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A custom number like 1-800-UNLOCKS® can make it happen!

When it comes to boosting your bottom line and keeping you top-of-mind with customers, nothing pays off quite like a toll-free Custom 800 number. We’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Companies that use unforgettable Custom 800 numbers in their advertising and marketing materials increase response by as much as 45%.

Vanity Toll Free Numbers for businesses mean more calls, and more calls mean you are doing much more business

You will get more sales off of a more memorable number like 1-800-UNLOCKS® than 1-800-123-7654

Uses of Vanity Numbers

They have also been shown to be an inexpensive promotional method in contrast to repetitive advertising through print and electronic media

Very importantly, it also sets it apart from its competitors

Having a good vanity number has enough benefits on its own; having a good toll-free vanity number doubles that

 

 

 

ONLY 1-800-UNLOCKS® CAN NETWORK OVER 40,000 LOCKSMITH COMPANIES BY A SINGLE TRADEMARKED, TOLL-FREE NUMBER.

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THE BRAND NAME OF 1-800-UNLOCKS® 

The key to 1-800-UNLOCKS® success lies in it's proprietary, trademarked, vanity toll-free number. 1-800-UNLOCKS®  registration and serial number is held with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in Washington, DC. 1-800-UNLOCKS® is also exploring the possible of the patent of it's custom, innovative telephony software and digital dispatch design. 1-800-UNLOCKS® is a market driven service that takes an existing problematic situation and makes it quick, easy, and cost-effective for the consumer.  In addition 1-800-UNLOCKS® removes the burden of infrastructure and overhead necessities from it's many association and roadside organizations by contracting for the use of 1-800-UNLOCKS® dispatching system. In essence, 1-800-UNLOCKS®  takes a mature industry, qualifies it, automates it, and channels the call volume via it's innovative dispatch system and redistributes the call volume between it's 1-800-UNLOCKS®  quality service providers. 


1-800-UNLOCKS®  not only handsomely rewards its provider network with new business volume; it will also benefit the locksmith industry as a whole.  1-800-UNLOCKS® has established performance standards nationally that have become the icon, or benchmark for quality service via all of its service providers.  Consequently, 1-800-UNLOCKS® has designed itself into the quality standard for the locksmithing industry. 1-800-UNLOCKS® is using its current position in the industry with its existing provider base and technology to create the only national network of quality locksmith providers available in the USA, Canada, and eventually the European communities.  It is the intention that such network providers be full-service in providing their customers with all aspects of the locksmith trade, as well as other security related products and services to the general public.

Notice to consumers:

Beware of "phony locksmiths" in your area.  To read this important information, click here to be taken to our news page.  Here you will learn of all the ways you can protect yourself from these unscrupulous criminals.  To understand what and how a "phony locksmith" is and how they work, follow this link to our phony locksmith page

To see the many stories, and to tell your story if you have fallen victim to these criminals, visit our Blog here.  You can research the blog site if your area has been featured, and gain important information of how they have been caught, prosecuted, and read victims statements.

You can also see our press release from the Federal Trade Commission regarding this problem, and learn how you can file a complaint.

The following states require licenses for all working locksmiths.  If you are within one of these states, the first thing you should ask for is to see their license.  Under no circumstances should you allow them to perform any locksmith related jobs without this license. Almost all states are and have already entered into their local legislation for their state to adapt licensing for locksmiths.

The following states require locksmith licensing:

Alabama
California
Illinois
Louisiana
New Jersey
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Texas

How The Technology Can Do It

1-800-UNLOCKS® provides all services for people who need a quality locksmith. 1-800-UNLOCKS®  service is built around its digital automated dispatch system that connects the consumer electronically with a qualified local locksmith in his or her area. The consumer simply dials1-800-UNLOCKS® proprietary vanity toll-free number from any phone, including cell phones and payphones. Within seconds a 1-800-UNLOCKS®  certified, bonded, licensed (where required), and most importantly ethical quality locksmith is dispatched automatically to perform any locksmith related incident. It saves time, money, and eliminates customer concerns of who and where to call. 1-800-UNLOCKS®  24 hour, seven day a week digital automated system virtually eliminates all costly human interface and overhead associated with traditional dispatching companies.  1-800-UNLOCKS®  receives a monthly charge from each of it's quality service providers who has completed our thorough application process, which is determined by his or her individual proprietary geographic service area. The rates are based on the applicants demographics (population) which start at $59 per 100k population. If the population exceeds 200k there is a discount slope involved to make the program more economical for those companies in metro and highly populated areas. The company has designed quality assurance checks into its service and can monitor and evaluate, in real time, the performance of each quality locksmith service provider. 1-800-UNLOCKS® network of service providers is quality assured and is monitored and evaluated every six months.


Our Customers


1-800-UNLOCKS® customers include both the population-at-large via yellow page ads, membership clubs and associations via contract sales.  According to the American Automobile Association (AAA) and the Associated Locksmiths of America (ALOA), it is estimated that locksmith service more than 18 million customers, just for unlock and key situations each year. With a national average of $55 dollars for a service call, this amounts to a billion dollar a year industry  1-800-UNLOCKS® estimates that in the 16 years of being in the industry, 81% of calls that are dispatched via 1-800-UNLOCKS® are Automobile related, 16% are residential related, and 3% are commercial related jobs. Furthermore, it is predicted that at least 20% of these locksmith service related jobs are the result of service contract with clubs, associations, dealerships, and roadside service agencies. Through the reduction of overhead and infrastructure, many contract based clubs or association members such as AAA, Amoco, Geico, Cross Country, AARP, GM Roadside, etc., that currently provide locksmith services to their membership can benefit from 1-800-UNLOCKS® automation and large network of quality service providers throughout the USA. 

1-800-UNLOCKS® believes that it can capture at least 15% of those 18 million calls and dispatch them to our network of service providers, on top of the national accounts and regular customers that currently use the 1-800-UNLOCKS® number.  Imagine if you will, a simple grist mill with those 18 million customers that used a locksmith flowing down the river. Our grist mill is designed to channel a portion of those calls and run them through our innovative, technological way of dispatching them to only the most qualified technicians out there. By advanced marketing channels, word of mouth and market saturation, the brand name of 1-800-UNLOCKS® is poised to be the national icon for only the most qualified, economical, educated service providers available in the USA.


Contact Information

         

If you are a business owner in the security business and simply want to contact us to find out if our program can benefit your business, don't hesitate to call or email any of the numbers below.

Telephone
800-865-6857
FAX
888-865-6257                                                                
        
Postal address
2110 Spencer Rd., Richmond, VA 23230
Electronic mail
General Information: Info@1-800-UNLOCKS.com
Sales: Sales@1-800-UNLOCKS.com
Webmaster: webmaster@1-800-UNLOCKS.com
 
 

 

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