The VoIP Benefit Of Having Local Numbers

| Wednesday, March 7, 2012
By Myrtle E. Sais


Though not the splashiest of benefit to having a VoIP telecommunications system, having local numbers can be as beneficial to a business owner or private individual as the better known benefits like cutting phone bills, holding teleconferences and web meetings, unlimited calling and voice mail boxes. However, for at least a number of businesses and people, this may be the greatest benefit of all to having a Voice over Internet Protocol telephone system.

It is easy to comprehend how important it is for many companies in many industries to have a local presence since such a grand number of clients and customers much prefer to deal with locally based retail and service providers. With all of the chatter about jobs going overseas, people are more and more aware of the importance of spending their earnings locally so that their money stays within their own community helping everyone around them.

Furthermore, these companies swiftly discover that have this type of number is a fantastic way to easily get listed in the many local directories there are these days. Sure, some may look back on the White Pages with a warm nostalgia, but there is no ignoring that a business must be listed in many other directories in order to succeed. There are all types of free and paid directories and business listings available for businesses to take advantage of. Businesses that are serious about creating a strong online image have got to realize that they must get listed on the local Internet listings, something that having phone numbers with the proper area code can make happen.

A not often thought of and rather funny other benefit to using local numbers is that people being people, it is just easier and less of a hassle to share with them your number if it does not have an out of town area code. People prefer what they are comfortable with and so they tend to automatically default to thinking your area code is the same as their area code. Surely though, this will not always be the situation because the world is indeed in many becoming smaller and people are growing used to dealing with numbers from all over the place.

People considering changing phone systems to the so-called virtual call systems of VoIP have many things to weigh as they make this important decision. So, assuming this careful and thorough consideration is made with an open and realistic mind, a decision maker can be confident that the choice that best suits his or her organization shall be made.




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