell phone. We have no personal phone number. For $3.00/month I believe, we have the company phone listed in the white pages under our names for personal calls. Saves money, saves little extras the land line folks always seem to hit us with over time. And a minimum phone bill to boot.
I see many of our customers do the same thing..no land line in use at all.
In fact, to save money, we are going beginning an initiative to obtain all email addresses for all customers. We will then send out reminders thru the email to them….in the future. Many already use the email to set appointments. At $.42 a letter and or $.24-$.26 postcards….we will start emailing information and have a return receipt from its delivery and opening…a confirmation. Can say more with less.
Hope this helps someone
Dave
Yup – the US mail is pricing itself out of business! I do the same with the phone: no land line, just a number which is forwarded to my cell. My cell is unlimited incoming calls – so bring ’em on!!!!
I was paying my local phone company for a business line which I had forwarded to my cell. I called my cell company to see if I could port my business number to my cell. They said sure, so I took out the business line (a savings of around $60 a month) and now my business number is my cell number. I don’t pay my local phone company squat. (Except for yellow page advertising)
We have no dedicated land line, just a line that forwards to our cell phone. Only reason we have it is because we get listed in our home area yellow pages for free with it. Our city is divided into multiple yellow page areas so cost wise it saves us money.
Hey David Phillips, Im a little confused, what do you mean you had them port your numbers to your cell phone. Please explain I would love to save some money.
ThanksBrett, use to be that the phone company owned the numbers, but now you own your number. Contact your cell company and ask them can you port your landline number over to your cell. If you can then you can have them change your number on your cell phone to that of your landline.( so it doesn’t disrupt your service, it has to cordinated with your local Phone company, but my cell provider took care of this) Hope this answers your question.
David Phillips…I am a little confused. In your YP ads then, you have your white pages phone number landline phone number listed? No business number, and that number becomes your cell phone number as well?
We are with Verizon…I will call them on this. Thanks
Dave, once you port your number over to your cell provider, you don’t pay you local phone co. anymore, except for YP & a listing in the Whte Pages.
Good info! We have benefitted from this discussion. Thanks Dave for your valuable input.
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