The Truth About - Numbers

numbers have been heavily advertised over the last few years as a great way to make money. Everybody from Dionne Warwick to Don Lapre are getting in on the pay per call action In theory (theory mind you) they are a great way for people to make money. You start up a simple phone line and people start calling by the thousands (I sound like someone I know on TV). When the numbers became popular a few years ago, sex and adult lines were a large part of the business. Psychic lines are now the rage. There are some psychic lines that are generating millions of dollars in calls per month (Although Dionne's did go bankrupt, didn't the psychics warn her?) but every single one of these lines has huge advertising budgets and the people renting out lines are not going to advertise a thing, only rent you the lines. There are many company's that rent numbers if you would like to get one. When company's first started renting lines years ago, the person renting would only get a small percentage of each call, maybe % to %. But now that so many company's are renting lines (increased competition), the call per-minute amount you get is much more. You can literally find hundreds of different company's in the back of business magazines that will sell you consulting and lines. numbers were the first toll lines that came out. The problem was that they were local only and didn't have that many features. Large advertisers wanted one number they could advertise all over the US and get calls for, not just one small local area. number's solved that problem. There are really two big problems with number's. The first is perception. number's seem really idiotic to most people. If you have a great business idea or way to make money, number's would probably be one of the worst places to advertise. How many friends do you have that call number's each month? How many number's did you call last month? These are the sorts of things you have to think of when you are going to start a business. If you would never use the services, why would anybody else? This is something that people like Don Lapre would never tell you. Don lapre just wants you to think that numbers are just a big cash cow. Not the reality. The other thing is money. You need a lot of money to really get a numbers going. Starting with $ isn't going to do it. You need a heck of a lot more than that. Most of the big company's have $, monthly advertising budgets (that's even out of my league.) You are much better off getting into direct marketing, network marketing, internet marketing or even real estate investing over dealing with numbers I hope this helps in your future marketing decisions.