More privacy breaches hit the headlines this week with news of Facebook reading users' text messages, making consumers even more wary about shopping online and hiking the value of business phone numbers.

How easy is your company to find? More importantly, how easy is it for consumers to contact you and acquire your products and services?

Do you have a business phone number that automatically comes to mind when consumers think about your industry? Who do you call when you need flowers? 1-800-Flowers. What about cable or Internet? 1800-Comcast. A custom phone number? 1800-Customize.

A vanity toll-free number is all about customer response. You want your advertising to reach potential customers, right? And the reason you do is because you want potential customers to reach you! The only way they can do that is if you give them a way. Contact information is easy to give out these days. This typically includes a web site URL or link, an email address, or a phone number…in this case, a vanity phone number.

Yesterday's headlines revealed the massive toll that the iPhone is having on its competitors. Is your organization positioned to survive and thrive amongst the massive change in the tide of consumer habits?

So you've decided to establish a vanity toll-free number for your business. Good choice! It will make it much easier for potential customers to remember your phone number, and that means more of them will contact you. Studies have shown that vanity toll-free numbers increase the response rate from direct response advertising by as much as sixty percent!

Now, the next step is finding the right number for your business. Perhaps you have something in mind already. Let's say it's 1-800-WIDGETS. Here is what you need to ask yourself:

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There are a number of types of look up tools that can come in handy when searching for winning toll free numbers for your business. Let's take a look at how to use them.

Numspell Tool

One of Custom Toll Free's best look up tools is the Numspell tool. This tool enables those who already have business phone numbers to find out what they spell out in words or phrases to see if they are really viable to use as vanity. This is widely recognized as the most powerful of look up tools on the web of its kind and fun to play around with.

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What can a vanity toll-free phone number do for your company that a regular toll-free digital number can't? Despite the name, it's really not about vanity – the marketing value is huge!