Moving Store - Phone question

[RCD_Technology_Solutions]

Hello.

I hope all is well with everyone, or as good as it could be.

I am in the process of moving my store closer to my home. Currently the store is 40 miles away.

My question is since the store is in the same county I can keep my current phone number which i plan to do since my customers know it. But should I get a new number in my local area as people know the exchange.. or does it not even matter.

Trying to decide this before I start printing business cards and advertising.

The phone system is VOIP so configuration is simple.

Thanks in Advance

Bob

 

[dgoglio]

Is it a different area code? If not customers won't care.

 

[britechguy]

If your business is well-established I would definitely keep the existing phone number.

Now that we're in the age of cell phones and, in many places, 10-digit dialing and long distance service is almost entirely a thing of the past domestically, it makes little sense to change.

I can't count the number of local service calls I go on where the originating phone number calling me to set it up is from half way or all the way across the country. These days almost no one using mobile/cellular phone service ditches their number when they move great distances from where they originally got it.

People are used to 10-digit dialing if they use a cell phone, even for local calls, because you have to (and, yes, I'm ignoring being able to set your phone up to use a default area code - most will dial 10 digits because it always works no matter where they're calling). [This is in the USA, mind you.]

 

[RCD_Technology_Solutions]

Is it a different area code? If not customers won't care.

Same area code just 40 miles away....great point

 

[RCD_Technology_Solutions]

If your business is well-established I would definitely keep the existing phone number.

Now that we're in the age of cell phones and, in many places, 10-digit dialing and long distance service is almost entirely a thing of the past domestically, it makes little sense to change.

I can't count the number of local service calls I go on where the originating phone number calling me to set it up is from half way or all the way across the country. These days almost no one using mobile/cellular phone service ditches their number when they move great distances from where they originally got it.

People are used to 10-digit dialing if they use a cell phone, even for local calls, because you have to (and, yes, I'm ignoring being able to set your phone up to use a default area code - most will dial 10 digits because it always works no matter where they're calling). [This is in the USA, mind you.]

yes correct 10 digit dialing....definitely keeping old number and i was going to setup a local one as well but to you point, no need to..... thanks

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Decades ago the exchange meant something to people. These days, not. Esp with...mobile phones taking over, and many people ditching land lines, and in businesses...the popularity of IP phones. Paying attention to exchanges are like the old SNET phone book...a thing of the past.

Keep old number, port over to new location (heck when you're moving depending on who your phone service is you can concurrently ring in both locations), get new one if you want.

 

[Computer Bloke]

Decades ago the exchange meant something to people. These days, not.

I took a call from Chicago the other day - the caller lives less than a mile from me.

 

[britechguy]

I took a call from Chicago the other day - the caller lives less than a mile from me.

I guess that international roaming has either become cheap or free!