Smart Numbers and Phone Words
From just $50 per month.
What are Smart Numbers?
Have you ever seen a car drive past with stickers on it indicating the business name and their phone number listed? Simple Telecom can enable your business to do the same or something similar through Smart Numbers or Phone Words as they are otherwise known.
These types of phone numbers leave a lasting impression for anyone that sees them. How much easier is it to remember 1300 EASY DIAL compared to 1300 327 934.
The Benefits of Smart Numbers
- Brand recognition is commonly cited by Simple Telecom customers as the driving reason for selecting a Phone Word.
- Security of branding is the second most common reason
- Reporting functionality
- Extended features that come included for free with the phone word
- 5.5x more memorable than conventional numbers
- More likely to be passed on in a referral from your existing customers
- People know that phone words are not free, so they associate that with an established and trustworthy brand that is in the business for the longer term
- More repeat business in the long term as marketing efforts can stack around the phone word
How much do Smart Numbers Cost?
- Smart numbers start at $40/month (or more), on top of your 1300 plan. This would make the cheapest option for numbers starting at $50/month (all excl. GST)
- If this is outside the budget – don’t worry, you can just opt for a free standard number, which is numbers starting at $10/month for the average small businesses
- No matter what you pay for your number lease fee, ranging from 0 – 500 per month, you can expect the same great quality service to host and connect the number
- Simple Telecom includes a great range of free add-ons that you can use at your discretion for your service and a full control panel allowing you to adjust the configuration as you require without engaging with support
- We offer excellent pricing and a full self service platform for your new phone word or smart number
How to choose a Phoneword
- The first tip would be to just add a 4 to the start of the word. Say you are after 1300 SIMPLE and you find it’s unavailable (this is just an example) then you could try for 1300 4SIMPL. You can make use of the over-dialling feature available and actually present the number as 1300 4 SIMPLE on your website/business card, but the underlying number would just be 1300 474 675
- If 4 isn’t available, our next favourite option is 0, so 1300 0SIMPL. Now we are really getting creative, but maybe just use the search feature for “SIMP” and see if anything good comes up? But honestly, if you are at this point I’d suggest brainstorming other product names or variations or just going for a free number because it just doesn’t have the same impact.
- Simple Telecom has been doing inbound numbers for so long now that we are well connected with the larger companies who own the majority of the premium numbers or smart numbers.
- If you find a great number and someone else already owns it (high word value) and it’s available for lease, we advise not contacting them directly – get Simple Telecom to do it on your behalf. We arrange a profit share deal with them and we will be able to pass on guaranteed savings to you rather than you going direct. As soon as you go direct, the gig is up and we won’t be able to help – don’t say you were not warned.
Frequently Asked Questions about Smart Numbers and Phonewords
Simple Telecom will assist you at every step of this process. In fact, we abstract a lot of it away so you don’t really need to worry about it. If you are grabbing a number that Simple Telecom is offering then we do absolutely everything for you. If you already have a number, then we can port it or activate it for you. Give us a call and we can discuss the finer details.
The ACMA is the government body responsible for setting the rules for telecommunications (in this context, they also have other responsibilities). They are known as the Australian communications media authority and they collect the allocation charge for all appropriate numbers. They control the numbers and which telcos have access to the various numbers available. It is all very complex, so let’s just finish this point – “Simple Telecom ” was founded with the ideology of making telco stuff simple, so rather than explain it just let us do our thing and pass on the great pricing.
If you are in the market to secure a new number for your business, you absolutely should check the availability of an exact match smart number for your business, or for your product or preferred brand. If a great number isn’t available, then consider opting for a regular number – either way, it is a must have decision point for any business owner. You can expect to get more calls and more customer engagement through word of mouth response rates as a result of having an easy to remember phone word. This should lead to more sales, and every business needs this, right?
Phone words really took off back when the telecommunications industry was deregulated and the inbound number network was born. This was circa 2000, and it was also when almost all of the premium phone words were captured and presented for lease for customers.
Simple Telecom has a range of free features included in the hosting of our number ranges. This includes things like support for Professional voice recording for Voice To Email & Keypress Menus and Call Recording to capture the contact details of your telephone number callers.
Available Numbers
1300 and 1800 Numbers
Find out what 1300 and 1800 numbers are available here.
The numbers that are available to you are broken into two categories:
- Free numbers
- Phone words
Free numbers which can be obtained for no upfront fees, they just require a monthly fee to maintain the service connectivity. The better option though is a phone word which matches your business name or feature brand as long as it’s available. 1300 number availability is pretty easy to check, use our Search tool and you will quickly know what your options are.
You may want to even do some ideation to come up with some form of word or series of numbers that does work (just in case your first preference isn’t available).
Smartnumbers and Phoneword Numbers
| 18000LOCKSMITH | $40/m |
| 1800STAYCOOL | $150/m |
| 1300HIRETOOLS | $80/m |
| 1800NEWLAWN | $80/m |
| 1300DRAFTING | $300/m |
| 1300WEBHOSTING | $150/m |
| 1300PHOTOGRAPH | $250/m |
| 1300DEBTASSIST | $80/m |
| 1300PIZZERIA | $80/m |
| 1800FORSTAFF / DMSSQUARE | $80/m |
| 1800LEAFGUARD | $350/m |
| 1300NOTEBOOK | $200/m |
| 1300ALIGNMENT | $120/m |
| 1300SELLING | $200/m |
| 1300FACELIFT | $250/m |
| 1300PLEASURE | $350/m |
| 1300BISTRO | $40/m |
| 1300MAKEOVER | $250/m |
| 1300FASTCASH | $650/m |
| 1300TYRECENTRE | $80/m |
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