Important question about my work phone numbers?

LaRue Medlin · Feb 12, 2012

I need some input from you guys.... Here is the situation....

Both numbers are cell phones.

1. I started my business with the phone number 803-847-2063 (2003)

2. I got a local number 803-495-3333 in 2009. So now I have 2 CLK business numbers

3. I have been forwarding the 3333 number to my 2063 phone since the beginning.

4. For the past 3 years, I have been advertising in the phone book and my business cards the 495-3333 as the main number..... With the 2063 listed in small print as an alternate number.

5. Now it seems like I am getting the results I wanted with the 3333 number. More calls. Still not 50/50, but

SOOO what are your thoughts about swapping phones around. Cancelling the forward and reversing the process. Making 495-3333 the main cell phone I carry around and forward the 847-2063 number to 3333. I get very few text messages so advising everyone who now sends me texts, would only be 4-5 people (all family)

So what is your thoughts? Hope I made sense.

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Robert Caffyn · Feb 12, 2012

What makes the most sense financialy? Put aside the some here/some there thing. You've already advertised for the one phone. If I saw your card, I'd go with the BIG main number. Sorta sounds a bit like a no-brainer to me. To me, the bottom line is $$$. Bob

Gary DiPietroSr · Feb 13, 2012

I had a similar situation. When I moved to a different town, I kept my phone # that I had since 1972. I had that line kept at my daughter's house and forwarded it to my new #. Well after a year or so the calls stopped coming from the original # so I canceled it. When I did this, the phone Co. played a message that the # has been changed to...my new # for a month or so.

Jacob Dryer · Feb 13, 2012

Have you thought about porting the number over to google voice? I think there is a one time port fee, but after that it's a free service. I got one for when my wife was deployed since she could only call numbers "local" to a military base for free, and my cell phone wasn't local. So it still rings to my cell phone when either number is called.

LaRue Medlin · Feb 13, 2012

JD,, I was paying the local phone company 60$ for the 3333 number and ported it over to my cell phone. Now it's shared on my main business line, 9.99 a month. I think I will go ahead and swap numbers on the cell phone I carry and make the 3333 the main number and 2063 an alternate. The 2063 will still be forwarded to the 3333. Looking at it harder, this way I will be able to track the main number better. Eventually, people will be calling it more and the 2063 will just "be there" Thanks