As a sole proprietor, you have a great responsibility. You have to take care of every aspect of your business and contact with customers is not unimportant. Being available full-time for new customers, retaining existing customers and developing your own brand, the work of a freelancer is a big challenge. But have you ever considered how a service number or a company number could help you?

In this article, we give you 5 reasons why every freelancer should actually use a service number or company number.

Be reachable everywhere

One of the biggest challenges for an entrepreneur who “works for himself” is being accessible to new and existing customers. After all, you can’t sit by the phone all day!

A service number or a company number is a virtual number that is forwarded to your existing telephone. This can be the telephone in your office, but also your mobile phone or even the telephone at home. Belfabriek customers use a handy telephone tool or our mobile application to switch between these locations. This switching happens immediately and costs nothing.

This way, as a sole proprietor, you are always optimally accessible on the same telephone number.

Make a professional impression

When you use a service number or company number, you have access to many extra functions. One of these functions is the welcome text. This is a pre-recorded text that can be automatically adapted to, for example, opening or working hours, but also to holidays and vacation days. With a welcome text, every caller is greeted appropriately and professionally. After the welcome text, the caller can be connected to you or, for example, leave a message via the digital answering machine when you are not available. In this way, you immediately make a professional impression on every caller.

Never miss a call again

Even outside opening or working hours, on holidays and vacation days, but also when you just can’t answer the phone for a moment, you don’t have to miss a call.

At that moment, callers can be automatically forwarded to your digital answering machine. There they can leave a message that you will then receive by e-mail and to which you can respond when you have time. This way you will never miss a call again and all your callers will be answered.

Listen back to made agreements

Do you also want to listen back to a conversation to verify data that a customer has provided by telephone or to listen back to made agreements? When your service number or company number runs via the Interactive Voice Response platform of the Belfabriek, you can have all incoming calls recorded. Via the handy online control panel, you can listen back to calls later. You can even download the recordings to your own computer. Because you can easily listen back to calls, you can make appointments freely, even if you cannot make notes of your appointments at that moment. You can always easily find the conversation.

More leads, more sales

Customers prefer to do business with a professional, well-organized company that is accessible when needed. In addition, a service number or company number is not region-bound and therefore has a national image. The choice of the number type determines the rate that the caller has to pay: free for a 0800 number, a local rate for 085- and 088-numbers, or an adjustable rate for 0900-numbers.

By making a smart choice of your number, you remove all barriers that stand between you and your callers. This way you get more callers, and therefore more leads and more sales.

Start today

Service numbers and company numbers are registered on a first-come, first-served basis. The demand for recognizable and easy-to-remember numbers is high. So don’t wait unnecessarily long to register your number!

On our site you can see which 0800 or 0900 service numbers are still available. If you prefer a 085 or 088 number, please check the shops for these numbers.

Do you have any questions or would you like to know more? Please feel free to contact us via 0800 - BELFABRIEK (0800 - 235 3227).