 SOLD! 1-800-i-TRAVEL, FOR STOCK WORTH $1,648,500
``800-i-TRAVEL is arguably the most memorable phone number in the travel industry... We will use it in all our advertising, all the 'Travel Magazine' television shows and throughout our website, http://www.travelbyus.com. The phone number, 800-i-TRAVEL, will get the consumers' attention while developing brand awareness.''
1 800 NEW BATH
... notes more than 200 percent jump in responses to commercials using the new number
1 888 NEED A PIZZA - Shared Use Vanity Number Service
"We added the 1-888-NEED-A-PIZZA [shared-use] number to our pizza boxes and flyers, and generated an additional $300,000.00 per year."
1 800 CONFERENCE
... reported 6-figure purchase price.
1 800 CRUISES
... valued at 7 figures.
1 800 TICKETS
$1 mil + 6% stock.
REPUBLIC SECURITY TO BUY 1 800 BOAT LOAN
... guesstimate: $2 mil.
1 800 COMPUTE
... and computer.com, sold for $500,000 plus a potentially lucrative chunk of stock..
AUSSIE VANITY PHONE NUMBERS GAINING IN VALUE
"Annualized at the moment I would think it is worth somewhere between
$20 million and $30 million," he said. "Forgetting about selling, but just
looking at leasing, we expect that to be close to $100 million by the end
of 2008, early 2009."
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WHAT'S A TOLL FREE NUMBER WORTH?
This is a reprint of an article I wrote in 2000, The Value of "I Want", that first appeared in internet.com's Domain Notes. It's worth another look at this time as it appears to be a hot topic once again: people are asking, what's a toll free number worth? The Value of "I Want".
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