Thinking of expanding your business into Chicago, Illinois? You need a local phone number with area codes 312, 773, or 872—and you can get it as part of Dialpad’s unified communications plans. Sign up for a free 14-day trial to get set up with a local number!
Local numbers are useful for both inbound and outbound customer teams—and when you buy them from Dialpad, you’re getting much more than just a VoIP phone number.
All of Dialpad’s paid unified communications plans come with a local number included, in this case a number with your local 312, 773, or 872 area code. This is along with unified communications features like phone calls, video conferencing, SMS/MMS messaging and team messages, and more—all from one intuitive, easy-to-use desktop or mobile app:
The lowest plan starts at just $15/user/month, which also includes unlimited calling and texting in the US and Canada!
Next, let’s look at why you might need a 312, 773, or 872 area code.
The 312, 708, and 773 area codes serve the city of Chicago. Located in the Central time zone, the 312, 773, and 872 prefixes cover the third biggest city in the US in terms of population.
Dialpad’s not just about phone calls—the desktop and mobile app brings all your communication channels together into one app, from video conferencing to SMS and instant messaging, and even a contact center platform if you need it.
Use Dialpad’s desktop and mobile app across iOS, Android, PC, and Mac—or just use your web browser to join a conference call or video meeting, no downloads needed. (Clients and prospects tend to love this because they don't have to download any software to join your online meeting.)
Never miss a call again. Dialpad’s call forwarding feature lets you choose a maximum of five external phone numbers so you can have calls automatically forwarded to your cell phone or landline, a colleague, or another department.
Flexible call routing
Smart call routing gets your callers to the right department or person—without you having to lift a finger. With Dialpad, you can easily set your own rules for specific people or departments, have out-of-hours calls sent to voicemail, and make changes to your IVR without any help from IT.
With Dialpad, you can make work calls from your personal cell phone—while showing your 312, 773, or 872 area code business number (or any other business phone number you have) and protecting your privacy.
Dialpad’s built-in AI is built by our own team and integrated directly into the communications platform to transcribe your phone calls and video meetings—in real-time. This way, you don't have to be distracted with note-taking and can give them your full attention (and Dialpad even detects highlights and action items).
When you're in back-to-back meetings all day, you can't always listen to every voicemail. Dialpad's visual voicemail feature transcribes your voicemails into text, so you can quickly read them when it isn't convenient to listen to them. (It even emails the audio and text versions to you!)
Try all these features out in Dialpad's unified communications platform! Sign up for a 14-day free trial to take it for a test drive. It takes just a few minutes, and you'll be set up with a local number too.
Local numbers are a great way to make a small business seem bigger, or for larger enterprises to establish a local presence without having to rent or lease a physical location there. With a 312, 773, or 872 area code number for Chicago, for instance, you're covering one of the biggest cities in the US—without having to rent or buy a physical office space.
And if you're running a marketing campaign that's trying to get potential customers to dial your business number, you can increase the chances of them calling if you make it a local number. Typically, people are far more likely to call since they won't have to worry about long-distance charges. And when you call them, they’ll be more inclined to pick up the phone if it's a local Chicago, IL area code on the caller ID.
Chicago is the biggest city in Illinois with almost 3,000,000 people—that’s a lot of potential customers. But there are other reasons why a Chicago area code is an asset. The city is has a super diversified economy and is a bona fide financial center, with 12 Fortune Global 500 companies and 17 Financial Times 500 companies. Boeing, McDonald's, and Walgreens Boots Alliance all have corporate headquarters in Chicago.
It’s super-easy to look up area codes and add a local number in Dialpad. When you sign up for a free 14-day trial, which takes just a few minutes, you’ll also be set up with a phone number with your area code of choice—in this case, a 312, 773, or 872 area code.
Or, if you’re already with Dialpad, it’s easy to add another virtual phone number or do an area code lookup too:
Step 1. Navigate to Settings
Step 2. Choose “Add a Number”
Step 3. Check your local licenses and add a business phone line
Step 4. Confirm the new phone number or select it from the Change menu.
That’s it!
$20 USD if billed monthly
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