1. Maintain A Professional Image

You may truly be able to provide an incredibly valuable product or service while working from your home office, but perception goes a long way towards winning the business. Having a toll free number will make you look organized and professional. This will help in maximizing your marketing ROI and increasing your conversion rates.

2. Look Bigger

There is a lot of buzz about personal branding today and it does carry a lot of benefit. However, let’s be honest, there are a lot of people who are just more comfortable with the impression that there is a big, reliable company with a giant team of experts on the other end of the phone line. A toll free number instantly makes you indistinguishable from the largest international corporations and the tortured genius working out of their garage.

3. Mobility

The whole point of working for yourself is to have the freedom to go where you want, when you want, right? What’s the point if you are tied down by your business phone number and can only keep things going if you are chained to your desk? Get a toll free number, forward it to your mobile and Internet phone service and start enjoying the freedom you really want while the money still keeps coming in.

4. Avoiding Missed Opportunities

Even if you regularly put in twelve hour days, it is unlikely that you will be able to answer every call that comes in if you are marketing yourself right. There will be times that you are sleeping or busy on another line and simply can’t pick up new incoming calls. Obviously this won’t win you new customers, so use your toll free number to route calls to an assistant at certain times of the day or when your line is busy so that prospects always get a live answer.

5. Privacy

It doesn’t matter how fantastic you are at what you do, the incredible lengths you go to in order to please your clients or how many people love you, there will always be haters and those who are unhappy. The last thing you want is angry customers blowing up your home phone or banging on your door in the middle of the night demanding a refund. Protect yourself with a toll free number.

6. Reach More Prospects

Most people either want to do business with someone close to them or someone with a big nationwide presence. Rarely do they want to go out of their way to do business with someone on the other side of the country or globe. Once they speak to you it is a different story, but you aren’t going to even get them on the phone without a toll free number.