Stimulate Export with Toll Free Numbers

April 27, 2012 - PRLog -- Mid-April 2012 the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that American exporting activities continue to grow. In fact, U.S. export sales grew by more than 11% in 2010 and the United States of America are still considered to be the most significant nation in the world when it comes to international trade. Even so, 58% of the American exporters export to only one country, mainly Canada. With the National Export Initiative, the NEI, the Obama government aims to increase the number of U.S. companies exporting and the number of markets exported to, as this will create more jobs and stimulate the American economy as a whole. TeleForwarding explains how its toll free contact numbers and freephone UIFN Numbers, will help your company to increase its export and improve its growth.

In these times of recession and economic crisis, the discovery of new market areas is more important than ever. Indeed, in Europe, currently suffering from the Euro Crisis, an increasing number of companies is looking for export destinations outside of the European Union. André Schwarz, General Director of the Association for Wholesale, Exports and Services (BGA) in Germany, the biggest European economy, underlines the importance of a broad, worldwide market area, for “as such we [Germany] participate in the growth in economic regions outside of Europe and thereby we become more independent of risks in single countries”*. And John Longworth, Director General of the British Chamber of Commerce, adds that “exporting is good for Britain”. However, “to really secure our future as a leading exporter we need to help companies take advantage of new markets.” * The key element here is the fact that only the spreading of risks and looking for new market areas will help European economies gain back their strength.

The goal behind the NEI, the National Export Initiative, underlines that for the U.S. too, it is of vital importance to start focusing more on international trade in countries outside of the U.S., and even outside of the North American continent. In Europe in this context, the BRIC region becomes more and more important, over the past years, European exports to Brazil, Russia, India and Canada have increased substantially – exports to BRIC countries now form more than 8% of the total EU exports. Of these countries, China has become the most important for U.S. exports; over the last decade, U.S. exports to China quintupled!* But in the U.S., exports going to all of the BRIC countries have increased as well: by 3 percentage points between 2003 and 2008 and by another 2 percentage points in just the two years from 2008 to 2010. These numbers make clear that new markets are being discovered, however, the need for initiatives such as the NEI also illustrate, that many more companies could profit from these new growth regions in the global market. However, in the fast changing world economy, this kind of risk spreading also requires a lot of flexibility; and this could become problematic, especially for smaller and mid-sized companies, for how can they quickly respond to the economic growth in India or China? In other words: how can such companies take advantage of new markets?

The worldwide toll free contact numbers by the multinational TeleForwarding U.S.A Inc. offer an important solution here. With a Universal International Freephone Number (also referred to as a UIFN or 00800 Number - http://www.teleforwarding.us/en/uifn or an International Toll Free Number (also referred to as a ITFN Number - http://www.teleforwarding.us/en/itfn) a company is able to quickly and easily create a virtual presence in nearly every country in the world. By setting up a virtual contact number in these countries, a company can quickly respond to new growth markets without the need to immediately establish a new physical office. An American study, moreover, has shown that toll free phone numbers generate up to 12% more phone calls than paid contact numbers and thereby substantially strengthen the growth of a company. Furthermore, a virtual contact number, such as a 00800 (UIFN) number or toll free ITFN number, supports a company in creating more recognisability on the foreign markets. By establishing the company with one national, or even universal, toll free phone number that clients will be able to call free of charge, the company will create a reliable and service oriented corporate image.

With the devise “connecting global business to local people”, moreover, TeleForwarding provides its contact numbers with a great number of innovative, technical and high quality facilities (http://www.teleforwarding.us/services-solutions/services/...). These technical facilities, or features, ensure that clients will directly be routed to the right employee, without the interference of a complicated call menu, even if this employee is in another country; this way a phone call from China can be rerouted to a Chinese speaking employee in the U.S., or any other branch office anywhere in the world. The client, however, will simply call the Chinese contact number of your company and will be answered in Chinese; this way, he or she will still experience a local customer service. Thus, a company will create recognisability, telephone access and a good customer service on local markets, for example in China, without the need for a physical presence on all of these markets. A universal 00800, or national toll free, number thereby responds to the new demands made by the world economy, but also provides the local (customer) service that clients still highly value. As such, virtual contact numbers do not only create more flexibility on the world market, but they also improve customer service and client satisfaction on a local scale.

TeleForwarding, a multinational telecommunications company that has many years of experience implementing these global contact numbers, considers customer satisfaction as one of its key values. Thereby, the company sticks to its added values such as reliability, transparency and quality of service, and, similar to the contact numbers it provides, TeleForwarding is also able to quickly responds to chances on the global market. Therefore, TeleForwarding has created a special service package that responds to the growing need with U.S. companies to start exporting their products and services to the growing economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The TeleForwarding BRIC Package offers your company a UIFN, or ITFN, number in all of the four BRIC countries for the price of $35/month* ( http://www.teleforwarding.us/en/pricing/packages/bric-package/ ). With one package you will be accessible in the four most important economic growth regions of the moment!

For more information on the BRIC Package, take a look at our website: http://www.teleforwarding.us or contact us directly by mail,  www.teleforwarding.us/contact or toll free phone 1 855 444 3210


Sources
1 http://www.haufe.de/profirma/newsDetails?newsID=1333623263.83
2 http://www.internationaltrade.co.uk/news.php?CID=&NID=1683&Title=Exporting+activity+for+British+businesses+continues+to+grow
3 http://export.gov/nei/index.asp  
4 http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2011/08/us-exports-to-china-grew-4-times-faster.html
http://www.brookings.edu/reports/2012/0308_exports.aspx#3
http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/ft900.pdf
* All prices are excluding TAX and one-time assignment and activation costs and apply in combination with a 2-year contract.