Why brand a 1-800 number, and will you own the brand?

Why brand a 1-800 number?

If you already branded your law firm name or would like to, branding a 1-800 vanity number with your name doesn’t need to compete with your law firm brand.

When making a decision on whether to invest money into branding a 1-800 vanity phone number or your law firm name, the answer is easy if based on money.

It took Jacoby & Myers 100 million dollars to brand their law firm’s name. I estimate it will take at least 30-100 times more money to brand a law firm name than to brand a good 1-800 vanity phone number like 1-800-HURT-911®.

Additionally, branding a 1-800 vanity phone number will begin to produce results much faster and create a stronger brand with the ability of people to know how to call you.

Will you own the brand?

If you license someone else’s vanity phone number for your advertising, it’s well worth it just for the substantial increase in calls you will receive vs. not having a vanity phone number.  But after two years of continuous advertising, you’ll start to build a substantial brand for the 1-800 vanity phone number.

If you stop advertising a 1-800 vanity phone number after two years, callers will continue to dial the number for 3 years or longer. Don’t advertise a 1-800 vanity phone number unless you own the right to assign your territory to another lawyer.

Will you own the brand you created, or will the owner of the vanity phone number own your brand? You will own the 1-800-HURT-911® brand for your territory because we allow you to assign your territory to another lawyer. As long as you pay the monthly fee, we can’t take away your right to use the number. If you pay a one-time lifetime fee, you’ll own the rights to your territory for life.

After a few years of advertising, the brand will become quite valuable. This article shows that the value of a brand can be worth 50% of annual gross receipts.

If you don’t own your brand, you don’t have the incentive to invest in your advertising budget. This is counterproductive. We want you to continuously increase your advertising budget and invest in branding because a strong brand increases results from advertising.

We want you to own the 1-800-HURT-911® brand with resale rights for your territory, so your advertising will be an investment in your brand, not ours. We accomplish this by giving you the right to assign and sell your agreement for any amount you want without any fees due back to us.

We also offer a one-time payment option, so you can make a one-time lifetime payment. The advantage is that you will save money in the long run, and you can suspend your advertising campaign any time you want without having to continue making monthly payments.