1-800-Car-Insurance is catchy, and easy to remember for anyone seeing it on advertising. However, getting a specific toll free phone number is not hard or cost prohibitive for any agent wanting one. 1-800-Auto-Insurance would be just as effective, but I doubt it's available. Even if you can get 1-8...

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Your criticism is valid. My thinking was that you are not allowed to directly advertise in the forum. When the comments came in, I revealed that in fact it is my business. Forums can take a direction of their own and this is how it developed. I hope that makes sense. I only wanted to create curiosit...

The beauty is of my business model is that calls are routed geographically. Therefore, you will get the calls from the people that you are targeting. Call it and see for yourself how it works. Insurance is a local business. People want to do business with a local agent. 1-800-Car-Insurance give inde...

While words in phone numbers may be catchy... they drive me nuts. I try not to use them. I can understand how words in phone numbers can drive you nuts. The bottom line is that they work, and companies spend millions of dollars looking to acquire these numbers and millions more to brand them. My bu...

Are you prepared for the associated costs of promoting that number, and can you isolate your promotion to just your county so you don't end up spending money for someone else's phone to ring? Also, keep in mind that because a phone number is made up of 7 digits, you're only really paying for 800-ca...

What do you guys think of using the phone number 1-800-Car-Insurance as a phone number for my agency. They are leasing it out so that I can get all of the calls in my county.