If you an avid reader of The Sun newspaper (or an occasional/mystery reader!) you can have perhaps visible its Auction for Heroes charity occasion this month (April 2009).
Auction for Heroes goals to elevate £20m for the Help the Heroes agency – a country wide charity afghanistan phone number set up to raise cash for injured soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The tabloid’s fundraiser sold undesirable objects from its readers on an eBay website online committed to the motive and it extensively utilized an 03 cellphone variety as its main donation line: 0300 200 1066.
At last count number the public sale had nearly smashed its goal – elevating a fantastic £19m.
Here are 6 methods an 03 cellphone variety helped to reap this:
- 03 telephone numbers value the equal to name as wellknown landline numbers even from a cellular telephone (forty% of all calls are now made from mobiles). They also are blanketed in the free minutes supplied via network providers.
- The public accept as true with 03 numbers because of their transparent name fees. This makes 03 numbers caller friendly and therefore not situation to terrible exposure.
- 0300 numbers (more than a few 03 numbers) are completely for public our bodies and charities.
- Like all non-geographic numbers, 03 numbers gave the public sale a national presence – which means The Sun became able to publish one single memorable quantity in the course of the UK – which isn’t region precise.
Five. An 03 wide variety donation line may have wise call structures added to it effortlessly. For example, welcome messages and caller alternatives. E.G. “Welcome to the Auction for Heroes donation line, press 1 to donate, press to for greater records about where your donation goes and so forth.)
