Cell phone searches are usually the preserve of those who want to stop a stalker or prank caller, or maybe find an old friend.

They can, however, be helpful in your business. Here is how:

Identify Missed Calls

If you are in an important meeting, or even on a plane, you may still be receiving calls from potential clients and other people who could help your business. Missing those calls can be detrimental, but how do you sort the important calls from the telemarketers or wrong numbers?

A great way to figure out who is who from a long list of telephone numbers in your missed calls box is to run cell phone searches on all the calls you miss. This will give you details of who the caller is, which can help you decide who to call first!

Verify Information

Often, we have people filling in various applications at our office or store, whether it is for a job, or to apply for a line of credit or some other reason.

Running cell phone searches on the people who fill in these forms can be a great way to check whether the information they have provided you with is correct. Let us face it - if they are not giving you the right contact details, they may be withholding other information too!

Perhaps you can equip the person dealing with these applications with access to a cell phone searches system, so that they can verify information on the spot. Sometimes people will get their number wrong by accident, and make getting hold of them very difficult!

Marketing Purposes

If you are a good business owner, chances are marketing is a very big part of your business day. Using cell phone searches on any cell phone number you receive can be a great way to build a mailing list for a targeted direct mail campaign!

These services provide details of the people who own the cell phone number, including geographical data, meaning you can create and edit a database based on the area they come from.

Checking Up On Staff

If your staff have high phone bills every month, chances are they are making private calls, or maybe just using the phone to call cell phone numbers excessively much! If you have itemized billing on your staff telephone and cell phone accounts, you can check who they are calling, and decide from there how to deal with high phone bills!

Maybe you need to implement a policy where outgoing calls are to landline numbers only, or maybe that personal calls are limited to a certain minimal amount, thereafter payable by the staff member. Either way, running cell phone searches can certainly help save your business money!

Without a doubt, cell phone searches are a valuable tool for stopping stalkers and prank callers, but it is clear that there are many other applications for these services - one of which is to use the technology in your business!