Toll Free Number Directories

by: Custom Toll Free , May 7, 2012

Directories of toll free numbers fall into two general categories. First, there are quite a number of online directories where you can look up the toll-free numbers maintained by companies. In other words, you have the company name, enter it in the directory, do a search, and get the toll-free number to call them.

Some of these directories work like that, through an Internet search, and others are phone-call based. Perhaps you want to do business with that company, either to buy from them or to market to them, and simply want a number where they can be contacted.

The other type of toll free number directory works the other direction. For example, with the Reverse Lookup Tool at Custom Toll Free, you can enter a toll-free number and search for the company that holds it (if there is one).

Why would you want to do that? Well, there are at least two reasons. First, you might be receiving calls from that toll free number and want to know who is calling. Second, you might have wanted that toll free number for your own company, because it made a great vanity toll free number for your business, only to find to your disappointment that someone else was already using it. If that happens, you can still sometimes make use of the number through joint ownership, in cases where both you and the other company are operating in local areas and not in the same area. The way that works is that you and the other company agree to share the number. Someone calling the number from the other company’s area of operation would connect to them, while someone calling from your area of operation would connect to you.

This is one way to get the toll free number that’s best for your business when there are only so many different toll free numbers to go around. There are other ways, too, such as exploring other toll free area codes (888, 877, 866, and 855) in addition to 800.


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