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However, the phone’s most powerful application remains that of being a facilitator. In other words, if you need something, pick up the phone, call someone and voila!

The problem lies in the numbers. As I noted a few years ago, humans and numbers don’t mix. Back then, ad agency ResponseBank found that big-name advertisers could not get people to remember their numbers.

At the time, however, the vanity phone number market had yet to take off in Australia, with keypad standardisation only recently completed. Now research from Roy Morgan suggests the time of the vanity number may have arrived.

Research commissioned for the Phone Name Marketing Association in January asked more than 2000 people about phone number recall. In most cases it was dismal. One prime example was the number for the Government’s anti-terrorism campaign, which consumed more than $22million. Barely 0.3 per cent of people could recall the number they were supposed to dial if they spotted Osama and his henchmen plotting evil deeds. Perhaps the feds should have registered the number 1300-terrorism.

The survey has found that 79 per cent of people are aware of phone names as a way of dialling a number. The figure is highest in the 14-24 age bracket, with 97per cent recall of the concept. In the same group, 54 per cent say they have dialled a number using a word or name.

The figures get really interesting when you look at what it is people are recalling. According to the survey, the company with the highest recall of its number is Pizza Hut (16.7 per cent), a company that does not use phone words. However, No.2 is Westpac (14.7 per cent), whose brand name is at the heart of its 1300WESTPAC number. Third is Rams home loans (10.3 per cent and another user of phone names) with Domino’s Pizza No.4 (7.3 per cent).

With their home delivery businesses reliant on phone transactions, Pizza Hut and Dominoes spend millions of dollars on television and radio advertising to promote their numbers. Yet the recall of Westpac’s phone name came on the back of a test campaign lasting just four weeks last October and November.

So how does short campaign costing about $1 million manage to get recall equalling that of companies spending 20 or 30 times the amount? The answer is all in a name and the fact that — as more companies vie for attention across multiple media channels — the most popular way to connect with consumers is through the phone.

Once you get outside the list of the top 11 companies, the remainder have recall levels for their numbers of less than 1 per cent. If people can’t remember your number, how can they talk to you?

Companies invest billions in their brands. Yet it seems that when it comes to the moment when you want to make the connection, the brand investment goes out the window and consumers have to go hunting numbers. It’s a strategy that just doesn’t add up.

Phone Names is a leading provider of 1800 / 1300 numbers mixed with names. The aim is to assist businesses increase advertising response rates through the use of a phone number name which helps with consumer recall of the organisations number. More information visit- http://www.phonenames.com.au/

The Australian
By Simon Canning

In Queensland, Southport car financier Paul Byres attributes the clever use of a phone number to increasing his business fourfold in less than a year.

Last December, Byres, the group marketing manager at Motor Finance Wizard, which offers low-cost finance to used-car purchasers through its network of dealerships in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, signed a lease with Telstra PhoneWord for the telephone number 1300CarLoan (1300 227 562). The number was the central piece in an advertising campaign to boost awareness of its car financing service.

“Prior to adopting 1300CarLoan, most of our sales came from people walking into one of the three dealerships we had open at the time,” Byres says. He pays about $4000 a month for the service.

A strong selling point for a phone word service is that it makes it easier for potential customers to remember the brand name. Since December, call numbers increased from 445 a month to a peak of 10,000 in July, settling at about 7500 a month since October. The use of the 1300 phone word has dramatically changed the enquiry mix, and three-quarters now come via the phone number.

The rate of conversion to sales, Byres says, increased threefold in Brisbane and fourfold in Sydney.

MFW’s reach has extended beyond the distance that people are prepared to drive to local sale yards.

“We have had customers fly down to Brisbane from places like Mount Isa in order to purchase a car through us,” Byres says.

The additional demand led MFW on a path of rapid national expansion. Since the launch of the campaign, the company has opened another three outlets including its first in Melbourne, plus additional ones in Brisbane and Sydney.

Next April MFW plans to float on the Australian Stock Exchange to fund further expansion.

MFW’s success is hardly surprising when marketing surveys regularly show that ads with phone names generate nearly three times more calls than ads with phone numbers.

In 2004, Jack Singleton’s Phone Name Marketing Australia company tested phone names against phone numbers in TV and radio in two Australian markets.

Singleton says the ads with phone names generated nearly three times more calls (290 per cent) than the ads with phone numbers. The same result was shown in a more recent radio test conducted between October 30 and November 12 for Gerry Harvey’s five-star resort at Byron Bay, which has the phone name 1300TheByron.

The phone name received over three times more calls than the phone number.

Singleton says Phone Name Marketing and Telstra PhoneWord have about 80 per cent of this market and provide each other with access to their numbers.

After names were auctioned in 2005, outfits such as Phone Name Marketing act as a licensing agent leasing 1300 and 1800 phone numbers for use as phone names to companies seeking an increased direct response to their advertising and other marketing initiatives.

Kingsleys Steak & Crabhouse has leased its phone name 1300Kingsleys from Phone Name Marketing on a negotiable success-fee basis for about two years.

“People have found it’s easy to remember especially when out in the evening and thinking where they are going to go for dinner,” marketing manager Alice Gruzman says.

Gruzman says reservation calls have risen 56 per cent during the past two years, and attributes the chain’s expansion to its telephone success.

Telstra launched PhoneWords in 2004 but has marketed it aggressively in the past few months as it rolls out a string of products aimed at small businesses.

A typical one-year leasing contract costs about $800 a month; three-year terms are available for almost half that.

The managing director of the entrepreneur division within the new Telstra Business division, Elizabeth Aris, says that the development of products and services by telcos for small-to-medium-sized enterprises is intensifying.

Established in July, Telstra Business has set up eight retail business outlets and eight call centres staffed with 400 sales people trained to meet the needs of SMEs.

The division underscored its tilt at SMEs with the release of a survey into the technology usage habits and attitudes of 10,000 small businesses, including how they use technology to develop their businesses.

Aris says the findings show small businesses are making greater use of technology to advertise their business and handle their mobile workforce.

According to Telstra’s findings, more than 70 per cent of small businesses believe that advertising is critical to their business.

A lesser number, 57 per cent, agree that spending on advertising is critical to their success, although 41 per cent believe they do not use advertising effectively.

Among Telstra’s new offerings are Advertising in a Box, which will be launched next month.

It offers online advertising and inclusion in Sensis search engines with a website for a smaller businesses to drive online customers to their websites.

Already available is Xora technology, a fleet tracking and resourcing technology that costs up to $40 per user per month, while SMS marketing from desktop computers is scheduled for the market in March 2007.

In the mobile-phone world, telcos are also exploiting their inherent flexibility by targeting the SME sector with products that allow them to work outside the office.

In February, Vodafone made a big play for SMEs by appointing more than 200 business consultants to focus exclusively on small office/home office and SMEs.

Vodafone launched Business Caps with Mobile Office on July 17. It delivers functionality to mobiles that is similar to services accessed through office PABX systems.

Founder of Virtual Village, Dorjee Sun, agrees that mobile technology definitely improves productivity and creativity.

“If you have ever worked on a start-up, what you need is just constant stimulation and constant motivation,” Sun says.

“To try to do that in a fixed environment I find is next to impossible.”

Sun employs five people in Sydney and Melbourne to develop virtual villages where participants congregate and collectively build content.

“What it [mobile technology] allows us to do is when we are feeling like we are hitting the wall, we just pick up our lap tops and data cards, walk into the middle of a shopping centre, plonk down and start working.”

Sun used to have an office but saw little point in fighting traffic to get to a fixed point if employees were still motivated wherever they decided to work.

“This allows people to still come together and work together but not necessarily need to book an office,” he says.

Meanwhile, leasing financier Flexirent Capital believes that the recent rate rises have not discouraged SMEs from purchasing equipment. When it comes to cost, its research found only a quarter of SME owners believe the price of the product is more important than having the latest technology.

Phone Names is a leading provider of 1800 / 1300 services. Their goal is to help businesses increase advertising response rates through the use of 1300 / 1800 numbers mixed with names that assist with consumer recall of the organisations number. More information visit- http://www.phonenames.com.au/

The Australian Financial Review
By Mark Fenton-Jones

It’s called phone names. The technology has been around since the 1940s, but was freed up by the Australian Communications Authority only last July. The result is that soon we may be dialling 1300pizza, taxi or flowers.

Jack Singleton, the son of Sydney ad man John, is one of the main players in this emerging industry, with only Telstra having bought more numbers.

He came across the concept in America, where phone names like 1800callcash (Western Union) and 1800Starbucks are well known, and has been lobbying the ACA to free up the numbers since 1998.

“There’s a very fine line between lobbying and pestering,” he says.

Singleton has spent $2 million during the land grab year, where some big prices were paid.

1300taxi sold for $1 million in September last year, while 1300blinds and 1300tickets each fetched more than $300,000.

Singleton has about 1000 names including 1300Wizard, Brisbane and Westpac, while Telstra has more than 4000 numbers.

A recent study by Singleton in Newcastle and Canberra found that radio ads using a phone name received five times more calls than those using a straight number, while TV ads showed a threefold increase.

But having spent seven years buying up numbers he’s not about to sell them off.

He will be charging clients a monthly rental fee, which is where it gets tricky.

Singleton reckons one of the main advantages of phone names is lowering the cost of each lead (number of phone calls) and so proposes to take a percentage of the saving. For example, if the cost of each lead dropped $10, he might take $1.

The ACA began auctioning the numbers last July, but working out the word each six-digit number spells is not easy – every one has as many as 4096 combinations.

This attracted the mathematicians who devised programs to spit out different word combinations and therefore work out the value of each number. But this didn’t cover many brand names or partial words and led to some phone names going undiscovered.

Singleton didn’t realise he owned 1300findgod, which is also the same as 1300dinein (only the first six digits count).

“Dinein was already taken so we suggested press 1 to order a pizza and 2 to find god, but they didn’t go for it,” he says.

Phone Names is a leading provider of toll free numbers (1300 / 1800 numbers) mixed with names. Their goal is to help businesses increase advertising response rates through successful phone marketing. More information visit- http://www.phonenames.com.au/

The Financial Review
By Angus Grigg