Why 0845?

These are offer a proven way of increasing business and developing customer loyalty. Your customers are required to show some commitment by paying a local call rate from anywhere in the UK. This excellent service allows you to have a 0845 local rate number where instead of paying call charges every time someone calls you, all you ever pay is a small annual fee!

5 reasons why you should start using these numbers
1. Your customers call you at local rate from anywhere in the UK.
2. You get a better response from your advertising - potentially by as much as 50% (source: The Henley Centre).
3. To show you are committed to customer care and they enhance your professional image.
4. You can relocate your business without having to change your phone number.
5. You can market your company nationally, or in areas in which you have no physical presence, whilst maintaining a local identity.
They are ideal for customer help lines and used increasingly in advertising to increase response rates, there is a lower risk of misuse compared to free phone numbers, where customers are not required to pay for the call.

Not surprisingly, there has been a vast rise in the volume of UK special rate numbers, from 138,000 in 1998 to a predicted 254,000 by 2002 - an increase of 84 per cent. Despite this growth, the country is still way behind the USA where these numbers have been an integral part of America's business culture for some time now with more than ten million numbers in operation.