Local Vanity Numbers: Finding One in Your Area Code
How to find a local vanity phone number in your own area code: which words are available, how the search works, and what to do when your word is taken.…
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Stories and history of memorable numbers, and how they grow small businesses.
How a multi-million dollar empire grew with hard work and a catchy vanity number
Meet Brian Scudamore, founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK. In 2016 his company brought in $223 million, but you’d be surprised how it all started. The year is 198…
Who added letters to the phone dial?
Letters have been on phone dials since the beginning. Very early in the history of telephone communication, people figured out that long numbers were really har…
Why our brains are hardwired to remember words
We've been enjoying Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind , a great book we recommend to everyone. In it, the author states that language was the spark that tri…