Phone numbers became the easiest way to put people in contact. So, each company that provides different services must have a phone number available, so that people who need its services to know how to contact them. Those phone numbers must be public and easy to find by anyone, so that they must be in a phone book, in a newspaper on “Publicity”, on TV in TV-commercials and so on. All to attract customers and to manage to create a group of clients, as bigger as possible, in order to turn back profit.



For people to remember easier an important phone number, the managers of each company like cabs, home delivery, banks and so on had find the perfect solution: funny phone numbers. So that they thought to use funny combination of digits, to that the result to be easy to memorize.



A company that provides pizza home delivery, for example, can have a contact phone number like 555-PIZZA (555-74992). And so, digits combined with letters from your cell phone help you better remember the phone number that brings the food home, if you don’t feel like staying in the kitchen all evening.



Most of the companies are having a subscription contract with a phone company, that lets the manager of the first one to have special phone numbers, also funny phone numbers for people who call them. This kind of phone number has not the regular number of digits, so that everyone knows it. An example in this way can be a funny phone number like 9495 or 1234 for SMS, if the company allows this service.

Using funny phone numbers, companies insure the contact with their clients in an easy way, and people are enjoying their services without being forced to call difficult to remember phone numbers, where you can miswrite the digits and to call somewhere else.

Being such an easy phone number, everyone will know it, and so the company is successful, because of the large amount of clients that saw the commercial, for example, and now they know by heart the funny phone number.

Every company has different tricks to attract customers. One of them uses funny phone numbers for contact, others are practicing low prices,  others use a funny mascot for its products, and others bring celebrities into the commercials to show people that the product it is highly qualitative, that even famous people use it.

These tricks are part of the marketing strategy, that, even very expensive, in the end helps the company to have profit, because people have the option to choose between several companies that provide the same service, and they choose the one that is more attractive in price, shape, taste and so on.